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5. Legal Resources/Law

- Cornell's Death Penalty Law Materials
From the US Legal Information Institute

- US Constitution: Amendements
(including the Eighth Amendment - Cruel and Unusual Punishment)

- Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (United Nations)

- United Nations Safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty


6. Recent editorials and papers

a/ Editorials

- "Conservatives Become Unlikely Death Penalty Critics"
A new breed of death-penalty critic appears to be on the rise.
They defend capital punishment in principle, but they are troubled by the possibility that, in the real world, mistakes can happen ...
By Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, April 2000

- "Why I Changed My Mind on the Death Penalty"
Christina Marie Riggs, a nurse in Arkansas and a single mother, killed her two children — Justin, 5, and Shelby Alexis, 2 — by giving them injections of potassium chloride and then smothering them with a pillow ...
By Lance Morrow, Time, May 2000
+ "My Win-Win Alternative to the Death Penalty"
By Lance Morrow, Time, May 2000

- "Put hold on death penalty"
Gov. George Ryan of Illinois won praise locally and worldwide when he announced earlier this year that he would impose a state moratorium on executions, pending a study of why the state's death penalty system has gone so horribly wrong ...
By William G. Paul, President of the American Bar Association.
From SunSpot, May 2000

- "The Death Penalty in the United States - Reflect our nation's prejudice against African-Americans"
An article by Michael Mears, Director, The State-Wide Multi-County Public Defender Office, July 1999 (from: Georgia Indigent Defense Council's website)

- "Illinois sets a precedent with halt to executions"
For opponents of the death penalty, Valentine's Day came early this year. Illinois Gov. George Ryan suspended all executions in his state last week, decrying "a shameful record of convicting innocent people and putting them on death row." ...
By William R. Macklin, Philadelphia Inquirer, February 2000

b/ Papers

- Papers and Related Death Penalty Writings
An interesting collection of papers related to the DP.
From the Northern Illinois University Department of Sociology's website.

- "The Death Penalty in Black & White: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides"
By Richard C. Dieter,
Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center, June 1998


7. Discussion groups/fora

- Strategies against the Death Penalty in USA Board
From 'Fight the DP in the USA'

- Abolish List
The Discussion List for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.