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Death Penalty Bibliography

There is a voluminous literature on the death penalty. Many works provide scholarly accounts analyzing capital punishment from a legal,
moral, political sociological, or historical perspective without recommending a public policy position on the issue. Other writers,
however, engage in vigorous advocacy either in support of the death penalty or favoring its abolition. Among those volumes that take a
normative position, the vast majority urges an end to capital punishment. Listed below is a representative sample of works dealing with
the death penalty from a wide variety of perspectives.
Acker, James R., and David R. Karp, eds. Wounds that Do Not Bind: Victim-Based Perspectives on the Death Penalty. Durham, NC:
Carolina Academic Press, 2006.
Allen, Howard W., and Jerome M. Club, and Vincent A. Lacey. Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American
History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008.
Anckar, Carsten. Determinants of the Death Penalty. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Atwell, Mary W. Evolving Standards of Decency: Popular Culture and Capital Punishment. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
Bae, Sangmin. When the State No Longer Kills. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.
Baldus, David C., George Wordworth, and Charles A. Pulaski, Jr. Equal Justice and the Death Penalty: A Legal and Empirical Analysis.
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989.
Banner, Stuart. The Death Penalty: An American History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Baumgartner, Frank R., Suzanna L. DeBoef, and Amber E. Boydstun. The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Beck, Elizabeth, Sarah Britto, and Arlene Andrews. In the Shadow of Death: Restorative Justice and Death Row Families. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2007.
Bedau, Hugo Adam, ed. The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Bedau, Hugo Adam. Death is Different. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987.
Bedau, Hugo Adam. Killing as Punishment: Reflections on the Death Penalty in America. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004.
Berger, Raoul. Death Penalties: The Supreme Courts Obstacle Course. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.
Bessler, John D. Death in the Dark: Midnight Executions in America. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.
Bessler, John D. Kiss of Death: Americas Love Affair with the Death Penalty. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003.
Black, Charles L. Capital Punishment: The Inevitability of Caprice and Mistake, 2d ed. New York: Norton, 1981.
Bohm, Robert M. Deathquest. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson, 1999.
Borgida, Eugene, and Susan T. Fiske, eds. Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom. Malden, MA: Blackwell,
2008.
Brandon, Craig. The Electric Chair: An Unnatural American History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999.
Burnett, Cathleen. Justice Denied: Clemency Appeals in Death Penalty Cases. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002.
Cabana, Don. Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996.
Carrington, Frank. Neither Cruel nor Unusual. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1978.
Carter, Linda E., Ellen S. Kreitzberg, and Scott W. Howe. Understanding Capital Punishment Law, 2d ed. Newark, NJ: LexisNexis
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Matthew Bender, 2008.
Clarke, Alan W., and Laurelyn Whitt. The Bitter Fruit of American Justice. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2007.
Cook, Kinberly J. Divided Passions: Public Opinions on Abortion and the Death Penalty. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.
Costanzo, Mark. Just Revenge: Costs and Consequences of the Death Penalty. New York: St. Martins Press, 1997.
Coyne, Randall, and Lyn Entzeroth. Capital Punishment and the Judicial Process, 2d ed. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2001.
Crump, David, and George Jacobs. A Capital Case in America. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2000.
Culbert, Jennifer L. Dead Certain: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008.
Davis, Angela J. Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Davis, Michael. Justice in the Shadow of Death. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996.
Dicks, Shirley. Death Row. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990.
Dorpat, Theodore. Crimes of Punishment: Americas Culture of Violence. New York: Algora, 2007.
Dow David R., and Mark Dow, eds. Machinery of Death: The Reality of Americas Death Penalty Regime. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Dow, David R. Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on Americas Death Row. Boston: Beacon Press, 2005.
Edds, Margaret. An Expendable Man: The Near-Execution of Earl Washington, Jr. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
Edelman, Bryan C. Racial Prejudice, Juror Empathy, and Sentencing in Death Penalty Cases. New York: LFB Scholarly Pub., 2006.
Epstein, Lee, and Joseph F. Kobylka. The Supreme Court and Legal Change: Abortion and the Death Penalty. Chapel Hill, NC:
University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Eshelman, Byron E. Death Row Chaplain. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962.
Essig, Mark Regan. Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death. New York: Walker, 2003.
Ewing, Charles Patrick, and Joseph T. McCann. Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press,
2006.
Fellner, Jamie, Rosa Ehrenreich, and Michelle Caldera. Beyond Reason: The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation.
Washington: Human Rights Watch, 2001.
Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin. Jurors Stories of Death. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.
Foley, Michael A. Arbitrary and Capricious: The Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the Death Penalty. Westport, CT: Praeger,
2003.
Frazier, Harriet C. Death Sentences in Missouri, 1803-2005: A History and Comprehensive Registry of Legal Executions, Pardons, and
Commutations. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.
Fuhrman, Mark. Death and Justice: An Expose of Oklahomas Death Row Machine. New York: Morrow, 2003.
Galliher, John F. America Without the Death Penalty: States Leading the Way. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002.
Garvey, Stephen P., ed. Beyond Repair: Americas Death Penalty. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.
Gerber, Rudolph J., and John M. Johnson. The Top Ten Death Penalty Myths: The Politics of Crime Control. Westport, CT: Praeger,
2007.
Gershman, Gary P. Death Penalty on Trial. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
Gettinger, Stephen H. Sentenced to Die. New York: Macmillan, 1979.
Gillespie, L. Kay. Dancehall Ladies: The Crimes and Executions of Americas Condemned Women. Lanham, MD: University Press of
America, 1997.
