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DEATH PENALTY LINKS

(links last updated 5/2/2002 -- the infamous outline of sites for death penalty lawyers click here)

Top of the legal, "cause" Sites & web published articles

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Homepage.
Anti-Death Penalty Information & Resources (American Society of Criminologists)
Death Penalty and Religion Links by The Theology Library.
Abolish Discussion List Archives 1996-present
Amnesty International Website Against the Death Penalty
Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy Death Penalty Links
Polling Report.Com.

MOST POPULAR LINKS

Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CCADP) - non-profit, human rights organization which focuses on bringing international attention to the use of capital punishment in the US.
Capital Punishment - an essay on capital punishment, givingg ttwo arguments, one based on justice and one based on love. Both lead to opposition.
Capital Punishment: The Ultimate Injustice - collection of links to anti-death penalty resources.
Coloradans Against The Death Penalty (CADP) - nonprofit organization working to abolish the death penalty in Colorado.
Death Penalty Focus of California
Death Penalty Information - from the American Society of Criminology.
Death Penalty Information Center - contains information about topics and isssues related to capital punishment.
Death Penalty Institute of Oklahoma - serves the media and the public with aanaalysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment.
Death Penalty Moratorium Campaign - working to end the death penalty in Illinois.
Death Penalty Perspective, The - a view on capital punishment and the ramifications from a victim's point of view. Includes testimonials, witness accounts, and related links.
Death Penalty: An Interactive Research Project - a three-month research project on the death penalty in the U.S.
Driveby Exectuions Amount To Hypocrisy (DEATH) - includes petitions, polls, readings, opinion, and links.
Fight the Death Penalty in USA - articles and discussions.
Friends Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty
Lamp of Hope Project (2)
Massachusetts Death Penalty E-mail Network (MADPEN) - connects organizations and individuals working to keep the death penalty out of Massachusetts.
Mumia Abu-Jamal [Amnesy International] [Free Mumia] [Freedom Journal] [Mumia 2000] [People's Video Network
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - non-profit organization decicated to the complete abolition of the death penalty both in the United States and abroad.
Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty
Netmonkey's Death Penalty Page - article giving statistics, charts, and numerous reasons as to why killing is wrong.
New Jerseyans for a Death Penalty Moratorium - dedicated to winning public and political support for an immediate suspension of all executions in New Jersey for a minimum of two years.
New Mexcio Coaliton to Repeal the Death Penalty - with legislative, educational, faith, and media committees.
Ohioans To Stop Executions - founded in 1987 to end the use of capital punishment in the state through education and activism.
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty - committed to the education and mobilization of people of all faiths in North Carolina for the abolition of the death penalty.
Stop the Death Penalty - online petition against the death penaaltty in the United States.
Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

Law and Legal Perspectives

Abolition as Legal Conservatism: Commentary on the ABA, the death penalty, and the continuing anxiety about law's violence.
Assessing the ABA Moratorium: The impact of the ABA's call.
ABA Death Penalty Brief Bank: Under construction, but will offer briefs on death penalty issues from California, Florida, and Texas.
Against the American System:1986 article by Jack Greenberg, professor of law at Columbia.

California State Public Defender: Office providing legal representation in capital appeals before the State Supreme Court.
Capital Case Clearinghouse: Includes the Capital Defender's Weekly, one of the best sources for legal information.
Capital Defense Network: Federal counsel and habeas support.
Death Penalty and Its Use: 1997 Talk of the Nation discussion on capital punishment between judges Alex Kozinski and Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit. Realaudio format.
Death Penalty Page: Information about U.S Supreme Court and Florida cases.
Cornell Death Penalty Project: From the school of law.
Death Warrants: Florida Supreme Court orders and briefings in current death penalty cases. Contains video transcripts of the arguments challenging the use of the electric chair and graphic photographs attached to the dissenting opinion..
Hanging Judges: Bryan Stevenson writes about the direction of the United States Supreme Court in this article from the October 14, 1996, issue of The Nation
Jones Fund: Scholarship to help English students work in the United States on capital cases. Site includes background information on death row.
Louisiana Indigent Defender Board: Excellent capital defense manual.
NACDL Death Penalty Resources: Resources offered for attorneys by the criminal defense organization.
Nine Lives: The MacArthur Justice Center, a law office in Illinois working on capital issues.
Ninth Circuit Capital Punishment Handbook: Analysis of the law used by the circuit court of appeal.
Post-Conviction Proceedings in Capital Cases: The Florida Supreme Court's Explanation.
South African Death Penalty Decision: The opinion abolishing capital punishment. See also commentary on the decision.
Southern Center for Human Rights: Death Penalty information from the SCHR.
Supreme Court Death Penalty Decisions: Cases after April 1990.
Tennessee Public Defender: Capital division.
Violent Crime and the Death Penalty: A talk by attorney Steven Bright in realaudio format.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT HISTORY BY STATE

