An extremely well-informed and richly insightful book of great value to students of the death penalty as well as intelligent general readers with a serious interest in the subject, Among the Lowest of the Dead is also exciting reading. The book is an ideal guide for new generations of readers who want to form knowledgeable judgments in the continuing--and recently accelerating--controversies about capital punishment.

Though some crimes and some criminals do not pose a big problem as to their demise, because of a dreadful nature of their deeds,  there still remains an acute problem of judicial errors, and the practicalities of carrying on the sentence: who should be the executioneer?