Legal lynching : [electronic resource] racism, injustice, and the death penalty / Jesse Jackson with Jesse Jackson, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-215) and index.

The roots of capital punishment -- Alternatives to the death penalty -- Innocence and the death penalty: the danger of mistaken executions -- Cruel and unusual punishment: is the death penalty unconstitutional? -- Deadly numbers: race, geography, sex, and the death penalty -- Deterrence, brutalization, and snowstorms -- Poor man's penalty: lack of representation -- Thou shalt not kill: biblical, theological, and moral dimensions of the death penalty -- Faith, popular opinion, and the future of capital punishment -- Appendix: National organizations against the death penalty.