Stay of Execution

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Chapter 1: The Disappearance of Death?
Chapter 3 Chapter 2: The Case Against the Case Against the Death Penalty
Chapter 4 Chapter 3: The Case Against the Case for the Death Penalty
Chapter 5 Chapter 4: A Special Penalty for Special Cases
Chapter 6 Acknowledgments
Chapter 7 Endnotes
Chapter 8 Index

This book is everything the debate over the American death penalty is not: thoughtful, morally serious, and careful with facts. Lane's book forced me, an ardent foe of capital punishment, to rethink some arguments I had once found persuasive. Whatever your views on the subject, this brief, engagingly-argued volume will challenge them. It should be required reading for everyone interested in this difficult subject.