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Death Penalty

• Capital Punishment, the Death Penalty -- links from varied religious perspectives
• Capital Punishment/Death Penalty FAQ -- excellent from the Nat'l Center for State Courts. Click here for an overview and be sure to look at right side menu.
• the Case against the Death Penalty - from the ACLU
• Catholics against Capital Punishment -- includes Vatican documents.
• Death Penalty Information and Resources--from the American Society of Criminology, which officially opposes the death penalty. Its links, however, include pro-death penalty documents, as well as info on wrongful convictions, religion and the death penalty, and death penalty cases in Illinois specifically.
• Death Penalty Law: an Overview -- includes full-text documents
• Death Penalty Organizations & Sites, Pro and Con
• Economics of the Death Penalty--a research review that is chock full of data and references for further research.
• History of the Death Penalty and Recent Developments
• Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: The Death Penalty -- This nonpartisan organization provides information (news, backgrounders, polls and surveys), but takes no position on "issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs".
• Punishment and the Death Penalty-- includes bibliography, full text articles, links to other death penalty sites.
• Recent Legal History of the Death Penalty in America