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Find
the latest information on news on the status of the death penalty
and anti-death penalty news and action in Massachusetts, New England
and on the Federal level. Sign-up on the Massachusetts
Death Penalty E-mail Network (MADPEN)
list for daily email updates on Death Penalty issues in Massachusetts. |
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ACLU's
death penalty page |
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A great
resource for any kind of information regarding the death penalty
in the United States, including 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). |
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See
the Archives for the Summer 2001 Issue featuring Criminal Justice
with articles by
Paul Street:"Prisons and the New American Racism"
and
Gabrielle Banks: "When the Death Penalty hits Home"
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The
collection documents capital punishment in the United States
in the twentieth century, the activities of the American League
to
Abolish Capital Punishment and the Massachusetts Council to Abolish
the Death Penalty, and also SRE's work opposing capital punishment. |
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Victims Families for Human Rights |
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Murder
Victims’ Families for Human Rights is an international, non-governmental
organization of family members of victims of criminal murder, terrorist
killings, state executions, extrajudicial assassinations, and “disappearances”
working to oppose the death penalty from a human rights perspective.
Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights (MVFHR) blog, "For Victims Against the Death Penalty." Come visit us at http://www.mvfhr.blogspot.com
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Murder
Victims Families For Reconciliation, a national group of family
members of homicide victims who oppose the death penalty |
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The
Nation publishes a list of death row inmates scheduled for execution.
This grim calendar is a good reminder of how often this macabre
form of retribution is practiced currently in the U.S. And, please
take a moment to click on the inmate's name to send an e-mail to
his/her state's Governor requesting a stay on this execution and
a moratorium on all executions in the state. You can send a standardized
letter, which is provided, or write your own protest missive. |
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| Speaking
of Faith |
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National
Public Radio program
on the death penalty, available on line. |
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Resources
for keeping the death penalty out of Massachusetts