DeathQuest

Robert M. Bohm is a Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. A prolific author and speaker, Professor Bohm’s work has appeared in numerous publications. He is a frequent presenter and speaker at meetings and seminars of a variety of professional associations, including the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Southern Criminal Justice Association. Professor Bohm is a past-president (1992-93) and Fellow (1999) of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, from which he has also received the Founder’s Award (2001) and the Bruce Smith, Sr. Award (2008).

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Preface

Chapter 1 History of the Death Penalty in the United States: The Pre-Modern Period

Chapter 2 Capital Punishment and the Supreme Court: The Pre-Modern Period

Chapter 3 The Challenge to Capital Punishment’s Legality

Chapter 4 Capital Punishment and the Supreme Court: The Modern Period

Chapter 5 The Death Penalty at the Federal Level, in the Military, and Globally

Chapter 6 Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Death Row, and Methods of Execution

Chapter 7 General Deterrence and the Death Penalty

Chapter 8 Future Dangerousness, Incapacitation, and Economic Costs of Capital Punishment

Chapter 9 Miscarriages of Justice and the Death Penalty

Chapter 10 Arbitrariness and Discrimination in the Administration of the Death Penalty

Chapter 11 Retribution, Religion, and Capital Punishment

Chapter 12 American Death Penalty Opinion

Appendix A

References

Subject Index