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| Tables | |
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| Figures | |
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| Background and Developments | |
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| Offenses Punishable by Death | |
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| Proposed State Death Penalty Legislation, 1994 | |
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| Criminal Homicide | |
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| Death Row Prisoners | |
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| The Status of the Death Penalty Worldwide | |
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| Hardening of the Attitudes: Americans' Views on the Death Penalty | |
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| Sentencing for Life: Americans Embrace Alternatives to the Death Penalty | |
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| Murder, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence: A Review of the Literature | |
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| A National Study of the Furman-Commuted Inmates: Assessing the Threat to Society from Capital Offenders | |
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| Prison Homicides, Recidivist Murder, and Life Imprisonment | |
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| Furman v. Georgia, 1972: The Death Penalty as Administered Is Unconstitutional | |
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| Gregg v. Georgia, 1976: The Death Penalty Is Not Per Se Unconstitutional | |
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| Woodson v. North Carolina, 1976: Mandatory Death Penalties Are Unconstitutional | |
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| Coker v. Georgia, 1977: The Death Penalty for Rape Is Unconstitutional | |
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| Constitutional Interpretation, History, and the Death Penalty | |
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| Why the Death Penalty Is a Cruel and Unusual Punishment | |
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| Habeas Corpus and Other Constitutional Controversies | |
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| International Human Rights Law and the Death Penalty in America | |
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| McCleskey v. Kemp, 1987: A Racially Disproportionate Death Penalty System Is Not Unconstitutional | |
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| Death Penalty Sentencing: Research Indicates Pattern of Racial Disparities | |
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| Counsel for the Poor: The Death Sentence Not for the Worst Crime but for the Worst Lawyer | |
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| The Deadliest D.A. | |
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| How American Juries Decide Death Penalty Cases: The Capital Jury Project | |
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| Innocence and the Death Penalty: Assessing the Danger of Mistaken Executions | |
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| An Appeal for Clemency: The Case of Harold Lamont Otey | |
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| To See or Not to See: Televising Executions | |
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| Witness to Another Execution | |
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| Millions Misspent: What Politicians Don't Say About the High Costs of the Death Penalty | |
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| The New Testament and Moral Arguments for Capital Punishment | |
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| Noah's Covenant, the New Testament, and Christian Social Order | |
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| The Death Penalty Once More | |
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| A Reply to van den Haag | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Table of Cases | |
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| Index | |