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Capital punishment interative
A collection of interactive resources from CBS including; history, special reports, famous cases and information regarding Juvenile’s and the Death Penalty.
Children and the death penalty
The Convention on the Rights of the Child clearly stipulates that capital punishment shall not be imposed for offences committed by persons below eighteen years of age. All States, but the United States and Somalia have ratified the Convention.
Crowds mass for Williams funeral
Source BBC News: Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of executed former US gang leader Stanley “Tookie” Williams.
Death Penalty Photography Documentary Project NEW
These are just a few of the images captured in Scott Langley’s chilling death penalty documentary photography project, which is the most comprehensive collection of original death penalty photographs available from one source.
Ethics – capital punishment
The question as to whether or not it is morally acceptable for the state to execute people, and if so under what circumstances, has been debated for centuries.
Eyewitness Identification
Eyewitness identification is one of the most potent and effective tools available to police and prosecutors. It’s compelling, it convinces juries of the guilt of a defendant. The problem is, eyewitness identifications are wrong at least 50% of the time.
Kids Against The Death Penalty
Kids Against the Death Penalty (KADP) is an organisation dedicated to ending the Death Penalty across the United States. “Yes we are kids, but we know that Murder of ANY kind is wrong, and that includes state-sanctioned-murder.”
Lethal injection investigation NEW
Countries using lethal injection: USA, China, Guatemala, Taiwan, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam. Lethal injections in the US since 1977: approx. 2000. Lethal injection cocktail: sodium thiopental, pentobarbital, pancuronium bromide, potassium chloride.
Live from Death Row
The essays that Mumia writes here offer the reader an insight in the criminal justice system that you could only see if you are inside it. When reading this essays,the reader gets the feeling of depression, isolation, sadness and of despair that any person on death row might be feeling.
No to the Death Penalty International
The ‘No to the Death Penalty International’ website features links to anti capital punishment campaigns, appeals & petitions, family & inmate campaigns, news, information and much more. One of the most comprehensive that you will find on the Internet.
Ohio’s Death Row
Building an online data base of Ohio death row inmate information and related links is a huge undertaking. We hope that you will find here, the resources and information that you may be looking for.
Once a Jolly Hangman
Alan Shadrake’s hard-hitting new book cuts through the façade of official silence to reveal disturbing truths about Singapore’s use of the death penalty. From in-depth interviews with Darshan Singh, Singapore’s chief executioner for nearly fifty years, to meticulously researched accounts of numerous high profile cases.
Report of the Commission on Capital Punishment
The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois commends the Governor’s Commission on Capital Punishment for its diligent work and considerable attention to addressing problems in Illinois’ failed death penalty system.
The Gulf Region Advocacy Center
The Gulf Region Advocacy Center, or GRACE, is an independent, client-centered, Houston-based charity that provides high quality capital defense to indigents facing the death penalty at trial or retrial.
The juvenile death penalty: Cruel and unusual punishment
Over 70 juvenile offenders now sit on death rows across the country and 22 juvenile offenders have been executed since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The time to end this barbaric practice is long overdue.
The Texas Death Machine
Being charged with a capital crime is surely bad news anywhere but there’s no place worse than Texas. After the state Board of Pardons turned down Karla Faye Tucker’s petition, she became the 146th person executed by Texas after the Supreme Court voted to reinstate the death penalty in 1976.
World Coalition: Global Campaigns NEW
When Debra Schaefer goes to work, gates and doors lock behind her. For eight hours she is unable to leave. If something catastrophic were to happen there would be no escape. But the psychological impact of her incarceration every working day isn’t something she dwells on.
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