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On the internet you will find many websites with information
about capital punishment and prisoners in the United States. On this page
we present a few. Inside-Outside is not affiliated whatsoever with the websites
we have links to. A link on this page does not imply we agree or disagree
with the contents of the webpage.
Unless otherwise indicated, the links are to websites in the english language.
New links are indicated by a red dot:
CATEGORIES
Organisations
Organisations concerning human rights, inmates and capital punishment |
Research/Statistics
Research and figures on criminality and (capital) punishment in the United States.
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Lists
Lists of (death row) inmates in the U.S. and scheduled executions.
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Personal websites
Some inmates have websites dedicated to them.
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Official organisations
Official (american) organisation dealing with law and justice.
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News-links
Publications in the media and relevant links.
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Action/Petitions
Online petitions concerning imates and their situations.
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Miscellaenious
Websites which do not fit in another category.
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Organisations
http://www.un.org/
Website of the United Nations. On their website you will also find the
universal declaration of human rights: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
http://www.amnesty.org
The international homepage of Amnesty International. On their site you
will also find:
http://www.humanwrites.org/
Website of Human Writes. An english organisation doing similar work as Inside-Outside. They introduce themselves as:
Whilst everyone involved with Human Writes is obviously against the death penalty,
it is not a campaigning or political group. Other organisations such as Amnesty
International have the resources and experience to do this much better than we could.
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We simply exist to give our friendship and support to people who are on death row,
whether they are guilty or innocent.
http://www.lifespark.org/
Website of Lifespark. A Swiss organisation which describe their mission as:
LIFESPARK seeks to build a powerful organization of abolitionists. Internationally
we work with official humanitarian groups and religious bodies to develop strategies
and to promote anti-death penalty activism. At the grassroots level, the project
links with individuals and humanitarian groups, establishing relationships to
foster worldwide abolition effect.
http://www.CJReform.org/
Website of Campaign for Criminal Justice Reform. The organisation introduces itself as
follows:
The Campaign for Criminal Justice Reform, (CCJR), brings to the attention both
of American citizens and of legislators at state and federal levels the far too
dramatic gaps that still exist between American principles of justice and the
American practice of the criminal justice system in daily life.
http://home.kc.rr.com/wmcadp/
Website van Western Missouri Coalition to Abolish Death Penalty. An organisation
from Missouri against capital punishment.
http://www.hrw.org/
Website of Human Rights Watch. An independent american organisation doing research and publishing about human right all over the world.
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Research/Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
Website of US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. A lot of justice-related statistics, also about executions
http://www.cis.smu.edu/~deathpen/
Website with execution-statistics and also an overview of sceduled executions.
http://www.osu.edu/researchnews/archive/racepnsh.htm
Prof. D. Jacobs and J. Carmichael Phd. of the Ohio State University did a research on the correlation
between the ethnical/economical ratios of a population in a state and the capital punishment. The results
are published in The American Sociological Review.
http://justice.policy.net/jpreport/
Prof. J. Liebman of the University of Columbia did a research on the
(mis)performance of a public prosecutor and the conviction. This research was based
on all completely finished capital punishment cases in de US between 1973 and 1995.
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Lists
http://www.smu.edu/~deathpen/pending.html
A list of all scheduled executions in the United States.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/activeinmates/deathrowroster.asp
A list of all death row inmates in the state of Florida, including photos and information
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/offendersondrow.htm
A list of all death row inmates in the state of Texas, including photos and information
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Personal websites
http://www.richie-rossi.net/
Website with a lot of articles written by death row inmate Richard Rossi.
http://www.deathrow.at/allridge/
A website with information on death row inmate James V. Allridge III
http://members.tripod.com/RobtShepherd/innocent.html
Information on death row inmate Rob T. Sheperd.
http://www.knoware.nl/users/annegr/deadman/talking.htm
A column on the internet by death row inmate Dean Carter.
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News-links
A lot of backgroundinformation and opinions about news in the media can be found
on the world wide web. Use a searchengine and search for relevant words. (http://www.searchengines.com/)
In the case Ring versus Arizona the US Supreme Court
decided that the jury, and not the judge, should sentence. This could have major implications
for those who where put on death row by a judge.
For more information on this:
In the Atkins v. Virginia No.00-8452 case, the
US Supreme Court abolished capital punishment for mentally retarded people. Mentally retarded people
will not get the death penalty when their IQ is lower than 70.
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Official Organisations
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
Website van het US Supreme Court
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Actions/Petitions
http://www.petitiononline.com/ecadp2/
A petition for better living conditions in Union Correctional Institution in Florida.
http://www.spr.org/
Violence and rape are not rare in american prisons. The
National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union
wants to take action en collects complaints from prisoners.
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Miscellaenious
http://www.searchengines.com/
If you are looking for information on the internet, you can use a search-engine , Google for instance .
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