GENERL CAPITAL PUNISHMENT HISTORY

Focus on the Death Penalty: History & Recent Developments. (Univ Alaska Anchorage)

EXECUTION AND DEATH ROW STATISTICS

Death Penalty Information Center.
Methods of Execution in the States. (InfoPlease.Com 12/31/99)
Characteristics of Prisoners Under Sentence of Death. (InfoPlease.Com 12/31/99)
Women on Death Row. (InfoPlease.Com 12/31/99)
Number of Persons Executed, by Jurisdiction, 1930-1999. (InfoPlease.Com 12/31/99)

LIEBMAN/COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDY

Accuracy In Media Report: Flawed Columbia University Study.(August A 2000)

RACE AND CLASS BIAS

"The Death Penalty in Black & White: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides," by Richard Dieter, DPIC.(June 1998)
"Pro & Con: The Death Penalty in Black and White," by Dudley Sharp, Justice For All. (June 24, 1999)
Race, Sentencing, and the Death Penalty. (October 1, 1997 Justice For All)
Racism and Capital Punishment. (October 1, 1999 Wesley Lowe)
"The Myth of Racism in the Death Penalty," by David Andrew Price. (USA Today)
"Arizona Inmate Accuses Judge of Homophobia," by Randy Dotinga. (APBNews September 27, 2000)
"Justice On Trial: Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System. (civilrights.org)
"Death Penalty Tied to Race in North Carolina Study," by Maurice Possley. (Chicago Tribune April 17, 2001)
Racism and the Death Penalty. (NAACP Legal Defense Fund)
"Texas Psychologist Speaks Out About His Testimony on Race and Crime," by Raju Chebium. (CNN June 9, 2000)
"Execution By Quota?" by Rothman and Powers. (Smith College, The Public Interest, Summer 1994)
Executing Minorities - An American Tradition. (NCADP Fact Sheet)
The Death Penalty: Is It Arbitrary and Racially Skewed? (Friends Committe on National Legislation June 27, 2000)
"Federal Death Sentences Show Race Gap; More Plea Deals for White Suspects," by Mike Dorning. (Chicago Tribune July 24, 2000)
"More Whites Than Blacks Evade Death Penalty," by Amy Worder. (APBNews July 24, 2000)
"Study: Federal Death Sentences Show Racial Gap." (ABCNews.Com/AP July 24, 2000)
"Halls of Justice: Race and the Death Penalty," by Beverley Lumpkin. (Washington Post July 7, 2000)
Florida: "Capital Cases Task Force: Racial Bias Unclear," by Joe Becker. (St. Petersburg Times April 8, 2000)
Double Justice: Race and the Death Penalty. (ACLU 1996)
"Discrimination, Death and Denial," by Stephen B. Bright. (Santa Clara Law Review, 1995)
"A Legacy of Lynching: The Death Penalty as a Tool of Social Control," by William S. McFeely. (NACDL, Nov 1997)
"There is No Precedent for Justice and Equality in Capital Punishment," by Rose Sanders. (In Motion Magazine)
"Race and the Death Penalty." (American Bar Association Focus, Spring 1997)
"Racial Bias in the Death Penalty," by Violette.
"Killing With Prejudice - Race and the Death Penalty." (Amnesty International, May 20, 1999)
"Death Penalty is a Black and White Issue," by David Andrew Price. (USA Today Excerpt)
The Death Penalty in Georgia,USA - Racist, Arbitrary and Unfair. (Amnesty International)
"The Death Penalty in the U. S. Continues to Reflect our Nation's Prejudice," by Michael Mears. (July 1999)
"New Jersey Supreme Court Considers the Race Factor," by Rocco Cammarere. (New Jersey Lawyer January 20, 1997)

