Death Penalty USA 2007 - 2008 is the fourth volume in a series of capital punishment books by Delfino and Day providing details of the capital crimes perpetrated by all 79 men who were executed in the United States between January 2007 and December 2008. Reading this compilation of grim and horrific deaths for which convicted inmates were executed, two who chose 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.