2000-2009 Death Penalty Class Website, accessible at: http://erniethomson.com
2005 Show Trials and Sham Trials: Inadequate Representation at Trial in Capital Cases in Professing Humanist Sociology edited by Glenn A. Goodwin and Martin D. Schwartz, American Sociological Association (in press).
1999 Effects of an Execution on Homicides in California, Homicide Studies, Vol 3, No 2, 129-150.
1997 Discrimination and the Death Penalty in Arizona, Criminal Justice Review, Vol 22, No 1, 65-76.
1997 Deterrence vs. Brutalization: The Case of Arizona, Homicide Studies, Vol 1, No 2, 110-128.
1997 "Death Penalty" "Gregg v. Georgia" "Lynch Law" in Crime and the Justice System in America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Frank Schmalleger, New York: Greenwood Press.
1995 Review of The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990 by Marquart, Olson, and Sorenson (1995) in Criminal Justice Review, Vol 20, No 1, 100-102.
1994 Just Another Simi Valley Jury: The Supreme Court and the Death Penalty, The Philosophical Forum, Vol XX, No 1, 78-83.