Welcome To AI - Dornbirn / Willkommen Bei Ai - Dornbirn Western Austrian branch focusing on capital punishment in the United States. Includes a collection of links to antideath penalty resources in German and English. http://members.magnet.at/ai.dornbirn/
Extractions: "Wherever capital punishment is in place, crucial bounds to the conscience of a people are missing. Bounds against the criminal perversion to simply step over human life." - Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Kadecka (1874 - 1964); Important Austrian lecturer of criminal law and judicial politician. "Humans are the only primates who willfully, extensively and enthusiastically perpetrate the killing of their own kind." - Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 1929); German lyricist and author. "Wo die Todesstrafe besteht, da fehlt dem Gewissen eines Volkes eine entscheidende Schranke gegen die verbrecherische Perversität, über menschliches Leben hinwegzuschreiten." - Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Kadecka (bedeutender österreichischer Strafrechtslehrer und Rechtspolitiker / 1874 - 1964) "Der Mensch ist der einzige unter den Primaten, der die Tötung seiner Artgenossen planvoll, in größerem Maßstab und enthusiastisch betreibt." - Hans Magnus Enzensberger (deutscher Lyriker & Schriftsteller / geb. 1929) Amnesty International - Group 5 of the Austrian Section has been established on March 3, 1972
Illinois Coalition To Abolish The Death Penalty Focused on educating the public about the flaws and injustices in the state's capital punishment system and promoting humane alternatives to the punitive death penalty system. Events calendar, news, and contacts are provided. http://www.icadp.org/
Extractions: The Death Penalty Welcome to the web site of the Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Founded in 1976, we are a grassroots membership organization committed to educating the public about the flaws and injustices in the Illinois capital punishment system and promoting humane alternatives to the punitive death penalty system. On this site, you will find many opportunities to get involved in the historic struggle to end the use of the death penalty and a listing of upcoming events and activities. The Coalition is available for speaking engagements and can provide informational materials to your organization. Together, we can end the death penalty! To sign up for monthly
Tcask :: Promoting Alternatives To The Death Penalty Organized to oppose capital punishment. Includes information about chapters around the state, organization activities, and news and information related to the death penalty. http://www.tcask.org/
News And Information About Capital Punishment ReligiousTolerance.org s capital punishment Page Look here for information, proand con, about the death penalty, and its religious factors. http://usconservatives.about.com/od/deathpenalty/
Extractions: zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Conservative Politics: U.S. Death Penalty Conservative Politics Essentials What is the Filibuster? Partisan Demographics ... Help zau(256,140,140,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/C.htm','');w(xb+xb+' ');zau(256,140,140,'von','http://z.about.com/0/ip/496/7.htm','');w(xb+xb); Sign Up Now for the Conservative Politics: U.S. newsletter! See Online Courses Search Conservative Politics: U.S. Provided are links and articles on capital punishment. Alphabetical Recent Kansas Supremes Knock Down Death Penalty, Order New Trials The Kansas Supreme Court in December overturned the death penalty there and set aside death sentences. The ruling reportedly doesn't prohibit the death penalty outright but instead disapproves of how the legislature wrote the 1994 death-penalty law. A link to the 4-3 decision is included. Death Penalty Information Center This site serves as a clearinghouse for death-penalty related information. Prodeathpenalty.org
TCADP Inclusive organization composed of human rights activists, death row prisoners and their families, crime victims and their families, persons working within the criminal justice system, persons opposed to capital punishment on religious and moral grounds, and other concerned citizens. Includes membership form, facts and figures, current news, and events. http://www.tcadp.org/
Extractions: Info TCADP Newsletter Fall 2005 Donate to TCADP ... Boycott Texas! Click Here for general information and a flyer for distribution on the Journey of Hope. Tentative Schedule Click Here for information on participating in the Journey in Texas , from October 14-30, 2005. Click Here to download the registration form to participate in the Texas Journey.
Southern Center For Human Rights - Menu Page Advocacy group created to address human rights concerns in the southeast, particularly surrounding improper incarceration and capital punishment. Contains information about the death penalty, human rights and equality in justice. http://www.schr.org/
Extractions: Southern Center for Human Rights 83 Poplar Street, N.W., Atlanta, GA 30303-2122 Telephone (404) 688-1202 Fax (404) 688-9440 Email Life is the great primary and most precious and comprehensive of all human rights . . . whether it be coupled with virtue honor, and happiness, or with sin, disgrace and misery, the continued possession of it is rightfully not a matter of volition; . . . [it is not] to be deliberately or voluntarily destroyed, either by individuals separately, or combined in what is called Government. - Frederick Douglass About the Center Latest News Death Penalty ... Frederick Douglass Awards Dinner November 3, 2005 in Washington, D.C. Inmates crammed into cells at the Morgan County Jail, in Decatur, Alabama. A federal judge said in April, 2001, that "[t]he sardine can appearance of its cell units more nearly resemble the holding units of slave ships during the middle passage of the eighteenth century than anything in the twenty-first century." The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of any country. A calm, dispassionate recognition of the rights of the accused and even of the convicted criminal, ... [and] the treatment of crime and the criminal mark and measure the stored-up strength of a nation, and are the sign and proof of the living virtue within it.
