“The Death Penalty: America’s Experience with Capital Punishment” by Professors Raymond Paternoster, Robert Brame, and Sarah Bacon is a com­pre­hen­sive review of the death penal­ty in the U.S. Issues cov­ered include the his­to­ry of the death penal­ty in America and the chang­ing nature of the U.S. death penal­ty, includ­ing such top­ics as eli­gi­ble crimes, tri­al pro­ce­dures, and meth­ods of exe­cu­tion. In addi­tion, the book cov­ers ques­tions about the influ­ence of race on the death penal­ty, the exe­cu­tion of inno­cent per­sons, death row exon­er­a­tions, and flaws in the death penal­ty sys­tem. The authors review cur­rent con­sti­tu­tion­al issues sur­round­ing the death penal­ty, the effect of inter­na­tion­al law on the death penal­ty, and what effect these two fac­tors will have on the future of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in the U.S.
(Oxford University Press, 2007). See Books.

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