The Future of America’s Death Penalty, edit­ed by Charles S. Lanier, William J. Bowers, James R. Acker, is a new book com­prised of orig­i­nal chap­ters authored by nation­al­ly dis­tin­guished schol­ars. It is an ambi­tious effort to iden­ti­fy the most crit­i­cal issues con­fronting the future of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in the United States and the steps that must be tak­en to gath­er and ana­lyze the infor­ma­tion that will be nec­es­sary for informed pol­i­cy judg­ments. Contributors artic­u­late the most press­ing issues of admin­is­tra­tion, lit­i­ga­tion, leg­is­la­tion, and exec­u­tive action con­fronting the future of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment, and iden­ti­fy research strate­gies designed to sup­ply answers to those questions. 

Among the authors includ­ed in this work are David Baldus, Catherine Grosso, Hugo Bedau, John Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson, William Bowers, Richard Dieter, Jeffrey Fagan, Valerie West, Deborah Fleischaker, Jonathan Gradess, Robert Johnson, Jon Sorensen, and Margaret Vandiver, with a Foreward by Ronald Tabak.

(The Future of America’s Death Penalty: An Agenda for the Next Generation of Capital Punishment Research, edit­ed by Charles S. Lanier, William J. Bowers, James R. Acker, Carolina Academic Press 2009). See Books and Studies.

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