Preface / Ban Ki-Moon
Introduction. Who are the victims? / Ivan S̆imonović
Arguments against the death penalty as seen from a victimological perspective / Marc Groenhuijsen, Michael O'Connell
Does the death penalty serve victims? / Maiko Tagusari
Listening to victims / Mickell Branham
Death penalty and the right to life / Mireya García Ramírez
Escaping the closure trap / Jody L. Madeira
Does capital punishment bring closure to the victims? / David Johnson
Victims of wrongful conviction in retentionist nations / Carolyn Hoyle
In the shadow of the death penalty / Brandon Garrett
Discrimination and the death penalty / Ross Kleinstuber
Capital punishment, mental illness, and intellectual disability : the failure to protect individuals with mental disorders facing execution / Sandra Babcock
Inevitability of arbitrariness : another aspect of victimisation in capital punishment laws / Saul Lehrfrend and Roger Hood
Cases of the death penalty against international law : Amnesty International's concerns / Salil Shetty
Death penalty : torture or ill-treatment? / Jens Modvig
Hidden victims : the families of those facing the death penalty / Susan F. Sharp
Impact of the death penalty on the children with a parent on death row or executed / Francis Ssuubi
Ending silence, ending shame / Susannah Sheffer
Impact of the imposition of the death penalty on families of the convicted in the Caribbean / Florence Seemungal
Executioners at work : collateral consequences of executions for officers working on Death Row and in the Death House / Robert Johnson
Painful then, painful now / Ron McAndrew
Fighting for clients' lives : the impact of death penalty work on post-conviction capital defence attorneys / Susannah Sheffer
Death penalty : killing what we instead could be / James R. Acker
Death penalty as a public health problem / Walter C. Long
Afterword / Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.