Extractions: cnnSiteWideCurrDate = new Date(2005, 8, 19); International Edition Member Services Home Page World ... Special var clickExpire = "-1"; Court accepts cases for session Legacy: William H. Rehnquist Scenarios: Choosing a nominee Gallery: Confirmation explainer Special Report Supreme Court Capital Punishment or Create Your Own Manage Alerts What Is This? CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens steered the debate over President Bush's nominee to a new subject capital punishment sharply condemning the country's death penalty system. The court has been closely divided in death row cases, with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor often in the middle. President Bush's choice to replace her, John Roberts, has a limited track record. Roberts, 50, showed little sympathy for prisoner appeals as a government lawyer in the Reagan administration, but later did free legal work for a death row inmate. In a February 1983 memo while serving in the Reagan White House, Roberts suggested that the high court could cut its caseload by "abdicating the role of fourth or fifth guesser in death penalty cases."
Jonathan P Sydnor's Home Page This research project provides a history of capital punishment in Texas during the tenure of Gov. Bush. It addresses such controversial subjects as the execution of juveniles, the mentally retarded, the mentally ill, and the innocent. http://www2.bc.edu/~sydnor/
Extractions: THE TEXAS DEATH PENALTY UNDER GOVERNOR GEORGE W. BUSH by Rev. Jon Paul Sydnor How Many Innocent People Did He Execute? The Texas Death Penalty Under Governor George W. Bush is an exhaustive research project. The findings of the research project are documented and all factual claims are sourced. Footnotes substantiate the history and allow for further research by those who are interested. My background is academic, and the project is academic in nature. Due to the claims of the investigation my credentials may be a point of consideration. Credentials of the author Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy, University of Virginia, 1991 Vice-President of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1990-1991 Vice-Chair for Trials of the Honor Committee, 1990-1991 Peace Corps Volunteer, Poland, 1992-1994 Volunteer in Mission, Presbyterian Border Ministry, 1996 Master of Divinity, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1999 Master of Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary, 2000 Ph.D. Candidate in Systematic Theology, Boston College, 2001-present
Extractions: dictionary WASHINGTON (CNN) A new academic study warns that "serious, reversible errors" in cases involving capital punishment are crippling the U.S. legal system. The report, released Monday by a group of Columbia University law professors, updates a 2000 study that warned more than seven of every 10 death penalty cases between 1973 and 1995 were reversed because of errors made by judges, juries and prosecutors. The professors said their study is not designed to present a moral argument for or against capital punishment. They said they're concerned about the failure of the current system to perform the way it should. The latest study found a correlation between the number of cases eligible for the death penalty and the risk of legal mistakes. "It puts you at very high risk of having high error rates," said study author and Columbia law professor James Liebman. "It also puts you at high risk of sentencing people to death who will later turn out to be innocent."
Extractions: ATLANTA (CNN) More than 600 prisoners have been executed in the United States since the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for states to resume using the death penalty in 1976. Public support for capital punishment remains strong, according to polls, and states have taken action to increase the number of executions within the last decade. U.S. policy toward capital punishment offers a stark contrast to other developed nations.
Fight The Death Penalty In USA Danish website about the American capital punishment system. Articles and information plus writings from a Texas death row inmate. http://www.fdp.dk/
Extractions: This website is dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty in the USA. It is not run by an organization, just by me, and I hope that you will find it useful and that it will provide you some food for thought, even if you are a proponent for the death penalty or you oppose it like I do. Anyway: Welcome and enjoy the stay here.
Death Penalty Debate - Politics And Economy - CBC Archives Audio and video links from the CBC Archives capture key events in the history of the capital punishment issue in Canada. http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-73-625/politics_economy/death_penalty/
Extractions: "You shall be hanged by the neck until you are dead." A judge has uttered these words to 1,300 Canadians. More than 700 of them actually went to the gallows before Canada abolished capital punishment in 1976. But opinions on the noose have tended to shift over time. Protests in the 1960s were met with questions about preventing the murder of police officers and prison guards. Today, the debate is ongoing, especially for multiple murderers like Clifford Olson and Paul Bernardo.
