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15,543 and Counting: D.L. Carcara
Warrior Within: Inside Report on Texas Death Row.: Charles D. Flores
Come Walk With Me: Elaine Ruth Pope
Letters From Death Row: Antoaneta Bezlova
Death Nation: The Experts Explain American Capital Punishment: By Matthew B. Robinson
Living With the Death Penalty: The Aftermath of Killing and Execution in the United States : Courtney Vaughn
Journey Toward Justice: Dennis Fritz
Among the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture of Capital Punishment (Law, Meaning, and Violence) (2nd Edition, June 2006): David von Drehle
Reflective Glass: Gene Hathorn (currently on death row in Texas)
Back From The Dead: Joan M. Cheever

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Alphabetical Listing of Books by Title

15,543 and Counting: D.L. Carcara
The Activist's Handbook: A Primer: Randy Shaw (updated 2001)
Actual Innocence : Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted: Jim Dwyer, Peter Neufeld, Barry Scheck
Adams V. Texas: Randall Dale Adams, et al
Against Time: Darrell Grayson
Almost Home : My Life Story : Damien Echols
Almost Midnight: An American Story of Murder and Redemption: Ralph Blumenthal
America's Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction: James R. Acker, Robert Bohm, and Charles S. Lanier (Eds.)
America Without the Death Penalty: States Leading the Way: John F. Galliher, Larry W. Koch, Teresa J. Guess, David Patrick Keys
In America's Court: How a Civil Lawyer Who Likes to Settle Stumbled into a Criminal Trial: Thomas Geoghegan
Among the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture of Capital Punishment (Law, Meaning, and Violence) (2nd Edition, June 2006): David von Drehle
Among the Lowest of the Dead: David von Drehle
Back From The Dead: Joan M. Cheever
The Biblical Truth about America's Death Penalty: Dale S. Recinella
Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA: Tim Junkin (September 1, 2004)
The Book of Daniel: E. L. Doctorow
Capital Consequences: Families Of The Condemned Tell Their Stories: Rachel King (January 20, 2005)
Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization & Human Rights: Andrew Coyle et al
Capital Punishment and the Bible: Gardner C. Hanks (Herald Press, February 2002)
Capital Punishment----Strategies for Abolition: Edited by Peter Hodgkinson, University of Westminster William A. Schabas, National University of Ireland, Galway
Catholics And The Death Penalty: Six Things Catholics Can Do To End Capital Punishment: Robert H. Hopcke
Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice: Howard J. Zehr
A Checkered Past: William Van Poyke
The Choice Is Yours: Shirley Dicks
Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty: Antoinette Bosco
Circumstantial Evidence - Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town: Pete Earley (Walter McMillian's story)
Come Walk With Me: Elaine Ruth Pope
Congregation of the Condemned - Voices against the Death Penalty: Shirley Dicks
The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment: Franklin E. Zimring
Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death: Jessica Snyder Sachs
The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives : Austin Sarat and Christian Boulanger (editors.)
Dancehall Ladies: Executed Women of the 20th Century: L. Kay Gillespie
In a Dark Time: Dwight Harrison and Susannah Sheffer
Dead Man Walking: Ben Aronoff
Dead Man Walking: Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ
Dead Run - The Untold Story of Dennis Stockton and America's Only Mass Escape from Death Row: Joe Jackson, William F. Burke et al
Dead Wrong: A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment: Michael Mello
Death and Justice: An Expose of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine: Mark Fuhrman - September 2003
Death by Design: Craig Haney
The Death Game - Capital Punishment and the Luck of the Draw: Mike Gray - coming from Common Courage Press in April 2003
Death in the Dark: Midnight Executions in America: by John D. Bessler (1997)
The Death of Innocents : An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions: Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ
Death Nation: The Experts Explain American Capital Punishment: By Matthew B. Robinson
The Death Penalty: An American History: Stuart Banner
The Death Penalty - An Historical and Theological Survey: James Megivern
The Death Penalty In America: Hugo Adam Bedau
Death Penalty in a Nutshell: (Nutshell Series) Victor Streib
The Death Penalty on Trial (crisis in American Justice): Bill Kurtis (available November 2004)
The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective: Roger Hood
Death Row Chaplain: Rev. Byron E. Eshelman, Frank Riley
Death Row Defender: Ray Dix
From Death Row With Love: Margot Aczel
Death Work: A Study of the Modern Execution Process: Robert Johnson (Wadsworth,l998, 2nd edition)
Deathwork: Defending the Condemned: Michael Mello
Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law: Francis Anthony Boyle
Defending Mohammad, Justice on Trial: Robert E. Precht
Desire Street : A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans: Jed Horne
The Devil's Playground - Behind Prison Walls: Shirley Dicks
Don't Kill In Our Names: Families of Murder Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty: Rachel King (available February 2003)
Our Endangered Values : America's Moral Crisis : Jimmy Carter
Evolving Standards of Decency: Popular Culture and Capital Punishment : Mary Welek Atwell
Executed on a Technicality : Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row : David R. Dow
An Execution in the Family: One Son's Journey: Robert Meeropol
The Execution of a Serial Killer: One Man's Experience Witnessing the Death Penalty: Joseph D. Diaz, Ph.D (available February 2003, Limited First Edition is available now, only from Poncha Press.)
