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Articles
- Capital Punishment
- The case against the Death Penalty by Hugo Adam Bedau - http://ethics.acusd.edu/Bedeau.html
- Executing the Innocent - http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Huma/HumaLine.htm
- Chapter 3 - Punishment and the Death Penalty by edited by Lawrence M. Hinman - http://ethics.acusd.edu/Manual/InstructorsManual.html#Chapter_3
- Death Penalty at Ethics Updates- http://ethics.acusd.edu/death_penalty.html
- Death Penalty Information Center home page, lists a good set of resources.
- The Other Side of the Wall: The Prison Law Page, maintained by Arnold Erickson.
- The PeaceNet Prison Issues Desk
- Dean Man Talkin',
the Home Page of Dean, a death row inmate at San Quentin Prison.
- Amnesty International
its statement on its opposition to the death penalty.
- Physicians for Human Rights and
the Death Penalty
- Hippocratic Oath.
Religious Sources
- Monograph on
Capital Punishment issued by the Bishops of Syracuse, New York,
- Bishops of
Illinois, led by Cardinal Bernadine, reaffirm their opposition to the death penalty.
- U.S.
Catholic Bishops' Statement, 1980
- Pope John Paul II's Encyclical "Evangelium
vitae," 1995
- Frontline: Angel on Death Row. A Portrait of
Sr. Helen Prejean (April 9, 1996)
- Reporter's
Notebook, by Christopher Buchanan. The Real Life Cases in "Dead Man
Walking" - related news
stories.
- Elizabeth
Harvey, interview (the mother of Faith Colleen Hathaway, who was raped and tortured and murdered
by Robert Lee Willie and Hoseph Vaccaro); with Debbie
Morris, who was abducted and raped by Willie and Vaccaro;
with Sister
Prejean, author of "Dead Man Walking;" and with Mike Varnado,
investigating deputy sheriff in the Hataway murder.
- Is the Death
Penalty Unjust?" Opposing opinions by two US Judges
- American Bar Association Call for Moratorium on the Death
Penalty
- The Ultimate
Punishment: A Defense by Ernest van Den Haag
- Against
the American System of Capital Punishment by Jack Greenberg
- Dead Man Walking material including a chapter from the book and interviews with Sr. Prejan, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins
- Guide to selected internet resources on capital punishment
- Chronology of
capital punishment from the 17th century to the present.
- Frontline: What Jennifer Saw. Examinging
Eyewitness Error in Crimes and How DNA Evidence Is Setting the Innocent Free. February 25, 1996
- Brutality behind Bars. A
Los Angeles Times Special Report
Texts
- John Stuart Mill, "Speech In Favor of Capital Punishment."
- John Rawls, ";Two Concepts of Rules" Statement against the death penalty.
- Justice Harry Blackmun, dissent in Callins v. Collins
- Capital Punishment by George Bernard Shawin The Atlantic Monthly, 1948
- Is The Death
Penalty Necessary? by Giles Fairplay in The Atlantic Monthly, 1957
- Sentencing:
The Judge's Problem by Irvine J. Kaufman, in The Atlantic Monthly. 1960.
- Let's Get
Real About Capital Punishment. Three Easy Steps by James Carroll, The Boston Globe, 1994.
- Irvine J. Kaufman, "Sentencing:
The Judge's Problem." The Atlantic Monthly. 1960
- Prisons in America: Robert Worth
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