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Acknowledgments
Thanks to all the people at ABC-CLIO/Greenwood who worked
to make this project a success. We want to thank Nita Lang,
assistant managing editor, and Robin Tutt, development editor,
for working so closely with us. We appreciate your guidance,
support, encouragement, and—especially—your patience!
Thank you for the extensions on our deadlines. Thanks to Erin
Ryan, senior coordinator, editorial operations for your help with
photo research and Leah Georgina, project manager, for bring-
ing this work across the finish line. We extend our appreciation
to those who contributed essays for this project, including for-
mer governor Tom Corbett (Pennsylvania), Richard C. Dieter
(executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center),
retired Judge Rudolph J. Gerber (Arizona Court of Appeals),
and professors Kim MacInnis (Bridgewater State University),
Brett R. Metzler (University of Central Florida), John Rago
(Duquesne University School of Law), and Elizabeth Rapaport
(University of New Mexico School of Law). Thanks also to
Renee Hoffman, reference librarian at Saint Francis University.
Thanks to Anna Baughman (Saint Francis University, Class of
2019) for her proofreading help. We are also grateful to Jessica
Melusky (Saint Joseph’s University, Class of 2018) for her very
able research assistance.
