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• Supreme Court Decisions Related to the Death Penalty / Capital Punishment - at the Legal Information Institute ("LII")
• Court of Appeals Decisions Related to the Death Penalty / Capital Punishment - at LII

• Relevant Constitutional Provisions
  • U.S. Constitution, Article III, Sec. 3 - Definition of and Power to Punish Treason
  • U.S. Constitution, Fifth Amendment - Including rights with respect to the death penalty and prosecution of capital crimes

• Federal Crimes Carrying the Death Penalty
  • Congressional, Cabinet, and Supreme Court Assassination, or Kidnapping Resulting in Death - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 351
  • Genocide - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 1091
  • Hostage Taking Resulting in Death - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 1203
  • Kidnapping Resulting in Death - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 1201
  • Murder - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 1111
  • Terrorism - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 2332
  • Torture Resulting in Death - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 2340A
  • Treason - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 2381
  • Use of Interstate Commerce Facilities in the Commission of Murder-for-Hire - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 1958
  • War Crimes - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 2441

• Certain Federal Procedure for Capital Cases
  • Counsel and witnesses in capital cases - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 3005
  • No limitations period for capital offenses - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 3281
  • Indictment and list of jurors and witnesses for prisoner in capital cases - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 3432
  • Rights of victims to attend and observe trial in capital cases - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 3510(b)
  • Venue in capital cases - 18 U.S. Code, Sec. 3235

• U.S. Department of Justice
  • Bureau of Justice Statistics, Capital Punishment Statistics
  • Capital Crimes - United States Attorneys' Manual, Title 9, Chapter 9-10.000
    • 9-10.010 Federal Prosecutions in Which the Death Penalty May be Sought
      
    • 9-10.020 Authorization and Consultation Prior to Seeking the Death Penalty
      
    • 9-10.030 Notice of Intention to Seek the Death Penalty
      
    • 9-10.040 Submissions to the Department of Justice in Cases Seeking Death Penalty
      
    • 9-10.050 Department of Justice Review of Cases Seeking Death Penalty
      
    • 9-10.055 Review of Recommendations Not to Seek Death Penalty
      
    • 9-10.060 Notice to Family of Victim
      
    • 9-10.070 Substantial Federal Interest
      
    • 9-10.080 Standards for Determination
      
    • 9-10.090 Withdrawal of Notice of Intention to Seek the Death Penalty
      
    • 9-10.100 Plea Agreements
      
    • 9-10.110 Forms and Procedures
      
    • 9-10.120 Exceptions for the Proper Administration of Justice
      
  • Criminal Resource Manual
    • The Federal Death Penalty
    • The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988
    • The Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994
    • Consultation Prior to Seeking the Death Penalty
    • Capital Eligible Statutes Assigned by Section
    • Submissions to the Department of Justice
    • Outline for Death Penalty Prosecution Memorandum
    • Death Penalty Evaluation Form for Homicides under Titles 8, 18, and 49
    • Death Penalty Evaluation Form for Killings under Title 21
    • Death Penalty Evaluation Form for Espionage and Treason
    • Death Penalty Evaluation Form for Narcotics Offenses under Title 18.
    • Standards for Determination -- Aggravating Factors
    • Statutory Aggravating Factors -- Eligibility
    • Non-Statutory Aggravating Factors -- Selection
    • Standards for Determination -- Mitigating Factors
    • Mitigating Factors for Title 21 Offenses
    • Mitigating Factors for Title 18 Offenses

• Arizona Dept. of Corrections
• California Dept. of Corrections
• Delaware Dept. of Corrections
• Florida Dept. of Corrections
• Maryland Dept. of Corrections
• North Carolina Dept. of Corrections
• Oregon Dept. of Corrections
• Pennsylvania Dept. of Corrections
• Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice

• ABA Death Penalty Issues
• Abolition Road - Death penalty abolition, from Prisonactivist.org.
• Abolitionist Action Committee
• ACLU - Death Penalty
• Act for Change - Death penalty opposition site.
• All Things Considered: A Day in the Life of a Death Row Employee - National Public Radio Report, Oct. 12. 2000.
• America's Capital Punishment Industry - Democracy Now radio program on the death penalty.
• Amnesty Interntional Death Penalty Campaigns
• Amnesty International: Raise the Roof - Supporting the Innocence Protection Act.
• Anti-Death Penalty Information
• Assessing the ABA Moratorium
• Bay Area Organizations - Organizations opposed to the death penalty in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Beyond Reason - Human Rights Watch Report on the death penalty and mental retardation.
• California Attorneys for Criminal Justice death penalty moratorium resolution
• California State Public Defender - Provides legal representation in capital appeals before the State Supreme Court.
• Campaign to End the Death Penalty - From NoDeathPenalty.org.
• Canadian Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
• Capital Defender's Toolbox - Includes sections on the Supreme Court, briefs, motions, a reference room and a sample Capital Defense Weekly.
• Capital Defense Network
• Capital Defense Weekly
• Capital Punishment - From the Canadian Journal of Behavior Sciences.
• Capital Punishment 1999 - By Tracy L. Snell, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Dec. 2000 | [Full Report in PDF format]
• Capital Punishment 1998 - By Tracy L. Snell, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Dec. 1999 | [Full Report in PDF format]
• Capital Punishment 1997 - By Tracy L. Snell, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Dec. 1998 | [Full Report in PDF format]
• Capital Punishment 1996 - By Tracy L. Snell, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Dec. 1997 | [Full Report in PDF format]
• Capital Punishment: Pro and Con
• Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
• Clark County Prosecutor Capital Punishment Links
• Coalition of Arizonans to Abolish the Death Penalty
• Condemed and Silenced - Links to death row inmate sites.
• The Constitution Project - Death Penalty Initiative focusing on wrongful executions.
• Cornell Death Penalty Project
• Court TV: Death Penalty on Trial
• Deadly Choices - Article regarding prosecutorial discretion in capital cases.
• Death Penalty Ethics & Punishment
• Death Penalty Focus
• Death Penalty for Female Offenders - By Victor L. Streib, Professor of Law, The Claude W. Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern University, 2001.
• Death Penalty for Lesbians - From the National Journal of Sexual Orientation Law.
• Death Penalty in the USA - From Amnestsy International USA.
• Death Penalty Information
• Death Penalty Information Center - A top site regarding the death penalty.
• Death Penalty Institute of Oklahoma
• Death Penalty Issues - From Truth in Justice.
• Death Penalty Law and Psychology Links - From Prisonwall.org.
• Death Penalty Moratorium - ACLU Action Alert.
• Deathpenalty.net
• Death Penalty News
• Death Penalty News and Updates
• Death Penalty Today - Remarks by Professor Anthony Amsterdam at the Thurgood Marshall Awards, April 27, 1998.
• Death Penalty USA
• Death Row Inmates - From the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
• Death Row Inmates Webring - Geocities
• Death Row Inmates Webring - Yahoo
• Death Row Prisoner Pages Links
• Death Row USA - From the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
• Declaration of Life
• Derechos Death Penalty Information
• Economics of Capital Punishment
• Europeon Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
• Execution - PBS Frontline look at a condemned prisoner.
• Execution Tapes - Audio tapes of Georgia executions.
• Executions, 1930-99 - Bureau of Justice Statistics (ASCII format).
• Executions of Federal Prisoners Since 1927
• Fight the Death Penalty in the USA
• Fair Trial Initiative - Initiative to provide quality trial representation for indigent capital defendants.
• The Federal Death Penalty System: A Statistical Survey (1988-2000) - United States Department of Justice Washington, D.C. September 12, 2000 (PDF format). | [In WordPerfect format]
• The Federal Death Penalty System: Supplementary Data, Analysis and Revised Protocols for Capital Case Review - U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., June 6, 2001.
• Focus on the Death Penalty
• Fraught With Error - Report about death penalty errors by Stephen F. Rohde and Andrew S. Love.
• Friends Committee on National Legislation - Death Penalty information and projects.
• Illinois v. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb - With Clarence Darrow's summation and attack on the death penalty.