ARTICLES, ESSAYS, AND ARGUMENT AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

"A Conservative Case Against Capital Punishment," by Carl M. Cannon. (National Review June 19, 2000)
Death Penalty Term Papers - Univ of Texas (pro & con)
Death Penalty Dialogue, Pro and Con, from Eric Zorn and Dudley Sharp. (Chicago Tribune June 2000)
"Death Trip: The American Way of Execution," by Robert Sherrill. (The Nation January 8, 2001)
"The Death Penalty," from the SpeakOut.Com Activism Center.
"Why I Changed My Mind on (Against)the Death Penalty," by Lance Morrow. (Time.Com May 3, 2000)
"Why the Death Penalty Does Us No Credit," by Lance Morrow. (Time.Com June 2, 2000)
American Bar Association Focus on Law Studies: The Death Penalty. (Spring 1997)
Frontline: The Death Penalty - Pro and Con. (1998)
Peacework Magazine: The Death Penalty. (American Friends Service Committee April 1999)
"Justice: Retribution or Restoration?," by Howard Zehr. (Peacework Magazine April 1999)
About.Com The Death Penalty, Pro & Con Links.
Articles and Information on the Death Penalty, Pro and Con. (ICADP-Student Outreach)
"The Death Penalty Debate Intensifies," by Stuart Taylor, Jr. (MSNBC June 11, 2001)
"Capital Punishment on Trial: Which Side Is Correct?" a Death Penalty Research Paper by Theodore Kamis. (1996)
USA: Failing the Future - Death Penalty Developments March 1998 - March 2000. (Amnesty International)
"Capital Punishment: Dud Arguments" from John Spragge (Univ Michigan)
"Anarchism and Capital Punishment" a death penalty essay by Benjamin R. Tucker (1926)
Some Thoughts on the Death Penalty, Pro and Con. (Capital Punishment U.S.A.)
"Billy Budd and Capital Punishment: A Tale of Three Centuries," by H. Bruce Franklin. (1997)
"A System That Will Take Life Must First Give Justice," by Alex Hurder. (ABA Human Rights Report Winter 1997)
"The Executioner's Swan Song?" by Michael Kroll. (Salon.Com February 8, 2000)
The Death Penalty in the 21st Century. (American University Conference Transcript, 1995)
"The Case Against the Death Penalty," by Hugo Adam Bedau. (ACLU)
"The Case Against the Death Penalty," by Hugo Adam Bedau. (Michael Wood)
"Thinking About the Death Penalty Today," by Hugo Adam Bedau. (Peacework Magazine 1999)
The Death Penalty, Pro and Con, from The Public Cause Network.
"Time to Stop Tinkering." (Remarks of Wisconsin Senator Feingold) (The Nation May 15, 2000)
The Hanging Judges (of the Renquist Court) (The Nation, October 1996)
"Death Penalty System Likened to Professional Sports," by Janet Conley. (Law.Com October 13, 2000)
"Legalized Murder: The Death Penalty Serves Revenge and Does Nothing to Solve Crime." (MIT October 17, 1997)
"The Death Penalty: Morally Defensible?" by Casey Carmical.
Justice Blackmun Dissenting Opinion in Callins v. Collins.
"Rethinking Abolitionism: What Do We Do With Henry?" by Thomas and Boehlefeld. (Northern Illinois University, 1991)
"Rethinking the Death Penalty," by Wen Stephenson. (Atlantic Unbound June 22, 2000)
"Arguments for Life and Death," by Jennifer C. Honeyman & James R.P. Ogloff. (Canadian Journal January 1996)
"Arguments for Life and Death," by Jennifer C. Honeyman & James R.P. Ogloff. (Canadian Journal January 1996)
"Capital Punishment: Facts and Arguments" from John Spragge. (Univ Michigan)
Talking Points. (New Mexico Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty)
"Why Conservatives Should Oppose the Death Penalty," by Kenneth Haas. (University of Delaware)
American Civil Liberties Union Briefing Paper #8.
Strong Anti-Death Penalty Remarks by NYU Professor Anthony Amsterdam at the Marshall Awards. (April 27, 1998)
"Capital Punishment," by George Bernard Shaw. (1948 Atlantic Monthly)
"Lethal Objection," by Charles Lane. (New Republic, March 2, 1998)
Atlantic Monthly Articles on the Death Penalty from 1948, 1957, 1960, & 1994.
"Hearing the Facts About the Death Penalty," by Julie Polter. (Sojourners Magazine, May 1996)
"The Death Penalty is Nothing More Than Revenge," by Carol Fennelly. (Sojourners Magazine July 1998)
"The Death Penalty is Irrational," by Phil Porter. (1998)
"Dissecting the Death Penalty: The Reality of Capital Punishment," by Bob Harris. (The Scoop February 9, 1999)
Short FAQ on the Death Penalty from Capitalism.Org.
"Death, Legal and Illegal," by Daniel C. Maguire. (Atlantic Monthly Feb 1974)
"Why the U.S. Should Abolish the Death Penalty" by Jon M. Apgar. (The Touchstone, February 1996)
"Humility, Compassion and Death," by Jonathan Wallace. (The Ethical Spectacle, December 1997)
