Seattle University A.A. Lemieux Library Academic Day 2002   Dead Man Walking

The People on Death Row

	> the prisoners
	> women offenders
	> racism and the death penalty
	> juvenile offenders
	> mentally ill offenders
	> tip of the iceberg

Who are the prisoners on Death Row?

websites

• Dead Man Talkin': A series of columns written by death row inmates.
• Prison Information: Critical Criminology. American Society of Criminology
• Living on Death Row: California's Death Row, Part II: by Michael Hunter

media in Lemieux Library

• Glass, Ira.
  Lock-up
  Sound-recording.
  Chicago: WBEZ Chicago, 1999.
  HV9471 .L6 1999
• Hallinan, Joseph T.
  Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation
  New York: Random House, 2001.
  HV9469 .H25 2001
• Johnson, Robert
  Condemned to Die: Life Under the Sentence of Death
  Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1989.
  HV8699 .U5 J64 1989
• Levine, Stephen
  Death Row: An Affirmation of Life
  San Francisco: Glide Publications, 1972.
  PS508 .P7 L4 1972
• Lezin, Katya
  Finding Life on Death Row: Profiles of Six Inmates
  Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999.
  HV8699 .U6 L49 1999
• Loney, Randolph
  A Dream of the Tattered Man: Stories from Georgia's Death Row
  Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2001.
  (On order at Lemieux)
• Trupin, James E.
  In Prison: Writing and Poems About the Prison Experience
  New York: New American Library, 1975.
  PN6071 .P68 I5 1975
• Von Drehle, Dave
  Among the Lowest of the Dead: Inside Death Row
  New York: Fawcett Crest, 1995.
  HV8699 .U5 V66 1995B

How does a woman end up on Death Row? What are the special issues that women prisoners face?

websites

• Death Penalty for Female Offenders, January 1, 1973-June 30, 2002: by Victor L. Streib, The Claude W. Petit College of Law
• Charisse Shumate - The Death of a Woman Warrior Prisoner

books and videos in Lemieux Library

• Chesney-Lind, Meda
  The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime
  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997.
  HV6046 .C54 1997
• Gillespie, L. Kay
  Dancehall Ladies: The Crimes and Executions of America's Condemned Women
  Lanham: University Press of America, 1997.
  HV9468 .G54 1997
• O'Shea, Kathleen A.
  Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998
  Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.
  HV9466 .O74 1999
• Silliman, Jael
  Policing the National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalization in the United States
  Boston: South End; London: Turnaround, 2002.
  HV6250.4 .E75 S54 2002
• Watterson, Kathryn
  Women in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb
  Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996.
  HV9471 .W37 1996
• Women Doing Time
  Video recording.
  Dan Rather, New York: CBS News/Ambrose Video Publishing, 1990.
  HV6046 .W654 1990

Does race play a part in Death Row sentencing?

websites

• ACLU Briefing Paper: The Death Penalty
• Death Penalty Facts: Racial Prejudices. Amnesty International

books in Lemieux Library

• Bailey, Frankie Y.
  "Law Never Here": A Social History of African-American Responses to Issues of Crime and Justice
  Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.
  E185.86 .B25 1999
• Gross, Samuel R.
  Death and Discrimination: Racial Disparities in Capital Sentencing
  Boston: Northeastern University Press, c1989.
  HV8699 .U5 G76 1989
• Jackson, Jesse
  Legal Lynching: Racism, Injustice and the Death Penalty
  New York: Marlowe & Co., 1996.
  HV8699 .U5 J33 1996
• Jenkins, Philip
  Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide
  New York: A. de Gruyter, 1994.
  HV6529 .J46 1994
• Kennedy, Randall
  Race, Crime and the Law
  New York: Vintage Books, 1998.
  KF9223 .K43 1998
• Mauer, Marc
  Race to Incarcerate
  New York: New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 1999.
  HV9950 .M32 1999
• Miller, Jerome G.
  Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System
  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  HV9950 .M55 1996
• Rise, Eric W.
  The Martinsville Seven: Race, Rape and Capital Punishment
  Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1995.
  (On order at Lemieux)

Why do kids kill?

websites

• Juvenile Death Penalty and Adolescent Development (The Legislative Update, No. 13, 2002): by Mark S. Wright, M.D., President of KY Psychiatric Association
• Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
• Juvenile Offenders and Victoms: 1999 national Report National Center for Juvenile Justice
• Juvenile Death Penalty Facts: While some facts included in this report cover only those pertaining to the state of Kentucky, there are other facts that are applicable to the US in general (see "National Bipartisan Groups Call for Reforms and Recommends Against Death Penalty for Children").
• Resolution on Juvenile Justice. UCC General Synod XXIII

books and articles in Lemieux Library

• Dicks, Shirley, ed.
  Young Blood: Juvenile Justice and the Death Penalty
  Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1995.
  HV9104 .Y66 1995
• Feld, Barry C.
  Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court
  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  HV9104 .F43 1999
• Heckel, Robert V.
  Children Who Murder: A Psychological Perspective
  Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001.
  RJ506 .H65 H43 2001
• Rhodes, Richard
  Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
  Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1999.
  HV6080 .R46 1999
• Richards, Cara E.
  The Loss of Innocents: Child Killers and Their Victims
  Wilmington, DE.
• Sanders, Rickie
  Growing Up in America: An Atlas of Youth in the USA
  New York: Macmillian Library Reference, 1998.
  REF HB1323 .C52 U658 1998
  (See section entitled "Children and the Criminal Justice System")

Should the mentally impaired be given the death penalty?

websites

• "Mentally Ill and Juvenile Offender Alexander Williams Granted Clemency": American Bar Association. Relates story of severly mentally ill 17-year-old inmate Alex Williams. Includes links to clemency appeals from Child Welfare League, American Bar Association, European Union, etc.
• "High Court Rules that Executing the Mentally Retarded is 'Cruel and Unusual' Punishment": ACLU Press Release, June 20, 2002
• Mentally Retarded on Death Row
• Stop Killing the Mentally Retarded: John Paul Penry's Story
• States Prohibiting Execution of the Mentally Retarded: by Christopher Reinhart, Connecticut General Assembly, Office of Legislative Research
• Beyond Reason: The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation. Human Rights Watch Reports

books and articles in Lemieux Library

• Conley, Ronald W., Ruth Luckasson and George N. Bouthilet
  The Criminal Justice System and Mental Retardation
  Baltimore: P.H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1992.
  (On order at Lemieux)
• Should the Mentally Retarded Be Executed?
  CQ Researcher
  Volume 11, Issue 40, pg. 953
  REF H35 E35 2001

tip of the iceberg...

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