Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Race politics, punishment, and the bureaucracy of death
  • Story worlds of death
  • Insiders
  • Voices of resistance
  • Representing death
  • Handling resisters
  • Conclusion: pawns of the state
  • Appendix A.A politics of the insiders
  • Appendix B.A closer look at African American capital jurors
  • Appendix C. The jurors.