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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The death penalty, victims' families, and families of prisoners -- Dealing with the horror : "we're sentenced, too" -- Trying to cope: withdrawal, anger, and joining -- The grief process : denial and horror, the BADD cycle (bargaining, activity, disillusionment and desperation) -- Facing the end : families and execution -- Aftermath : picking up the pieces -- "But he's innocent--" : dealing with wrongful accusations and convictions -- Double losers : being both a victim's family member and an offender's family member -- Family after the fact : fictive kin and death row marriages -- The death penalty and families, revisited -- Conclusion.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The general sense of justice: lynching and the death penalty, 1880-1950 -- Without howling, without squirming : reinventing the death penalty in Jim Crow North Carolina, 1910-1936 -- I cannot allow this boy to be executed : the essential role of mercy, 1910-1949 -- Intelligent and civilized sentiments : activism, discretion, and the decline of the death penalty, 1941-1961 -- An emotional craving : the revival of the death penalty in North Carolina, 1961-1984.…”
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“…Guidelines for the appointment and performance of counsel in death penalty cases…”

“…Death penalty and the myth of closure…”

Table of Contents: “…The death penalty, victims' families, and families of prisoners -- Dealing with the horror : "we're sentenced, too" -- Trying to cope: withdrawal, anger, and joining -- The grief process : denial and horror, the BADD cycle (bargaining, activity, disillusionment and desperation) -- Facing the end : families and execution -- Aftermath : picking up the pieces -- "But he's innocent--" : dealing with wrongful accusations and convictions -- Double losers : being both a victim's family member and an offender's family member -- Family after the fact : fictive kin and death row marriages -- The death penalty and families, revisited.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Ch. 1. Death penalty jurisprudence and sentencing systems in America -- ch. 2. …”