Wounds That Do Not Bind: Victim-based Perspectives on the Death Penalty

Wounds That Do Not Bind: Victim-based Perspectives on the Death Penalty, a book by James R. Acker and David Reed Karp, exam­ines how fam­i­ly mem­bers and advo­cates for vic­tims address the impact of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. The book presents the per­son­al sto­ries of vic­tims’ fam­i­ly mem­bers and their inter­ac­tions with the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem. It also exam­ines the rel­e­vant areas of legal research, includ­ing the use of vic­tim impact evi­dence in cap­i­tal tri­als, how cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment affects vic­tims’ fam­i­ly mem­bers, and what is known about address­ing the needs of the sur­vivors after a mur­der. (Carolina Academic Press, 2006).