Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; DEATH PENALTY STORIES; Introduction; Chapter 1: When Willie Francis Died: The "Disturbing" Story Behind One of the Eighth Amendment's Most Enduring Standards of Risk; Chapter 2: Furman v. Georgia: Not an End, But a Beginning; Chapter 3: Gregg v. Georgia and Allied Cases: Protecting the Death Penalty from Abolition; Chapter 4: Coker v. Georgia: Of Rape, Race, and Burying the Past; Chapter 5: Gilmore v. Utah: The Persistent Problem of "Volunteers";

Chapter 6: McCleskey v. Kemp: Denial, Avoidance, and the Legitimization of Racial Discrimination in the Administration of the Death Penalty; Chapter 7: Penry v. Lynaugh: The Hazards of Predicting the Future; Chapter 8: The Story of Payne v. Tennessee: Victims Triumphant; Chapter 9: Simmons v. South Carolina and the Myth of Early Release; Chapter 10: Bell v. Cone: The Fatal Consequences of Incomplete Failure; Chapter 11: Roper v. Simmons: Abolishing the Death Penalty for Juvenile Offenders in the Wake of International Consensus; Chapter 12: House v. Bell and the Death of Innocence