Advocacy
Groups |
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The following resources provide links to national organizations
that advocate for and against the death penalty. |
The
Innocence Project
http://www.innocenceproject.org
The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School
of Law was created by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld
in 1992. It was set up as and
remains a non-profit legal clinic. This Project only handles cases where
postconviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of
innocence. As a clinic, students handle the case work while supervised
by a team of attorneys and clinic staff. The website contains an interesting
section with case profiles and additional resources for each of the postconviction
DNA
exonerations that occur in the United State |
Maryland
Coalition Against State Executions
http://www.mdcase.org/index.html
MCASE s a coalition of groups and individuals united to end the death penalty
in Maryland through education, legislative action, and public demonstration.
The
site contains
information about the legislative action related with death penalty in Maryland,
data about the inmates exectued or remaining in death row, an the case of exonerated
Kirk Bloodworth. |
American
Civil Liberties Union Website
http://www.aclu.org/DeathPenalty/DeathPenaltymain.cfm
This section is dedicateded to the Death Penalty. Updated weekly, has a
counter with the number of executions since reinstatement. Host “The
Capital Punishment Project” since 1976. |
NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational Fund
http://www.naacpldf.org
This is a site for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The program’s
primary purpose is to offer legal assistance to poor African Americans. The
site includes latest news about legal cases, a list of LDF events, information
about their program, and links to other national organizations with similar
purposes. It is an extensive website, but you have to search for news about
the death penalty |
American
Society of Criminology
http://www.asc41.com/deathpenalty.html
Official policy position of the American Society of Criminology with respect
to the death penalty, adopted in November 1989. |
Death
Penalty Information
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
This is a very good site that has information on many of the different aspects
of the death penalty and the issues surrounding it. It also has a resource
link that gives video, news, research, and other information that can be
used for research. |
Floridians
Against the Death Penalty
http://www.fadp.org/
Contains press releases, reports, statistics, death penalty stories in the
news, information about how to get involved, information about U.S. and Florida
executions, and the problem of innocence on death row. |
National
Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
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. |
