Facing the Death Penalty: Essays on a Cruel and Unusual Punishment

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Index Abolition of death penalty: in Canada, ix; role of civil rights struggle in, x AIDS patients, families of, 129 Alabama: executions in, 60-80; jury recommendation of life in, 5 American Bar Association, 95; Standards for the Defense Function, 106 American Civil Liberties Union, 6 American College ofTrial Lawyers, 95, lIOn Amnesty International, 6 Anger at crime, 185-86 Anthropologists, proper areas of study, 156 Anthropology: comparison, 164-65; fieldwork, 158-63; holism, 16768 ; objectivity, 156, 159, 163, 165; participant observation, 158--59; relativity, 165-67; subjectivity, 156, 159, 163, 165 Arguments about death penalty, 7-10, 150,178-91 Arkansas, death row in, 171 Attorneys: competence of, 98-100; for death row prisoners, 81-90, 92-110, 135n; significance of, for families of death row inmates, 133 Autopsy, 150 Aztecs, human sacrifice by, 140--53 Barfield, Velma, 5 Beccaria, Cesare, x, 183 Bentham, Jeremy, 183 Bishop, Jesse, 62 Black, Charles, 82 Booth v. Maryland, 126, 131 Branch v. Texas, 170 Brennan, William, 7 Briggs initiative, 16 Briley, James, 195 Briley, Linwood, 195 Brooks, Charles, 62 Brown, Edmund G., 26 Brutalization, research on, 140 Bundy, Theodore, 82-83, 152 Byrne, Edward, 3 California: death penalty statute, 16; death sentences in, 5, 16; executions in, 16-26 Camus, Albert, 67, 134, 140 Canada, abolition of death penalty in, ix Capital punishment. See Death penalty Chessman, Caryl, 22 Civil rights, x Code of Professional Responsibility, 90, 93,96, lIOn Code of Trial Conduct, 95 Coker v. Georgia, 6 Competence of attorneys, 98-100 Condemned prisoners: case histories 211 of, 27--37; dangerousness of, 17071 ; experiences of, 62-63, 113-15, 193-205; families of, 31--32, 61, 6566 , 69-73, 76-77, 80, 86, 118-21, 212 Condemned prisoners, families of (cont.) 127-29, 132-35, 199; isolation of; 198-201; life histories of; 84; mental illness of; 84, 142, 146; remorse for crimes, 51, 63, 64-65, 113-14, 165, 193, 195; representation of; 81-90, 92-110, 135; socioeconomic status of; 142 Consensual executions, 5, 62, 85, 107-8 Cooper, Paula, 41 Coppola, Frank, 62, 195 Council of Europe, xi Crime rate, 152 Cruel and unusual punishment, x, 4, 165, 181 Dangerousness of condemned prisoners, 170--71 Darden, Willie, 67 Death: how faced by prisoners, 27-37, 38-54, 85, 86, 203-5; reactions to, by families, 124-35 Death penalty: arguments about, 7-10, 150, 178-91; countries using, 6. See also Abolition of death penalty Death penalty statutes: in California, 16; in Florida, 4; guided discretion in, 5; mandatory, 5; in United States, x, 4 Death row: in Arkansas, 171; in California , 5; conditions, 62,172-76, 193-94, 198-201; in Florida, 198205 ; physical description of, 160-62; population of; 5, 141; security measures on, 172-74; in Texas, 169-76; in Virginia, 160--62, 193-97; work program, 169-76 Death row inmates. See Condemned prisoners Death sentences: in California, 16; in Florida, 5, 141; in Georgia, 5; in Illinois, 5; ofjuveniles, 40--41; in Texas, 5; in United States, 3, 40, 141 Death warrant, 144-45, 202 Death watch, 19, 146--47 Deterrence, research on, 7-8, 179 Deukmejian, George, 16 "Dilatory tactics," 90 INDEX Discretionary death penalty, 5, 189 Dobbert, Ernest, 5 Due process, x, 187 Duffy, Clinton, 4, 32 Dugar, Troy, 41 Ehrlich, Isaac, 7-8 Eichmann, Adolf; 185 Eighth Amendment, x, 4, 181 Electrocution, description of; 67-68, 78-80 Eleventh Circuit Court ofAppeals, 69, 76 Enlightenment, x Equal protection clause, x, 181, 187 Eshelman, Byron, 23, 75 Evans, John, 60--80 Evidence, newly discovered, 83 "Execution Guidelines," 146 Executioner, 19,27,78, 149, 163 Executions: in Alabama, 60--80; botched, 32, 68, 78-80; in California , 16--26; case histories, 27-37, 38-54, 68, 78-80; consensual, 5, 62, 85, 107-8; in Florida, 5, 140--53; of juveniles, 5, 38--54; in Louisiana, 5; manuals for, 19, 146; moratorium on, 3; of Native Americans, 29-30, 42-43, 46; physicians' role in, 25, 79-80, 148, 149; prisoners' behavior at, 27-37; in the South, 5, 39, 112, 180; in Texas, 5, 170; in United States, 3, 141; witnesses to, 25, 78, 148, 149, 164; ofwomen, 5, 22-23, 32-33. See also Public executions; Stay ofexecution Families: ofAIDS patients, 129; of death row inmates, 9-10, 31-32, 61, 65-66, 69-73, 76--77, 80, 86, 118-21, 127-2~ 132-3~ 199; of homicide victims, 51, 63, 64-65, 125-26, 131-32, 135n, 151...