Death Penalty, Cruel & Unusual Punishment, Juveniles, Appeals
Links to information, statistics and liberal analysis of the death penalty within the US.
Pros & Cons of the Death Penalty & Capital Punishment
Capital punishment is the pre-meditated taking of a human life by a government in response to a crime committed. This article sums the arguments for and against the death penalty, and statistics worldwide and in the US.
Capital punishment is the pre-meditated taking of a human life by a government in response to a crime committed. This article sums the arguments for and against the death penalty, and statistics worldwide and in the US.
Why Should the U.S. Abolish the Death Penalty?
Readers share their thoughts as to why or why not the U.S. should join the vast majority of the world community in abolishing the death penalty.
Readers share their thoughts as to why or why not the U.S. should join the vast majority of the world community in abolishing the death penalty.
Interview with Sister Helen Prejean, Leading Death Penalty Opponent
This links leads to an in-depth PBS interview with Sister Helen Prejean, well-known activist in the fight against capital punishment. Sister Prejean was portrayed in the film "Dead Man Walking," about a 1984 execution. Sister Prejean ministers to death row inmates.
This links leads to an in-depth PBS interview with Sister Helen Prejean, well-known activist in the fight against capital punishment. Sister Prejean was portrayed in the film "Dead Man Walking," about a 1984 execution. Sister Prejean ministers to death row inmates.
Amnesty International on the Death Penalty
Amnesty International USA provides extensive facts, figures and Q &A about the death penalty within the United States, as part of its campaign to abolish the death penalty.
Amnesty International USA provides extensive facts, figures and Q &A about the death penalty within the United States, as part of its campaign to abolish the death penalty.
Death Penalty Information Center
The Death Penalty Information Center is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that serves the public and media with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment in the US. Issues covered include clemency, foreign nationals, innocence, juveniles, mental disabilities and race.
The Death Penalty Information Center is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that serves the public and media with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment in the US. Issues covered include clemency, foreign nationals, innocence, juveniles, mental disabilities and race.
Cornell University Law School Death Penalty Project
The Cornell Law School Death Penalty Project sponsors clinics that provide students with the opportunity to assist in representing capital defendants, as well as periodic symposia on captial punishment. This site also links to death penalty articles, legal research and abolitionist organizations.
The Cornell Law School Death Penalty Project sponsors clinics that provide students with the opportunity to assist in representing capital defendants, as well as periodic symposia on captial punishment. This site also links to death penalty articles, legal research and abolitionist organizations.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on the Death Penalty
Pew Charitable Trusts presents an article on the death penalty, adapted from Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's remarks given at a 2002 conference sponsored by Pew Forum at University of Chicago Divinity School. Justice Scalia, a conservative proponent of capital punishment, is a likely successor to Chief Justice Rehnquist.
Pew Charitable Trusts presents an article on the death penalty, adapted from Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's remarks given at a 2002 conference sponsored by Pew Forum at University of Chicago Divinity School. Justice Scalia, a conservative proponent of capital punishment, is a likely successor to Chief Justice Rehnquist.