Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition

Abstract

This is a capital case report, a real-life death penalty story, written by Abby Goodnough for theNew York Times.Danny Rolling’s case may not be typical of death penalty cases in contemporary America—outside of media reports, mundane robbery-murders are more common than macabre serial killings—but it is, in a certain respect, exemplary.