Death Penalty

Links which treat capital punishment from a wide variety of perspectives.
 
The Death Penalty: Pro and Con  A debate between legal and social theorists on capital punishment. It contains some good insights which explain the assumptions underlying the abolitionist and retentionist positions. Where the Court TV web site presents largely unbiased information, the PBS web site presents a balanced debate.
UAA Justice Center: Focus on the Death Penalty A balanced links page, with the focus on the issue of capital punishment in the state of Alaska.
Capital Punishment: Facts and Arguments A discussion of facts and evidence regarding capital punishment, by a contributor to the Ethical Spectacle.
CJBS: Capital Punishment An academic study of various factors and opinions which incline people to favour or oppose capital punishment.
Death Penalty Information Center The death penalty information center presents a large body of information from a generally abolitionist perspective.
Death Penalty Information Capital punishment information from the American Society of Criminology.
Centre for Religious Tolerance This web site refers to the child murders in Robin Hood Hills, West Memphis, Arkansas. This case raises substantial freedom of religion issues.
Free Mumia Abu Jamal This page focuses on the Philadelphia activist who is on Death Row after an extremely questionable trial for the murder of a policeman (his gun was never tested to determine if it had been fired, the bullet was originally described as being a different caliber than the gun, the police alleged an emergency room confession while a cop whose report stated that Jamal had made no statement in the emergency room left the city during the trial and did not testify). Mr. Abu-Jamal's detractors have countered with their own web site here

For the closest approximation of an unbiased presentation of the facts, please see the crime guide at the Mining Co.