Death  Penalty

ACLU – Capital Punishment (https://www.aclu.org/capital-punishment)  
The ACLU Capital Punishment Project is fighting for the end of the death penalty by supporting moratorium and repeal movements through public education and advocacy.

Amnesty International (http://www.amnestyusa.org/issues/death-penalty)
Message is about the abolition of the death penalty worldwide. Itlooks to end a system with economic, racial bias, and human error.  Find content thru search box and subject:  Death Penalty

Bureau of Justice Statistics Publications (http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbo)  
This is an alphabetical list of BJS publications that are in electronic formats. To view an abstract and connect to electronic versions, click on the titles listed.

Cornell University Law School (http://neuro.law.cornell.edu/supct/search/search.html?query=capital+or+death+and+penalty&scope=onlysyllabi)  
Supreme Court information.

Death Penalty Information Center (http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/)

GEM Gateway Consortium of Internet-based educational materials
(http://deathpenaltycurriculum.org/student/index.html)  
This Web site and its accompanying materials are designed to assist both teachers and students in an exploration of capital punishment, presenting arguments for and against its use, as well as issues of ethics and justice that surround it.

Recent Legal History of the Death Penalty in America (http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/bldeathpenalty.htm) 
History of the death penalty.