Abolish the Death Penalty
| Amnesty International - State of Death Penalty Report 2017 (March 2018) |
| Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Execution Procedure Manual (July 2012) |
| University of Texas School of Law - Texas Death Row Designed to Break You (March 2016) |
| Texas Defender Service - Lethally Deficient Direct Appeals in Texas Death Penalty Cases (Sept 2016) |
| David Grann - Trial by Fire Did Texas execute an innocent man Cameron Todd Willingham (Sept 2009) |
| The New Yorker - The Legacy of Lynching on Death Row (August 2016) |
| American Bar Associaton - Severe Mental Illness & DeathPenalty (2016) |
Links to Death Penalty Organizations
World Coalition Against Death Penalty
www.worldcoalition.org
www.worldcoalition.org
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
General information about the death penalty in Houston and around the state can be found at the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty website. The most recent TCADP newsletter is available at TCADP Newsletter and its most recent Annual Report is available.
General information about the death penalty in Houston and around the state can be found at the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty website. The most recent TCADP newsletter is available at TCADP Newsletter and its most recent Annual Report is available.
Amnesty International
Click here for more information about Amnesty International's efforts to eliminate the death penalty
Amnesty International USA
Death Penalty in numbers
Click here for more information about Amnesty International's efforts to eliminate the death penalty
Amnesty International USA
Death Penalty in numbers
Important Annual Dates to Commemorate
January 17 – Anniversary of the Resumption of Executions in the US – Gary Gilmore executed in Utah. Mode of execution – Firing Squad
March 1 – International Death Penalty Abolition Day – Anniversary of Michigan becoming the first English Speaking territory to abolish the death penalty in 1847
June 29 – July 2 – Annual Fast and Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
June 29 – Anniversary of Furman v. Georgia decision in 1972. US Supreme Court found death penalty to be arbitrary and capricious. 600 were had their sentences commuted to life.
July 2 – Anniversary of Gregg v. Georgia decision in 1976 allowing the resumption of the death penalty in the US
December 7 – On December 7, 1982, Charlie Brooks was the first person executed by the State of Texas under its revised statute – and the first person executed by lethal injection. His execution ushered in a new era in which Texas emerged as the uncontested leader in the use of the death penalty in the United States.
More links:
Death Penalty Information Center
Texas Moratorium Network
Innocence Project
Recommended readings:
The Biblical Truth About America’s Death Penalty, Dale Recinella
Among the Lowest of the Dead: David von Drehle
In Spite of Innocence, Hugo Adam Bedau, Michael Radelet
Dead Man Walking: Sister Helen Prejean
Live from Death Row, Mumia Abu Jamal
The Death of Innocents, Sister Helen Prejean
Executed on a Technicality, David Dow
The Death Penalty In America: Hugo Adam Bedau
The Rope, the Chair & the Needle, Marquart, Ekland-Olson, Sorensen
Living Next Door to the Death House, Owens, Owens
Debating the Death Penalty, Bedau, Cassell
Who Owns Death?, Lifton, Mitchell
Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow
January 17 – Anniversary of the Resumption of Executions in the US – Gary Gilmore executed in Utah. Mode of execution – Firing Squad
March 1 – International Death Penalty Abolition Day – Anniversary of Michigan becoming the first English Speaking territory to abolish the death penalty in 1847
June 29 – July 2 – Annual Fast and Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
June 29 – Anniversary of Furman v. Georgia decision in 1972. US Supreme Court found death penalty to be arbitrary and capricious. 600 were had their sentences commuted to life.
July 2 – Anniversary of Gregg v. Georgia decision in 1976 allowing the resumption of the death penalty in the US
December 7 – On December 7, 1982, Charlie Brooks was the first person executed by the State of Texas under its revised statute – and the first person executed by lethal injection. His execution ushered in a new era in which Texas emerged as the uncontested leader in the use of the death penalty in the United States.
More links:
Death Penalty Information Center
Texas Moratorium Network
Innocence Project
Recommended readings:
The Biblical Truth About America’s Death Penalty, Dale Recinella
Among the Lowest of the Dead: David von Drehle
In Spite of Innocence, Hugo Adam Bedau, Michael Radelet
Dead Man Walking: Sister Helen Prejean
Live from Death Row, Mumia Abu Jamal
The Death of Innocents, Sister Helen Prejean
Executed on a Technicality, David Dow
The Death Penalty In America: Hugo Adam Bedau
The Rope, the Chair & the Needle, Marquart, Ekland-Olson, Sorensen
Living Next Door to the Death House, Owens, Owens
Debating the Death Penalty, Bedau, Cassell
Who Owns Death?, Lifton, Mitchell
Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow