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Acknowledgments=xi
Part I. Introduction=1
Introduction:America's Experiment with Capital Punishment/James R. Acker;Robert M. Bohm;Charles S. Lanier=3
Part II. Capital Punishment:Public Opinion, Law, and Politics=25
Chapter 1. American Death Penalty Opinion:Past, Present, and Future/Robert M. Bohm=27
Chapter 2. Judicial Developments in Capital Punishment Law/Carol S. Steiker;Jordan M. Steiker=55
Chapter 3. Beyond Human Ability? The Rise and Fall of Death Penalty Legislation/James R. Acker;Charles S. Lanier=85
Chapter 4. The Politics of Capital Punishment:The Sacrifice of Fairness for Executions/Stephen B. Bright=127
Chapter 5. The Influence of International Law and Practice on the Death Penalty in the United States/Richard J. Wilson=147
Part III. The Justice and Utility of the Capital Sanction=167
Chapter 6. Roots/Robert Blecker=169
Chapter 7. Justice, Deterrence and the Death Penalty/Ernest van den Haag=233
Chapter 8. Is Capital Punishment an Effective Deterrent for Murder? An Examination of Social Science Research/Ruth D. Peterson;William C. Bailey=251
Chapter 9. Future Dangerousness and Incapacitation/Jon Sorensen;James Marquart=283
Chapter 10. Executing Women, Juveniles, and the Mentally Retarded:Second Class Citizens in Capital Punishment/Victor L. Streib=301
Chapter 11. The Execution of the Innocent/Michael L. Radelet;Hugo Adam Bedau=325
Part IV. The Administration of the Death Penalty=345
Chapter 12. Closing the Circle:The Illusion of Lawyers for People Litigating for Their Lives at the Fin de Siegravecle/Michael Mello;Paul J. Perkins=347
Chapter 13. Stacking the Deck for Guilt and Death:The Failure of Death Qualification to Ensure Impartiality/Marla Sandys;Scott McClelland=385
Chapter 14. The Capital Sentencing Decision:Guided Discretion, Reasoned Moral Judgment, or Legal Fiction/William J. Bowers:Benjamin D. Fluery-Steiner;Michael E. Antonio=413
Chapter 15. Mitigation and the Study of Lives:On the Roots of Violent Criminality and the Nature of Capital Justice/Craig Haney=469
Chapter 16. Race Discrimination and the Death Penalty:An Empirical and Legal Overview/David C. Baldus;George Woodworth=501
Chapter 17. Federal Habeas Corpus in Capital Cases/Eric M. Freedman=553
Chapter 18. The Economic Costs of Capital Punishment:Past, Present, Future/Robert M. Bohm=573
Part V. Terminal Stages of the Penalty of Death=595
Chapter 19. "Above All, Do No Harm":The Role of Health and Mental Health Professionals in the Capital Punishment Process/Charles Patrick Ewing=597
Chapter 20. The Impact of the Death Penalty on the Families of Homicide Victims and of Condemned Prisoners/Margaret Vandiver=613
Chapter 21. Life under Sentence of Death:Historical and Contemporary Perspectives/Robert Johnson=647
Chapter 22. The Evolving Role of Clemency in Capital Cases/Daniel T. Kobil=673
Chapter 23. Lethally Humane? The Evolution of Execution Methods in the United States/Deborah W. Denno=693
About the Authors=763
Index=773