pt. 1.From offense to trial : the case of Kenneth Brock -- ch. 1. The offense and the arrest -- ch. 2. The defendant, the victim, and the investigation -- ch. 3. Preliminary maneuvering : the lawyers, the judge, and the jury -- ch. 4. The trial -- ch. 5. The arguments and the verdict -- ch. 6. The penalty hearing -- ch. 7. the aftermath -- pt. 2. The jury and the life or death decision -- ch. 8. The Richmond Avenue murders -- ch. 9. The trial of John Stiles Griffin -- ch. 10. The Halloween candy murder case -- ch. 11. The trial of Ronald O'Bryan -- pt. 3. The evidence and the life or death decision -- ch. 12. The murder of an old woman -- ch. 13. The trial of Gerald Lee Bodde -- ch. 14. The Brady Bunch, part 1 : suppression of the evidence -- ch. 15. The Brady Bunch, part 2 : the trial of Richard Vargas -- ch. 16. The Navigation Street murder -- ch. 17. The Brady Bunch, part 4 : Bernardino Sierra's plea bargain -- pt. 4. Of barbarism and justice -- ch. 18. The dilemma of capital punishment -- ch. 19. The best of the abolitionist argument -- ch. 20. The case for capital punishment -- pt. 5. What happened to them? -- ch. 21. "A model prisoner" -- ch. 22. Appeals, petitions, and stays -- ch. 23. Life and death on death row -- ch. 24. The execution protocol.