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1. Friends Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty
- www.quaker.org
- The Friends Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty .
- The Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project.
2. LII: Law about...the Death Penalty
- www.law.cornell.edu
- death penalty: an overview.
- The death penalty, or capital punishment, may be prescribed by Congress or any state legislature for murder and other capital crimes. The Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty is not a per se violation of the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Furthermore, the Sixth Amendment does not require a jury trial on the sentencing issue of life or death. Not all states provide for the death penalty. ...
- 584 (1977), the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty is a grossly disproportionate punishment for the crime of rape of an adult woman. The Court came to this conclusion by considering objective indicia of the nation's attitude toward the death penalty in rape cases. ...
- Simmons (03-633) (2005), the Supreme Court invalidated the death penalty for all juvenile offenders. ...
- The Supreme Court has established that for death penalty sentencing the sentencer's discretion be narrowly guided as to the circumstances that justify imposing the death penalty and that the sentencing process should be individualized. ... Arizona, the Supreme Court ruled that a jury, rather than a judge, must make a finding of "aggravating factors" where those factors underlie a judge's choice to impose the death penalty rather than a lesser punishment. ...
- For more details see the Cornell Law School Death Penalty Project. ...
- Historic Supreme Court Death Penalty Decisions .
- Recent Supreme Court Death Penalty Decisions .
- Circuit Courts of Appeals: Recent Decisions on the Death Penalty .
- Recent Death Penalty Decisions .
- Cornell Law School Death Penalty Project .
3. Death Penalty Information (from: http://www.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim)
- sun.soci.niu.edu
- Death Penalty Information (from: http://www. ...
- ASC RESOLUTION ON THE DEATH PENALTY:.
- Be it resolved that because social science research has demonstrated the death penalty to be racist in application and social science research has found no consistent evidence of crime deterrence through execution, the ASC publicly condemns this form of punishment and urges its members to use their professional skills in legislatures and the courts to seek a speedy abolition of this form of punishment (ASC Annual Meeting, Montreal, 1987). ...
- Papers, fact sheets, and Information on the Death Penalty.
- Death Row Inmates/Executions by Race/Victim .
- Death Penalty News and Updates .
- Rick Halperin's DEATH PENALTY INFORMATION (State & World Wide) .
- Ratifications of International Treaties on the Death Penalty (ACT 50/03/99, March 1999) .
- Death Sentences and Executions in 1998 (ACT 51/01/99, April 1999) .
- General Information on the Death Penalty.
- Women on Death Row (Stats and Stories) .
- States with the Death Penalty and their Methods .
- Addresses of Death Rows of U. ...
- Links to Death Penalty Resources.
- Useful links to anti-death penalty information .
- Death Penalty in Illinois.
4. Governor Ryan Declares Moratorium On Executions, Will Appoint Commission To Review Capital Punishment System
- www.state.il.us
- Ryan today declared a moratorium on executions of any more Illinois Death Row inmates until a Commission he will appoint to conduct a review of the administration of the death penalty in Illinois can make recommendations to him. ...
- "I now favor a moratorium, because I have grave concerns about our state's shameful record of convicting innocent people and putting them on death row," Governor Ryan said. ...
- Governor Ryan noted that while he still believes the death penalty is a proper societal response for crimes that shock sensibility, he believes Illinois residents are troubled by the persistent problems in the administration of capital punishment in Illinois. Since the death penalty was reinstated in Illinois in 1977, 12 Death Row inmates have been executed while 13 have been exonerated. ...
- Governor Ryan said he will not approve any more executions until this review of the administration of the death penalty is completed. ...
- "Until I can be sure that everyone sentenced to death in Illinois is truly guilty, until I can be sure with moral certainty that no innocent man or woman is facing a lethal injection, no one will meet that fate," Governor Ryan said. ...
- While noting that the General Assembly, the Illinois Attorney General and the Illinois Supreme Court are all studying the death penalty issue and issuing reports and recommendations, Governor Ryan said more review and debate is critical. ...
- "As Governor, I am ultimately responsible, and although I respect all that these leaders have done and I will consider all that they say, I believe that a public dialogue must begin on the question of the fairness of the application of the death penalty in Illinois," Governor Ryan said. ...
5. Message from the Prosecuting Attorney
- www.clarkprosecutor.org
- Current Indiana Death Row.
- Indiana Death Row 1977 - 2004.
- Indiana Death Row Statistics.
- Indiana Death Penalty Laws.
- The Death Penalty in the U. ...
- 1000+ Death Penalty Links.
