Tarlton Law Library: Texas Death Penalty Law: General Print Resources

Capital Punishment in the Catalog

The Tarlton Law Library has a very extensive collection relating to capital punishment. To find additional print and video materials about the death penalty, you will want to do a subject search in TALLONS using the term "capital punishment."

TALLONS: capital punishment

Legal Guides and Resources

An American Dilemma: International Law, Capital Punishment, and Federalism by Mary Welek Atwell
Call Number: KF 9227.C2 A98 2015
Arbitrary and Capricious: The Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the Death Penalty by Michael A. Foley
Call Number: KF 9227 C2 F65 2003
Article 37: Prohibition of Torture, Death Penalty, Life Imprisonment, and Deprivation of Liberty by William Schabas & Helmut Sax
Call Number: K 639 C65 art.37 2006
Beyond Repair?: America's Death Penalty by Stephen P. Garvey, ed.
Call Number: KF 9227 C2 B49 2003
The Bitter Fruit of American Justice: International and Domestic Resistance to the Death Penalty by Alan W. Clarke & Laurelyn Whitt
Call Number: KF 9227 C2 C53 2007
Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment by Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker
Call Number: KF 9227.C2 S74 2016
Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty by Frank R. Baumgartner et al.
Call Number: KF 9227.C2 B393 2018
Death Nation: The Experts Explain American Capital Punishment by Matthew B. Robinson
Call Number: KF 9227 C2 R63 2008
The Death Penalty by Brandon L. Garrett & Lee B. Kovarsky
Call Number: KF 9227.C2 G369 2018
The Death Penalty: An Historical and Theological Survey by James J. Megivern
Call Number: K 5104 M44 1997
The Death Penalty as Torture: From the Dark Ages to Abolition by John D. Bessler
Call Number: K 5104 .B48 2017
Death Penalty in a Nutshell (5th ed.) by Victor Streib, Sam Kamin & Justin Marceau
Call Number: KF 9227 C2 S771 2017
Death Penalty on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents by Gary P. Gershman
Call Number: KF 9227 C2 G47 2005
Death Row U.S.A. Reporter by NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund
Call Number: KF 9725 D42
Final Judgments: The Death Penalty in American Law and Culture by Austin Sarat, ed.
Call Number: KF 9227.C2 F548 2017
From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America by Charles J. Ogletree Jr. & Austin Sarat, eds.
Call Number: KF 9227 C2 F755 2006
The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology by Northwestern University
Call Number: K 10 O85923
A Life and Death Decision: A Jury Weighs the Death Penalty by Scott E. Sundby
Call Number: KF 9680 S86 2005
Most Deserving of Death?: An Analysis of the Supreme Court's Death Penalty Jurisprudence by Kenneth Williams
Call Number: KF 9227.C2 W55 2012
Racial Disparities in Capital Sentencing: Prejudice and Discrimination in the Jury Room by Jamie L. Flexon
Call Number: KF 9227.C2 F58 2012
Racial Prejudice, Juror Empathy, and Sentencing in Death Penalty Cases by Bryan C. Edelman
Call Number: KF 9685 E33 2006
Tell the Client's Story: Mitigation in Criminal and Death Penalty Cases by Edward Monahan & James Clark, eds.
Call Number: KF 9240 T45 2017
Understanding Capital Punishment Law (4th ed.) by Linda E Carter, Ellen Kreitzberg & Scott W. Howe
Call Number: KF 9227.C2 C36 2018

History, Sociology, and Political Science

Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972-1994 by Herbert H. Haines
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 H35 1996
America's Death Penalty: Between Past and Present by David Garland, Randall McGowen & Michael Meranze, eds.
Call Number: HV 8699.U5 A745 2011
America's Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction (3d ed.) by James R. Acker, Robert M. Bohm & Charles S. Lanier, eds.
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 A746 2014
Capital Punishment: A Reference Handbook (2d ed.) by Michael Kronenwetter
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 K76 2001
Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition by Peter Hodgkinson & William A. Schabas
Call Number: HV 8694 C2853 2004
Capital Punishment in America: Race and the Death Penalty Over Time by Martin Guevara Urbina
Call Number: HV 8699.U5 U734 2012
The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment by Franklin E. Zimring
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 Z563 2003
The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives by Austin Sarat & Christian Boulanger
Call Number: HV 8694 C77 2005
Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment by Jennifer L. Culbert
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 C86 2008
Dead Wrong: Violence, Vengeance, and the Victims of Capital Punishment by Richard A. Stack
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 S72 2006
The Death Penalty: An American History by Stuart Banner
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 B367 2002
The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective (5th ed.) by Roger Hood & Carolyn Hoyle
Call Number: HV 8694 H657 2015
The Death Penalty: Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors by Alfred B. Heilbrun Jr.
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 H44 2006
Debating the Death Penalty: Should America have Capital Punishment?: The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best Case by Hugo Adam Bedau & Paul G. Cassell
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 D635 2004
The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence by Frank R. Baumgartner, Suzanna L. De Boef & Amber E. Boydstun
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 B38 2008
Determinants of the Death Penalty: A Comparative Study of the World by Carsten Anckar
Call Number: HV 8694 A63 2004
The Ethics of Capital Punishment: A Philosophical Investigation of Evil and Its Consequences by Matthew H. Kramer
Call Number: HV 8694 K73 2011
Evolving Standards of Decency: Popular Culture and Capital Punishment by Mary Welek Atwell
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 A89 2004
From Nose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State by Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 K38 2002
The Hangman's Knot: Lynching, Legal Execution, and America's Struggle with the Death Penalty by Eliza Steelwater
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 S73 2003
Invitation to an Execution: A History of the Death Penalty in the United States by Gordon Morris Bakken, ed.
Call Number: HV 8699.U5 I58 2010
Is the Death Penalty Dying?: European and American Perspectives by Austin Sarat & Jürgen Martschukat, eds.
Call Number: HV 8699.E85 I82 2011
Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History by Howard W. Allen & Jerome M. Clubb
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 A725 2008
Ultimate Sanction: Understanding the Death Penalty Through Its Many Voices and Many Sides by Robert M. Bohm
Call Number: HV 8699.U5 B64 2010
When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition by Austin Sarat
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 S27 2001
Wrongful Capital Convictions and the Legitimacy of the Death Penalty by Karen S. Miller
Call Number: HV 8699 U5 M54 2006

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