About Capital Punishment.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN CALIFORNIA

From the California Department
of Corrections & Rehabilitation Website

History of Capital Punishment in California

Abolition.org
The Abolitionist Action Committee is an ad-hoc group of individuals committed to highly visible and effective public education for alternatives to the death penalty through nonviolent direct action.

ACLU
American Civil Liberties Union advocates against the death penalty, the greatest denial of civil liberties.

AmnestyInternational.org
Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty looks to end the cycle of violence created by a system riddled with economic and racial bias and tainted by human error.

CaliforniaMoratorium.org
A coalition of diverse groups working for a time-out on executions and a study of the death penalty in California. The coalition was founded in 2001 after more than 100 people had been released from death rows across the nation after having been found wrongfully convicted.

Campaign To End The Death Penalty
A national grassroots organization of activists dedicated to stopping individual executions and abolishing capital punishment for good in the U.S.

Catholics Against Capital Punishment
Stay up-to-date with the Catholic church's latest efforts to have the death penalty abolished.

Death Row - San Quentin
Everything you ever wanted to know about San Quentin (visiting hours, baseball team, articles by Death Row inmates, news stories, etc.).

DeathPenaltyInfo.org
The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment.

Fight The Death Penalty In The USA
This website is dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty in the USA.

Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch opposes capital punishment in all circumstances because of its cruel and inhumane nature. The cornerstone of human rights is respect for the inherent dignity of all human beings and the inviolability of the human person. These principles cannot be reconciled with the death penalty, a form of punishment that is unique in its barbarity and finality.

NCADP.org
National Coalition To Abolish The Death Penalty.

ReligiousTolerance.org
Christian anti-death penalty website. Lots of links and interesting facts and information.

Reprieve.org.uk
Reprieve provides effective legal representation and humanitarian assistance to impoverished people facing the death penalty.

San Quentin
Among the interesting facts on this page is that the prison was designed to hold 3,317 but the actual current population is 5,967.

Truth In Justice
Truth in Justice is an educational non-profit organized to educate the public regarding the vulnerabilities in the U. S. criminal justice system that make the criminal conviction of wholly innocent persons possible.

Virtual Tour of Death Row
Provided by the Florida Department of Corrections.