Websites For the Death Penalty
National Center
For Policy Analysis: Idea House (Dallas/Washington
1997)
Series of pro-death penalty articles dealing with topics such as
racism, recidivism, deterrence, and expanding the death penalty.
Clark
County, Indiana, Prosecutor
The site has information about the death penalty in the U.S.
and in Indiana as well as a collection of over 1,000 death penalty
links arranged by subject.
Pro-death
Penalty.com
Justice For All's comprehensive pro-death penalty site with articles,
links, and up-to-date death penalty information and news.
Websites Against the Death Penalty
American Society
of Criminology, Critical Criminology
This site has a general collection of death penalty information,
including government statistics, court decisions, and articles and
writing critical of the death penalty.
Amnesty
International
This site offers publications, facts and figures, news releases, and
information about death penalty moratorium and abolition efforts in the
United States and around the world.
National
Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
The page has listings of national, state, and local abolitionist
organizations, legal resources, execution alerts, anit - death penalty
issues and statistics.
American
Civil Liberties Union, Death Penalty Campaign
This site provides news and information about capital punishment in the
U.S. The page offers resources for activists, as well as updates on
federal and state legislation regarding capital punishment.
Informational Websites
Cornell
Law School Death Penalty Project
Provides state and federal statutes and case law.
Death
Penalty Information Center
Site includes death penalty articles, essays, and quotes on issues of
deterrence, cost, execution of the innocent, racism, public opinion,
women, juveniles, mentally retarded, and more. The site also provides
state-by-state statistics on death rows and executions, and death
penalty news from around the country.
Death
Penalty Information Center's Religion Resource Page
Capital
Defense Weekly
This web site gives death penalty statistics, news, updates, and
addresses of U.S. Governors.
U.S.
Department
of Justice Statistics: Capital Punishment
This annual report provides information on those under sentence of
death, including information on the offender's sex, race, Hispanic
origin, education, marital status, and age at time of arrest for
capital offense. The report also provides information on methods of
execution, trends, and time between imposition of death sentence and
execution. Historical tables present executions since 1930 and
sentencing since 1973.
Media Resources
Video
Tour of North Carolina's Execution Process with Warden Marvin Polk
(Video by Scott Langley, Langley Creations Documentaries)
Part
1 of a Death Penalty Debate between Robert Blecker and Robert Bohm
(approximately a half hour running time)*
Part
2 of a Death Penalty Debate between Robert Blecker and Robert Bohm
(approximately a half hour running time)*
*Please contact us for other
streaming formats.
Podcasts
Bryan
Stevenson Discussing the Mental Retardation and the Death Penalty in
the South (DePaul Law Review)
Video
Version of Bryan Stevenson Discussing the Effects of Atkins in the South
(DePaul Law Review)
Reflections
on the Death Penalty with Sister Helen Prejean
You can reference this site for use in a research paper as follows:
- Death Penalty Curricula for High School. 1 Nov 2001. Michigan State University Comm Tech Lab and Death Penalty Information Center. Date accessed <http://deathpenaltycurriculum.org>.
Date accessed is the date on which you viewed the site.
