Off-Site Resources for News and Information on Capital Punishment

Here are some links to other organizations working against Capital Punishment. (These links go off-site and will launch a new browser window.)

GENERAL INFORMATION

ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project
The Project will work toward achieving a national moratorium on executions until the death penalty process is reformed.
http://www.abanet.org/moratorium/

ACLU Northern California
Useful death penalty information and California specific information.
www.aclunc.org/issues/criminal_justice/death_penalty/index.shtml

Address of Death Row Units in the U.S.
Addresses of death rows in the USA for both men and women.
www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=547&scid=37#gov.state

American Society of Criminology
General collection of death penalty information, including government statistics, court decisions, and articles and writing on death penalty issues.
www.asc41.com/

Amnesty International
Tracks death penalty internationally, includes statistics and general information, country reports.
web.amnesty.org/pages/deathpenalty index eng

Boalt Hall Death Penalty Clinic
Includes state-by-state resources for challenging lethal injection and other useful information.
www.law.berkeley.edu/clinics/dpclinic/

Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Information about death row inmates, clemency campaigns, and innocence claims.
www.ccadp.org/

capitaldefenseweekly.com
Provides list of recent and upcoming executions, up to date news on capital decisions in state and federal appellate courts and links to recent news articles on the death penalty.
capitaldefenseweekly.com/

Catholics Against Capital Punishment
Contains an explanation of the organization's background and goals, articles from the most recent issue of CACP News Notes, the text of the revised Latin edition of the Catechism regarding the death penalty, an updated bibliography of statements by U.S. Catholic Bishops on capital punishment, and links to other sites.
www.cacp.org/

Center on Wrongful Convictions
Dedicated to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and other serious miscarriages of justice. The Center investigates possible wrongful convictions and represent imprisoned clients with claims of actual innocence.
www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/

Clark County Prosecutor
web site with links to over 1,000 death penalty related Web sites.
www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/links/dplinks.htm

The Constitution Project's Death Penalty Committee
A bipartisan committee of death penalty supporters and opponents who agree that the risk of wrongful executions in this country is unacceptably high.
www.constitutionproject.org/issue.asp?id=307

Death Penalty Info Ctr
Comprehensive information about the death penalty, its history, the arguments against it, and the legal issues surrounding it. State by state information and statistics and links to numerous resources, including state specific resources.
www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/

Death Penalty Net
Articles, general information about the death penalty.
www.probono.net/deathpenalty/index.cfm

Rick Halperin's Death Penalty News and Updates
Death penalty statistics, news, updates, addresses of U.S. Governors.
people.smu.edu/rhalperi/

Innocence Project Web Site
Comprehensive Web site of the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Includes case profiles, other innocence projects, DNA legislation and news, and much more.
www.innocenceproject.org/

Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS)
Death penalty section contains news of international developments.
ipsnews.net/

The Justice Project
The Justice Project is committed to educating the American public about our deeply flawed capital justice system.
www.thejusticeproject.org/

moratoriumcampaign.org
working to deepen the discourse around the death penalty and to bring about moratoria across the USA.
moratoriumcampaign.org/

Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation
a national organization comprised of family members of murder victims and family members of those who have been executed. Advocates alternatives to the death penalty, crime prevention programs and supports programs to address the needs of victims of violence.
www.mvfr.org/

Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights
Is an organization with a national and international focus actively working to abolish the death penalty. MVFHR members are murder victims' family members and family members of the executed who are opposed to killing in all cases whether it be homicide, state killing, or extrajudicial killings and "disappearances."
www.willsworld.com/~mvfhr/

NAACP Legal Defense Education Fund.
LDF pursues racial justice on a variety of important issues, including capital and criminal defense. Publishes Death Row USA, the most widely cited national listing of death row inmates.
www.naacpldf.org/

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Listings of abolitionist organizations (national, state, and local), legal resources, execution alerts, death penalty issues and statistics.
www.ncadp.org/

PaxChristi USA
National Catholic movement for peace. Includes announcement of new national campaign against the death penalty.
www.paxchristiusa.org/

People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
Religious representatives based in North Carolina working to abolish the death penalty.
www.pfadp.org/

Prayer Vigil for Abolition of Death Penalty in the USA Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
Provides an issue and legislative analysis and defines the position of the Reform Jewish Movement
rac.org/advocacy/issues/issuedp/

Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty
Organization of many faiths working to abolish the death penalty. Lists upcoming events and sources including a study packet to Dead Man Walking. The Official website of Sr. Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.
www.prejean.org/

Reprieve
Provides legal representation and humanitarian assistance to impoverished people facing the death penalty at the hands of the state in the US and the Caribbean. Catalogues all death penalty resources on the internet.
www.reprieve.org.uk/

Southern Center for Human Rights
Death penalty news, articles and reports, prison reform resources, and legal/advocacy resources.
www.schr.org/

LEGAL RESOURCES

ABA Death Penalty Representation Project
A Web site with a public page describing the Project's primary goal to recruit law firms to represent death sentenced prisoners; the site includes a password protected area limited to lawyers representing individuals facing the death penalty.
www.abanet.org/deathpenalty/

California Appellate Project
Resource for attorneys representing death row inmates on direct appeal and in state habeas corpus proceedings. In order to access the site, you must register and verify that you are currently representing death row inmates.
www.capsf.org

capdefnet.org
Resource for legal research concerning some federal constitutional claims and federal habeas; includes sample briefs.
capdefnet.org/

Cornell Law School Death Penalty Project
Links to state and federal statutes and cases.
library.lawschool.cornell.edu/death/

Equal Justice Initiative
Provides assistance for Alabama death row inmates in during the post conviction appeals process. Site contains trial and postconviction manuals.
www.eji.org/

FindLaw.com
www.findlaw.com

Lousiana Public Defender Board
Provides resources for capital defense lawyers in Louisiana
www.lapdb.org/

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Model briefs, amicus briefs, and information for criminal defense bar.
www.nacdl.org

Sentencing Project
www.sentencingproject.org

Students Against the Death Penalty
A student run national organization that mobilizes youth through education and advocacy.
www.texasabolition.org/

Tennessee Capital Case Information
A Tennessee Supreme Court website for capital cases that have had at least one "serious" execution date set.
www.tsc.state.tn.us/OPINIONS/TSC/CapCases/CapCases.htm

Texas Defender Service
Aims to help improve the quality of representation afforded to indigent Texans charged with a capital crime or under sentence of death.
www.texasdefender.org/

witnesstoinnocence.org
Spearheaded by former death-row inmates who have been exonerated and seek to end the death penalty.
www.witnesstoinnocence.org