Additional Resources

Websites

• Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin: Capital Punishment
• Death Row Conditions by State

Books

• Hood, Roger. The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective, Third Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Schabas, William. The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law, Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Articles

• E. Rapaport, ​“A Modest Proposal: The Aged of Death Row Should Be Deemed Too Old to Execute,” 77 Brooklyn Law Review 1089 (2012).
• A. Liptak, ​“Justices Rule on Legal Effects of Slow-Moving Cases,” New York Times, March 9, 2009.
• A. Smith, ​“THE ANATOMY OF DEATH ROW SYNDROME AND VOLUNTEERING FOR EXECUTION”, Boston University Public Interest Law Journal, 17 B.U. Pub. Int. L.J. 237 (2008).
• A. Alarcon, ​“Remedies for California’s Death Row Deadlock,” 80 So. Cal. Law Rev. 697 (2007).
• H. Schwartz, ​“Death Row Syndrome and Demoralization,” American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, June 2005. 
• J. Blume, ​“Killing the Willing: ​‘Volunteers,’ Suicide and Competency,” 103 Michigan Law Review 939 (2005).
• “Death row pop­u­la­tion is gray­ing,” USA Today, February 10, 2005.
• “Killer’s fate may rest on new legal con­cept,” New York Times, February 1, 2005.
• “Connecticut exe­cu­tion puts the spot­light on ​‘death row syn­drome’,” Associated Press, February 1, 2005.
• “Convicts face faster trip to the gal­lows; Caribbean irked at legal delays,” The Miami Herald, September 8, 1998.
• “Men heard tri­al drops as they wait­ed for death; Condemned inmates lived in ​‘inhu­man’ con­di­tions,” The Independent (London), November 3, 1993.