It's a challenging concept, of course, but that made writing this novel so much more interesting for me!. Of course, I don't have an answer to this question, but I decided to switch to second person to bring the reader closer to Ansel's mind: you are the serial killer. Human nature could be so hideous, but it persisted in this ugliness by insisting it was good. Very few people believed that they were bad, and this was the scariest part. I suspect we are curious how their minds work because we want to know how people become evil. Like She had known from a young age that everyone had darkness inside-some just controlled it better than others. 'He lifts his thumb to the light, examines it close.' I asked myself a lot of questions about why we love serial killers so much, what interests us about them. It's a challenging concept, of course, but that made writing this novel so much more When I first started writing this novel, Ansel's perspective was written in the third person.

I suspect we are curious how their minds work because we want to know how people become evil. As Ansel awaits lethal injection, Notes on an Execution reaches back through time in narratives that expose the pitfalls of consuming true crime as entertainment, explore the lasting effects of trauma, and probe the question of why more media attention. When I first started writing this novel, Ansel's perspective was written in the third person. Kukafka uses the story of serial murderer Ansel Packer to anchor the narratives of three women whose lives have been touched by his violence.

Kukafka notes on an execution