Seattle University A.A. Lemieux Library
Academic Day 2002
Dead Man Walking
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The People on
Death Row
Who are the prisoners on Death Row?
websites
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
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
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
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
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
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