1. The Peculiar Present of American Capital Punishment
2. More Than a Trend: Abolition in the Developed Nations
3. The Symbolic Transformation of American Capital Punishment
II. Explaining the American Difference
4. Federalism and Its Discontents
5. The Vigilante Tradition and Modern Executions
6. The Consequences of Contradictory Values
III. Capital Punishment in the American Future
8. The Beginning of the End
App. A. Statistical Materials on Lynchings and Executions
App. B. Reported Frequencies of National Death Penalty Policy, 1980 to 2001
App. C. Death Row and Execution Statistics
App. D. New Survey Analysis Materials
App. E. Justified Killings by Citizens and Police, by State
App. F. Review of Death Penalty Exoneration Data from the Death Penalty Information Center.
1. Divergent trends. The peculiar present of American capital punishment
More than a trend : abolition in the developed nations
The symbolic transformation of American capital punishment
2. Explaining the American difference. Federalism and its discontents
The vigilante tradition and modern executions
The consequences of contradictory values
3. Capital punishment in the American future. The no-win 1990s
Appendix A. Statistical materials on lynchings and executions
Appendix B. Reported frequencies of national death penalty policy, 1980 to 2001
Appendix C. Death row and execution statistics
Appendix D. New survey analysis materials
Appendix E. Justified killings by citizens and police, by state
Appendix F. Review of death penalty exoneration data from the Death Penalty Information Center.
