Suggested Reading
If you want to learn more about capital punishment, here are some excellent resources. Many of these should be available at your local or university library.
| Bessler, J |
Kiss of Death: America's Love Affair with the Death Penalty (2003, North Eastern University Press) |
| Duff, C |
A Handbook on Hanging (2001, New York Review of Books) |
| Fleury-Steiner, B |
Jurors' Stories of Death: How America's Death Penalty Invests in Inequality (2004, University of Michigan Press) |
| Hood, R |
The Death Penalty: A World Wide Perspective (Third Edition) (2002, Oxford University Press) |
| King, R |
Don't Kill in our Names: Families of Murder Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty (2003, Rutgers University Press) |
| King, R |
Capital Consequences: Families of the Condemned Tell Their Stories (2005, Rutgers University Press) |
| Lezin, K |
Finding Life on Death Row: Profiles of 6 Inmates (1999, North Eastern University Press) |
| Prejean, Sister H |
The Death of the Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions (2005, Random House) |
| Richards, M |
The Hanged Man: The Life and Death of Ronald Ryan (2002, Scribe Publications) |
| Schabas, W |
The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law (Third Edition) (2002, Cambridge University Press) |
| Solar, S |
No Justice: No Victory: The Death Penalty in Texas (2004, Plain View Press and Anomaly Press) |
| Steelwater, E |
The Hangman's Knot: Lynching, Legal Execution, and America's Struggle with the Death Penalty (2003, Westview Press) |
| Sundby, S |
A Life and Death Decision: A Jury Weighs the Death Penalty (2005, Palgrave Macmillan) |
| Zimring, F |
The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment (2003, Oxford University Press) |
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