Table of Contents
The role of the social sciences in determining the constitutionality of capital punishment / Welsh S. White -- Rational criteria for the impostion of the death penalty / United States Senate -- The inutility of mandatory capital punishment : an historical note / Philip E. Mackey -- Felony murder rape and the mandatory death penalty : a study in discretionary justice / Hugo A. Bedau -- The going price of criminal homicide in Philadelphia / Franklin E. Zimring, Shiela O'Malley, & Joel Eigen -- Rape, racial, discrimination, and the death penalty / Marvin E. Wolfgang & Marc Riedel --Public opinion on the death penalty / Neil Vidmar & Phoebe C. Ellsworth -- Public opinion and judicial decision making : an example from research on capital punishment / Phoebe C. Ellsworth & Lee Ross -- A sociological perspective on public support for capital punishment / Charles W. Thomas & Samuel C. Foster -- The public and the death penalty : testing the Marshall hypothesis / Austin D. Sarat & Neil Vidmar -- Family experience and public support of the death penalty / Richard J. Gelles & Murray A. Straus -- Moral judgments about capital punishment : a developmental-psychological view / Lawrence Kohlberg & Donald Elfenbein --