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An awakening -- Inevitability of innocence -- Mercy vs. justice -- The great American death penalty decline -- The defense lawyering effect -- Murder insurance

Examining the successful movements to abolish capital punishment in the UK, France, and Germany, this book examines the similarities in the social structure and

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishmen

Since 1996, death sentences in America have declined by more than 60 percent, reversing a generation-long trend toward greater acceptance of capital punishment.

It has long been acknowledged that the death penalty in the United States of America has been shaped by the country's history of slavery and racial violence, bu