Murder & Death Penalty In Massachusetts Book

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xv
Murder and Due Proceeding in Colonial Massachusetts     1
"Hideous Consequences" and the Declaration of Rights     39
"Under Sentence of Death": The First Effort to Abolish the Death Penalty     79
"The Monster Petition"     106
A "Tong War" and the Second Effort to Abolish the Death Penalty     137
Sacco and Vanzetti     169
The Insanity Defense     208
The Right to an Attorney and Criminal Discovery     251
Confession: Neither Fear nor Favor     273
The Right of the Accused to an Impartial Jury     296
"Success-At Long Last"     330
The Abolition of the Death Penalty     355
Epilogue: After Abolition     397
Notes     407
Index     490