Legal lynching: racism, injustice, and the death penalty

The roots of capital punishment

Alternatives to the death penalty

Innocence and the death penalty: the danger of mistaken executions

Cruel and unusual punishment: is the death penalty unconstitutional?

Deadly numbers: race, geography, sex, and the death penalty

Deterrence, brutalization, and snowstorms

Poor man's penalty: lack of representation

Thou shalt not kill: biblical, theological, and moral dimensions of the death penalty

Faith, popular opinion, and the future of capital punishment

Appendix: National organizations against the death penalty.