Death Penalty USA 2001 - 2002 is the third volume in a series of capital punishment books by Delfino and Day providing details of the capital crimes perpetrated by all 132 men and 5 women who were executed in the United States between January 2001 and December 2002. Reading this compilation of grim and horrific deaths for which convicted inmates were executed, some by electrocution, most by lethal injection, will not be easy. Only by knowing how the people of the United States select those who suffer retribution for each and every murder can we determine whether the U.S. government's promise of deterrence and a punishment that is not cruel and unusual is being fulfilled and that "death is truly an awesome punishment."