Death Penalty Legal Resources

ABA Death Penalty Brief Bank (under construction)
Abolition Now
ACLU Freedom Network Death Penalty Materials
American Society of Criminology Death Penalty Information
Australia and Capital Punishment – pro-death penalty page; gives details of recent Australian homicides.
Capital Defender’s Toolbox
Capital Punishment: Life or Death? – school project covering both sides of the issue.
Capital Punishment: the Death Penalty – information from different religious perspectives.
Catholics Against Capital Punishment
Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Congressional Death Penalty Legislation
Corrections, Prisoners and Capital Punishment Sites
Court TV: On the Death Penalty
Criminal Law Links – Death Penalty
Death Penalty Discussion List Archives
Death Penalty Links [Amnesty International]
Death Penalty Pages USA 1996 – listing of the executed persons in the US in 1996; also pending and stayed executions.
Electric Chair.com – listing of films, histories, books, and discussions.
Ethics Update: Death Penalty
Execution of Caleb Adams – a true story of crime and punishment in early-1800s New England.
Final Word, The – a collection of witticisms from death row.
LII – U.S. Death Penalty Law – from the Legal Information Institute.
Links Toward Abolition – articles, writing by death row prisoners, and an extensive collection of internet resources dealing with the death penalty
NACDL Death Penalty Materials
Operation Camelot – believes that abusers of women and children must receive the most severe penalties the law will allow. They seek the death penalty for murderers and have declared war on rapists.
Papal Encyclical: Human Life
Pro Death Penalty Pages
Speech In Favor of Capital Punishment – by John Stuart Mill.
Southern Center for Human Rights
Supreme Court Death Penalty Cases – since 1990. Text of opinions.
Tyburn Tree: Public Execution in Early Modern England 
Wesley Lowe’s Pro-Death Penalty Web Page
Yahoo Death Penalty Index