Death Penalty Resources

The following resources are offered online and reflect a number of capital punishment considerations.

American Civil Liberties Union   

http://www.aclu.org/capital/innocence/10392pub20020626.html

“DNA Testing and the Death Penalty”

Amnesty International

 http://www.amnestyusa.org/faithinaction/

The Constitution Project Death Penalty Committee

http://www.constitutionproject.org/issue.asp?id=307

See the report, both by supporters and opponents, on improving the capital punishment process.

Mandatory Justice

http://www.constitutionproject.org/manage/file/30.pdf

Creighton University

http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/death-penalty.html

On being “pro-life” in all respects

Death Penalty Information Center

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ 

Comprehensive national website, includes spectrum of issues, facts and resources

The Moratorium Campaign

http://www.moratoriumcampaign.org/

Organization founded by Sister Prejean, author of Dead man Walking

Pew Forum on Religion and the Law

http://pewforum.org/events/index.php?EventID=28

A speech by former Illinois Gov. George Ryan on what led him to place a moratorium on executions and later commute the sentences of 167 death row prisoners

ProDeathPenalty.com

www.prodeathpenalty.com

A website with arguments and information supporting the death penalty.

Witness to Innocence      

http://www.witnesstoinnocence.org/

Stories from wrongfully convicted former death row prisoners who have been exonerated.

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