The CASS Inaugural Professorial Series celebrates and welcomes Professorial appointments to the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. In this lecture, we welcome Professor Carolyn Strange, from the ANU School of History. This lecture is presented in conjunction with the ANU Gender Institute Inspiring Women of ANU series. In this talk, Professor Strange discusses several high-profile sex murder cases in Canada, from the late-nineteenth century to the 1970s, when the death penalty remained on the books. Before the White Ribbon and ‘I Swear’ campaigns, status-bearing men condemned men to death for homicide, but they were especially inclined to do so in cases involving sexual violence. The cast of the executed – the poor and the inadequately defended, the mentally disabled and disturbed, and the ethnic and racial minorities subjected to the prejudices of Euro-Canadian society – emerged in response to moral outrage, the impulse that propelled and continues to inspire calls to reinstate the death penalty. Professor Strange specialises in the transdisciplinary history of gender and sexuality in modernity. She joined the ANU in 2010, from a background in teaching criminal law, criminology, and cross cultural studies. In 2016 she was nominated as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.”