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title: 'NEW RESOURCES: "Living With the Death Penalty"'
description: '“Living With the Death Penalty” is a new book that examines the impact of executions on correctional officers, offenders, chaplains, attorneys, and…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resources-living-with-the-death-penalty'
section: news
date: '2007-01-24T21:25:00-05:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:23:15-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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**"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](/books-death-penalty?did=130&scid=20)** and [**New Voices.**](/new-voices?did=482&scid=16)