Articles
of Interest
BOSTON GLOBE Op-ed:
April 25, 2008
On capital punishment, a message for all
NEARLY THREE decades ago Massachusetts abolished the death penalty.
The Commonwealth did not rush to judgment. For more than 300 years the
state executed men and women convicted of murder. [continued]
BOSTON GLOBE Editorial:
February 25, 2008
Capital cases in kangaroo courts
EARLIER this month, the Bush administration decided to seek the death penalty against six suspects in the Sept. 11 plot - and to do so in the kangaroo courts that it calls military tribunals. [continued]
New York Times Editorial:
Unnecessary Harm
The trials of six detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, will proceed under deeply flawed procedures that violate this country’s basic fairness.
February 13, 2008 [download as pdf]
New Yorker Magazine: Annals of Law
Death In Georgia
The high price of trying to save an infamous killer’s life.
by Jeffrey Toobin
February 4, 2008 [download as pdf]
Testimony of Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty
James Rooney, President MCADP
November 7, 2007
Representative Steve D'Amico's
maiden speech, delivered at the
November 2007 legislative debate on the death penalty.
The
Republican
House rejects death penalty
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Boston Globe June 22, 2007
Letter to the Editor:
An Associated Press article the Boston Globe printed on June 11, 2007 claimed that various studies show that each execution prevents from 3 to 18 murders.
What the article fails to mention is that straightforward comparisons of murder rates between death penalty and non-death penalty states have consistently failed to find any deterrent effect at all from capital punishment. The studies purporting to find such a link use far more complicated economic models based on tenuous assumptions about what murder rates would be if executions had not happened. With their wildly varying results, how valid can such studies be? In the death penalty debate, it makes more sense to rely on the real world numbers than questionable hypothetical scenarios.
James P. Rooney
Herbert
and Sara Ehrmann
Awards Ceremony
Photo Gallery
March 2007
Georgia Murder Case’s Cost Saps Public Defense System
Attorney General, Capital Punishment
December 2006
Jeb Bush calls temporary halt to death penalty in Florida after botched execution.
Boston Globe Editorial, December 19, 2006
Rethinking the death penalty
The Florida Death Penalty and the
Race for the Massachusetts Governor
The Moussaoui Verdict
Lethal Injection
Book Reviews:
Ultimate Punishment:
A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
by Scott Turow
See photos from the 2006 Ehrmann Award Ceremony, presented to Scott Turow.
Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row
by David R. Dow
The Demise of the Scientific Death Penalty
by James P. Rooney
Ross Execution Postscript
An
OpEd re: Ross Execution by MCADP board member James Rooney (written prior to the execution)
Hear
an interview with MCADP's Executive Director Martina Jackson
Boston.com
/ News / NECN / NECN Shows
New
juries must weigh sentence in capital case
Boston
Globe| November 5, 2004
History
of the Death Penalty in Massachusetts
Bishop
O'Malley's pastoral letter on capital punishment:
The
Gospel of Life vs. The Death Penalty
Most Rev. Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap., Bishop of Fall River,
February 25, 1999
A
lesson for Massachusetts: The Illinois Example
Death
penalty's price too high, and there's proof
Chicago Tribune March 9, 2003
Gary
Sampson: The Case Against Federalization
Sniper
Shootings
For
First Time Since 1976, Drop in Inmates on Death Row
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, New York Times 12/16/02
Death
Penalty Reexamined
New York Times Editorial 2/23/2002
TRANSCRIPT
OF REMARKS GIVEN BY DAVID HOOSE AT EHRMANN AWARDS ON MAY 14, 2001
MCADP
Literature:
MCADP
Brochure
Newsletter
– Winter 2000
Newsletter
– Winter 2001
Newsletter
– Fall 2002
Newsletter
– Fall 2003
Available
in pdf format only. The Acrobat Reader, available free from Adobe.com,
is required.
Dissent
Magazine
Summer
2001 issue (available through Archive link) features Criminal
Injustice.
House
shoots down proposal to bring back death penalty
Boston Herald
On
March 12, 2001 the Massachusetts House of Representatives voted
resoundingly (officially 94-60, with 5 absent and one seat vacant)
against reinstatement of the death penalty.
Robert F Kennedy Reflecting
upon Rev. King's killing:
On the Mindless Menace of Violence
Cleveland
April 5, 1968
Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Indianapolis,
April 4, 1968
Death
Penalty Information Center
Recent
Deterence Studies
recent studies on deterrence throwing further doubt on
any deterrent effect from sentencing people to death or actual
executions (but finding support for the brutalization effect)
A
Watershed Year of Change
DPIC's Year End Report on the death penalty in 2000
The
Case for Innocence
A PBS Frontline Special Report
The
Executioner's Song Can Last for Years
Newsweek
June 4, 2000
The
Case Against the Death Penalty
by Hugo Adam Bedau
10/28/99
