• Preface – Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General
• Introduction – An Abolitionist’s Perspective, Ivan Šimonovi´c
Chapter 1 – Wrongful Convictions
• Kirk Bloodsworth, Without DNA evidence I’d still be behind bars
• Brandon Garrett, DNA evidence casts light on flaws in system
• Gil Garcetti, In the United States, growing doubts about the death penalty
• Saul Lehrfreund, Wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice
in death penalty trials in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia
Chapter 2 – Myth of Deterrence
• Carolyn Hoyle & Roger Hood, Deterrence and public opinion
Chapter 3 – Discrimination
• Damien Echols, The terrors of prison fade slowly
• Stephen Braga, Damien Echols and the West Memphis Three Case
• Steve Bright, Imposition of the death penalty upon the poor, racial minorities, the intellectually disabled and the mentally ill
• Arif Bulkan, The death penalty in the Commonwealth Carribean: Justice out of reach?
• Usha Ramanathan, The death penalty in India: Down a slippery slope
• Alice Mogwe, The death penalty in Botswana: Barriers to equal justice
• Innocent Maja,The death penalty in Zimbabwe: Legal ambiguitites
Chapter 4 – Values p.169
• Mario Marazziti, World religions and the death penalty
• Paul Bhatti, Towards a moratorium on the death penalty
Chapter 5 – Trends and Perspectives
• Salil Shetty, Global death penalty trends since 2012
• Federico Mayor, Leadership and the abolition of the death penalty