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The mission of Coloradans Against the Death Penalty is to abolish the death penalty in Colorado through religious, educational, political, and victims rights efforts.

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Links to Other Web Sites

Featured Web Sites:

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) -- The history of capital punishment in the United States, recent headlines about the death penalty, and much more. Sign up for e-mail activist action alerts. America's foremost watchdog and protector of civil liberties. Visit the ACLU Web site death penalty section.
• American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado
• Amnesty International -- Works on all human rights violations, including the death penalty. Particular cases are highlighted and updated. Amnesty International suggests actions that individuals can take to improve specific human rights violations, and offers a homepage in Spanish and English. Visit Amnesty International's death penalty section.
• Amnesty International's List of Pending USA Executions
• Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
• Crime and Punishment Archive -- Links from Denver's Westword publication  New!
• Death Penalty Information Center -- Comprehensive statistics and factual information, including a History of Death Penalty -and- Costs of Death Penalty -and- State by State Information -and- What's New.
• Death Penalty Quiz
• Educational Curriculum on the Death Penalty -- For teachers -or- students.
• Moratorium Now -- National grassroots campaign working with state and local activists to pass resolutions and legislation calling for a moratorium on executions.
• National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty -- Alerts, blog, facts, news, and statistics
• The Moratorium Campaign -- Global petition drive calling for a moratorium and news.

Additional Web Sites of Interest: 

• 1000+ Death Penalty Links
• Abolitionist Action Committee
• A Declaration of Life -- Use this document to express your distaste for the death penalty and your desire for it not to be applied if you become a murder victim. 
• Amy Biehl Foundation -- After their daughter was murdered, the Biehls did not seek retribution. Instead, they created a foundation to prevent youth-perpetrated violence.
• Books on the Death Penalty
• Campaign to End the Death Penalty
• Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty -- Includes information on a tourism boycott of Texas, which has killed over 200 people since 1976.
• Capital Punishment: Here & Abroad -- Summary update about current trends.
• Capital Punishment Research Group -- East Tennessee State University, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
• Capital Punishment Research Initiative -- Empirical and historical studies.
• Case for Innocence -- Includes online discussion, interviews, synopsis, transcripts, and video of PBS documentary.
• Catholics Against Capital Punishment
• Colorado Criminal Defense Bar
• Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
• Colorado Lawyer
• Colorado Office of the State Public Defender
• Court TV -- Includes History of Execution Methods in U.S.
• Death Penalty Focus of California
• Death Penalty Information & Resources -- Statistics, law, history.
• Execute the Death Penalty
• Findlaw -- Legal database and portal site.
• How to Abolish the Death Penalty (Russian)
• Human Right Watch - Death Penalty Work -or- State Execution Methods Chart
• Independent Media Institute -- AlterNet.org death penalty stories.
• Inmates on Death Row
• Jeff Dicks Medical Coalition -- Prisoner health care information and alerts.
• Justice Denied -- The magazine for the wrongfully convicted.
• Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty 
• Legal Information Institute: Law about the Death Penalty -- Reference, links. 
• Legal Information Institute: Supreme Court Collection -- Decisions database.
• Map of Death Penalty States in the USA -- Or see a Similar USA Map.
• Methods of Execution -- State by state listing.
• Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation
• Native Americans and the Death Penalty -- Executions of Native Americans  New!
• People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
• Religion and the Death Penalty -- Official positions, articles and opinions, polls, and news.
• Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty -- Faith-based activists.
• Stop Capital Punishment Now -- Supports Gov. Ryan's Illinois moratorium.
• Texas Department of Criminal Justice: Death Row Information
• Texas Shadow Figures: A Portrait of Life on Texas Death Row
• The Case Against the Death Penalty -- Examines deterrence, racial bias, cost, barbarity, retribution, and mistaken execution.
• United States Department of Justice: Capital Punishment Statistics -or-
  Capital Punishment Statistics for 1999
• United States Supreme Court