| American Civil Liberties Union |
| The ACLU web site has special sections on criminal justice and death penalty issues. Included are briefing papers and other online documents. |
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| Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| The BJS publishes most of its reports on its WWW pages as well as in print. Statistics are maintained in the areas of law enforcement, prosecution, courts and sentencing, corrections (including capital punishment), and expenditure and employment. |
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| Capital Punishment Debate |
| James Liebman of Columbia University has released A Broken System, Part II: Why There Is So Much Error in Capital Cases, and What Can Be Done About It. Part I, A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995, found serious, reversible errors in nearly 7 out of 10 Capital Cases over a 23 year period. John Jay professors Barry Latzer and James Cauthen have engaged Liebman in debate in the pages of Judicature and The Prosecutor. The Sealy Library has received permission to reproduce all of their articles here on our webserver. |
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| Death Penalty |
| Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty website includes links to facts and figures about capital punishment in the United States and links to information about capital punishment around the world. |
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| Death Penalty Information and Resources |
| Lists anti-capital punishment resources from the American Society of Criminology's Critical Criminology Division.
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| Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) |
| DPIC reports, recent articles, statistical information and charts arranged by topics such as race, cost, clemency, etc. |
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| Dying Speeches and Bloody Murders: Crime Broadsides Collected by the Harvard Law School Library |
| Website with full text and images of more than 500 broadsides relating to public executions in 18th and 19th century Britain. |
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| Human Rights: Death Penalty |
| From Derechos, a human rights organization, this site provides links to DOJ reports, Amnesty International Documents, and the web pages of pro death penalty and abolitionist organizations. |
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| Texas Defender Service |
| The Texas Defender Service, working under a grant from the Death Penalty Representation Project of the American Bar Association, has produced the report "A State of Denial: Texas Justice and the Death Penalty." |
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