Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Death Penalty in Decline and Today’s Abolitionist Politics / Austin Sarat
Part I. Looking Back at Furman V. Georgia
1. What-Ifs and Missed Opportunities: The U.S. Supreme Court, Death Sentences and Executions, and the Fiftieth Anniversary of Furman v. Georgia / John D. Bessler
2. What Was “Unusual” in Furman? / Linda Ross Meyer
3. The Foreignness of Furman / Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker
Part II. On the Road to Abolition?
4. Catholicism and the Ongoing Struggle to End the Death Penalty, from Furman v. Georgia to the Present / Sara Mayeux
5. Abolition Then and Now: The Role of Furman’s Failure in Today’s Abolition Success / Corinna Barrett Lain
6. When the Killing Law Stops Killing: Thoughts about Furman / James R. Martel
Contributors
Index