"Capital Punishment in the United States," by Sarah Oppenheim. (Center for Human Rights Spring 1998)
"A Few Thoughts On the Death Penalty," by Mark K. Thomas.
"Punishment," by John Rawls (1954)
"Capital Punishment: Our Duty or Our Doom? by Andre and Velasquez. (Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Spring 1988)
"Punishment and the Death Penalty," a 25 slide show by Lawrence M. Hinman, University of San Diego.
Editorial: "Abolish the Death Penalty," by Fred E. Foldvary. (The Progress Report 2000)
"Stop the Death Penalty!" Sign This Petition. (Stanford University)
"The Executioner's Song Carries Faulty Lyrics," by Leonard Pitts, Jr. (MyDrum.Com June 30, 2000)
"Capital Punishment Has Too Many Disadvantages To Be Legal," a web term paper from N.J. student Steven Lee.
A Capital Punishment Online Assignment from Gavilan College, California (Fall 1999)
"Our Global Societal Woes," an anti-death penalty term paper from Beamer.
"My Views On the Death Penalty," from Vanguard by Caz.
The ACLU Abolitionist Newsletter. (January 1996)
"Killing is Not Murder" anti-death penalty writings by L. Michael Smith. (Four Corners)
"The Death Penalty Right or Wrong?" by News Matters. (2000)
A Short Essay Against Capital Punishment from Derechos.
"The Death Penalty - True Cause for Justice," by Cynthia G. Oberg. (May 4, 2000)
"The Death Penalty: Right or Wrong, and Why," by Zandra "Mongoose" Ellis.
"The Death Penalty: Right or Wrong?" by Kaz, the Editor of Crime & Justice at the Open Directory Project.
Anti-Death Penalty Editorial: "Public Support Weakening," by Michael Kroll. (CSIndy.Com February 16, 2000)
"An Eye for an Eye" by Yoon & Harrigan. (Reconciliation in a Culture of Vengence)
"Against the American System of Capital Punishment," by Jack Greenberg. (Harvard Law Review Association, 1986)
"Hypocritical Death Penalty," by Noe Prado. (The Observer Online November 6, 1997)
"Limiting Death Penalty Appeals Makes Inexcusable Routine," by Brian Carnell. (Western Herald, October 2, 1991)
"The Death Penalty: A View of Opposition" an essay by Doug Berry.
Texas Amnesty International Against the Death Penalty in Texas and the U.S.A. (September 12, 1999)
"The Death Penalty: An Inquiry into Man's Mortal Weakness," from Think Quest.
The (Anti) Capital Punishment Pages from Theodore Kamis.
"The Morality of Murder: Capital Punishment in America," by Mark Krumholz. (Progressive Review, February 1995)
"Why You Should Oppose the Death Penalty," from The Gully
"Former Virginia Attorney General Now Death Penalty Foe," by Carrie Johnson. (Richmond Times February 12, 2000)
A short anti-death penalty essay from Guercio's Philosophy. (1996)
Welcome to Hell: "Death on Death Row," by Charla Greene. (September 1997)
Contemporary Moral Problems: Capital Punishment," by Michael J. Connelly. (Longview Community College 1997)
CJCR 4590/CCJ 5026: Advanced Seminar on the Death Penalty. (East Tennessee State University)
"Abolish Capital Punishment" a short editorial by Fred E. Foldvary, Progress Report Editor.
"Stop Killing People: Summary of Factors which Support a Moratorium. (The Progress Report)
"Capital Punishment: A Gathering of Facts", a term paper. (1997)
"Is the Death Penalty Cruel and Unusual?" by John Barry. (SpeakOut.Com May 3, 2000)
Democracy Now! "America's Capital Punishment Industry" and "A.J. Bannister" (Real Audio and text summary)
"Dead Man Walking Out: The Doubting Voices are Getting Louder." (The Economist Editorial June 10, 2000)
"We Don't Believe in Capital Punishment," by Fred Kolkman for the PATRICK Crusade.
"The Death Penalty: Terror Weapon of the State Against Its Citizens," from the New Union Party. (March 1993)
"The Death Penalty Equals Two Petty Words for Murder," from Laverne.
Anti-Death Penaty Remarks from a Speech by Texas Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez.
Definition of Terms Often Used in the Capital Punishment Debate. (Ohio University)
Anti-Death Penalty Quotes by Respected Leaders. (Friends Committee to Abolish Death Penalty)
Statements by the Most Compelling Opponents of the Death Penalty. (ElectricChair.Com)
Anti-Death Penalty Quotes by Writers, Religious Leaders, Judges, Victim's Family and Others. (AI Austria)
A few short Death Penalty Quotes from Religious Tolerance.Org.
Quotes on Crime and Justice from Dr. David B. Gulick, University of Delaware.
Anti-Death Penalty Letter from Mark Twain after Witnessing Hanging. (Chicago Republican May 31, 1868)
Anti-Death Penalty Quotes by Respected Leaders. (ICADP-Student Outreach)

