1. Putting culture into the picture : toward a comparative analysis of state killing / Christian Boulanger and Austin Sarat
pt.I Civilization and punishment : self and other in Europe and Americas
2. Nineteenth-century executions as performances of law, death, and civilization / Jürgen Martschukat
3. Seed of abolition : experience and culture in the desire to end capital punishment in Mexico, 1841-1857 / Patrick Timmons
4. Cultural lives of capital punishment in the United States / Judith Randle
5. European identity and the mission against the death penalty in the United States / Evi Girling
6. Crime and punishment, self versus other : the cultural life of capital punishment in European and American film / Louise Tyler
7. Capital punishment in Poland : an aspect of the "cultural life" of the death penalty discourse / Agata Fijalkowski
pt.II State killing and state violence in central and south Asia and the Middle East
8. Capital punishment in Kyrgyzstan : between the past, "other" state killings and social demands / Botagoz Kassymbekova
9. Death and the nation : state killing in India / Julia Eckert
10. Imagining the death penalty in Israel : punishment, violence, vengeance, and revenge / Shai J. Lavi
11. Palestinian culture of death : Shariah and Siyasah ; justice, political power, and capital punishment in the Palestinian National Authority / Judith Mendelsohn Rood
12. Death penalty in Japan : secrecy, silence, and salience / David T. Johnson
13. What is wrong with capital punishment? : official and unofficial attitudes toward capital punishment in modern and contemporary China / Virgil K. Y. Ho
14. Capital punishment and the culture of developmentalism in Singapore / Alfred Oehlers and Nicole Tarulevicz
15. Ending state killing in South Korea : challenging the Asian capital punishment status quo / Sangmin Bae.
