Chapter 4: Punishment and the Death Penalty
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Link up to the following websites to find more resources on punishment and the death penalty.
Ethics Updates: Punishment and the Death Penalty
Hinman's site contains links to numerous helpful web resources that relate to punishment in general and capital punishment in particular. These include links to relevant court decisions, legislation, statistical information (including statistics on wrongful convictions), religious arguments, etc. Also available are links to on-line full text articles on the death penalty and links to audio discussions of capital punishment from NPR's "Talk of the Nation" radio program.
Amnesty International: Against the Death Penalty
Amnesty International is a human rights group that has called for an international moratorium on the use of capital punishment. This site provides world-wide coverage of differing policies on the use of the death penalty. Also available are links to several other anti-death penalty sites, including websites authored by death row inmates themselves.
Death Penalty Information Center
This site includes, among other things, in-depth reports on and analysis of several interesting issues that surround the use of capital punishment, issues such as racial discrimination, financial costs associated with the death penalty, the execution of women, juveniles, the mentally impaired and foreign nationals.
Pro-Death Penalty.com
While most internet searches for "death penalty" turn up thousands of "hits" for sites opposed to the death penalty, for whatever reasons, this is one of the relatively few sites that provides information and resources in support of the use of capital punishment. The site contains links to other pro-death penalty sites, links to online full-text articles and a calendar of scheduled executions for the year 1999 that describes each of the inmates and his/her crime.
The Death Penalty
This site, sponsored by the Clark County (Indiana) prosecuting attorney, contains over 1000 links to websites on the topic of capital punishment. The primary author of the site is himself in favor of the use of the death penalty, but the links included are to sites both pro and con, plus histories, statistics, discussions of legal, religious, financial and political issues, accounts of wrongful convictions, botched executions, pardons, clemency and much more.