The essays in Murder and Its Consequences span several periods in the history of capital punishment in America and the professional career of Leigh Bienen, a leading researcher on the death penalty. A Good Murder describes the subtle relationship between high-profile murders and the death penalty, while The Proportionality Review of Capital Cases places the well-known study of proportionality in New Jersey within a nationwide context.
Anomalies suggests that the arcane protocols written for lethal injection have little to do withinsuring humane executions, but rather are concerned...