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Among the Lowest of the Dead: Inside Death Row

David Von Drehle

Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean

Dead Man Walking

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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

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The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions by Helen Prejean

The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions

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The Plumber: The True Story of How One Good Man Helped Destroy the Entire Philadelphia Mafia by Joseph Salerno

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The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

The Stranger Beside Me

Ann Rule

The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies by Hugo Adam Bedau

The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies

Hugo Adam Bedau

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

John Grisham

Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty by Scott Turow

Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty

Scott Turow

Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas

Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

John Douglas

Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal

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Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure by Dan Baum

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Auto Focus: The Murder of Bob Crane by Robert Graysmith

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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault

Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted by Barry Scheck

Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted

Barry Scheck

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas by Jane Mayer

Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas

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The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment by Franklin E. Zimring

The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment

Franklin E. Zimring

The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow

The Autobiography of an Execution

David R. Dow

Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future by Jesse Jackson

Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future

Jesse Jackson

Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions by Robert J. Lifton

Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions

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Until You Are Dead: The Book of Executions in America by Frederick Drimmer

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Kind and Usual Punishment by Jessica Mitford

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The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer by Robert D. Keppel

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A Handbook on Hanging by Charles Duff

A Handbook on Hanging

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Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty by Maurice Chammah

Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty

Maurice Chammah

Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer by Tim Cahill

Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer

Tim Cahill

Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up by Leo Damore

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A Stranger in the Family: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and Unconditional Love by Steven Naifeh

A Stranger in the Family: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and Unconditional Love

Steven Naifeh

The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer by Jason Moss

The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer

Jason Moss

Zodiac by Robert Graysmith

Zodiac

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The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

The Executioner's Song

Norman Mailer

Capital punishment, U.S.A by Elinor Lander Horwitz

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Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind by Howard Engel

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Death Defying: Dismantling the Execution Machinery in 21st Century U.S.A. by Pam McAllister

Death Defying: Dismantling the Execution Machinery in 21st Century U.S.A.

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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi

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Octopus: The Long Reach of the International Sicilian Mafia by Claire Sterling

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