General introduction / Hugo A. Bedau
The use of the death penalty: a factual statement / Walter C. Reckless
The capital punishment controversy / William O. Hochkammer, Jr.
III. Proponents of capital punishment
In favor of capital punishment / Jacques Barzun
On deterrence and the death penalty / Ernest van den Haag
Capital punishment: for your protection and mine / Edward J. Allen
A prosecutor looks at capital punishment / Richard E. Gerstein
The death penalty / James V. Bennett
IV. Opponents of capital punishment
Capital punishment as seen by a correctional administrator / Richard A. McGee
To abolish the death penalty / Ramsey Clark
Capital punishment: the challenge of crime in a free society / President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
Thou shalt not kill / Judicature
For whom the chair waits / Sara R. Ehrmann
Let's abolish capital punishment / Victor H. Evjen
V. Attack on the death penalty
Varieties of attack on the death penalty / Jack Greenberg and Jack Himmelstein
The Supreme Court, cruel and unusual punishment, and the death penalty / Sol Rubin.
