Death by Design

1. Blinded by the Death Penalty: Ignoring the Social Realities of Capital Punishment 2. Frameworks of Misunderstanding: Capital Punishment and the American Media 3. Constructing Capital Crimes and Defendants: Death Penalty Case-Specific Biases and Their Effects 4. The Fragile Consensus: Public Opinion and The Death Penalty 5. Organized to Execute: On the Nature of Capital Jury Selection 6. Preparing for the Death Penalty in Advance of Trial: Process Effects in Death Qualification 7. Structural Aggravation: Moral Disengagement in the Capital Trial Process 8. Misguided Discretion: Instructional Incomprehension in the System of Death Sentencing 9. Condemning the Other: Race, Mitigation, and the 'Empathic Divide' 10. No Longer Tinkering with the Machinery of Death: The Need for Systemic Reform