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| Table of Cases | |
| Table of Prisoners | |
| List of Web Addresses | |
| Preface to the Second Edition | |
| Preface to First Edition | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| The Great Debate Over Capital Punishment | p. 3 |
| Eight Amendment Prohibition Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment | p. 51 |
| Early Constitutional Challenges to the Death Penalty | p. 117 |
| Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation | p. 173 |
| Constitutional Limitations on Death Eligibility | p. 221 |
| Selecting the Capital Jury | p. 283 |
| The Role of Aggravating Circumstances | p. 329 |
| The Role of Mitigating Circumstances | p. 389 |
| The Sentencing Phase of Capital Cases | p. 447 |
| Use of Psychiatric Experts in Capital Cases | p. 527 |
| Assistance of Counsel | p. 555 |
| Stays of Execution and State Post-Conviction Relief Proceedings | p. 623 |
| Introduction to Federal Habeas Corpus Review | p. 661 |
| State Barriers to Federal Habeas Review | p. 707 |
| Retroactivity | p. 769 |
| Presumption of Correctness | p. 799 |
| Successive Habeas Corpus Petitions, Abuse of the Writ, and Clemency | p. 811 |
| The Federal Death Penalty | p. 845 |
| International Law and the Death Penalty | p. 933 |
| "Three Specimen Days," from Jackson and Christian, Death Row (Beacon Press 1980) | p. 993 |
| "An Englishman Abroad," | p. 997 |
| Index | p. 1005 |
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