Execution Protocol: Steven Trombley
An Expendable Man: The Near-Execution of Earl Washington Jr.: Margaret Edds, Julian Ann Baldick (available August 2003)
Field Notes On the Compassionate Life: Marc Ian Barasch
Forgiving the Dead Man Walking: Debbie Morris
Freeing the Innocent - How we did it: Michael and Betty Pardue
Frontiers of Justice - Volume 1: Death Penalty: Claudia Whitman & Julie Zimmerman (Eds.)
Frontiers of Justice - Volume 2: Coddling or Common Sense: Claudia Whitman, Julie Zimmerman & Tekla Miller (Eds.)
Frontiers of Justice - Volume 3: The Crime Zone: Claudia Whitman (Editor)
The Garden of Martyrs: Michael White
Gates of Injustice: The Crisis in America's Prisons: Alan Elsner
A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law: David G. Chardavoyne
The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler - A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America: Irene Quenzler Brown, Richard D. Brown
The Hangman's Knot: Lynching, Legal Execution, and America's Struggle with the Death Penalty: Eliza Steelwater
Have a Seat, Please: Don Reid
The Haven - A True Story of Life in the Hole: : Richard Dubé
Hidden Victims - The Effects Of The Death Penalty On Families Of The Accused : Susan F. Sharp (June, 2005)
Human Sacrifice: James Moore
Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror: Stephen John Hartnett
Innocent: Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases: Scott Christianson (available November 2004)
The Innocents: Taryn Simon (Photographer), Peter Neufeld (Commentary)
In Spite of Innocence: Hugo Adam Bedau, Michael Radelet, et al
Into the Belly of the Beast - Letters from Prison: Jack Henry Abbott
Jerry's Riot: The True Story of Montana's 1959 Prison Disturbance: Kevin S. Giles
Journey of Hope... From Violence to Healing: Bill Pelke
Journey Toward Justice: Dennis Fritz
Jurors' Stories of Death - How America's Death Penalty Invests in Inequality (Law, Meaning, and Violence): Bill Kurtis (available November 2004)
Justice Betrayed: A Double Killing in Old Santa Fe: Ralph Melnick
Justice Denied: Clemency Appeals in Death Penalty Cases: Cathleen Burnett
Just Revenge: Cost and Consequences of the Death Penalty:: Mark Costanzo
Kansas Charley: The Story of a Nineteenth Century Boy Murderer: Prof. Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Killing Time: An Investigation Into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: Dave Lindorff
The Last Face You'll Ever See: The Private Life of the American Death Penalty: Ivan Solotaroff
Last Meal: Jacquelyn C. Black - coming from Common Courage Press in April 2003
Law, Psychology, & Death Penalty Litigation: James R. Eisenberg, PhD, ABPP
Legacy of Violence: Lynch Mobs and Executions in Minnesota: John D.Bessler
Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future: Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., & Bruce Shapiro (2001)
A Lesson Before Dying: Ernest J. Gaines
Letters From Death Row: Antoaneta Bezlova
Life on Death Row: Robert W Murray
Live from Death Row: Mumia Abu Jamal
Living Justice : Love, Freedom, and the Making of The Exonerated: Jessica Blank, Erik Jensen
Living Next Door to the Death House: Virginia Stem Owens and David Clinton
Living With the Death Penalty: The Aftermath of Killing and Execution in the United States : Courtney Vaughn
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis: Christian Parenti (2000)
Lucasville, The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising: Staughton Lynd
Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race & The Death Penalty in America: Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. & Austin Sarat, ed.
Machinery of Death: The Reality of America's Death Penalty Regime: David Dow (Editor), Mark Dow (Editor), Christopher Hitchens
The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer : Michael Meltsner
May God Have Mercy: John C. Tucker
Mean Justice: A Town's Terror, A Prosecutor's Power, A Betrayal of Innocence: Edward Humes
Minds on Trial : Great Cases in Law and Psychology : Charles Patrick Ewing, Joseph T. McCann
Miracle at Sing Sing: How One Man Transformed the Lives of America's Most Dangerous Prisoners: Michael W. Cuneo
Moral Politics / How Liberals and Conservatives Think: George Lakoff (second edition - December 2004)
A Mothers Torment: Shirley Dicks
Necktie Parties: Legal Executions in Oregon 1851-1905: Diane L. Goeres-Gardner
Notorious Prisons: Inside the World's Most Feared Institutions: Scott Christianson (available November 2004)
La peine de mort aux Etats-Unis (the Death Penalty in the United States): Andre Kaspi
Poetic Justice: Reflections on the Big House, the Death House, and the American Way of Justice: Robert Johnson
A Prisoner's Cookbook: Helen M. Copeland, Editor
Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis behind Bars and What We Must Do about It: Terry Allen Kupers and Hans Toch
Are Prisons Obsolete?: Angela Davis
Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance: Leonard Peltier, Harvey Arden (Editor), Ramsey Clark (Preface)
A Promise of Justice: The Eighteen Year Old Fight to Save Four Innocent Men: Rob Warden and David L. Protess (1998)
Prophets Without Honor: A Requiem for Moral Patriotism: William Strabala, Michael Palecek
The Prosecutors -- A Year in the Life of a District Attorney's Office: By Gary Delsohn
Protest in the Land of Plenty: Center Lane Press
Proximity to Death: William S. McFeely
Punishment in Search of a Crime: Ian Gray (1989)
The Race to Incarcerate: Marc Mauer
Reflective Glass: Gene Hathorn (currently on death row in Texas)
Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning: Erik C. Owens John D. Carlson & Eric P. Elshtain (editors)
Resistance, Rebellion and Death : Albert Camus
Reversible Errors: Scott Turow
Ring of Truth : Nancy Pickard
Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany 1600-1987: Richard J. Evans
The Rope, The Chair and The Needle - Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990 : James Marquardt
Self-Land: A Death Row Odyssey: Gene Hathorn (currently on death row in Texas)
Shall Suffer Death: Alan (AJ) Bannister
Shot In The Heart: Mikal Gilmore
Stone Justice, a true story of the life, crime, trials and execution of 26 year old Toni Jo Henry: Debi McMartin and Evelyn Morgan (WA Lawrence King)
Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!: Michael Moore (February 2002)
Tailspin: The Strange Case of Major Call: Bernard F. Conners
Tainting Evidence - Behind the Scandals at the FBI Crime Lab: John F. Kelly and Phillip K. Wearne
Tears From Heaven; Voices From Hell: Diane P Robertson (Mar-2002)
They're Going to Kill My Son: Shirley Dicks, Joan S. Dunphy (Editor)
Too Much Time, Women in Prison: Jane Evelyn Atwood (2000)
The Trial of Bat Shea: Jack Casey (June 1994)
Triple Jeopardy, A Story of Law at its Best-and Worst:: Roger Parloff (1996)
Truth Be Told : Life Lessons From Death Row : Correspondence of Agnes Vadas and Richard Nields
The Truth Shall Set Him Free:: James A Duckett
Tunnel Vision: Trial and Error: Robert O. Marshall (2001)
Ultimate Punishment : A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty: Scott Turow
The Unforgiven: Utah's Executed Men: L. Kay Gillespie
Victims of Crime and Punishment: Interviews with Victims, Convicts, Their Families, and Support Groups: Shirley Dicks
Victims of Justice: Thomas Frisbie Randy Garrett (1998)
Waiting to Die - Life on Death Row: Richard M. Rossi (available October 2004)
Warden: Texas Prison Life and Death From the Inside Out: Jim Willett, Ron Rozelle
Warrior Within: Inside Report on Texas Death Row.: Charles D. Flores
Welfare State, Right to Life and Capital Punishment in India: Parul Sharma
Wilkie Collins's The Dead Alive : The Novel, the Case, and Wrongful Convictions : Scott Turow (Foreword), Wilkie Collins, Rob Warden (Editor)
Within These Walls : Memoirs of a Death House Chaplain: by Carroll Pickett, Carlton Stowers (Contributor), (May 2002)
Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, The American Conscience and the End of the Death Penalty: Dr. Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell (2000)
Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998: Kathleen A. O'Shea
Women and the Criminal Justice System: Katherine S. Van Wormer, Clemens Bartollas
Women On The Row: Revelations From Both Sides of the Bars: Kathleen A. O'Shea
Wounds That Do Not: Bind Victim-based Perspectives on the Death Penalty: James R. Acker and David Reed Karp
The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict On The Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder CaseJames Neff Paperback version now available
The Wrong Man: Michael Mello
The Wrong Men: America's Epidemic of Wrongful Death-Row Convictions: Stanley Cohen (October 2003)
You Shall Not Kill or You Shall Not Murder?: The Assault on a Biblical Text: Wilma Ann Bailey