Articles
- MENTAL ILLNESS: Texas Inmate Gouges Out Eyes, Remains on Death Row
- How the Death Penalty Might Be Ended in California
- STUDIES: Reasons Behind the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Illinois
- ARTICLES: The Tensions Between Protecting the Innocent and the Objectives of Capital Punishment
- RACE: Commentary on the Anniversary of McCleskey v. Kemp
- DPIC IN THE NEWS: Media Coverage of Year End Report
- OP-ED: Mario Cuomo Calls Capital Punishment Corrosive to Society
- Florida's Death Penalty Marked by Arbitrary Decisions
- How Preconceptions and Bias May Have Led to Wrongful Convictions of West Memphis Three
- OP-ED: America's Death Penalty "Broken Beyond Repair"
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Books
- BOOKS: "Women Who Kill Men"--An Historical and Social Analysis
- BOOKS: "Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America"
- RESOURCES: "Handbook of Forensic Psychiatric Practice in Capital Cases"
- MULTIMEDIA: Bill Moyers Addresses Inequities in the Death Penalty
- BOOKS: Gil Wanger's Lifetime of Work Against Capital Punishment
- BOOKS: The Impact of the Death Penalty on Attorneys for the Condemned
- BOOKS: "Capital Punishment's Collateral Damage"
- BOOKS: "Where Justice and Mercy Meet: Catholic Opposition to the Death Penalty"
- BOOKS: "Race, Rape, and Injustice"
- BOOKS: "The Death Penalty In a Nutshell"
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Death Penalty Quiz
Editorials
- EDITORIALS: Colorado Case Raises Doubts About Entire Death Penalty System
- EDITORIALS: Miami Herald Calls on Governor to Block Fast-Track Executions
- EDITORIALS: "Conservatives and Death Penalty"
- NEW VOICES: Editorial Signals a Change in Position in Nebraska
- EDITORIALS: "With Death Penalty Bans Gaining Steam, What's Next for Texas?"
- EDITORIALS: Montana Paper Calls for Repeal
- EDITORIALS: "Florida's Death Penalty Needs a Fresh Look"
- DPIC'S YEAR END REPORT: What the Media Are Saying
- EDITORIALS: "America’s Retreat From the Death Penalty"
- EDITORIALS: "Oregon's Life-or-Death Vote"
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Educational Curricula
- NEW RESOURCES: DPIC's Award-Winning Curriculum Now Available as an Apple iBook
- RESOURCES: Online Educational Curricula for High School and College Students
- NEW RESOURCES: DPIC Launches Revised College Curriculum
- RESOURCES: Free Online Educational Curricula for High School and College Students
- NYC High School Law Teachers Introduced to Curriculum on the Death Penalty
- BOOKS: DeathQuest III by Robert Bohm
- College Curriculum
- High School Curriculum
- Capital Punishment in Context
- New Resource: DPIC Introduces Student Resource Page
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Law Reviews
- LAW REVIEWS: "Oregon's Death Penalty: The Practical Reality"
- STUDIES: Racial Bias in Houston's Use of Death Penalty
- LAW REVIEWS: The Enduring Significance of Studies Showing Racial Bias in the Death Penalty
- LAW REVIEWS: Should Mentally Incompetent Death Row Inmates be Forcibly Medicated?
- STUDIES: Reasons Behind the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Illinois
- RESOURCES: New Study Examines Effect of Death Penalty on Plea Bargaining
- NEW RESOURCES: Michigan State Law Review Dedicated to Death Penalty Research
- LAW REVIEWS: Use of Behavioral Genetics Evidence in Criminal Cases
- LAW REVIEWS: "A Modest Proposal: The Aged of Death Row Should Be Deemed Too Old to Execute"
- LAW REVIEWS: Revisiting the Constitutionality of the Death Penalty
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Multimedia
- DEATH ROW: Reporter Describes Conditions on California's Death Row
- NEW VOICES: PBS Airing of "The Central Park Five" Underscores Problem of Innocence
- MULTIMEDIA: Bill Moyers Addresses Inequities in the Death Penalty
- MULTIMEDIA: New Documentary Explores Landmark Right to Counsel Case
- MULTIMEDIA: Animated Film Seeks to Capture Typical Death Row Story
- MULTIMEDIA: Prof. John Bessler Takes Listeners on an Historical Journey Exploring Arbitrariness in the Death Penalty
- MULTIMEDIA: "One For Ten" Introduces Documentaries on Death Row Exonerees
- NEW RESOURCES: View DPIC's Latest Infographics as a Slide Show
- MULTIMEDIA: Peter Jackson's "West of Memphis"--A Compelling Story from Condemnation to Freedom
- MULTIMEDIA: Nebraska Debate on the Death Penalty
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New Voices
- Colorado Governor Indefinitely Stays Execution Over Concerns About Flawed System
- NEW VOICES: Former Prosecutor Calls for Clemency in Upcoming Colorado Execution
- NEW VOICES: Oregon Leaders Speak Out About the Death Penalty
- NEW VOICES: Nebraska Senator Changes Course After Hearing from Victims' Families
- EDITORIALS: Colorado Case Raises Doubts About Entire Death Penalty System
- NEW VOICES: Former Law Enforcement Officials, Judges, Faith Leaders Urge Commutation for Colorado Inmate
- NEW VOICES: Conservative Judge Who Imposed Death Sentences Changes His Mind
