Capital punishment: improve it or remove it? -- International law and the death penalty: reflecting or promoting change? -- Doctors and the death penalty: ethics and a cruel punishment -- Reolacing the death penalty: the vexed issue of alternative sacntions -- Religion and the death penalty in the United States: past and present -- On botched executions -- Death as a penalty in the Shari'a -- Abolishing the death penalty in the United States: an analysis of institutional obstacles and future prospects -- Capital punishment in the United States: moratorium efforts and other key developments -- The experience of Lithuania's journey to abolition -- The death penalty in South Korea and Japan: 'Asian value' and the debate about capital punishment? -- Georgia, former republic of the USSR: managing abolition -- Capital punishment in the Commonwealth Caribbean: colonial inheritance, colonial remedy? -- Public opinion and the death penalty -- Capital punishment: meeting theneeds of the families of the homicide victim and the condemned

1. Capital punishment