Introduction: Getting the question right? Ways of thinking about the death penalty / Randall McGowen
Modes of capital punishment: the death penalty in historical perspective / David Garland
The death penalty: between law, sovereignty, and biopolitics / Michael Meranze
Through the wrong end of the telescope: history, the death penalty, and the American experience / Randall McGowen
Hanging and the English judges: the judicial politics of retention and abolition / Douglas Hay
Interposition: segregation, capital punishment, and the forging of the post-New Deal political leader / Jonathan Simon
The convict's two lives: civil and natural death in the American prison / Rebecca McLennan.
