61. Insert Page Title in cases eligible for capital punishment, the government sought the death penaltyat a higher rate for whites than for minorities . antideath penalty advocates http://www.leaa.org/deathpenaltytestimony.html

June 13th, 2001 Testimony of Law Enforcement Alliance of America Executive Director, James J. Fotis before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism and Property Rights Chairman Feingold, Members of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism and Property Rights; On behalf of the more than 65,000 members and supporters of the Law Enforcement Alliance of America, I respectfully submit the following testimony as the position of the Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA) with respect to capital punishment in the United States and questions as to possible racial disparities in such sentencing. The Law Enforcement Alliance of America has long been a firm believer in the importance of capital punishment as a critical part of America's criminal justice system. This sentence is held out for those extremely horrific and rare cases that warrant such profound punishment. Capital punishment in America is a rarely exercised discretion saved for the most heinous of crimes. Those guilty of such crimes and sentenced to capital punishment have the greatest protections of due process and appeal. Our justice system is second to none in protections afforded the accused. The right to remain silent, the right of counsel provided by the state and the right to a jury of one's peers with sentences subject to extensive appeal are just some of the careful measures that make our justice system the most sensitive and protective in the world. No nation does more to protect the rights of the accused.

62. The Free Mark Lankford Defence Project - Service Calls For End To Idaho's Death the) death (penalty) in all cases, said Richard Dieter, director of the deathPenalty Information Center in Washington, an anticapital punishment group. http://hjem.get2net.dk/micrask/free/commentary-02-jun-2000-2.html

USA Today, April 22, 2000 Pro-death penalty no longer safe political weapon By Richard Willing In recent political campaigns, the death penalty has been used both as an issue to run on and a sword for slashing opponents. Because of DNA technology, that sword now swings both ways. Texas Gov. George W Bush, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, demonstrated that Thursday night when he stepped back from his pro-capital punishment stance and spared a convicted rapist and killer so that his guilt can be tested through DNA. "Any time DNA can be used in its context and be relevant as to the guilt or innocence of a person on death row, we need to use it," Bush said in explaining why he suspended the execution of Ricky McGinn. Political or legal sword? Bush's move, the first such reprieve he has granted after presiding over 131 executions, was viewed as a victory by capital punishment opponents. "if you acknowledge DNA can resolve doubts in some cases, that's an argument against (the) death (penalty) in all cases," said Richard Dieter, director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, an anti-capital punishment group. Bush aides downplayed that suggestion Thursday. They argued behind the scenes that his action, merely reflects the governor's decency and common sense.

63. Articles About Capital Punishment By Other About Guides of the death penalty in Canada and the gradual abolition of capital punishment. AreSentenced To death Without taking a pro or anti-death penalty position http://crime.about.com/cs/aboutdp1/

zfp=-1 About Crime/Punishment Search in this topic on About on the Web in Products Web Hosting Crime/Punishment with Bill Bickel Your Guide to one of hundreds of sites Home Articles Forums ... Help zmhp('style="color:#fff"') Subjects ESSENTIALS CRIMEWEEK DAILY: The latest crime news ROBERT BLAKE MISSING KIDS: Sofia, Mariana, Lindsey... ... All articles on this topic Stay up-to-date! Subscribe to our newsletter. Advertising Free Credit Report Free Psychics Advertisement Articles By Other About Guides Guide picks Articles about capital punishment by other About Guides No Capital Punishment in Canada The Canadian murder rate stays low without capital punishment. From Susan Munroe, About Guide to Canada Online. History of Capital Punishment in Canada Timeline showing the history of the death penalty in Canada and the gradual abolition of capital punishment. From Susan Munroe, About Guide to Canada Online. Daily News Death Penalty news from around the world, from About's Human Rights Guide. Eye of the Beholder From Clare Saliba, About's U.S. News Guide: Should a man be executed based on no physical evidence other than a single eyewitness's testimony? The Innocent Child Protection Act In 2000, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a law prohibiting the execution of pregnant women. Margaret Sykes, About's Prochoice Guide, calls it "useless legislation elevating embryos... and demeaning women". An About/Crime article on the law is

