News

The Death House - DP news

Facts

List of Countries that have the death penalty Executions & People in Death Row in the US Statistics on the DP in America

Law

A Capital Defender's Toolbox - Legal resources, jurisprudence and more. Cornell's Death Penalty Law Materials

General DP Websites

Angel on Death Row - Frontline episode on the death penalty, view, info & links Criminal Law Links, DP information by the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy. Death Penalty Information Center - Includes reports with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. The Electric Chair - not the most serious of sites, but it has ample information on death in the chair, and pictures if you need them. Equal Justice USA - Info on bias on application of death penalty Looking at the Death Penalty - by David J.W. Vanderhoof Mining Co: Capital Punishment Links Punishment and the Death Penalty - Ethics Update Reckoning the Death Penalty - General info on the DP Southern Center for Human Rights' Death Penalty Information - Articles, books, cases

Regional Sites & NGOs

STOP Death Penalty in Iran - NOW - Iranian Human Rights Working Group Death Penalty in Palestine - from the PHRMG How to Abolish the Death Penalty in Russia in Russian. Californians for a Moratorium on Executions Death Penalty Focus - California Georgia Indigent Defense Council - monitors dp cases & represents indigents charged with capital offenses. Includes articles on the DP A Call for a Death Penalty Moratorium in Illinois - Illinois wide campaign by Amnesty International chapters The Illinois Coalition Against The Death Penalty Indiana Citizens to Abolish Capital Punishment Death Penalty in Indiana - by the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty New Jerseyans for a Death Penalty Moratorium New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty The Death Penalty and the North Carolina Department of Correction - by the NC Dpt of Correction Ohio Death Row Ohioans To Stop Executions Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Death Penalty Institute of Oklahoma Capital Division of the Tennessee Public Defenders Conference Texas Legal Massacre - by Steven Kellman in the Texas Observer Lamp of Hope - Texas Virginians for an Alternative to the Death Penalty Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

Abolitionist Sites

American Friends Service Committee Amnesty International Death Penalty Campaign AIUSA Death Penalty Abolition Program Arnold Erickson's Links Toward Abolition Campaign to End the Death Penalty The Case Against the Death penalty Catholics Against Capital Punishment Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Comitato Paul Rougeau - No alla Pena di Morte - Italian site D.E.A.T.H. Death Penalty Information statistics, law, history from the American Society of Criminology Death Penalty News & Info from Friends Committee on National Legislation Death Penalty News & Updates A Declaration of Life - Document you can use to express your distaste for the death penalty and your desire for it not to be applied if you become the victim of murder. Fight the Death Penalty in the US Friends Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty - national Quaker organization Hands Off Cain - Italian League offers news on death penalty worldwide Lifespark - Switzerland The Moratorium Campaign National Coaltion to Abolish the Death Penalty information, alerts and statitstics You Can't Pardon a Corpse

Pro Death-Penalty Sites

The Death Penalty - a Defence Wesley Lowe's Pro Death Penalty Webpage Pro-death penalty.com

People on Death Row

writeAwrong.org - includes several cases of people in death row California Death Row Photos Ohio Death Row Pending Executions Too late to stop the hangman? - Salon story on Joseph Amrine Donnie Bull Roger Keith Coleman Jimmy Dennis - an allegedly innocent man on Death Row in Pennsylvania. - Deutsch Jeffrey Dicks Homepage - in Tennessee Damien Wayne Echols - Of "Paradise Lost" fame The Fratta Legal Defense Fund - on behalf of Robert Alan Fratta man sentenced to death in Texas Les Voix du Couloir: Randy Greer The Plight of Ron R. Howard, Sr. - Texas Mumia Abu Jamal Mumia Abu Jamal's Freedom Journal The Horace Kelly Case - an insane man to be executed in California. The Arthur Lee Williams Homepage - by an Italian group and Arthur Lee Williams III - page in German and English Reggie Lewis - being held on Death Row in Pennsylvania Miguel Angel Martinez - a Mexican-American sent to death row as a minor in Texas Jamie Bruce McCoskey Thomas J. Miller El, Texas Death Row Eddie Mitchell's Home Page - a mentally retarded man on death row Michael Moore - page written by his mother Aaron Patterson The Official Kenny Richey Campaign Darlie Routier - woman in death row in Texas The Case of Paul William Scott The case of Hank Skinner Nicholas Yarris Homepage - an allegedly innocent man in death row. Virginia Death Row Information Site Texas Death Row - Images Offenders on Death Row in North Carolina

Writings from Death Row

Death Row Speaks Writings from Death Row by Douglas Scott Mickey, San Quentin Dead Man Talking by Dean Carter, a death row inmate in California Essays and poems by Reggie Lewis Letter to the Texas Observer - by James L. Beathard, executed in December 1999.

Prisons

State Penitentiary in Angola: Death Row

Atonement

Restitution Incorporated

Documents

Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty UN Safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty ABA House of Delegates Approves Call For Halt In U.S. Executions Until Death Penalty Fairness Assured - Feb. 3, 1997

Reports

US Dept. of Justice Report on Capital Punishment in 1995 - ASCII text (37k). Acrobat version also available (111k). US Dept. of Justice Report on Capital Punishment in 1996 - ASCII text (88k). Acrobat version also available (137k).

Articles

The Killing of Steve Roach Gadfly, July 2000 Executioner's swan song? Public support is weakening, but the death penalty will be slow to die. Salon, Feb. 2000 Capital Punishment Article on the death penalty in the Jan. 98 edition of Netmonkey magazine Capital Punishment Decisions Hinge on Jurors Who May Not Understand Their Task - Press Release from National Science Foundation The Death Penalty in the United States About the Position of the Catholic Church with respect to the Death Penalty Capital Punishment - opinion by Tom Wilson Capital Punishment - article by Kenneth Cauthen Capital Punishment in the United States - by Sarah Oppenheim Papers and Related Death Penalty Writings Religion and the Death Penalty Sexism and the Death Penalty - May 2000 Salon article The Death Penalty and Due Process in Guatemala - William Clark Harrell Bibliography - by University of Michigan

Books

Just Revenge - Cost and Consequences of the Death Penalty

Educational Resources

Death Penalty Curricula for High School - for teachers Death Penalty Curricula for High School - for students

Conferences

Conference on International Law and the Abolition of the Death Penalty Galway, September 21 and 22, 2001 The Morality of the Death Penalty: The Challenge for Law, Society and Religion DC: The Catholic University of America, March 29 & 30, 2001.

Discussion Fora

Strategies against the Death Penalty in USA Board Abolish List - The Discussion List for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.

Experts

Dr. Pogos Voskanian - forensic psychiatrist

Actions

See also under People in Death Row Death Penalty Moratorium Petition Petition for Justice for Darlie Routier

Videos

MSNBC - Debate on Death Penalty