Two new books on the death penal­ty offer read­ers an exam­i­na­tion of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment law and America’s use of this pun­ish­ment. In ​“Understanding Capital Punishment Law,” a new book pub­lished as part of the LexisNexis Understanding series, law pro­fes­sors Linda Carter and Ellen Kreitzberg offer stu­dents in cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment cours­es an overview of this com­plex area of law. The book includes a thor­ough review of con­sti­tu­tion­al law and cur­rent issues relat­ed to cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in the U.S. (Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. 2004)
The Second Edition of ​“America’s Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction” pro­vides an overview of the his­to­ry, pol­i­tics, law, empir­i­cal evi­dence, and oth­er aspects of the con­tem­po­rary debate about the death penal­ty in America. Updated from the orig­i­nal 1998 text of the same name, the book includes essays by not­ed death penal­ty experts. (Edit. by J. Acker, R. Bohm, & C. Lanier, Carolina Academic Press, 2003) See Resources.

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