"This collection is an indispensable guide to the new learning on the death penalty, and to the reasons why capital punishment has suddenly become one of the nation's most pressing issues of public policy and debate."--James S. Liebman, Columbia Law School

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Introduction / Stephen P. Garvey
1 : Second Thoughts: Americans’ Views on the Death Penalty at the Turn of the Century / Samuel R. Gross & Phoebe C. Ellsworth
2 : Capital Punishment, Federal Courts, and the Writ of Habeas Corpus / Larry W. Yackle
3 : “Until I Can Be Sure”: How the Threat of Executing the Innocent Has Transformed the Death Penalty Debate / Ken Armstrong & Steve Mills
4 : Race and Capital Punishment / Sheri Lynn Johnson
5 : Lessons from the Capital Jury Project / John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, & Stephen P. Garvey
6 : International Law and the Abolition of the Death Penalty / William A. Schabas
Postscript: The Peculiar Present of American Capital Punishment / Franklin E. Zimring
Contributors
Index

Stephen P. Garvey is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.