Goldman, Raphael. Capital Punishment. Washington: CQ Press, 2002.
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Gonzales-Day, Ken. Lynching in the West, 1850-1935. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.
Gross, Samuel R., and Robert Mauro. Death and Discrimination. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989.
Grossman, Mark. Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998.
Haines, Herbert H. Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972-1994. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1996.
Hamm, Theodore. Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948-1974.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.
Haney, Craig. Death By Design: Capital Punishment as Social Psychological System. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Heilbrun, Alfred B. The Death Penalty: Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors. Lanham, MA: University Press of America, 2006.
Hodgkinson, Peter, and William Schabas, eds. Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, 2004.
Hood, Roger G. The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Johnson, Robert. Condemned to Die. New York: Elsevier, 1981.
Kaufman-Osborn, Timothy. From Noose to Needle. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
Kay, Judith W. Murdering Myths: The Story Behind the Death Penalty. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
King, Gilbert. The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder and he Search for Justice in the American South. New York: Basic Civitas
Books, 2008.
King, Rachel. Capital Consequences. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
King, Rachel. Dont Kill in Our Names. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Kudlac, Christopher S. Public Executions: The Death Penalty and the Media. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.
Lanzer, Barry. Death Penalty Cases: Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002.
Lifton, Robert Jay. Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions. New York: Morrow,
2000.
MacNair, Rachel M., and Stephen Zunes. Consistently Opposing Killing. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008.
Masur, Louis P. Rites of Execution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
McFeely, William S. Proximity to Death. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.
Mello, Michael. Against the Death Penalty: The Relentless Dissents of Justices Brennan and Marshall. Boston: Northeastern University
Press, 1996.
Mello, Michael. Deathwork: Defending the Condemned. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Mello, Michael. The Wrong Man: A True Story of Innocence on Death Row. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Meltsner, Michael. Cruel and Unusual. New York: Random House, 1973.
Meltsner, Michael. The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia, Press, 2006.
Melusky, Joseph A., and Keith A. Pesto. Cruel and Unusual Punishment. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003.
Mialon, Hugo M., and Rubin, Paul H., eds. Economics, Law, and Individual Rights. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Miller, Arthur S., and Jeffrey H. Bowman. Death by Installments: The Ordeal of Willie Francis. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Miller, Kent S., and Michael L. Radelet. Executing the Mentally Ill: The Criminal Justice System and the Case of Alvin Ford. Newbury
Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1993.
Mulvey-Roberts, Marie. Writing for Their Lives: Death Row U.S.A. Urbana: IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
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Nakell, Barry, and Kenneth A. Hardy. The Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.
Nathanson, Stephen. An Eye for an Eye. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.
OShea, Kathleen A. Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.
Ogletree, Charles J., Jr., and Austin Sarat. From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America. New York:
New York University Press, 2006.
Persily, Nathaniel, Jack Citrin, and Patrick J. Egan, eds. Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversy. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2008.
Pojman, Louis P., and Jeffrey Reiman. The Death Penalty: For and Against. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
Prejean, Helen. Dead Man Walking. New York: Random House, 1993.
Prejean, Helen. The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions. New York: Random House, 2005.
Prettyman, E. Barrett. Death and the Supreme Court. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961.
Reed, Emily Fabrycki. The Penry Penalty: Capital Punishment and Offenders with Mental Retardation. Landham, MD.: University Press
of America, 1993.
Rise, Eric W. The Martinsville Seven: Race, Rape and Capital Punishment. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1995.
Rossi, Richard M. Waiting to Die: Life on Death Row. London: Vision, 2004.
Russell, Gregory D. The Death Penalty and Racial Bias: Overturning Supreme Court Assumptions. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1994.
Sarat, Austin. When the State Kills. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Schabas, William. The Death Penalty as Cruel Treatment and Torture: Capital Punishment Challenges in the Worlds Courts. Boson:
Northeastern University Press, 1996.
Sharp, Susan F. Hidden Victims: The Effects of the Death Penalty on Families of the Accused. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press, 2005.
Sheleff, Leon Shaskolsky. Ultimate Penalties. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University, 1987.
Shipman, Marlin. "The Penalty is Death": U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Womens Executions. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press,
2002.
Simon, Rita James. A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002.
Solotaroff, Ivan. The Last Face Youll Ever See: The Private Life of the American Death Penalty. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
Sorensen, Jonathan R., and Rocky LeAnn Pilgrim. Lethal Injection: Capital Punishment in Texas during the Modern Era. Austin, TX:
University of Texas Press, 2006.
Stack, Richard A. Dead Wrong: Violence, Vengeance, and the Victims of Capital Punishment. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006.
Stearns, Peter N. Revolutions in Sorrow: The American Experience of Death in Global Perspective. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers,
2007.
Steelwater, Eliza. The Hangmans Knot: Lynching, Legal Execution, and Americas Struggle with the Death Penalty. Boulder, CO:
Westview Press, 2003.
Streib, Victor L. Death Penalty for Juveniles. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Streib, Victor L. The Fairer Death: Executing Women in Ohio. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006.
Sundby, Scott E. A Life and Death Decision: A Jury Weighs the Death Penalty. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2005.
Turow, Scott. Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyers Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,
2003.
Tushnet, Mark V. The Death Penalty. New York: Facts on File, 1994.
Vollum, Scott. Last Words and the Death Penalty: Voices of the Condemned and Their Co-Victims. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing,
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2008.
White, Welsh D. Litigating in the Shadow of Death: Defense Attorneys in Capital Cases. An Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press,
2006.
White, Welsh S. The Death Penalty in the Nineties. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1991.
Zimring, Franklin E. The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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