The Death Penalty (A Christian Defense) - SilasPartners.com Artible by Tom Flannery argues that governments have the moral authority and obligation to execute capital punishment. http://www.christianity.com/CC/article/1,1183,PTID1000|CHID|CIID132640,00.html
Extractions: Still, error rates are only one argument used by opponents of capital punishment. They also claim that the death penalty is not a deterrent to murder, and they reject the notion that swiftly executing convicted murderers would reduce the nation's homicide rates. But this argument ignores an abundance of clear and compelling evidence to the contrary. A recent piece by William Tucker in The New York Post traced the direct relationship between the use of capital punishment and low national homicide rates from the 1930s until the Supreme Court effectively abolished the death penalty in 1963, when murder rates almost immediately began to soar. The rates of executions and homicides have moved in tandem from 1963 to today. He concluded: "If murders and executions had followed the same pattern established before the effective abolition of the death penalty, more than half a million American lives could have been saved." No wonder Solomon wrote thousands of years ago under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit: "Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil" (Eccles. 8:11).
Capital Punishment In Canada Essay advocating a referendum on the death penalty. http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/guadelupe/435/essay2.html
Extractions: web hosting domain names photo sharing Capital Punishment in Canada Capital punishment is the execution of criminals by the state for committing crimes that are regarded so heinous that this is the only acceptable punishment. Capital Punishment deters murder, and is just retribution. Capital punishment not only lowers the homicide rate, but its value as retribution alone is a good reason for handing out death sentences. Support for the death penalty in the U.S. has risen to an average of 80% according to an article written by Richard Worsnop, entitled "Death penalty debate centres on Retribution." This figure is slightly lower in Canada where support for the death penalty is at 72% of the population over 18 years of age, as stated in an article by Kirk Makir, in the March 26, 1987 edition of the Globe and Mail, entitled "B.C. MPs split on Death Penalty." The death penalty deters murder by injecting the fear of execution into potential killers. People are less likely to do something illegal if they think that harm will come to themselves. Let us now focus on Canada. The last two people to be executed in Canada were Arthur Lucas and Ron Turpin. They were executed on December 11, 1962. These executions in Canada were carried out by hanging.
The Death Penalty An essay that considers capital punishment to be inhumane. The foundation for the this thesis is that a criminal suffers the same way an innocent person suffers, and in that context to cause suffering without purpse, especially when a jail is sufficient to protect the public, is humane. http://www.punkerslut.com/articles/deathpenalty.html
Extractions: Main Books Essays Critiques ... Links The Death Penalty By Punkerslut [Author's Note: I started writing this 9/13/01, but finished it Sunday, December 9, 2001.] [PUBLIC DOMAIN] Once again, I have felt that this issue is so in need of attention that I have made this article public domain. This article may be reproduced in part, or in whole, electronically, on paper, or digitally, without cost or permission. -Punkerslut Thirty eight states allow the death penalty and twelve states disallow the death penalty. Like abortion, it is a hotly debated issue. The primary problem with the Death Penalty as it stands today is that it results in executing many innocents. In 1915, Joe Hill was executed and was later proven innocent. There are obviously major flaws with the system as it stands. To quote a qualified source in regards to Capital Punishment... Whether you support or oppose capital punishment, there is mounting evidence that the system is broken. A review of death penalty judgments over a 23-year period found a national error rate of 68 %. In a matter of life and death, we are getting it wrong more than 2 out of every 3 times. We need a moratorium on executions to give us time to figure out why the system is not working. [*1] *1. ACLU.
MINISTER'S STATEMENT ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Anne McLellan responds to the Canadian Police Association's call for reinstatement of the death penalty in Canada. http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/news/nr/1997/deathp.html
Extractions: Department of Justice MINISTER'S STATEMENT ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Ottawa, August 29, 1997 In response to the resolution passed by the Canadian Police Association today calling for the return of the death penalty in certain cases, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Anne McLellan, issued the following statement: "Capital punishment has been debated and voted on in free votes in the House of Commons twice in the past two decades. In 1976, Parliament voted to abolish capital punishment and in 1987 Parliament voted against reinstating it. It is not the intention of the Government of Canada to reinstate the death penalty," said Minister McLellan. Ref.: Pierre Gratton Minister's Office (613) 992-4621 Aboriginal Justice Strategy Child Support Family Law Assistance Services Parenting After Divorce ... More... Last Updated: 2003-04-24 Important Notices
