Capital punishment as a fact of legal, political, and cultural life: an introduction / Austin Sarat
After the terror: mortality, equality, fraternity / Anne Norton
Abolishing the death penalty even for the worst murderers / Hugo Adam Bedau
A juridical Frankenstein, or death in the hands of the state / Julie M. Taylor
Tokens of our esteem: aggravating factors in the era of deregulated death penalties / Jonathan Simon and Christina Spaulding
"Always more to do": capital punishment and the (de)composition of law / Peter Fitzpatrick
The executioner's dissonant song: on capital punishment and American legal values / Franklin E. Zimring
Selling a quick fix for Boot Hill: the myth of justice delayed in death cases / Anthony G. Amsterdam
The will, capital punishment, and cultural war / William E. Connolly
Beyond intention: a critique of the "normal" criminal agency, responsibility, and punishment in American death penalty jurisprudence / Jennifer L. Culbert
The cultural life of capital punishment: responsibility and representation in Dead man Walking and Last dance / Austin Sarat.