Volume 49, Issue 3 (2015) Allen Chair Issue: Lethal Injection, Politics, and the Future of the Death Penalty
Prefatory Matter
Acknowledgements
Leah Stiegler
Table of Contents
Articles
The Role of Race, Poverty, Intellectual Disability, and Mental Illness in the Decline of the Death Penalty
Stephen B. Bright
A Survey of the History of the Death Penalty in the United States
Sheherezade C. Malik and D. Paul Holdsworth
Lethal Injections: States Medicalize Execution
Joel B. Zivot
Witnessing Executions
Frank Green
Interrogation Policies
Brandon L. Garrett
Comments
A Shot in the Dark: Why Virginia Should Adopt the Firing Squad As Its Primary Method of Execution
P. Thomas DiStanislao
Symposium Remarks
The Twilight Zone: Perspectives From a Man on Death Row
Gerald Dean Cruz and Leah Stiegler
Symposium Essays
The Executioner's Dilemmas
Eric Berger
A Pink Cadillac, An IQ of 63, And A Fourteen-Year-Old From South Carolina: Why I Can No Longer Support the Death Penalty
Mark Earley Sr.
The Politics of Botched Executions
Corinna Barrett Lain
Has The "Machinery of Death" Become a Clunker?
Stephen F. Smith
Death as a Bargaining Chip: Plea Bargaining and the Future of Virginia's Death Penalty
John G. Douglass
The Future of the Death Penalty in the United States
Richard C. Dieter