- Nevertheless, the value of the death penalty in our current system of justice is a limited one and should not be overstated. Because the death sentence is so rarely carried out, whatever deterrent value that exists is lessened in years of appeals and due process. Because of the unlimited power of Governors, judges, juries, and prosecutors to show mercy, the difference between those who receive the death penalty and those who do not is minimal. ...
- In spite of these shortcomings, it is my view that pursuing a death sentence in appropriate cases is the right thing to do. ...
- Our system of justice rightfully demands a higher standard for death penalty cases. However, the risk of making a mistake with the extraordinary due process applied in death penalty cases is very small, and there is no credible evidence to show that any innocent persons have been executed at least since the death penalty was reactivated in 1976. The 100+ death row inmates "innocent", "exonerated" and released, as trumpeted by anti-death penalty activists, is a fraud. The actual number of factually innocent released death row inmates is closer to 40, and in any event should be considered in context of over 7,000 death sentences handed down since 1973. ... The inevitability of a mistake should not serve as grounds to eliminate the death penalty any more than the risk of having a fatal wreck should make automobiles illegal. ...
- In order for the death penalty to remain a meaningful and effective punishment, those same legislators and judges need to make necessary changes to reflect the will of the people in a democratic society.
6. tcask :: promoting alternatives to the death penalty
- www.tcask.org
- Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing :: promoting alternatives to the death penalty.
- Death penalty numbers in 2004 continue dramatic five-year decline .
- Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Death Penalty Law .
- Paul House: Working with a troubling death-row case and a divided court .
- 2005 03 01 : International Death Penalty Abolition Day .
7. Kearl's Guide to the Sociology of Death: Moral Debates
- www.trinity.edu
- The United States executed 71 individuals in 2002, up from 68 in 1998 but 27 percent fewer than in 1999, when the greatest number were put to death since the early 1950s. ... of Criminal Justice's "Death Row" statistics page for some reason even details final meal requests). ...
- Congress's 1993 crime bill extended the death penalty to an additional 47 Federal crimes, authorizing the death penalty for 15 Federal crimes previously punishable by life in prison. ...
- Support for the death penalty is slipping in the United States, from a 1994 peak of 84 percent to, according to a May 2001 Pew Center report, 66 percent--about its level in the 1950s. ...
- In what was probably the most detailed investigation of capital convictions in the United States, a study released in June 2000 out of the Columbia University Justice Project found that nearly 7 out of 10 of death penalty verdicts made between 1973 and 1995 which were appealed were thrown out. ...
- Lawrence Hinman's "Ethics Updates: Punishment and the Death Penalty"--comprehensive links and numerous articles .
- Released in May 2001, these tapes contain prisoners' last statements, sounds of the ritual procedures of putting individuals to death, and one botched execution that had to be "reinitiated. ...
- Over one thousand death penalty links from the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney's Death Penalty website .
- "Death Penalty Statistics" from the Justice Center at the University of Alaska at Anchorage .
- Yahoo: Death Penalty .
- Supreme Court Death Penalty Cases .
- Pro-death penalty. com Criminal Justice Legal Foundation Justice For All's Death Penalty and Sentencing Information Wesley Lowe's Pro Death Penalty Webpage Yahoo's collection of pro-death penalty sites .
- Yahoo - Death Penalty:Opposing Views The Death Penalty Information Center Kenneth Mentor's justicepolicy. com--Death Penalty Jim Thomas's Anti-Capital Punishment Resources from the American Society of Criminology's Critical Criminology Division Robert Sherrill's "Death Trip: The American Way of Execution" The Nation (January 8, 2001) Michael L. ... 1995 Position of the Catholic Church (site still evolving) Friends Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty .
8. Focus on the Death Penalty
- www.uaa.alaska.edu
- Death penalty > Index.
- Focus on the Death Penalty .
- Focus on the Death Penalty: Index.
- The purpose of this site is to provide Alaska citizens and other members of the public with a source of information on the death penalty so that they can make informed decisions on this important issue. (See Alaska & the Death Penalty for historical information and updates on the progress of the death penalty debate in Alaska. ...
- Also on this page are links to general news, indices, and bibliographies on the death penalty.
- It is not intended to take sides in the debate on the death penalty. ...
- Alaska & the Death Penalty.
- Presents information on he death penalty debate in Alaska, including history and resources on attempts to reintroduce capital punishment in Alaska. ...
- History of the Death Penalty in Alaska: Historical information regarding executions which took place in Territorial Alaska prior to its abolition in 1957. ...
