“Living With the Death Penalty” is a new book that examines the impact of executions on correctional officers, offenders, chaplains, attorneys, and victims’ family members. In this book, author Courtney Vaughn, a rape victim and an Educational Leadership and Policy Studies professor at the University of Oklahoma, offers first-person accounts of what it is like to experience the death penalty from a variety of perspectives. She explores the sacrifice, alienation, and resiliency that are common traits among the various groups impacted by executions, and uses their stories to provide readers with a better understanding of the “circle of violence” associated with the death penalty. (Published by Courtney Vaughn, 2006) See Books and New Voices.
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- Death Penalty Information Center (2025, March 14). NEW RESOURCES: "Living With the Death Penalty". Retrieved October 4, 2026, from https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resources-living-with-the-death-penalty
- Death Penalty Information Center. “NEW RESOURCES: ‘Living With the Death Penalty’.” Last modified March 14, 2025. Accessed October 4, 2026. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resources-living-with-the-death-penalty.
- Death Penalty Information Center. “NEW RESOURCES: ‘Living With the Death Penalty’.” Death Penalty Information Center, 14 Mar. 2025, https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resources-living-with-the-death-penalty. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.