64. Sites Opposing Capital Punishment Public Opinion About The death Penalty According to the death PenaltyInformation Center, an anticapital punishment group, we oppose it. http://crime.about.com/library/blfiles/blantidp.htm

zfp=-1 About Crime/Punishment Search in this topic on About on the Web in Products Web Hosting Crime/Punishment with Bill Bickel Your Guide to one of hundreds of sites Home Articles Forums ... Help zmhp('style="color:#fff"') Subjects ESSENTIALS CRIMEWEEK DAILY: The latest crime news ROBERT BLAKE MISSING KIDS: Sofia, Mariana, Lindsey... ... All articles on this topic Stay up-to-date! Subscribe to our newsletter. Advertising Free Credit Report Free Psychics Advertisement Sites Opposing Capital Punishment by Bill Bickel Statistics Collected by your About/Crime Guide, a separate list of Death Penalty statistics. Race and the Death Penalty A series of articles that ask: How much does the race of the killer and victim matter? Racial Disparities in Death Penalty Cases President Clinton cites a "disturbing racial composition" of death penalty defendants. Kimberly Hohman, About's Race Relations Guide, discusses the issue. Related : Race and the Death Penalty: An About/Crime resource list. new In December of 2001, an Indiana man became the 100th American inmate to be freed as a result of DNA testing The Moratorium Campaign "The death penalty has failed as a public policy experiment. Innocent people are being sent to death row. It is applied with severe racial and economic bias. We are executing juveniles and the mentally retarded. And it is much more expensive than a life without parole sentence. Prudence demands that we stop executions and conduct a comprehensive review of the system. The Moratorium Campaign is calling for an immediate moratorium on executions so that these serious questions about the application of the death penalty can be reviewed."

65. Capital Punishment Sample searches for the following databases death penalty capital punishment execution. website discussing the contradictions in antideath penalty argument. http://www.moraine.tec.wi.us/services/library/guides/cp.shtml?no_menu

66. IDEAS: The Death Penalty Debate case against capital punishment. The good news is that years of hardscrabble organizinghave created an infrastructure of local anti-death penalty groups in http://www.soros.org/ideas/fall01/ideas_reappraising.html

IDEAS for an open society Reappraising Death: The new debate over capital punishment BY Tanya E. Coke D uring a half-century of extraordinary social change, few issues have seemed as intractable as the death penalty. Mired in a conflicting set of Biblical imperatives, the debate generally pitted the idea of mercy versus that of “just deserts” in a contest of moral absolutes. At least since the 1988 presidential debates, most often the discussion came grinding to a halt with some variation of the Bernie Shaw-to-Michael Dukakis question: “But what if your wife were brutally murdered?” One measure of the death penalty’s signifying power was that, by the early 1990s, the issue had become thoroughly non-partisan, as Democrats began using it to outflank Republicans on crime. In 1992, Bill Clinton took a well-publicized detour from his presidential campaign to preside over the execution in Arkansas of Ricky Ray Rector, a black man with severe brain damage. Even the execution of Timothy McVeigh on June 11 offers a revealing litmus of the new atmosphere. Hollywood could not have produced a more compelling candidate for execution: a domestic terrorist, killer of babies, apparently sane and unremorseful. Yet remarkably, the drop in public support for capital punishment generally (whatever the sentiment about McVeigh individually) has held, a fact that suggests the public is not undifferentiating in its view of the issue. A few years ago, focused attention on such a notorious case would have decimated the opposition.

