Book Review: The Death Penalty: An American History

Bedau, H. (1997). The death penalty in America: Current controversies (4th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Chessman, C. (1954). Cell 2455 death row. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972).

Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976).

Johnson, R. (1998). Death work: A study of the modern execution process (2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Marquart, J. , Ekland-Olson, S. , & Sorenson, J. (1994). The rope, the chair, and the needle: Capital punishment in Texas 1923-1990. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Megivern, J. (1997). The death penalty: An historical and theological survey. New York: Paulist Press.

Miller, K. , & Radelet, M. (1993). Executing the mentally ill. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Trombley, S. (1992). The execution protocol: Inside America’s capital punishment industry. New York: Crown.

Zimring, F. (2003). The contradictions of American capital punishment. New York: Oxford University Press.