- EDITORIALS: "Conservatives and Death Penalty"
- NEW VOICES: Cost and Impact on Victims' Families Among Concerns for Conservative Christians
- NEW VOICES: Questioning the Decision to Seek the Death Penalty Against James Holmes
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Public Opinion
- PUBLIC OPINION: Strong Majority of North Carolinians Prefer Life Without Parole Over the Death Penalty
- PUBLIC OPINION: 2012 Gallup Poll Shows Support for Death Penalty Remains Near 40-Year Low
- PUBLIC OPINION: American Values Survey Shows Even Split on Death Penalty, with More Catholics Opposed
- PUBLIC OPINION: New Poll Shows Dramatic Jump in Support of Repealing California's Death Penalty
- PUBLIC OPINION: Public Finds Death Penalty Less Morally Acceptable in New Gallup Survey
- PUBLIC OPINION: Gallup Poll Reports Lowest Support for Death Penalty in Nearly 40 Years
- PUBLIC OPINION: New Poll Shows California Voters Support Life Without Parole Over Death Penalty
- PUBLIC OPINION: Californians Strongly Support Commuting All Death Sentences to Save Money
- PUBLIC OPINION: California Poll Shows Increase in Support for Life Without Parole
- Five Myths About the Death Penalty
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Related Web Sites
- NEW RESOURCES: New Database for International Death Penalty
- RESOURCES: New Website and Database Launched
- Death Penalty Related Blogs
- RESOURCES: DePaul University College of Law Offers Death Penalty Resources
- NEW RESOURCES: The Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project
- NEW RESOURCE: New Government Web Site Promotes DNA Technology to "Protect the Innocent"
- Death Penalty Related Web Sites
Religion
- NEW VOICES: Cost and Impact on Victims' Families Among Concerns for Conservative Christians
- BOOKS: "Where Justice and Mercy Meet: Catholic Opposition to the Death Penalty"
- PUBLIC OPINION: American Values Survey Shows Even Split on Death Penalty, with More Catholics Opposed
- MENTAL ILLNESS: Evangelical Leaders Call for Mercy for Condemned Inmate
- NEW VOICES: Philadelphia Archbishop Denounces Death Penalty and Urges Clemency for Terrance Williams
- PUBLIC OPINION: Public Finds Death Penalty Less Morally Acceptable in New Gallup Survey
- NEW VOICES: Texas's Baptist Standard Advocates Ending Death Penalty
- BOOKS: "The Inferno: A Southern Morality Tale"
- RELIGIOUS VIEWS: "Diminishing All of Us: The Death Penalty In Louisiana"
- New Civic and Religious Coalition Challenges Exclusion from Jury Service
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Student Resources
- BOOKS: "The Death Penalty In a Nutshell"
- NEW RESOURCES: DPIC's Award-Winning Curriculum Now Available as an Apple iBook
- RESOURCES: Online Educational Curricula for High School and College Students
- NEW RESOURCES: DPIC Launches Revised College Curriculum
- NEW RESOURCES: DPIC's Latest Podcast Addresses Death Row Conditions and Related Issues
- NEW RESOURCES: DPIC Podcast Covers Legal Process
- NEW RESOURCES: New Database for International Death Penalty
- RESOURCES: Free Online Educational Curricula for High School and College Students
- Student Resources News and Developments - Previous Years
- Student Resources News and Developments: 2007
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Studies
- BOOKS: "Women Who Kill Men"--An Historical and Social Analysis
- INTERNATIONAL: New Report Examines Countries That Have Abandoned Death Penalty
- NEW RESOURCES: "Death Row USA" Winter 2013 Now Available
- NEW VOICES: PBS Airing of "The Central Park Five" Underscores Problem of Innocence
- STUDIES: "The Death Penalty in Japan"
- STUDIES: Amnesty International Reports Continued Movement Away from Capital Punishment
- INNOCENCE: Update of National Registry of Exonerations Shows Increased Cooperation from Prosecutors
- NEW RESOURCES: State Graphs Showing the Decline in Death Sentences
- RACE: New Study Shows Racial Bias in Seeking the Death Penalty in Harris County
- STUDIES: Six-Part Series Explores Mental Illness and the Death Penalty in Texas
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Testimony, Resolutions, Statements, & Speeches
- Colorado Governor Indefinitely Stays Execution Over Concerns About Flawed System
- BOOKS: Gil Wanger's Lifetime of Work Against Capital Punishment
- INTERNATIONAL: U.N. Death Penalty Resolution Backed by Record Number of Countries
- INTERNATIONAL: UN Investigator Claims Executions are Increasingly Viewed as Torture Around the World
- NEW VOICES: Kentucky Human Rights Commission Recommends Death Penalty Abolition
- LETHAL INJECTION: Manufacturer of Proposed Execution Drug Blocks Its Use
- DEATH ROW: Former Texas Death Row Inmate Testifies at Congressional Hearings on Solitary Confinement
- RELIGIOUS VIEWS: Over 150 Catholic Theologians Call for Repeal of the Death Penalty
- Pennsylvania Cost Commission to Consider Expensive Death Penalty System
- NEW VOICES: Medical Society of New Jersey Urges AMA to Oppose Death Penalty
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