ABSTRACT
Newly crafted, now quite lengthy legal procedures yielded increased executions. Concerns remained. Once again, science and technology provided an important impetus for rethinking moral issues. Strong evidence became available that many persons were being wrongly convicted of capital offenses. In addition, the new procedures, in one sense clarifying, had become messy and meaningless for even some who had devised them. As this book goes to press, the standards and procedures are shifting, and the debate continues.
