Special Issue is the Death Penalty Dying? -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Board -- Chapter 1. Evolutionary History: The Changing Purposes for Capital Punishment -- Introduction -- The Justification for Capital Punishment: Retribution -- Defining Retribution -- Retribution at the Founding -- The Changing Purposes of Capital Punishment -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2. The Heart has its Reasons: Examining the Strange Persistence of the American Death Penalty -- The Traditional Rationales Revisited -- Retribution -- Deterrence -- Incapacitation -- The Expressive Rationales Compared -- The Essential Role of Emotion -- The Feedback Loop -- Salience -- Concluding Thoughts: Claiming the Emotional Terrain -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3. Rule of Law Abolitionism -- The Distinctiveness of Rule of Law Abolitionism -- The Logic of Rule of Law Abolitionism -- Rules, Rationality, and Legitimacy -- Strong and Weak Rule of Law Abolitionism -- Rule of Law Abolitionism - Promise and Peril -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4. Not Wiser After 35 Years of Contemplating the Death Penalty -- Introduction -- Illustrative Case No. 1 - Nigeria and the Armed Robbery Tribunal in 1972-1973 -- Illustrative Case No. 2 - New Jersey, 1980-1992 -- The Change in the Political Climate in the 1990s -- Illustrative Case No. 3 - Illinois, 1998-2003 -- Is the Death Penalty Dying? - The Unexpected Momentum of the Lethal Injection Cases -- Conclusion and Summary -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 5. Facts and Furies: The Antinomies of Facts, Law, and Retribution in the Work of Capital Prosecutors -- Data and Methods -- Capital Punishment's Indelibility -- Contradictions of Capital Punishment -- Contradictions in Prosecutor Narratives and Consciousness -- Facts -- Law.

Furies -- Institutional Norms -- Conclusion: The Veil of Facts and Law -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 6. The Judicial use of International and Foreign Law in Death Penalty Cases: A Poisoned Chalice? -- Introduction -- The Status of the Death Penalty Worldwide -- How the United States Supreme Court uses External Death Penalty Norms -- Methods of Judicial Domestication -- Potential Consequences of the Court's Current Approach to Judicial Domestication -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 7. Death, Unraveled -- Introduction -- Capital Sentencing Jurisprudence and Unraveling in Anthropology -- Death Penalty Scholarship -- Conclusion: Death, Unraveled -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References Cited.