A bibliography focusing on religion, the death penalty, and the Tsarnaev Trial compiled collectively by HI/RN 295 Religious Controversies and the Law
Capital punishment and religion assignment
Books
Bedau, Hugo Adam. The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Blecker, Robert. The Death of Punishment: Searching for Justice Among the Worst of the Worst. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Blesser, John D. Cruel And Unusual: The American Death Penalty and the Founder’s Eighth Amendment. Hanover, NH: Northeastern University Press, 2012.
Lester, David. The Death Penalty: Issues And Answers (Second Edition). Springfield, IL: C.C. Thomas, 1998.
Ogletree, Charles J., and Sarat, Austin, eds. 2012. Life Without Parole : America’s New Death Penalty? New York, NY, USA: New York University Press. (available on ProQuest ebrary)
Santoro, Anthony. Exile and Embrace: Contemporary Religious Discourse on the Death Penalty. Hanover, NH: Northeastern University Press, 2013.
Journal Articles
Bias, Thomas K., Abraham Goldberg, and Tara Hannum. “Catholics and the Death Penalty: Religion as a Filter for Political Beliefs.” Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 7 (2011). (available on ProQuest)
Chester, Britt. “Race, Religion, and Support for the Death Penalty: A Research Note.” Justice Quarterly 15:175-91. (available on HeinOnline)
Cooey, Paula M. “Women’s Religious Conversions on Death Row: Theorizing Religion and State.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 70 (Dec. 2002): 699-717. (available on Jstor)
Drinan, Robert F. “Religious Organizations and the Death Penalty.” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 9, no. 1 (2000): 171-78. (available on HeinOnline)
Echols, Micah. “Is the courtroom the right place for religion? Difficulties in restricting religious arguments during the sentencing phase of Pennsylvania death penalty cases: Commonwealth v. Spotz.” University of West Los Angeles Law Review 36 (2005):254-273. (available on Lexis-nexis)
Eisenberg, Theodore , Stephen P. Garvey, and Martin T. Wells. “Forecasting Life and Death: Juror Race, Religion, and Attitude toward the Death Penalty,” The Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2 (June 2001), pp. 277-311. (available on Jstor)
Erskine, Hazel. “The Polls: Capital Punishment.” The Public Opinion Quarterly vol. 34, no. 2 (Summer 1970): 290-307. (available on Jstor)
Garnett, Richard. “Christian Witness, Moral Anthropology, and the Death Penalty (Symposium on Religion in the Public Square).” Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 17(2) (2003): 541-59. (available on HeinOnline)
Hiers, Richard H. “The death penalty and due process in biblical law.” University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, 81(5) (2004): 751-843.
Loewy, Arnold H. “Religious Neutrality and the Death Penalty (mitigating circumstances) (Symposium: Religion’s Role in the Administration of the Death Penalty).” The William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 9, no. 1 (2000): 191-200. (available on HeinOnline)
Megivern, James J. “Capital Punishment: The Curious History of Its Privileged Place in Christendom.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 147 (2003): 3-12. (available on Jstor)
Mathias, Matthew D. “The Sacralization of the Individual: Human Rights and the Abolition of the Death Penalty.” American Journal of Sociology 118 (March 2013): 1246-1283. (available on Jstor)
Miller, Monica K., and R. David Hayward. “Religious Characteristics and the Death Penalty.” Law and Human Behavior 32, no. 2 (2007): 113-23. (available on Jstor)
Schabas, William A. “Islam and the Death Penalty.” The William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 9, no. 1 (2000): 223-36.
Simpson, Gary J and Stephen P. Garvey. “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Rethinking the Role of Religion in Death Penalty Cases.” Cornell Law Review vol. 86 (2000-2001): 1090-1130. (available on HeinOnline)
Jeffery T. Ulmer, Christopher Bader and Martha Gault “Do Moral Communities Play a Role in Criminal Sentencing? Evidence from Pennsylvania.” The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Fall, 2008): 737-768. (available on Jstor)
Young, Robert L. “Religious Orientation, Race and Support for the Death Penalty,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Vol. 31, No. 1 (Mar., 1992): 76-87. (available on Jstor)
Journalism
“Bishops say Tsarnaev should not receive death penalty.” Washington Times (AP). April 6, 2015.
Biale, Rachel. “Judaism Casts Doubt on Lethal Injection.” JWeekly, January 18, 2008.
O’Neill, Ann. “The 13th Juror: Showdown in Watertown” CNN.com. March 21, 2015.
Shetty, Salil. “Humans Do Not Deserve Executions (Opinion)” CNN.com. April 1, 2015.
Other Sources
“Capital Punishment and Christianity.” BBC.co.uk. August 3, 2009.
“Capital Punishment and Islam.” BBC.co.uk. September 16, 2009.
“Capital Punishment and Judaism.” BBC.co.uk. July 21, 2009.
Carroll, Joseph. “Who Supports the Death Penalty?” Gallup, Inc., 16 Nov. 2004.
Weinstein, Jack B. “Death Penalty: The Torah and Today.” deathpenaltyinfo.org. August 23, 2000.
Religious Perspectives
Christian Citizenship – The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.
Olasky, Marvin. “Five Religious Views of Capital Punishment.” World Magazine, October 15, 2013.