The death penalty in the United States
The death penalty worldwide
Arguments in support of the death penalty
Arguments against the death penalty
Religious beliefs affect views on the death penalty
The administration of the death penalty
Women and minorities: the death penalty and discrimination issues
Debating juvenile death penalty
The innocent on death row
The death penalty and the law
Famous cases and leading supreme court decisions of the twentieth century
The death penalty and the victims' families
The death penalty and the media.
The history of the death penalty and the capital trial / by Mark Costanzo and Lawrence T. White --
What everyone should know about the death penalty / by John Paul Ryan and John Michael Eden --
The undying problem of the death penalty / by Hiller B. Zobel --
Anger and ambivalence / by David A. Kaplan --
The effects of increased executions in America / By Paul Duggan --
The earliest practices of the death penalty / By John Laurence --
Most democracies have abandoned the death penalty / By the Economist --
World governments react differently to public opinion of the death penalty / By Roger Hood --
The return of the American death penalty / By Tom Phillips --
Executions in England go private in 1868 / By Randall McGowen --
The history of the death penalty in Germany / By Joachim Whaley --
The death penalty in the former U.S.S.R. / By Albert Motivans and Elizabeth Teague --
America's support for the death penalty / By Phoebe C. Ellsworth and Samuel R. Gross --
American support for retribution / By Richard L. Worsnop --
Supporting the death penalty on moral grounds / By Robert James Bidinotto --
Murder is evil and intolerable / By David Gelernter --
Murders should be put to death / By Jeff Jacoby --
Opponents of the death penalty use faulty arguments / By Steven Goldberg --
One governor's quest for justice / By George E. Pataki --
There is no rationale for the death penalty / By Marvin E. Wolfgang --
Deterrence, cost, discrimination, and innocence: arguments against the death penalty / By Eric M. Freedman --
The death penalty should be abolished because of flawed executions / By Herb Haines --
Criminal violence should not beget violence by the state / By Sister Helen Prejean --
The death penalty: America's most costly justice / By Don Babwin --
Witness to the execution: judges and juries should take responsibility for their decisions / By Jeremy Epstein --
The death penalty dehumanizes our society / By Steven Hawkins --
The death penalty brings little justice / By John J. Dilulio Jr. --
Religion, race, and the death penalty / By Robert L. Young --
Rejecting the death penalty on religious grounds / By Reverend Jesse Jackson --
American Jewry opposes the death penalty / By Leo Pfeffer --
Unofficial opposition of the death penalty by the Catholic church / By Richard John Neuhaus --
State idolatry has replaced religious faith / By Jean Bethke Elshtain --
Lutheran church-Missouri Synod approves the death penalty / By J. Gordon Melton --
Catholic governors defy the church / By Robert R. Drinan --
The death penalty can be administered fairly / By John McAdams --
The death penalty cannot be administered fairly / By Leigh B. Bienen --
Opposing views: death penalty and the constitution / By Walter Berns and Walter Dellinger --
The death penalty is administered unevenly / By Ted Gest --
States pick up the pace on executions / By Kelly McMurry --
Some death row inmates lack adequate legal representation / By Mark Hansen --
Penry v. Lynaugh: the death penalty and the mentally retarded / By Peter K.M. Chan --
Women, domestic violence, and the death penalty / By Elizabeth Rapaport --
Often forgotten: women on death row / By Whitney George --
Racial prejudice raises support for the death penalty / By Steven E. Barkan and Steven F. Cohn --
More Blacks are sentenced to death than Whites / By Crisis --
The death penalty ultimately saves Blacks' lives / By Jeff Jacoby --
Claims of racial discrimination in death penalty administration are unsubstantiated / By Stanley Rothman and Stephen Powers --
A history of juvenile executions, 1642-1986 / By Victor L. Streib --
The court rules the death penalty is unconstitutional for defendants under age sixteen / By Dominic J. Ricotta --
The court rules in favor of juvenile death penalty / By Lyle Denniston --
The juvenile death penalty / By Kim A. Lechner --
The debate over juvenile death penalty: is it cruel and unusual punishement? / By Frank W. Heft Jr. and David Smith --
Death is never in the "best interest" of a child / By Suzanne D. Strater --
Researching public support for the juvenile death penalty / By Sandra Evans Skovron, Joseph E. Scott, and Francis T. Cullen --
The death penalty teaches violence / By Philip Brasfield --
Seventy-five sentenced to death were innocent / By the Economist --
Innocent men on death row / By Joseph P. Shapiro --
Mistaken executions cannot be corrected / By Jonathan Rauch --
Innocence and the system: one man's twenty-year battle on death row / By Tena Jamison Lee --
The death penalty: a nagging issue in the court / By David O. Stewart --
Divided opinions: the death penalty and the Supreme Court / By Edward Lazarus --
The power of public opinion in the courts / By William Bowers --
The difficult case of Robert Alton Harris / By Stephen Reinhardt --
Inside the capital trial: juries, appeals, and the ultimate punishement / By Mark Costanzo --
Capital trials may be biased and arbitrary / By James Luginbuhl and Michael Burkhead --
Behind the verdict: juries and the death penalty / By David Lester --
Some defendants choose execution / By Welsh S. White --
Where injustice prevailed, debate lingers: crime of the century: Sacco and Vanzetti / By John Yemma --
Leopold and Loeb: the "crime of the century" / By Elinor Lander Horwitz --
The Rosenbergs / By Walter Schneir and Miriam Schneir --
In Furman v. Georgia the court rules most death penalty sentences are unconstitutional / By Hugo Adam Bedau --
Gregg v. Georgia: executions resume when the court rules death penalty is not inherently unconstitutional --
Coker v. Georgia: death penalty sentences are unconstitutional for the crime of rape / By Pallie Zambrano --
Enmund v. Florida: Nontriggermen cannot be executed / By John H. Wickert --
Pulley v. Harris: the constitution does not guarantee proportionality review of death sentences --
Lockhart v. McCree: a ruling on the "death qualification" of jurors / By the New York Times --
Juries may consider "utter disregard" when determining death penalty sentences / By Cheri L. Bugajski --
Supreme Court decisions in the early 1990s / By Mark Tushnet --
Hanging the Sioux warriors: mass execution in 1862 / By Frederick Drimmer --
The development of the electric chair: progress in an industrial age / By Roger Neustadter --
Lethal injection: the search for a modern form of execution / By Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins --
Humane death: execution by nitrogen asphxiation / By Stuart A. Creque --
Execution as suicide / By Katherine van Wormer --
Executions are sometimes a form of therapeutic vengeance for victims' families / By Shannon Brownlee, Dan McGraw, and Jason Vest --
Executions restore inner peace for victims' families / By Eugene Kennedy --
What say should victims have? / By Walter Shapiro --
Payne v. Tennessee: the court rules in favor of victim impact statements / By Elizabeth Anna Meek --
Television and the american execution / By Robert Johnson --
Should executions be televised? / By Don Corrigan --
The press and the courts: America's venues for capital crimes / By Thomas Harvey Holt --
Part of the job: journalists respond to covering executions / By Cynthia Barnett.