67. COURT TV ONLINE - TOP NEWS 168 people in an act of antigovernment rage where about 40 convicts are reportedlyon death row. His support for capital punishment is an extra strike against http://www.courttv.com/news/mcveigh_special/0612_europe_ap.html

Updated June 12, 2001, 9:20 a.m. ET McVeigh execution prompts protests in Europe Anti-death penalty protesters lit candles in the streets outside American embassies in Europe and held up posters of Timothy McVeigh as President Bush crossed the Atlantic on his first major overseas trip. "Bush, a compassionate killer!" read a sign held aloft by Spanish human rights activists outside the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, where Bush on Tuesday starts a European trip. Their crusade was energized by a Spaniard who returned a free man Sunday after three years on death row in Florida. Sergio D'Elia, who stood among a group of people holding McVeigh pictures across from the U.S. Embassy in Rome, said, "We do not question the facts in the case against McVeigh, but we are protesting the principle of the death penalty." "He deserved to die," said Min Sung-joo, 31, a computer programer in South Korea, where about 40 convicts are reportedly on death row. "Did he think the American government was the children and the innocents he killed?" said Hassan Abdul-Rasoul, 50, a retired Kuwaiti civil servant. Bush's six-day visit also takes him to a NATO meeting in Belgium, a European Union summit in Sweden and on stops in Poland and Slovenia.

68. TNR Online Death In Venice By Joshua Micah Marshall of capital punishment horror stories, combined with partial or full recantationsby conservative luminaries George Will and Pat Robertson, has left antideath- http://www.tnr.com/073100/marshall073100.html

69. PDN: Death Penalty Thank you for supporting PDN! Against capital punishment The antiDeathPenalty Movement in America, 1972-1994 by Herbert H. Haines. http://www.prisondharmanetwork.org/books-deathpenalty.htm

Death Penalty PDN's bookstore is an affiliate of Amazon.com. Anytime you link from PDN's site to Amazon and buy somethingeither the books listed on our site-or any book at Amazonwe will earn up to 15% of each sale. Thank you for supporting PDN! Against Capital Punishment : The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972-1994 by Herbert H. Haines Against the Death Penalty : Christian and Secular Arguments Against Capital Punishment by Gardner C. Hanks Capital Punishment in the United States by Bryan Vila (Editor), Cynthia Morris (Editor) Dead Man Walking : An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States by Helen Prejean Death at Midnight : The Confession of an Executioner by Don Cabana, Donald A. Cabana (Contributor) The Death Penalty As Cruel Treatment and Torture : Capital Punishment Challenged in the World's Courts by William A. Schabasg Death Penalty Cases : Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment

70. W. I. Dykes Library -- Capital Punishment On The Internet that is often critical of capital punishment policies in A Broken System Error Ratesin capital Cases, 1973 section lists both pro and anti-death penalty sites http://www.dt.uh.edu/library/sg/cjcapital-i.html

W. I. Dykes Library Capital Punishment on the Internet UHD Home Library Home Internet Resources Search the Catalog ... Ask a Reference Question Related subjects: Criminal Justice Law Internet resources Capital punishment About.com offers a death penalty page with current news and links to related sites. Capital Punishment Statistics are availble at this Bureau of Justice Statistics site. The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization that provides information and analysis. Focus on the Death Penalty provides an overview of the death penalty with links to sites on both sides of the debate. The site is maintained by the Justice Center at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Human Rights Watch is a private organization that is often critical of capital punishment policies in the U.S. and elsewhere. For a HRW report that has recently been in the news, see Beyond Reason: The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation The Justice Project is a private organization dedicated to reforming of "our deeply flawed capital justice system." Their site includes many reports, such as the frequently-cited study, A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995

71. Capital Punishment Links and articles and writing on death penalty issues. of Justice Statistics annual capitalpunishment reports, criminal anti-War/Weapons web sites Peace Brigades http://users.hsonline.net/beamer/cpun.html

