Preface
Introduction -JAMES A. MCCAFFERTY
Part I: Facts and Figures
1. General Introduction -HUGO A. BEDAU
2. The Use of the Death Penalty: A Factual Statement -WALTER C.
RECKLESS
Part II: The Issues
3. The Capital Punishment Controversy -WILLIAM O. HOCHKAMMER,
JR.
Part III: Proponents of Capital Punishment
4. In Favor of Capital Punishment -JACQUES BARZUN
5. On Deterrence and the Death Penalty -ERNEST VAN DEN HAAG
6. Capital Punishment: Your Protection and Mine -EDWARD J.
ALLEN
7. A Prosecutor Looks at Capital Punishment -RICHARD E.
GERSTEIN
8. The Death Penalty -JAMES V. BENNETT
Part IV: Opponents of Capital Punishment
9. Capital Punishment as Seen by a Correctional Administrator
-RICHARD A. MCGEE
10. To Abolish the Death Penalty -RAMSEY CLARK
11. Capital Punishment: The Challenge of Crime in a Free
Society
PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF
JUSTICE
12. Thou Shalt Not Kill -JUDICATURE
13. For Whom the Chair Waits -SARA R. EHRMANN
14. Let's Abolish Capital Punishment -VICTOR H. EVJEN
Part V: Attack on the Death Penalty
15. Varieties of Attack on the Death Penalty -JACK GREENBERG and
JACK HIMMELSTEIN
16. The Supreme Court, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, and the Death
Penalty -SOL RUBIN
For Further Reading
Index
James A. McCafferty
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