• Innocence Protection Act - Bill aimed at reducing the risk that innocent persons may be executed.
• Innocence Protection Act: Selected Statements Presented to the Senate Judiciary Committee
• International Tourism Boycott of Texas
• Iowans Against the Death Penalty
• John Stuart Mill Speech In Favor of Capital Punishment - Speech to Parliament, April 21, 1868.
• Journey of Hope - Promoting forgiveness and healing.
• Justice Project - Campaign against wrongful executions.
• The Juvenile Death Penalty Today: Death Sentences and Executions for Juvenile Crimes - By Victor L. Streib, Professor of Law, The Claude W. Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern University, 2001.
• Juvenile Executions - Opposition by the American Bar Association.
• Lamp of Hope Project - Death penalty opposition founded by condemned prisoners in Texas.
• Legal Affairs: Death Row Law: A Maze of Technicalities, A Ray of Hope - By Stuart Taylor Jr., May 5, 2000.
• Legal Information Institute Death Penalty Law
• LeGrand v. United States - World Court opinion finding that the US violated its treaty obligations in a capital case.
• Louisiana Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalthy
• Louisiana Indigent Defender Board: Standards Relating to the Provision of Counsel to Indigents Accused of Capital Crimes
• Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty
• Moratorium News - A publication of Equal Justice, USA.
• Moratorium Campaign
• Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Death Penalty Resources
• National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
• National Petition to End the Death Penalty
• Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty
• New Jerseyans for a Death Penalty Moratorium
• Ninth Circuit Capital Punishment Handbook
• No Death Penalty for Persons with Severe Mental Illnesses - Statement By Laurie M. Flynn, Executive Director National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
• No Death Penalty in Massachusetts
• North America Project Death penalty information, including human rights treaties and world maps showing countries that have abolished the death penalty.
• Oklahoma Coalition Against the Death Penalty
• Ohioans to Stop Executions
• Oregon Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
• Organizations Against the Death Penalty
• The Other Side of the Wall - Death penalty, death row, and criminal justice site.
• Pending Executions - A list of some of the pending executions in the United States.
• Petition for Death Penalty Moratorium
• Physicians for Human Rights - Opposition to the death penalty and lethal injection (Gopher).
• Prison Activist - Death penalty issues.
• Prisoners executed under civil authority in the United States, by year, Federal, State-by-state, and region, 1977-99 - Bureau of Justice Statistics (Microsoft Excel format).
• Prisoners under sentence of death, 1953-99 - Bureau of Justice Statistics (ASCII format).
• Prisoners under sentence of death by race, 1968-99 - Bureau of Justice Statistics (ASCII format).
• Prison Law Page - Includes death penalty information and links.
• Pro-Death Penalty.com - A resource for those searching the internet for pro-death penalty information and resources.
• Project Hope - Founded by death row inmates in Alabama.
• Racism of the Death Penalty - From the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
• Reasons to End the Death Penalty - From the Progress Report.
• Reckoning the Death Penalty - ABC News special report.
• Rethinking the Death Penalty - Information from the Center for Bi-partisan Education.
• Roll Call - Article on increasing number of executions.
• Southern Center for Human Rights - Public interest legal project fighting for civil and human rights of people of color, poor people, and other disadvantaged citizens facing the death penalty or confined to prisons and jails in the South.
• Standards for Capital Case Representation - Volume III of the Compendium of Standards For Indigent Defense Systems: A Resource Guide for Practioners and Policymakers, by the Institute for Law and Justice.
• State Legislation, Court Rules, and Standards Relating to Capital Case Representation Experience and Training
• Stop the Death Penalty - From Stanford University.
• Suicide Murder - Paper about persons who commit murder in the hopes of getting the death penalty.
• Texas Coalition Against the Death Penalty
• Texas Moratorium Campaign
• Texecution - The last words of the 157 prisoners executed in Texas under then-Governor George W. Bush.
• Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
• Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
• Witness to an Execution - Text and audio, originally aired on National Public Radio, All Things Considered, Oct. 20, 2000.
• Wrong Man - Article on the risks of mistake inherent in the death penalty.

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