Publications & Testimony

Testimony and Statements on the Death Penalty

FROM DPIC

For testimony by Executive Director Robert Dunham and former Executive Director Richard C. Dieter, please visit our page DPIC Testimony.

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FROM RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND ORGANIZATIONS

• Religious Views: Over 150 Catholic Theologians Call for Repeal of the Death Penalty (September 27, 2011)
• Power Over Life and Death - The Power to Save a Life (January 15, 2005)
• Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Restoration: A Catholic Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice (November 2000)
• The Challenge of Holiness: A Sermon on the Death Penalty (January 10, 2000)
• General Assembly of the Texas Conference of Churches - Resolution Opposing the Death Penalty (February 24, 1998)
• Statement by Catholic Bishops of Texas on Capital Punishment (October 20, 1997)
• Catholic Church Expresses Strong Opposition to Capital Punishment in Catechism (September 9, 1997)
• Catholic Bishops of Iowa Issue Statement on Death Penalty (February 4, 1998)
• To End the Death Penalty: A Report of the National Jewish/Catholic Consultation
• Transcript of Dr. Pat Robertson’s Speech on the Role of Religion and the Death Penalty at The College of William and Mary
• Collection of Official Catholic Statements on the Death Penalty (1980)

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FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

• Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the 400th execution in Texas from the Council of the European Union (August 21, 2007)
• Resolution Supporting Worldwide Moratorium on Executions from the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (April 1999)
• Mary Robinson, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights - Message to the Press Conference organized by the Death Penalty Information Center for the release of the report, “International Perspectives on the Death Penalty” (October 12, 1999)
• Status of the International Covenants on Human Rights from the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (April 1998)

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FROM ADVOCACY GROUPS

• Florida League of Women Voters Calls for Halt to Executions (May 28, 2007)
• Victims Organizations Issue Joint Statement for National Victims' Rights Week (April 19, 2007)

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FROM JUDGES, LEGISLATORS, AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

• Resolution Supporting Repeal of the Death Penalty, National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators (August 11, 2016)
• Resolution Supporting Abolition of the Death Penalty, Natl. Assoc. of Black Psychologists (2012)
• The Road to Justice and Peace by New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak (February 1, 2009)
• Statement On The Federal Death Penalty System by Senator Feingold (June 7, 2001)
• Statement on the Need for a Federal Moratorium on the Death Penalty Senator Feingold (October 29, 2000)
• Death Penalty: The Torah and Today (August 23, 2000)
• Press Release for Senator Russ Feingold’s Introduction of Senate’s First Death Penalty Moratorium Bill (April 20, 2000)
• Amnesty International Southern Regional Conference: Orlando, Florida Remarks by Former Florida Chief Justice Gerald Kogan (October 23, 1999)
• American Bar Association Resolution on the Death Penalty (February 3, 1997)