Death Watch looks at the death penalty as a legal process, a social reality, and a fundamental issue of public policy. A collection of articles examines the problems with the operation of a death penalty system. The topics covered in this book include: (1) how capital cases are different in the legal process; (2) how death penalty offenders are selected; (3) the selective application of the death penalty to women and juveniles; (4) problems in providing competent counsel to death penalty defendants; (5) medical issues related to organ donation and physician participation in executions; (6) the execution of blacks for rape in the South; (7) how the death penalty was imposed and carried out in the past; (8) reflections on death row life by inmates under death sentence; (9) the last words of men and women before execution; (10) the dilemma of defending the innocent on death row; (11) feature articles on two Louisiana inmates, Antonio James and John A. Brown, Jr., executed in 1996 and 1997; and (12) the ethics of the death penalty today. Bibliography