FOR MY RESEARCH PAPER CLICK HERE Capital Punishment Links Captial Punishment Follow the next links to check out a sample term paper I found for capital punishment for anyone having problems with getting started. Term paper 1st half.. Term paper 2nd half.. Capital Punishment Statement by the Catholic Bishops of Texas on Capital Punishment ... Abolition-NOW.(Death penalty link) Other Sources of Information on the Death Penalty The Death Penalty Information Center does not endorse any of the organizations listed below nor does it guarantee the accuracy of the information posted at these sites. Similarly, we do not claim that these organizations endorse DPIC. Abolitionist Groups International / National Abolition Now - wide array of death penalty information, including statistics, issues, columns and articles written from death row, and news forum Amnesty International - tracks death penalty internationally, includes statistics and general information, country reports Amensty International-Group 75 - test your knowledge of the death penalty by taking a death penalty quiz, also contains up-to-date information and articles on what's happening on this issue around the country Italian Section of Amnesty International - international death penalty documents, appeals and information

72. Anti-capital Punishment Activisim On The Rise meeting together for a weekly Lenten series on the death penalty. You have tokeep the drumbeat going, she said, because capital punishment is something http://www.episcopalchurch.org/episcopal-life/DPenalty.html

home contents archives to subscribe ... exit Episcopalians take lead in opposing executions By JERRY HAMES Episcopal Life staff Episcopalians are raising voices and joining the ranks of those working actively for an end to the death penalty in the wake of 19 executions in prisons across the country in the first 10 weeks of the year. Eighteen men and one woman were put to death by lethal injection in Oklahoma, Texas, Florida, Missouri, Virginia, Indiana and North Carolina as states carried out the sentences of the condemned. At least two of the executed were described as mentally impaired. In Oklahoma, where nine executions have taken place this year, six in the month of January, Bishop Robert Moody asked parishes to ring bells at 6 p.m. on days of executions. Churches without bells were asked to hang black drapery on an outside door, or tie ribbons around trees or utility poles. "I recognize that Christian men and women differ on this issue," Moody said. "However, as your bishop, I ask you to prayerfully address this issue anew. "For me, I have concluded that capital punishment contributes nothing that betters our society and I cannot imagine our Lord condoning capital punishment."

73. Lansing State Journal:Hollywood's Death Penalty Stance: Against It, But ... Locked up Kevin Spacey stars in The Life of David Gale. The film is a storyof an anticapital-punishment activist who winds up on death row. http://www.lsj.com/things/movies/030313_deathmovies_on.html

KEYWORD SEARCH CALENDAR OUTDOORS FOOD AND DRINK Email this story to a friend Printable Version Published 3/13/2003 Hollywood's death penalty stance: Against it, but ... Universal Studios Locked up: Kevin Spacey stars in "The Life of David Gale." The film is a story of an anti-capital-punishment activist who winds up on death row. The film comes at a time when national debate over the death penalty is as pitched as it has been in three decades. Advertisement By Douglas J. Rowe Associated Press A current film about an activist against capital punishment who winds up on death row comes at a time of heightened national debate over the death penalty. In "The Life of David Gale" and a long line of films before it, Hollywood's opposition to capital punishment seems clear-cut. "Maybe there are films out there that I'm blanking on that actually say the death penalty is a good thing, but I don't know of any," said Richard B. Jewell, who holds the Hugh Hefner Chair for the study of American film at the University of Southern California. But some scholars say movies about capital punishment often send mixed messages.

74. Capital Punishment Resources At Questia - The Online Library Of Morris. 337 pgs. Against capital punishment The antideath PenaltyMovement in America, 1972-1994 by Herbert H. Haines. 262 pgs. http://www.questia.com/popularSearches/capital_punishment.jsp

75. Inside UVA Authornun decries capital punishment. says Sister Helen Prejean, author of DeadMan Walking and one of the country's foremost anti-death penalty activists. http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2000/04/prejean.html

