Respected for his evenhanded contributions to the death penalty debate, editor Robert Bohm calls upon experts to address legal, empirical, political, and philosophical aspects of capital punishment. The first of two sections focuses on miscarriages of justice, including errors in conviction and possible remedies. It reviews potential causes of wrongful conviction, considers the responsibility of the state for reintegration of the wrongfully convicted, and debates the humanity of lethal injections. The next section considers the first amendment and governmental accountability, reveals the phenomenon of consensual executions as assisted suicide, and evaluates the curious dichotomy in logic between the reviled practice of lynching and government-sanctioned executions.

Miscarriages of Justice and Innocence. Errors in Capital Cases and What Can Be Done About Them. Scrutinizing the Death Penalty:State Death Penalty Study Commissions andTheir Recommendations. Themes of Wrongful Executions in the Post-Furman Era. Making It Work:Compensation for the Wrongfully Convicted. A Painless Cocktail? The Lethal Injection Controversy. Death Penalty Opinion, Media Access to Executions, Consensual Executions, and the Relationship between Lynching and the Death Penalty. Assessing Scholarly Opinion of Capital Punishment:The Experts Speak. Police Managers' Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment. The United States Can't Televise an Execution Because It Will Make Condemned Men Feel Bad About the Death Penalty: Issues Raised by the Suit to Make McVeigh's Execution Public. "Let's Do It!":An Analysis of Consensual Executions.Some Hypotheses About Capital Punishment and Lynching. Index.