Get further informed about the death penalty by checking out these resources and links. Additional links to organizations at the International, National, and State levels are listed in Links in our Take Action area.
• DEAD MAN WALKING: Published in 1994 and made into
a major motion picture by Tim Robbins, starring Susan Sarandon, the book chronicles
Helen’s eye-opening journey with two men on Death Row to the execution
chamber, and her awakening to the realities of our criminal justice system
and use of capital punishment. To purchase the book, visit
http://www.deathofinnocents.net
and choose "Buy the Book" in the bottom menu.
• THE DEATH OF INNOCENTS: In her most recent book, published in 2004,
Helen introduces us to Dobie Gillis Williams and Joseph O’Dell, whom
she accompanied to their executions and believes were innocent, examining
a system which could permit such a thing to happen. To purchase the book,
visit http://www.deathofinnocents.net
and choose "Buy the Book" in the bottom menu.
• Sister
Helen Prejean: A website containing biographical material, news
clippings, activities, letters, and other information on and about Helen.
• Witness
to Innocence: Witness
to Innocence is spearheaded by former death row prisoners who have been exonerated
and released from death rows across the United States and who are now actively
engaged in the struggle to end the death penalty.
•
Death of Innocents: The DEATH OF INNOCENTS book site
• Questioning Capital Punishment
with Sr. Helen Prejean is a five-session DVD study. Session Titles: Crossing
the Breach; What in God’s Name?; A Change of Heart; Radical Forgiveness;
Next Steps. Visit http://www.livingthequestions.com
to purchase the program.
Below are organizations (both for and against the death
penalty) you may contact for additional information about the issues surrounding
the death penalty.
• Broadening
the Death Penalty Dialogue Workspace - (http://www.omidyar.net/group/deathpenalty)
A discussion and workspace for those already committed to ending the death
penalty who are interested in brainstorming ways to use online networks to
spread the word and engage others.
You’ll need
to join Omidyar.net (http://www.omidyar.net/home/),
a network for positive social change, to gain access to the workspace.
• Death
Penalty Information Center: A database of articles and information,
including state-by-state statistics, on all aspects of the death penalty in
the United States.
• Death
Penalty Discourse Network: An umbrella organization dedicated to
deepening and broadening the dialogue around the death penalty in the United
States. It is the home of the DEAD MAN WALKING Theatre Project, the Moratorium
Campaign, Witness to Innocence, and Sister Helen Prejean.
• Equal
Justice USA: A grassroots project that mobilizes and educates citizens
about crime and punishment in the U.S., focusing on the racial, economic,
and political biases that permeate our legal system.
• Amnesty
International USA: U.S. arm of action-oriented human rights organization,
offering in-depth information about executions in the U.S. and abroad and
efforts to abolish the death penalty.
• Pro-Death
Penalty: A comprehensive website with state-by-state information
on Death Row inmates, including articles and links to other sources in favor
of capital punishment.
• Yes
Death Penalty: A European website featuring the contents, translated
into English, of a book published in Sweden in 1998 by David Anderson, focused
on making the case for capital punishment.
• The
Moratorium Campaign: The campaign is working to deepen the discourse around
the death penalty and to bring about moratoria across the USA.
• Justice
Center, Univ of Alaska, Anchorage: Death Penalty Organizations & Sites,
Pro & Con
• Death Penalty
Discourse Project: Boalt Hall, Berkely, CA
• Catholics
Against Capital Punishment: Catholic-Oriented Resources on the
Death Penalty
• Religious
Organizing Against the Death Penalty: Statements of Opposition
to Capital Punishment from Faith Groups
• Murder
Victims’ Families for Human Rights: An international, non-governmental
organization of family members of victims of criminal murder, terrorist killings,
state executions, extrajudicial assassinations, and “disappearances”
working to oppose the death penalty from a human rights perspective.
• Murder
Victims Families for Reconciliation: A non-religious death-penalty
abolition organization that includes people of a wide variety of faiths and
belief systems. “Reconciliation means accepting you can’t undo
the murder but you can decide how you want to live afterwards.”
• Office
for Victims of Crime: The website of the U.S. government office
established by the 1984 Victims of Crime Act to oversee diverse programs that
benefit victims of crime. The “Resource Center” of the website,
“an information clearinghouse of resources for emerging victim issues,”
offers a list of national resources providing support and encouragement to
homicide survivors and co-victims.
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