Contents -- Introduction: Death Penalty Abolitionism in America -- Historical Cycles of American Abolitionism -- Death Penalty Abolitionism and Modern Social Movements -- Analytical Framework -- 1. The Fall and Rise of Capital Punishment: 1965-1976 -- The Road to Furman: 1965-1972 -- The Struggle Against Restoration: 1972-1976 -- Gregg and Woodson -- 2. The Return of the Executioner: 1976-1982 -- Refining the Death Penalty Process -- "Let's Do It": Gary Gilmore and the Return of Executions in America -- The Slow Reawakening of Abolitionism -- Out of the Courtroom: 1976-1982 -- Summary -- 3. The Reemergence of Political Abolitionism -- "Deregulating Death": 1983-1994 -- Organizational Growth After 1983 -- Reframing the Death Penalty -- The Struggle to Diversify -- 4. Framing Disputes in the Movement Against Capital Punishment -- Litigators and Abolitionists: Who Calls the Shots? -- "Humanizing the Convict" -- Direct Action and Civil Disobedience -- The Alternatives Minefield -- Coalition Work and the Broader Context of Abolition -- 5. Abolitionism at the Crossroads -- Resources in the Struggle Against Capital Punishment -- " . . . The Worst of Times": Political Opportunity and Abolitionism -- Framing the Death Penalty -- 6. Reframing Capital Punishment: Pragmatic Abolitionism -- The Costs of Capital Punishment Systems -- The Ineffectiveness of Capital Punishment -- The "Abolition Dividend" and Realistic Crime Control -- Prospects for the Future -- Afterword-Spring, 1999 -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.