Michael L. Radelet is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Florida and co-author of Capital Punishment in America: An Annotated Bibliography.

"These essays...show us the human and inhuman realities of capital punishment through the eyes of the condemned and those who work with them. By focusing on those awaiting death, they present the awful truth behind the statistics in concrete, personal terms."-William J. Bowers, author of Legal Homicide "This work stands with the best of what’s been written. It represents the best of those who have seen the worst."-Colman McCarthy, The Washington Post Book World

• Foreword Henry Schwarzschild 1. Introduction and Overview Michael L. Radelet 2. The Fraternity of Death Michael A. Kroll 3. Facing the Death Penalty Watt Espy 4. Juveniles' Attitudes Toward Their Impending Executions Victor L. Streib 5. Burning at the Wire: The Execution of John Evans Russell F. Canan 6. Another Attorney for Life Michael Mello 7. Representing the Death Row Inmate: The Ethics of Advocacy, Collateral Style Laurin A. Wollan, Jr. 8. Ministering to the Condemned: A Case Study Joseph B. Ingle 9. Coping with Death: Families of the Terminally Ill, Homicide Victims, and Condemned Prisoners Margaret Vandiver 10. Rituals of Death: Capital Punishment and Human Sacrifice Elizabeth D. Purdum and J. Anthony Paredes 11. The Death Penalty and Anthropology Colin M. Turnbull 12. Working the Dead Jonathan R. Sorensen and James W. Marquart 13. How to Argue About the Death Penalty Hugo Adam Bedau 14. The Pains of Life Joseph M. Giarratano 15. The Isolation of Death Row C. Michael Lambrix 16. An Inhumane Way of Death Willie Jasper Darden, Jr.