The Death Penalty, Volumes I and II: Influences and Outcomes (Hardcover)

Contents: Volume I: Philosophical and Policy Perspectives: Against the American system of capital punishment, Jack Greenberg ; Thinking of the death penalty as a cruel and unusual punishment, Hugo Adam Bedau; The death penalty once more, Ernest van den Haag; Deterrence and the death penalty: the views of the experts, Michael L. Radelet and Ronald L. Akers. Public Opinion: Public opinion, the death penalty and the 8th Amendment: testing the Marshall hypothesis, Austin Sarat and Neil Vidmar; Capital punishment and contemporary values: people's misgivings and the courts' misperceptions, William Bowers; Hardening of the attitudes: Americans' views on the death penalty, Phoebe C. Ellsworth and Samuel R. Gross; Update: American public opinion on the death penalty - it's getting personal, Samuel R. Gross. The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment: To see or not to see: television, capital punishment, and law's violence, Austin Sarat and Aaron Schuster; Celluloid death; cinematic depictions of capital punishment, Roberta M. Harding; The cultural life of capital punishment: responsibility and representation in Dead Man Walking and Last Dance, Austin Sarat. Outcomes - Fairness and Reliability: The quality of justice in capital cases: Illinois as a case study, Leigh B. Bienen; The execution of the innocent, Michael L. Radelet and Hugo Adam Bedau; Lost lives: miscarriages of justice in capital cases, Samuel R. Gross; Capital attrition: error rates in capital cases, 1973-1995, James S. Leiberman, Jeffrey Fagan, Valerie West and Jonathan Lloyd; The overproduction of death, James S. Lieberman; Name index. Volume II: Introduction. Outcomes - Racial Discrimination: Discrimination, death and denial: the tolerance of racial discrimination in infliction of the death penalty, Stephen B. Bright ; Racial discrimination and the death penalty in the post-Furman era; an empirical and legal overview, with recent findings from Philadelphia, David C. Baldus, George Woodworth, David Zuckerman