List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Furman, Gregg, and the Creation of the Modern Death
Penalty
Chapter 2. The Capital Punishment Process.
Chapter 3. Homicide in America
Chapter 4. Comparing Homicides with Execution Cases
Chapter 5. Which Crimes Are Capital Eligible, and is Death Reserved
for the Worst Offenders?
Chapter 6. Which Jurisdictions Execute and which Ones Don't?
Chapter 7. How Often Are Death Sentences Overturned?
Chapter 8. How Long Does It Take?
Chapter 9. How Often Are People Exonerated from Death Row?
Chapter 10. How Are the Executions Carried Out?
Chapter 11. How Often Are Scheduled Executions Delayed or
Cancelled?
Chapter 12. Mental Illness and Death Row
Chapter 13. How Deep Is Public Support for the Death Penalty?
Chapter 14. Why Does the Death Penalty Cost So Much?
Chapter 15. Does the Death Penalty Deter?
Chapter 16. Is the Death Penalty Dying?
Chapter 17. Does the Modern Death Penalty Meet the Goals of
Furman?
Epilogue: How This Book Came About
References
Associated Web Site:
Appendices
A. State Laws Relating to Capital Crimes and Aggravating
Circumstances
B. State Laws Relating to Mitigating Circumstances
C. Appendix to Chapter 12 on Mental Illness
D. Appendix to Chapter 13 on Public Opinion
E. Appendix to Chapter 14 on Cost
F. Relevant Supreme Court Cases
Data used in this book
A. The Carolina Execution Database (all executions, 1977 through
2015)
B. Homicides by County and by Year, 1984 to 2012
C. Homicides by State and Year, 1984 to 2012
D. Executions by County and by Year, 1975 to 2015
E. Executions by State and by Year, 1975 to 2015
F. Pennsylvania Death Warrants
G. Replication data for Figures used in the book
H. Web sites with data we use
a. Death Penalty Information Center
b. Clark County Prosecutor Execution database
c. National Registry of Exonerations
I. Movies / documentaries / popular culture links
FB: Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina;
author of many books for Princeton UP and the U of Chicago
Press
MW: Student, UNC
KJ: Student, UNC
AK: Student, UNC
CW: Student, UNC
"Baumgartner et al. question whether the death penalty as it is
practiced today meets the standards for constitutional legitimacy
imposed in Furman. Baumgartner et al. address every empirical issue
relevant to that question, ranging from the process by which
capital punishment is meted out in jurisdictions, to which crimes
in which jurisdictions merit the death penalty, to how often
persons are exonerated from death row. They also provide extensive
statistical
evidence of differences in execution rates according to race and
gender, and consider the evidence of whether the death penalty
deters crime. This excellent volume is essential reading for
anyone
interested in the constitutionality of the death penalty." --
CHOICE
"Overall, the work contains much good information and some valuable
insights. I was especially intrigued with the way the authors
framed the difference between Furman and Gregg. They noted that in
the former case the Court ruled based on plentiful evidence and
experience with how the system actually worked. In Gregg, they were
ruling prospectively-based on untested proposals about how the
system might be improved. One decision was based on empirical
evidence;
the other on theory. Baumgartner, et. al. have given us some useful
tools to measure the success of that theory." - Mary Welek Atwell,
Professor Emerita of Criminal Justice, Radford University
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