Deadly justice: a statistical portrait of the death penalty

1. Furman, Gregg, and the Creation of the Modern Death Penalty

2. The Capital Punishment Process

3. Homicide in America

4. Comparing Homicides with Execution Cases

5. Capital-Eligible Crimes: Is the Death Penalty Reserved for the Worst of the Worst?

6. Which Jurisdictions Execute and Which Ones Don't?

7. How Often Are Death Sentences Overturned?

8. How Long Does It Take?

9. How Often Are People Exonerated from Death Row?

10. Methods of Execution

11. How Often Are Executions Delayed or Canceled?

12. Mental Health

13. How Deep Is Public Support for the Death Penalty?

14. Why Does the Death Penalty Cost So Much?

15. Does the Death Penalty Deter?

16. Is the Death Penalty Dying?

17. Does the Modern Death Penalty Meet the Goals of Furman?

Epilogue: How This Book Came About

Notes

References.