A punishment in search of a crime : [electronic resource] Americans speak out against the death penalty / Ian Gray & Moira Stanley for Amnesty International U.S.A. ; with a foreword by M. Kerry Kennedy.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-383).

Execution methods in the United States -- The high cost of death -- American gothic / Watt Espy -- Eye of the beholder / Howard Brodie -- The quality of mercy / Norman Felton -- Living in Babylon / Marie Deans -- Banality of evil / David Bruck -- Who killed Jimmys mama? / Scharlette Holdman -- A pilgrims progress / Sister Helen Prejean -- The tapestry of death / Millard Farmer -- Behind closed doors / William D. Leeke -- Where the bodies meet the road / Warden Lawrence Wilson -- Amazing Grace / James W. L. Park -- Checkmate / Darryl Bell -- Strange fruit / Reverend Joseph Ingle -- The killing machine / Father Knox Kreutzer -- Death row chaplain / Chaplain Byron E. Eshelman -- The valley of the shadow of death / Susan Cary -- Brothers in arms / Jeff Thompson -- An Englishman abroad / Clive Stafford Smith -- The dean / Willie Jasper Darden, Jr. -- Trial by jury / Professor William S. Geimer -- Presumption of guilt / Shabaka Sundiata Waqlimi -- Social conscience / Professor Michael Radelet -- The half empty glass / Professor Hugo Adam Bedau -- The collection / Sara Ehrmann -- A bad call / Aaron Lee Owens -- Downhill racer / John Taylor -- Virginia is for lovers / Professor Paul Keve -- Its not all right / Ronald E. Hampton -- The Virginian / William Styron -- Hand in hand / Tanya Coke -- A sexy issue / Congressman John Conyers -- Statues of Liberty / Henry Schwarzschild -- The write stuff / Michael Kroll -- California dreaming / Michael Milman -- The defender / Robert R. Bryan -- Beyond peradventure / Governor Edmund Pat Brown -- The last resort / Professor Alan M. Dershowitz --The filmmaker / George Stevens -- Spanner in the works / David Kendall -- Island of the damned / Steve and Lisa Haberman -- Through the looking glass / Professor Franklin E. Zimring -- Keeper of the flame / John G. Healey