Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I The Meaning and Significance of Race in the Culture of Capital Punishment
Chapter 1 Capital Punishment as Legal Lynching?
Chapter 2 Making Race Matter in Death Matters
Chapter 3 Traces of Slavery: Race and the Death Penalty in Historical Perspective
Part II Race and the Death Penalty Process
Chapter 4 The Role of Victim's Race and Geography on Death Sentencing: Some Recent Data from Illinois
Chapter 5 Death in "Whiteface" Modern Race Minstrels, Official Lynching, and the Culture of American Apartheid
Chapter 6 Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Life-and-Death Decision Making: Lessons from Laypersons in an Experimental Setting
Part III Race, Politics, and the Death Penalty
Chapter 7 Discrimination, Death, and Denial: The Tolerance of Racial Discrimination in Infliction of the Death Penalty
Chapter 8 The Rhetoric of Race in the "New Abolitionism"
Contributors
Index