Capital Punishment A Selected Bibliography,1940-68

Beccaria, Cesare B. An Essay on Crimes and Punishments. With a commentary by Voltaire . Stanford, Calif.: Academic Reprints , 1953. (A facsimile reprint of the edition translated from the French by Edward D. Ingraham: Philadelphia; P. H. Nicklin, 1819.)

Bedau, Hugo A. , ed. The Death Penalty in America; An Anthology Rev. ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday (Anchor Books) , 1967.

Borchard, Edwin M. , with the collaboration of E. Russell Lutz. Convicting the Innocent; Sixty-five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Co., 1932.

California Legislature, Assembly, Interim Committee on Judiciary, Subcommittee on Capital Punishment. Report Pertaining to the Problems of the Death Penalty and Its Administration in California. (Assembly Interim Committee Reports, Vol. XX, no.iii, 1955-57.) Sacramento, 1957.

Canada, Minister of Justice. Capital Punishment; Material Relating to its Purpose and Value. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1965.

Christoph, James B. Capital Punishment and British Politics; The British Movement to Abolish the Death Penalty, 1945-57. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.

Clark, Ramsey. Statement before the Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures of the Senate Judiciary Committee on S. 1760 to Abolish the Death Penalty , July 2, 1968. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, 1968.

Darrow, Clarence S. "The Futility of the Death Penalty," in his Verdicts Out of Court. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1963. (Reprinted from The Forum, September 1928.)

Demarcus, John P. Capital Punishment. (Kentucky Legislative Research Commission, Informational Bulletin, No. 40) Frankfort, Ky., 1965.

DiSalle, Michael V. , with Lawrence G. Blochman. The Power of Life or Death. New York : Random House, 1965.

Florida, Special Commission for the Study of Abolition of Death Penalty in Capital Cases. Report, 1963-65. Tallahassee, 1965.

Frank, Jerome , and Barbara Frank , in association with Harold M. Hoffman. Not Guilty. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1957 .

Gardiner, Gerald. Capital Punishment as a Deterrent, and the Alternative. London: V. Gollancz, 1956.

Gowers, Sir Ernest A. A Life for a Life? The Problem of Capital Punishment. London: Chatto and Windus, 1956.

Great Britain, Royal Commission on Capital Punishment. Report. (Parliament, Cmd. 8932 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1953.

Joyce, James A. Capital Punishment: A World View. New York: Thomas Nelson, 1961.

Koestler, Arthur. Reflections on Hanging. With a preface by Edmond Cahn and an afterword by Sydney Silverman. New York: Macmillan , 1957.

Laurence, John (pseud.). A History of Capital Punishment With a comment on capital punishment by Clarence Darrow. New York: Citadel Press, 1960.

Lunden, Walter A. The Death Penalty; An Analysis of Capital Punishment and Factors Related to Murder. Prepared for the Board of Control of State Institutions, Des Moines, Ia. Ames, Ia., 1960.

McIntyre, Donald M. Delays in the Execution of Death Sentences (Research Memorandum Series, No. 24.) Chicago: American Bar Association, 1960. (Mimeographed.)

Maryland, Committee on Capital Punishment. Report to the Legislative Council of Maryland, Oct. 3, 1962 . Baltimore, 1962.

Massachusetts, Special Commission Established for the Purpose of Investigating and Studying the Abolition of the Death Penalty. Report and Recommendations, Dec. 30, 1958. (House of Representatives No. 2575.) Boston, 1959.

Mattick, Hans W. The Unexamined Death; An Analysis of Capital Punishment. 2d. ed. Chicago: John Howard Association , 1966.

Morris, Norval. Capital Punishment Developments, 1961-65. Prepared for the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. New York, 1967.

New York, State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code. Special Report on Capital Punishment . Albany, 1965.

Ohio Legislature, Legislative Service Commission. Capital Punishment . (Staff Research Report, No. 46.) Columbus, 1961.

