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Links to Related Web
Sites
Major Death Penalty
Abolition 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.
Also see Amnesty
International's List of Pending USA Executions.
- Citizens
United for Alternatives to the Death
Penalty
- Death
Penalty Information Center -- Comprehensive
statistics and factual information, including
the Costs
of Death Penalty -and- State
by State Information -and- What's
New
-and- new
Multimedia Resources.
- 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
Death Penalty Project -- Legal resources,
case references, links
- 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 Book - Site by a "death
row survivor."
- 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.
- Crime
and Punishment Archive -- Links from
Denver's Westword publication
- Death
Penalty Focus of California
- Death
Penalty Information & Resources --
Statistics, law, history.
- Death
Penalty Quiz
- Educational
Curriculum on the Death Penalty --
For teachers -or- students.
- Execute
the Death Penalty
- Families
of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons New!
- Findlaw --
Legal database and portal site.
- How
to Abolish the Death Penalty (Russian)
- Human
Rights and the Death Penalty -
Links and resources.
- 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
- 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.
- Taking an In-Depth Look at the Death
Penalty New!
- 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
- World
Coalition Against the Death Penalty -or- Capital Punishment Curriculum New!
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