Introduction: the death penalty, victims' families, and families of prisoners
Dealing with the horror: "we're sentenced, too": families of individuals facing a death sentence
Trying to cope: withdrawal, anger, and joining
The grief process: denial and horror, the BADD cycle (bargaining, activity, disillusionment, and desperation)
Facing the end: families and execution
Aftermath: picking up the pieces
"But he's innocent"
Double losers: being both a victim's family member and an offender's family member
Family after the fact: fictive kin and death row marriages
The death penalty and families, revisited.