MUMIA ABU-JAMAL

Spotlight on Mumia Abu-Jamal with links from 4Anything.Com.
Free Mumia Abu Jamal (Pennsylvania)
Tribute to Police Officer Daniel Faulkner (Victim of Mumia Abu Jamal)
Editorial: "The Wrong Emblem: Mumia Frenzy Clouds Case vs. Death Penalty." (Philly.Com August 1, 2000)
"Pennsylvania Children's Crusade to Death Row," by C. Clark Kissinger. (Infoshop Alternative News)
"The Meaning of Mumia," by Millie Barnet. (Sonoma County Free Press)
"What's Mumia Got to Do With It? by Marc Cooper. (MotherJones Reality Check February 9, 2000)
"Live From Death Row," by Mumia Abu-Jamal. (Excerpts from Yale Law Journal 1991)
Mumia Links (20+) and Writings from Mumia. (Capital Punishment The Ultimate Injustice)
The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: Refuse and Resist
Mumia Abu-Jamal News Service from Afrikan.Net.

DEAD MAN WALKING / SISTER HELEN PREJEAN

Frontline: Angel on Death Row: The Real Life Cases of "Dead Man Walking"
"America's Death Row Nun is a Favourite for the Nobel Peace Prize," by David Wastell. (London Telegraph July 9, 2000)
"Sister Helen Prejean, the Real Woman Behind Dead Man Walking," by John Bookser Feister. (St. Anthony Messenger April 1996)
Speech by Sister Helen Prejean on the Death Penalty. (1995)
"Celebrity Nun Continues Anti-Death Crusade," by Frances Ann Burns. (APBNews October 9, 2000)
Live Nun Talking: An Interview by Alan Moroney with Sister Helen Prejean.
"Would Jesus Pull the Switch?" by Sister Helen Prejean. (Salt of the Earth Magazine 1997)
Sister Helen Prejean and Dead Man Walking. (Salon Magazine)
Keynote Address by Sister Helen Prejean at the Conference on Dying in Prisons and Jails.
Dead Man Walking and Death Penalty Litigation by David George. (Court TV)
Dead Man Talkin' by Dean in San Quentin on Death Row.

