America's experiment with capital punishment: reflections on the past, present, and future of the ultimate penal sanction

Introduction : America's experiment with capital punishment / James R. Acker, Robert M. Bohm, and Charles S. Lanier

Capital punishment : public opinion, law, and politics

Capital punishment law and practices : history, trends, and developments / John D. Bessler

American death penalty opinion : past, present, and future / Robert M. Bohm

Judicial developments in capital punishment law / Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker

Beyond human ability? : the rise and fall of death penalty legislation / James R. Acker and Charles S. Lanier

Politics of capital punishment : the sacrifice of fairness for executions / Stephen B. Bright

The transformative influence of international law and practice on the death penalty in the United States / Richard J. Wilson

The justice and utility of the capital sanction

Roots / Robert Blecker

Justice, deterrence, and the death penalty / Ernest van den Haag

Is capital punishment an effective deterrent for murder? : an examination of social science research / Ruth D. Peterson and William C. Bailey

Is capital punishment an effective deterrent for murder? : an updated review of research and theory / Robert Apel, Samuel E. DeWitt, & Rose Bellandi

Future dangerousness / Mark D. Cunningham & Jonathan R. Sorensen

Women and children first / Victor L. Streib

Intellectual disability, mental illness and the death penalty / Christopher Slobogin

The execution of the innocent / Michael L. Radelet and Hugo Adam Bedau

The administration of the death penalty

The capital defense attorney / Andrea D. Lyon

Stacking the deck for guilt and death : the failure of death qualification to ensure impartiality / Marla Sandys, Sara M. Walsh, Heather Pruss, & Dylan Cunningham

The life or death sentencing decision : it's at odds with constitutional standards; is it beyond human ability? / William J. Bowers, Christopher E. Kelly, Ross Kleinstuber, Elizabeth S. Vartkessian & Marla Sandys

Mitigation and the study of lives : on the roots of violent criminality and the nature of capital justice / Craig Haney

Race discrimination and the death penalty : an empirical and legal overview / Catherine M. Grosso, Barbara O'Brien, Abijah Taylor, & George Woodworth

Federal habeas corpus in capital cases / Eric M. Freedman

The issue of costs in the death penalty debate / Richard C. Dieter

Terminal stages of the penalty of death

The role of health and mental health professionals in the capital punishment process / Steven K. Erickson & Charles Patrick Ewing

The impact of the death penalty on the families of homicide victims and of condemned prisoners / Margaret Vandiver

Life under sentence of death : historical and contemporary perspectives / Robert Johnson & Harmony Davies

The evolving role of clemency in capital cases / Daniel T. Kobil

America's experiment with execution methods / Deborah W. Denno.