The entire cur­rent edi­tion of Congressional Quarterly’s CQ Researcher is devot­ed to a com­pre­hen­sive look at the death penal­ty in the U.S. This spe­cial CQ report, authored by Kenneth Jost and enti­tled ​“Death Penalty Controversies,” explores the his­to­ry of the U.S. death penal­ty and chang­ing pub­lic opin­ion about its use. It also looks at the cur­rent sta­tus of state mora­to­ri­um devel­op­ments, the con­tin­u­ing decline in U.S. exe­cu­tions, state respons­es to the Supreme Court’s ban on exe­cut­ing the men­tal­ly retard­ed, recent deter­rence research, and the issue of inno­cence. The report con­tains a num­ber of help­ful charts, a bib­li­og­ra­phy, and a debate about whether states should impose a mora­to­ri­um on exe­cu­tions. For infor­ma­tion about this report, vis­it http://​library​.cqpress​.com/​c​q​r​e​s​e​a​r​cher/ or https://​us​.sagepub​.com/​e​n​-​u​s​/​n​a​m​/​c​q​press. (The CQ Researcher, Volume 15, Number 33, Pages 785 – 808, September 23, 2005). See Resources.

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