Publications & Testimony

ACLU Report on International Implications of Capital Punishment in the…

Groups Issue Report on Women Facing…

Military Death Sentence…

For the First Time, No Death Sentences in Chicago in…

Juveniles and the Mentally Disabled More Likely to Give False…

Bill Kurtis Describes His Shift on the Death…

Article Examines Statistical Models of Measuring Deterrence In the July 2004 Skeptical Enquirer, Rutgers Sociology pro­fes­sor Ted Goertzel exam­ines the meth­ods — and the vari­ant results that emerge — used in study­ing the deter­rent effect of exe­cu­tions on homi­cide. Read the article…

Kansas Death Penalty Advisory Committee Releases…

Broken System: Error Found in Three-Quarters of New Jersey Death Cases Of the 63 death sen­tences hand­ed down since New Jersey rein­stat­ed cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in 1982, 47 have been over­turned, includ­ing that of Robert Marshall, whose death sen­tence was reversed on April 8^th by a fed­er­al court. Marshall had been on New Jersey’s death row longer than any oth­er inmate pri­or to the vacat­ing of his sen­tence. New Jersey has not car­ried out an exe­cu­tion since bring­ing back the…

A new report by the ACLU’s Capital Punishment Project dis­cuss­es the United States’ posi­tion on the death penal­ty in the face of inter­na­tion­al con­cerns regard­ing this prac­tice. The report, How the Death Penalty Weakens U.S. International Interests, notes that many oth­er nations are mov­ing toward abo­li­tion of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment and are crit­i­cal of spe­cif­ic aspects of the death penal­ty in the U.S. Among the top­ics fea­tured in this resource are the ongo­ing inter­na­tion­al efforts to abolish…