From lynch mobs to the killing state : race and the death penalty in America / edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Capital punishment as legal lynching / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn -- Making race matter in death matters / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. -- Traces of slavery : race and the death penalty in historical perspective / Stuart Banner -- The role of victim's race and geography on death sentencing : some recent data from Illinois / Michael L. Radelet and Glenn L. Pierce -- Death in "whiteface" : modern race minstrels, death penalty judgments, and the culture of American apartheid / Benjamin Fleury-Steiner -- Stereotypes, prejudice, and life and death decision-making : lessons from laypersons in an experimental setting / Mona Lynch -- Discrimination, death and denial : the tolerance of racial discrimination in infliction of the death penalty / Stephen B. Bright -- The rhetoric of race in the "new abolitionism" / Austin Sarat.