Feb. 4-10, 2000 IN THIS ISSUE Students receive first-time Harrison research grants NEWS COLUMN Dr. Sharon Hostler to receive Zintl Award Jefferson's paternity Artificial heart pump funded Author-nun decries capital punishment Bookstore endowment surpasses $1 million Hot Links - Interactive Frog Dissection Teams get to work on bringing new integrated systems to U.Va. U.Va. NewsMakers ... TOP NEWS Author-nun decries capital punishment By Dan Heuchert T he death penalty is a military solution to a social problem, says Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and one of the country's foremost anti-death penalty activists. Stephanie Gross Sister Helen Prejean "You target the enemy, you dehumanize the enemy, and you kill the enemy," she told an audience of approximately 200 in a Jan. 27 talk in the Wilson Hall auditorium. "When we do that as a whole society, what happens to us?" In an engaging and folksy manner, and with a honey-sweet Louisiana drawl, Prejean described her journey from a self-described child of privilege to Catholic nun to social activist and champion of the poor.

76. Books About The Death Penalty In The USA Against capital punishment The antideath penalty movement in America, 1972-1994by Herbert H. Haines (sociologist), 1996, ISBN 0195088387, $35.00. http://members.aol.com/rowinfo/dpbooks.htm

Books About the Death Penalty in the USA A Growing List For your convenience, I've linked many of the titles below to the titles at Amazon.com Amazon.com often has reviews that explain what the books are about. Prices listed are suggested retail price. Amazon.com sometimes offers discounts. Actual Innocence : Five days to execution and other dispatches from the wrongly convicted by Barry Sheck, Peter Neufeld and Jim Dwyer, 2000, ISBN 038549341X, $24.95 Adams v. Texas by Randall Dale Adams, William Hoffer and Marilyn Mona Hoffer, 1991, ISBN 031205811X ("The true story made famous by the highly acclaimed film The Thin Blue Line ") Out of print Against Capital Punishment : The anti-death penalty movement in America, 1972-1994 by Herbert H. Haines (sociologist), 1996, ISBN 0195088387, $35.00 America's Condemned : Death Row Inmates in Their Own Words , by Dan Malone and Howard Swindle, 1999, Andrews McMeel Publishing; ISBN: 0836281985 $12.95 Dead Man Walking : an eyewitness account of the death penalty in the United States by Helen Prejean, 1996, ISBN 0679751319, $12.00 Death at Midnight : The Confession of an Executioner by Don Cabana, Northeastern Univ. Press, 1996, ISBN 1555533566, $15.95

77. NCADP - National Coalition To Abolish The Death Penalty NCADP advocates for public policy and mobilizes and supports people and institutions that share our Category Society Issues death Penalty Organizations Against...... and supports individuals and institutions that share our unconditional rejectionof capital punishment. Ryan’s blanket commutation of death sentences MORE. http://www.ncadp.org/

NCADP provides information, advocates for public policy, and mobilizes and supports individuals and institutions that share our unconditional rejection of capital punishment. Join NCADP now!!! Donate to NCADP now! Register now for the 2003 Conference! Designed by TLM EXECUTIONS since 1976: in 2003: U.S. appeals court stays the execution of Scott Hain, a juvenile offender MORE Miller-El prevails; U.S. Supreme Court rules lower courts must hear evidence of racist jury selection MORE NCADP to hold 2003 conference in Nashville, Tennessee MORE Legislative Action Center: Click here Click here to enter NCADP’s new Legislative Action Center National Execution Alert: Click here Click here to sign up for the monthly National Execution Alert Free E-mail Updates: Click here Click here to sign up for NCADP’s news updates via e-mail Current Execution Alerts 3/26 James Colburn (TX) EXECUTED 3/26 Ernest Martin (OH) STAY 3/27 David Jay Brown (OK) STAY 4/3 Scott Hain - juvenile (OK) STAY 4/3 Brandon Hedrick (VA) STAY 4/8 Don Hawkins, Jr. (OK) TAKE ACTION 4/9 Earl Bramblett (VA) TAKE ACTION 4/15 Kenneth Morris (TX) TAKE ACTION 4/16 Lewis Williams (OH) STAY 4/17 Larry Jackson (OK) TAKE ACTION Please visit our Execution Alert Pages for archived alerts, telephone and mail contact information, and recommended actions