Playfair, Giles , and Derrick Sington . The Offenders; The Case against Legal Vengeance . New York: Simon and Schuster , 1957.

Prettyman, Barrett. Death and the Supreme Court. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961.

Sellin, Thorsten. Capital Punishment. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.

Sellin, Thorsten, ed. Murder and the Penalty of Death. (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, November 1952.)

Teeters, Negley K. , in collaboration with Jack H. Hedblom. "... Hang by the Neck...."; The Legal Use of Scaffold and Noose, Gibbet, Stake, and Firing Squad from Colonial Times to the Present. With a foreword by Thomas M. McDade. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1967.

—. Scaffold and Chair; A Compilation of Their Use in Pennsylvania, 1682-1962 . Philadelphia, 1963.

Thomas, Trevor. This Life We Take; A Case against the Death Penalty. 3rd ed. rev. San Francisco: Friends Committee on Legislation, 1965.

Tuttle, Elizabeth A. The Crusade against Capital Punishment in Great Britain. With a foreword by Edward Glover. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961.

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Capital Punishment. New York, 1962.

United States, Bureau of Prisons. Executions . Annual. (National Prisoner Statistics Series.)

Weihofen, Henry. The Urge to Punish ; New Approaches to the Problem of Mental Irresponsibility for Crime. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1956.

Werkheiser, Richard M. , and Arthur C. Barnhart . Capital Punishment. New York : Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A., National Council, 1961.

Barzun, Jacques. "In Favor of Capital Punishment," American Scholar , Spring 1962, 181-91.

Bedau, Hugo A. "Capital Punishment in Oregon, 1903-64," Oregon Law Review, December 1965, 1-39.

—. "Death Sentences in New Jersey, 1907-60," Rutgers Law Review, Fall 1964, 1-64.

" Capital Punishment," Prison Journal, October 1958, 34-74.

Coakley, J.F. "Capital Punishment," American Criminal Law Quarterly , May 1963, 27-48.

Deets, Lee E. "Changes in Capital Punishment Policy since 1939," Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science, March-April 1948, 584-94.

Ehrmann, Sara R. "The American League Looks at Capital Punishment," Proceedings of the 86th Annual Congress of Correction, American Correctional Association, 1956, 300-08.

" Executive Clemency in Capital Cases," New York University Law Review, January 1964, 136-92.

Lassers, Willard J. "Proof of Guilt in Capital Cases—An Unscience," Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science, September 1967, 310-16.

McCafferty, James A. "The Death Sentence and Then What?" Crime and Delinquency , October 1961, 363-72.

—. "Trends in Capital Punishment: Retrospect and Prospect," Proceedings of the 97th Annual Congress of Correction, American Correctional Association, 1967, 23-27.

McGee, Richard A. "Capital Punishment as Seen by a Correctional Administrator," Federal Probation, June 1964, 11-16.

National Council on Crime and Delinquency, Board of Trustees. "Policy Statement on Capital Punishment," Crime and Delinquency, April 1964, 105-09.

Oberer, Walter E. "Does Disqualification of Jurors for Scruples against Capital Punishment Constitute Denial of Fair Trial on Issue of Guilt?" Texas Law Review, May 1961, 545-67.

Partington, Donald H. "The Incidence of the Death Penalty for Rape in Virginia," Washington and Lee Law Review, Spring 1965, 43-75.

Patrick, Clarence H. "The Status of Capital Punishment: A World Perspective," Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science, December 1965, 397-411.

Ringold, Solie M. "The Dynamics of Executive Clemency," American Bar Association Journal, March 1966, 240-43.

Robin, Gerald D. "The Executioner: His Place in English Society," British Journal of Sociology, September 1964, 234-53.

Savitz, Leonard D. "A Study in Capital Punishment," Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science, November-December 1958 , 338-41.

Wolfgang, Marvin E. , Arlene Kelly , and Hans C. Nolde. "Comparison of the Executed and the Commuted among Admissions to Death Row," Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science , September 1962, 301-11.