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Capital Punishment
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Capital Punishment 
 This site contains historical and current information and statistics on the death penalty in California. Includes a current list of condemned inmates, history of capital punishment in California, lethal injection procedures, and photographs of death row. Note: Includes graphic summaries of murders and other capital crimes of defendants executed since California reinstated the death sentence in 1978. From the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Reports_Research/capital.html Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Crime, Death & Dying, Mysteries and More, Social Issues Last updated Sep 30, 2007 Capital Punishment: All Points of View on the Death Penalty
This site "deals with the execution of criminals found guilty of having committed serious crimes. ... Most democracies in the world have abandoned the death penalty. The U.S. and Japan and South Korea are the only exceptions." Features data, a description of methods (such as hanging, electric chair, firing squad, and lethal injection), material about the status of the death penalty worldwide, and links to related sites. From the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance. http://www.religioustolerance.org/execute.htm Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Crime, Death & Dying Last updated Nov 6, 2006 Cruel and Unusual: Sentencing 13- and 14-Year-Old Children to Die in Prison
This 2007 study "has documented 73 cases where children 13 and 14 years of age have been condemned to death in prison. ... This report is intended to illuminate this cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on children, particularly for those who have been without legal help for so long." Includes profiles of some of the children, data, and photos. Opens directly into a PDF file. From the nonprofit law organization, Equal Justice Initiative. http://eji.org/eji/files/20071017cruelandunusual.pdf Topics: Crime Last updated Oct 22, 2007 Death Penalty
Amnesty International (AI) USA's death penalty abolition page has news and reports relating to worldwide use of capital punishment. Features fact sheets; developments, by country; and international human rights standards, beginning with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Also reports on the execution of offenders who are juveniles, foreign nationals, or mentally ill. Includes links to related resources. http://www.amnestyusa.org/death-penalty/page.do?id=1011005 Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Crime, Death & Dying, Nonfiction by Genre, Social Issues Last updated Dec 21, 2008 Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC)
Includes a database of all executions since 1976, searchable by name, year, age, race, gender, location, method of execution, and special factors. Also provides reports on issues such as innocence, juveniles, mental illness, and costs, as well as facts about death row, sentencing, data for individual states, and the history of the death penalty. Portions of the site also available in Spanish. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Crime, Death & Dying, Law, Senior Health, Social Issues Last updated Dec 20, 2007 Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project
A project to ensure that each jurisdiction in the U.S. "that imposes the death penalty has a duty to determine whether the system under which the penalty is imposed and carried out is flawed and, if so, to eliminate the flaws." Includes a FAQ, assessment reports and compliance charts for 8 states, and related material. From the American Bar Association (ABA) Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities. http://www.abanet.org/moratorium/ Topics: Crime, Death & Dying, Social Issues Last updated Jan 2, 2008 Death Penalty News & Updates
Includes information on current executions in the United States, death penalty-related news, statistics on executions by state, statistical summaries, and more. The site is against the death penalty and provides information on contacting U.S. law makers and on actions regarding the death penalty. http://people.smu.edu/rhalperi/ Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Crime, Death & Dying, Law, Social Issues Last updated May 22, 2003 Dying Speeches & Bloody Murder: Crime Broadsides Collected by the Harvard Law School Library
"Just as programs are sold at sporting events today, broadsides -- styled at the time as 'Last Dying Speeches' or 'Bloody Murders' -- were sold to the audiences that gathered to witness public executions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. ... The examples digitized here span the years 1707 to 1891 and include accounts of executions for such crimes as arson, assault, counterfeiting, horse stealing, murder, rape, robbery, and treason." From the Harvard Law School Library. http://broadsides.law.harvard.edu/ Topics: Crime Last updated Jan 4, 2008 Europe Against the Death Penalty
"EU Member States and the European Union are strongly opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances. ... The abolition of the death penalty contributes to the enhancement of human dignity and the progressive development of human rights." Includes EU and UN documents, information about actions in U.S. death row cases, European and international agreements, and links to related sites. From the European Union, Delegation of the European Commission to the United States. http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/news/information_dossiers/conference_death_penalty/index_en.htm Topics: Crime, Death & Dying, Social Issues Last updated Mar 23, 2008 |
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