A generation of stone killers / Scott Minerbrook -- American killers are getting younger / James Alex Fox & Glenn Pierce -- Most dangerous and endangered / Rick Tetzeli -- Action Jackson / Hanna Rosin -- When kids go bad / Richard Lacayo -- California's teen gulags / Donna Foote -- The law of unintended consequences / Neil Steinberg -- And throw away and key / Jill Smolowe -- L̀ock 'em up' can't possibly cut crime much / David C. Anderson -- Walking prisons / Max Winkler -- A solution to prison overcrowding / Johnathan Turley -- The Supreme Court and capital punishment / Cornelius F. Murphy --Catholics and the death penalty / Robert F. Drinan -- Not in my name / Barbara Dority -- You don't always get Perry Mason / Richard Lacayo -- Witness to another execution / Susan Blaustein -- State of the Union / William J. Clinton -- A cold-eyed look at crime / Ted Gest & Gorden Witkin -- No justice, no peace / Rick Szykowny -- The economics of crime / Michael J. Mandel & Paul Magnusson.