EXECUTION BY CONSENT / WAIVER OF APPEALS

"Volunteering to Die: How Do you Defend a Client," by Harriet Ryan. (CourtTV November 3, 1999)
"Michael Ross: Why a Killer Offers to Die," by Martha Elliott. (Connecticut Law Tribune, April 29, 1996)
"Using Execution as Public Suicide," by David Rickard. (Log Cabin Democrat, March 14, 1999)
Death Row Prisoner Waives Appeals, Changes Mind, Then Dies of Natural Causes. (Las Vegas Review, July 27, 1998)
"The Execution of The Volunteer," by Alan Johnson. (Columbus Dispatch, February 21, 1999)
"Death By Lethal Injection: Wilford Berry's Final Hours." (News Net 5, February 18, 1999)
Kentucky: "Murderer McQueen Executed," by Gregory Hall. (Cincinnati Enquirer, July 1, 1997)
"Ohio Court Rules Against Inmate's Plea to Give Up Death Penalty Appeals." (Columbus Dispatch July 13, 2000)

Activism

Abolition Road.
Amnesty International Campaigns.
Amnesty International Italy.
Association Rupture: French organization opposing the death penalty wherever it is practiced. Includes discussion and pen pal sections.
Bannister Foundation: Named after prisoner who was executed.
Bay Area Organizations: Organizations opposed to the death penalty in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
Campaign to End the Death Penalty: Publishes the "New Abolitionist."
Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.
Coalition of Arizonans to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Death Penalty Focus: Opposition to the death penalty in California.
Death Penalty Institute of Oklahoma: Information on Oklahoma.
Declaration of Life: Make a personal statement against the death penalty.
Europeon Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Equal Justice, USA: Focusing on a moratorium on the death penalty and the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Fight the Death Penalty in the USA: Danish site (in English and Danish).
Hands Off Cain: International campaign to end the death penalty.
International Tourism Boycott of Texas: Texas kills.
Iowans Against the Death Penalty.
Junior Bannister Foundation: Youth against the death penalty.
Journey of Hope: Promoting forgiveness and healing.
Lamp of Hope Project: Death penalty opposition founded by condemned prisoners in Texas.
Lamp of Hope - Canada.
Louisiana Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalthy.
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights: Death penalty project. Includes testimony of former death row warden.
Moratorium 2000: An international campaign.
Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation:
Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty.
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
National Petition to End the Death Penalty: Sign through e-mail.
Not In Our Name: Dead Man Walking, The Concert. A benefit for Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation with information on the organization
Oklahoma Coalition Against the Death Penalty:.
Ohioans to Stop Executions.
Oregon Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Petition for Death Penalty Moratorium: Online petition for a federal and state moratorium.
Physicians for Human Rights: Opposition to the death penalty and lethal injection (gopher site).
Purple Ribbon of Amendment Campaign: To raise awareness of the death penalty over the internet.
Stop the Death Penalty: Includes an online petition by a Stanford student group.
Texas Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
Virginia Death Penalty Information: Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. See also Virginia Death Row Information.
We Don't Believe in Capital Punishment.

Correspondence and Support

Death Row's Aid Condemned prisoners seeking correspondence or legal aid.
Lifelines: English organization corresponding with death row prisoners in the United States.
Penn Friends: Facilitates correspondence with death row prisoners.
Terrell Unit: Welcome to Hell. Focuses on conditions on death row in Texas.
Women Speak Out: From prison and death row. Writing by prisoners, pen pals. and other information supporting women prisoners.

Discussion Lists

Abolition List: List for discussion by death penalty abolitionists.
Abolition List Archives: Archives of the discussion list.
Death Penalty Discussion: Web based discussion.
MADPEN: Email discussion and information exchange to oppose introduction of the death penalty in Massachusetts.
Strategies Against the Death Penalty: A discussion group.

International

Iran Human Rights Working Group: Stop the death penalty in Iran.
Palestine Death Penalty: Palestine human rights monitor.

