Book Review: Rights vs. Public Safety After 9/11: America in the Age of Terrorism:

TLDR: In this paper, the average cost of confining an inmate as $70,000 when it is closer to half that figure (p. 234); claims that the executions took place at ‘an average of 200 per year’ during the Depression, when in fact there was never a single year in the twentieth century when 200 executions were carried out.

Abstract: He confuses civil procedure with criminal procedure (pp. 208–9); presents the average cost of confining an inmate as $70,000 when it is closer to half that figure (p. 234); claims that the executions took place at ‘an average of 200 per year’ during the Depression (p. 52), when in fact there was never a single year in the twentieth century when 200 executions were carried out. (The peak was 199 in 1935.) He states the current number of inmates on death row as being 2,700 (p. 222) when he must have meant 3,700 (at the end of 2003, the total was actually 3,504) and refers to the increased number of lynchings that occurred between 1889 and 1993, when he must mean 1893 (p. 101). One can only shudder that so many errors have found their way onto the printed page and hope that other authors will be better served by their colleagues and their publishers.