78. Capital Punishment - The Death Penalty capital punishment THE death PENALTY. Support and opposition http://www.religioustolerance.org/execut4.htm

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT THE DEATH PENALTY Support and opposition Click Here to Visit our Sponsors. document.writeln(""); Topics covered in this essay are: Does the death penalty deter homicides? Support for capital punishment in North America Political attempts to abolish the death penalty State moratoriums and overhaul of legislation Does the death penalty deter homicides? People murder for a variety of reasons and under many different situations e.g.: during domestic disputes, when passions are inflamed. under the influence of alcohol or other drugs, when the perpetrator is not in rational control. hit-men doing contract killings; they typically never expect to be arrested. psychopaths and other mentally ill individuals who have little regard for human life and who are unable to accept responsibility for their actions self-destructive individuals who believe that they deserve to die and want to be arrested and executed. brain-damaged individuals, who experience periods of rage, and occasionally kill. With the exception of professional hit-men, very few people are in a rational frame of mind when they kill others. It may be hopeless to expect any form of punishment to act as a deterrent.

79. Death Penalty News, information, facts and figures about the movement to abolish the death penalty worldwide.Category Society Issues death Penalty Opposing Views...... the sentences of all death row inmates today. Governor Ryan's blanket commutationis the next domino in the movement toward ending capital punishment in the http://www.amnestyusa.org/abolish/

Death Penalty Home Abolition Flashcard Subscribe to AIUSA's email newsletter on the death penalty About the Program Weekend of Faith in Action Take Action Death Penalty in the U.S. AI Reports Fact Sheets Juveniles Deterrence Mental Retardation Mental Illness ... Death Penalty Links Amnesty International needs your help to stop the execution of juvenile offender Scott Hain. Join us. Take action now Send a postcard The Death Penalty and Juvenile Offenders Listen to actor Scott Winters, who plays a death row inmate on the hit HBO series "Oz," for his take on the death penalty for juvenile offenders. Learn more about the death penalty and juvenile offenders. Recent Reports: USA: Indecent and Internationally Illegal - The Death Penalty Against Child Offenders PDF format RTF format Children and the Death Penalty - Executions Worldwide Since 1990 PDF format RTF format 28 March 2003 USA: Oklahoma’s Scheduled Execution of Juvenile Offender Scott Hain Defies International Law (Washington, DC) - Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) today asked the Oklahoma Board of Pardon and Parole to recommend clemency for juvenile offender Scott Hain, scheduled for execution April 3rd. The first juvenile offender to be executed in the US in 2003, Hain's case signals renewed US defiance of binding international law that prohibits executing a person who committed his crime while under the age of 18.

80. Death Penalty Organizations & Sites, Pro & Con resources and documents available here comprise primarily anticapital punishmentresources, but recently has begun to collect pro-death penalty resources as http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/just/death/procon.html

Focus on the Death Penalty Focus on Gun Control Index to Links ... Index Focus on the Death Penalty Though the federal government and 38 of the 50 states have death penalty laws, and public opinion polls in the last decade have generally indicated that the majority of Americans favor capital punishment, organizations and sites advocating the abolition of the death penalty are more common and easily found on the World Wide Web than organizations and sites favoring retention of the death penalty . That more anti than pro-death penalty sites are listed on this page is due to that reality, and should not be construed to indicate the Justice Center's advocacy of either a pro or con position on the death penalty. This page includes only secular organizations and sites. For religious organizations and sites on the death penalty, see The Debate: Religion The Justice Center is not responsible for the content of any outside site linked here, nor does a listing here imply an endorsement of a site's opinions or content or a guarantee of its accuracy.

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