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Death Penalty National Resources

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Connect with one of the many organizations seeking to abolish the death penalty in the United States.

 

The Advocates for Human Rights
www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org
Seeks to increase awareness for issues surrounding the death penalty and conduct advocacy against the death penalty.

The ABA Death Penalty Representation Project
http://www.abanet.org/deathpenalty/
Raises awareness about the lack of representation for death row inmates and seeks to remedy this problem by recruiting and training attorneys.

American Civil Liberties Union
http://www.aclu.org/capital/index.html
Uses legislative reform, education, and advocacy to improve representation in appeals and trials and facilitate the abolition of the capital punishment.

Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty
Provides information on capital punishment in the U.S. and abroad and encourages individuals to advocate on behalf of specific death row inmates.

Center for International Human Rights
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/humanrights/
Provides information about the application of the death penalty worldwide as well as cases and commentary on international legal issues.

Center on Wrongful Convictions
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/cwc/
Focuses on identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice through representation, research, and public education.

Death Penalty Focus
http://www.deathpenalty.org/
Increases awareness through education, organizing, outreach, and research.

Death

Penalty Information Center
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
Acts as a resource for information on capital punishment. Provides reports, briefings, analysis, and current information updates for the press and public.

 

Death Watch International
http://www.deathwatchinternational.org/
Supports the worldwide campaign against capital punishment and strengthens other groups with this same goal. 

Equal Justice U.S.A
http://www.ejusa.org/
Provides news and action alerts and also works to mobilize individual organizations to adopt resolutions for a national moratorium on the death penalty.

European Union
http://www.eurunion.org/eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1783
Contains links to policy statements and other international agreements concerning the death penalty.

FIDH
http://www.fidh.org/-Death-Penalty-
Promotes death penalty education through press releases and newsletters while also providing updates about upcoming action.

Hands Off Cain
http://www.handsoffcain.info/
HOF works by appealing to the UN and the European Union and by acting as a source for news and action updates.

The Innocence Project
http://www.innocenceproject.org/ and http://www.innocencenetwork.org/ Facilitates exoneration through DNA testing and works to prevent future miscarriages of justice through reform of the criminal justice system.

The Justice Project
http://www.thejusticeproject.org/
The mission of The Justice Project is to promote fairness and accuracy in the justice system through campaigns on the state and national level.

Lethalinjection.org
www.lethalinjection.org
Provides information on how lethal injection is a problematic method of execution. Provides access to trial information, court orders, and news.

Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights
http://murdervictimsfamilies.org/
A coalition of family members of criminal murder, terrorist killings, and state executions. Aims to further the global anti-capital punishment movement by ending the death penalty in the U.S.

Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation
http://www.mvfr.org/
Family members of homicide victims and the executed who oppose the death penalty.

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
www.criminaljustice.org/
Advances the mission of the U.S.’ criminal defense lawyers to ensure justice and due process.

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
http://www.ncadp.org/
Aims to abolish capital punishment in the U.S. and abroad. Supports affiliates through training, strategic advice, and technical assistance to build and run campaigns against the death penalty.

Physicians for Human Rights
http://www.physiciansforhumanrights.org/investigations/death-penalty/
Published report on physcian involvement in executions with accounts of botched executions and discussion on medical ethics. 

The Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project
http://www.deathpenaltyreligious.org/
Seeks to end capital punishment in the U.S. through a faith-based activism.

Resurrection After Exoneration
http://www.r-a-e.org/
Facilitates a smooth transition and reentry for exonerees and empowers them to advocate for reform in the criminal justice system.

The Southern Center for Human Rights
http://www.schr.org/
Works to end capital punishment, mass incarceration, and other injustices.

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx
Find information on treaties that provide important protections against the death penalty and cruel and inhumane treatment or punishment.

World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
http://www.worldcoalition.org/modules/accueil/
Strengthens the international struggle against capital punishment. Contributes to reducing and definitively abolishing death sentences and executions.