- Alaska State Legislature: The Alaska Legislature has considered a number of bills in the past several years which would reinstate the death penalty for specified crimes. Also provided is detailed information on Senate Bill 60, currently under consideration, which if passed would place a death penalty advisory vote on the November 1998 ballot. ...
- Provides a history of the death penalty in the U. ... Supreme Court decisions on capital punishment and documents on recent developments in the status of the death penalty nationally. ...
- The Death Penalty in the United States: A brief history of the death penalty in the U. ... since 1930, when death penalty statistics began to be collected on a regular basis. This history emphasize death penalty statistics and the constitutional history of the death penalty. ...
9. Clinical death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- en2.wikipedia.org
- Clinical death.
- Clinical death is usually defined as the medical state in which it is impossible to revive a person with any technology at medicine's disposal, in essence the complete and irreversible cessation of all body functions. Despite the fact that the body continues to live in cases of brain death, it is also seen as a valid definition of clinical death by almost all medical establishments.
- In relation to emergency medical care, clinical death occurs when the patient's heartbeat and breathing have stopped. ...
- Death .
- Brain death .
- Somatic death .
- Legal definition of death .
- org/wiki/Clinical_death" Categories: Medicine stubs | Death | Intensive care medicine | Medical ethics.
10. Maryland Coalition Against State Executions
- www.mdcase.org
- Maryland's Death Penalty.
- Death Row.
- The Maryland Coalition Against State Executions is a coalition of groups and individuals united to end the death penalty in Maryland through education, legislative action, and public demonstration. ...
- The abolition of the death penalty will come about one heart at a time. What can you do help end the death penalty in Maryland? Speak to a neighbor or friend, invite a speaker from Maryland CASE to address your group, send a donation to CASE. ...
- Why oppose the death penalty?.
- The death penalty does not deter violent crime.
- The death penalty targets the poor .
- The death penalty is racist.
- In 82% of all studies reviewed, the race of the victim was found to influence the likelihood of being charged with capital murder or receiving the death penalty. source: US General Accounting Office, Death Penalty Sentencing.
- The death penalty is expensive.
- 3 million dollars to move a death penalty case all the way through the system. ...
- The death penalty is irreversible.
- Since 1970, seventy five people have been proven innocent and released from death row. That's one death row inmate released for approximately every seven executions. ...
11. Capital Punishment: Life or Death?
- www.cwrl.utexas.edu
- Each year there are about 250 people added to death row and 35 executed. The death penalty is the harshest form of punishment enforced in the United Sates today. ... If the jury recommends the death penalty and the judge agrees then the criminal will face some form of execution, lethal injection is the most common form used today. ... Their reason for this decision was that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment. ...
- Possibility of innocent death .
- Here is a news group dedicated to the death-penalty. ...
12. FADP: Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
- www.fadp.org
- Yes Florida, There is an ALTERNATIVE to the Death Penalty .
- Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty works for restorative justice in the form of effective alternatives to the death penalty.
- Outgoing Illinois Governor George Ryan issues blanket commutation of 167 death row prisoners.
- Prosecutors and other politicians condemn Ryan's act of emptying Illinois' death row, but they left him with no choice. ...
- Why should Floridians Support Alternatives to the Death Penalty?.
- Many Floridians who now oppose the death penalty used to be supporters of the idea that execution is the necessary community response to the crime of murder. What changed their minds? Everyone has their own reason, but for most former supporters of the death penalty, it comes down to a simple issue of fairness. ...
- Everyone should be concerned at the fact that what determines who gets sentenced to death, and eventually exterminated, has more to do with race, politics, geography and money, but NOT the severity of the crime. The following examines some of the issues which have led people to believe that, even if they still like the concept of the death penalty, they can no longer support it in practice. When you boil it all down, the sad fact is that the death penalty is a bad public policy on moral, economic, and social grounds. ...
- The High Cost of the Death Penalty .
- THE HIGH COST OF THE DEATH PENALTY.
- Since Florida's death penalty law was re-written in 1972, our state has spent more than $1 billion on its death penalty system, for a return of only 58 executions. ...
- Supreme Court has ruled that it is constitutional to execute an INNOCENT person - as long as they had a "fair" trial (Herrera v Collins)! Consider that in more than 114 (25 in Florida, so far!) wrongful convictions/death row exonerations since 1972, ALL of these people were at one point considered to have received "fair" trials! Remember; when the wrong person is convicted, the actual killer remains free. ...
- Most death penalty proponents concede that executions do NOT deter others from committing murder. ... States without the death penalty consistently have lower murder rates - as do countries throughout the world that have abolished the death penalty. ... Click here to see how the death penalty may actually encourage murder! Top of Page.
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