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Our Dossier

This dossier documents the issue of Capital Punishment in the United States.

Please use the tabs to access the three sections of this dossier:

Tab 1 lists US priorities with regard to the death penalty, major USG statements, latest USG statements, USG fact sheets, and USG reports

Tab 2 lists nonofficial reports, journal articles, and other documents.

Tab 3 provides a set of links to major web sites.

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The United States and the Death Penalty: A Dossier

Death penalty opponents gather in front of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006. Darrell Ferguson was executed after being convicted of three counts of aggravated murder in the Christmas Day 2001 killing of Thomas King, 61, and the deaths the next day of Arlie Fugate, 68, and his wife Mae, 69. Ferguson, 28, the youngest person put to death in Ohio since 1962, had asked for the death penalty and chose not to pursue appeals, which could have delayed his execution for years. (AP Photo/Scott Osborne)
Death penalty opponents gather in front of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006. (AP Photo/Scott Osborne)

Links

U.S. Government

Supreme Court of the United States

U.S. Department of Justice

International Organisations

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: The Death Penalty.

Universities and Thinktanks

Cornell University: Cornell's Death Penalty Law Materials

NGO's

Amnesty International: Abolitionist and Retentionist Countries

Amnesty International: Facts and Figures about the Death Penalty

Amnesty International: Human Rights Concerns (AI)

Armband Protest Against the Death Penalty: Execution Scorecard

Death Penalty Information Center:   

Pro Death Penalty: This website gives arguments to defend Capital Punishment.

American Civil Liberties Union: on the Death Penalty (ACLU)

The Death Penalty Worldwide: This site gives an overview of the status of Death Penalty all over the world.


 

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