Suggested Reading

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Anthology
Robertson, Diane, 2002. Tears From Heaven; Voices From Hell. iUniverse, Incorporated.

Gray, Ian, Moira Stanley and Amnesty International USA. 1989. A Punishment in Search of a Crime: Americans Speak Out Against the Death Penalty. New York: Avon Books.

Arriens, Jan. 1997. Welcome to Hell: Letters & Writings from Death Row. Boston Massachusetts: Northeastern University Press.

Costanzo, Mark. 1997. Just Revenge. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Hanks, Gardner C. 1997. Against the Death Penalty. Scottsdale, Pennsylvania: Herald Press.

Haines, Herbert H. 1996. Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America. 1972-1994. Oxford University Press.

Jones, Lou and Lorie Savel. 1996. Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row. Boston Massachusetts: Northeastern University Press.

Kaminer, Wendy and Longman, Addison Wesley. 1995. It's All the Rage.

Von Drehle, David. 1995. Among the Lowest of the Dead: Inside Death Row. New York: Random House.

Radelet, Michael L., Bedau, Hugo Adam, and Putman, Constance E. 1992. In Spite of Innocence. Boston: Northeastern University Press.

Dicks, Shirley. 1991. Congregation of the Condemned: Voices Against the Death Penalty. New York: Prometheus Books.

Radelet, Michael L. 1989. Facing the Death Penalty: Essays on A Cruel and Unusual Punishment. Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Temple University Press.

Novels
Gaines, Ernest J. 1997. A Lesson Before Dying. New York: Knopf

Academia/Current Events
Lewis, M.D., Dorothy Otnow. 1998. Guilty By Reason of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers. New York: Fawcett/Ballantine.

Megivern, James J. 1997. The Death Penalty: An Historical and Theological Survey. Mahwah New Jersey: Paulist Press.

Mello, Michael A. 1997. Dead Wrong: A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment. Madison Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press.

Bedau, Hugo Adam. 1997. The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies. New York: Oxford University Press.

Costanzo, Ph.D., Mark. 1997. Just Revenge: Costs and Consequences of the Death Penalty. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Jackson, Reverend Jesse. 1996. Legal Lynching: Racism, Injustice & The Death Penalty. New York: Marlowe & Company.

Lesser, Wendy. 1993. Pictures At An Execution: An Inquiry into the Subject of Murder. Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Trombley, Stephen. 1993. The Execution Protocol. London England: Random House.

Radelet, Michael L., Hugo Adam Bedau and Constance Putnam. 1992. In Spite of Innocence: The Ordeal of 400 Americans Wrongly Convicted of Crimes Punishable by Death. Boston Massachusetts: Northeastern University Press.

Bedau, Hugo Adam. 1987. Death is Different: Studies in the Morality, Law, and Politics of Capital Punishment. Boston Massachusetts: Northeastern University Press.

Autobiography/Biography
Pickett, Carroll and Carlton Stowers. 2002 Within These Walls: Memoirs of a Death House Chaplain. New York: St. Martin's Press

Dwyer, Jim, Neufeld, Peter, Scheck, Barry. 2000. Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted. Doubleday Publishing.

Peltier, Leonard. 1999. Prison Writing: My Life is My Sun Dance. St. Martins Press.

Morris, Debbie with Gregg Lewis. 1998. Forgiving the Dead Man Walking. Grand Rapids Michigan: Zondervan Publishing.

Protess, David and Rob Warden. 1998. A Promise of Justice: The Eighteen-Year Fight to Save Four Innocent Men. New York: Hyperion.

Tucker, John C. 1997. May God Have Mercy: A True Story of Crime and Punishment. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell.

Abu-Jamal, Mumia. 1997. Death Blossoms: Reflections from A Prisoner of Conscience. Farmington Pennsylvania: Plough Publishing.

Mello, Michael A. 1997. Dead Wrong: A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment. Madison, Wisconsin: U. of Wisconsin Press.

Masters, Jarvis Jay. 1997. Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row. Junction City California: Padma Publishing.

Cabana, Donald A. 1996. Death At Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner. Boston Massachusetts: Northeastern University Press.

Abu-Jamal, Mumia. 1995. Live From Death Row. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing.

Earley, Pete. 1995. Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life & Justice in a Southern Town. New York: Bantam Books.

Prejean, Helen. 1994. Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. Random House Press.

Gilmore, Mikal. 1994. Shot in the Heart. New York: Doubleday.

Bauman, Ed. 1993. May God Have Mercy on Your Soul. Chicago Illinois: Bonus Books.

Adams, Randall Dale. 1991. Adams v. Texas. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Johnson, Robert. 1990. Death Work. New York: Brooks/Cole.

Brown, Edmund. 1989. Public Justice, Private Mercy: A Governor's Education on Death Row. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Violence/Prison
Kupers, MD, Terry. 1999. Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It. San Francisco California: Jossey-Bass Inc.

Karr-Morse, Robin and Meredith S. Wiley. 1997. Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.

Gilligan, M.D., James. 1996. Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Parker, Tony. 1995. The Violence of Our Lives: Interviews with American Murderers. New York: Henry Holt & Company.

Rideau, Wilbert and Ron Wikberg. 1992. Life Sentences: Rage and Survival Behind Bars. New York: Random House.

Morris, Roger. 1983. The Devil's Butcher Shop: The New Mexico Prison Uprising. Albuquerque New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press.

Hoffman, Ethan and John McCoy. 1981. Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla. Columbia Missouri: University of Missouri Press.

Wicker, Tom. 1975. A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt. Lincoln Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.

Films/Television
American Broadcasting Company. 1998. Nightline: "Crime and Punishment."

Public Broadcasting Service. 1997. Frontline: "Angel of Death Row."

HBO Productions. 1996. Paradise Lost. b Morris, Errol. 1989. The Thin Blue Line.