Opinion

Abolitionists v. Retentionists: A view against the death penalty by Fernando Javier Litardo.
Answering Murder With Murder A column by Stephanie Salter on the death verdict for Richard Allen Davis.
Bush's Death Watch: Christopher Hitchens on George W. Bush's 100th death warrant Or find out more about Texas executions.
Cage and Death: Alec Henderson on California's death penalty and prison industry.
Case Against the Death Penalty: An article by Hugo Bedau, author of Death is Different.
Case to Abolish the Death Penalty: Deterrence, bias, and other issues discussed.
Death Penalty: Is Life so Worthless?
Death Penalty Fraud: Editorial from the Salt Lake Tribune on the fiction that death penalty opponents do not care about victims.
Jerry Brown Speaks Out: In the wake of California's execution of William Bonin.
John Morrison: The death penalty does not deter; a guest column from a 1993 issue of The Tech (MIT).
Mike Farrell: A conversation with the actor and death penalty opponent.
The Morality of the Death Penalty
Moral Arguments Against the Death Penalty.
Stop The Killing: Eric Alterman offers his opinion about the death penalty, with comment by readers.
Stephen Holman: Another view against the death penalty.
Taste for Revenge: A moral example beyond violence.
Texas Can't Resist: Editorial by Carl Rowan.
Waring Fincke Testimony: The statement of the chair of Wisconsin's criminal law section in opposition to capital punishment.
We Can Live Without It: Towards life without the death penalty.
We Don't Believe in Capital Punishment: Opinion and links to sites focusing on condemned prisoners.
We're Not That Stupid: Discontinue Execution to Abolish the Hatred.
Who Deserves Death? 1997 commentary by Molly Ivins

Prisoners on Death Row

Death Row Inmates: Yahoo's list of web sites for condemned prisoners.
Death Row Inmates Webring: A list of all the participating sites.
Death Row Prisoner Pages: Individual sites.
Manny Babbit: Information on the last prisoner executed in California.
Steven Ainsworth: A candid interview from California's death row in realaudio format.
Tookie's Corner: Death row prisoner Stanley Williams writes books for children about the truth of prison and alternatives to street gangs.

Religious Perspectives

Angel on Death Row: PBS documentary on Helen Prejean. Includes information for and against the death penalty.
Capital Punishment: Theological essay against the death penalty.
Capital Punishment: Examines various religious perspectives, for and against the death penalty.
Capital Punishment in Islam.
Catholics Against Capital Punishment: National advocacy.
Catholic Mobile: A resource list focusing on Catholic perspectives.
Dalai Lama: Statement supporting a moratorium on the death penalty.
The Death Penalty Perspective: Victim's viewpoint from a religious perspective.
Eighth Day Report: From a Dominican Center.
Envisioning: Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty
Friends Committee: Sample articles from the Quaker Abolitionist and other information from the Friends Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Illinois Catholic Bishops: Statement against capital punishment.
Mennonite Central Committee: Death as penalty, a moral, practical and theological perspective by Howard Zehr.

People of Faith: Against the Death Penalty. Information on religious statements against the death penalty.
Sister Helen Prejean: A 1995 talk by the author of Dead Man Walking from the Radical Catholic Page.
Sister Helen Prejean: "Sympathy for the Devil," an article from Salon magazine.
Sister Helen Prejean: "Would Jesus pull the switch?"
Social Statement on the Death Penalty: Statement of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of American in opposition to the death penalty.
Testimony of Archbishop Bevilacqua: In support of moratorium on Pennsylvania's death penalty.
Unitarian Universalists Against the Death Penalty.
United States Bishops: Statement of the Roman Catholic Bishops on the death penalty.
Vatican and the Death Penalty: September 1997 report from National Public Radio on a new catechism strengthing opposition to the death penalty. Realaudio format.

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A Capital Defender's Toolbox
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Top of the legal, "cause" Sites & web published articles

GENERL CAPITAL PUNISHMENT HISTORY

EXECUTION AND DEATH ROW STATISTICS

RACE AND CLASS BIAS

COST (DEATH PENALTY VS. LIFE IMPRISONMENT)

GENERAL REFERENCE, DIRECTORIES, AND LINKS

BOTCHED EXECUTIONS

METHODS OF EXECUTION

DEATH ROW INMATE HOMEPAGES / MEMORIALS

DEAD MAN WALKING / SISTER HELEN PREJEAN

EXECUTION BY CONSENT / WAIVER OF APPEALS