innocence project @ scotus

"In March, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in an Innocence Project case seeking DNA testing for a client in Alaska who was convicted of rape and attempted murder 15 years ago.

The Innocence Project filed its brief with the Supreme Court this week, arguing that the U.S. Constitution allows prisoners access to DNA testing that could prove their innocence. In the vast majority of cases, prisoners are granted DNA testing under state law or because prosecutors consent to DNA testing without a court order — but Alaska is the exception. It is one of only six states without a law granting access to DNA testing, and it is the only state in the nation with no known cases of prisoners receiving DNA testing, either through a court order or a prosecutor’s consent.

Suing in federal court is the only option for Innocence Project client William Osborne to get the DNA testing he says will prove his innocence. Last year, a federal appeals court ruled that Osborne had the right to testing, but the state of Alaska appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where Innocence Project Co-Director Peter Neufeld will argue the case on March 2."

"corrections funds vanish in madoff scandal"

Stateline.org Where Policy & POlitics Click - Corrections funds vanish in Madoff scandal [By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer. (Wednesday, January 28, 2009)

The $50 billion Ponzi scheme that Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff is accused of orchestrating has stunned many state corrections officials — and not simply because of the magnitude of the alleged crime.

Among the funds lost in the scandal, it has emerged, were millions of dollars earmarked for corrections-related projects in the states, ranging from post-conviction DNA testing for inmates in Texas to housing assistance for ex-convicts in Kansas.

The money belonged to the JEHT Foundation, a New York-based charity that has provided tens of millions of dollars in grants to state and local governments, nonprofit organizations and other groups working for progressive corrections reforms.

The 9-year-old foundation, whose name stands for Justice, Equality, Human dignity and Tolerance, invested heavily with Madoff, and will shut its doors at the end of the month, its chief executive announced in a brief statement posted on the charity’s Web site.

Madoff was arrested by federal authorities in December amid allegations he carried out the largest individual financial fraud in history. The former money manager is accused of paying off existing investors with funds collected from new ones, rather than with actual returns.

The foundation’s sudden collapse has rocked the criminal justice reform community, from those advocating for looser criminal sentencing laws to those promoting expanded opportunities for inmates who have already served their time.

california prison health care in the news

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown will ask U.S. to end oversight of California prisons: Officials say receivership has become a government unto itself. Overseer says such action would prolong unnecessary deaths and suffering among inmates [By Michael Rothfeld (Los Angeles Times. January 28, 2009)]

grisham on the prison industrial complex

A Law Blog Q&A with John Grisham (WSJBlog posted January 27, 2009) " ... We have 2.5 million people in prison in this country. We’re not thinking. We’re warehousing these young black kids, we grind them through the mill for minor drug charges – or even, you know, more serious drug charges – and we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate them. But we spend only $8,000 a year to educate them. We’re not using our heads. It’s costing a fortune and nobody’s talking about it..."

"prison spending increased 127% from 1987 to 2007"

Strapped States Eye Prison Savings [Stateline.org. Jan. 26, 2009] ~ "Nationally, corrections trails only health care, education and transportation in consuming state dollars. Prison spending increased 127 percent from 1987 to 2007 [emphasis added], and at least five states — Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, Oregon and Vermont — now spend as much or more on corrections as they do on higher education, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers and the Public Safety Performance Project..."

supreme court cecisions (pdfs)

Source: U.S. Supreme Court - + Nelson v. U.S. (sentencing guidelines) + Van de Kamp v. Goldstein (habeas corpus) + Arizona v. Johnson (search and seizure) + U.S. v. Eurodif S.A. (trade and tariffs) + Kennedy v. Plan Administrator for DuPont Savings & Investment Plan (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) + Crawford v. Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn. (sexual harassment)

top 300 repositories

open access news ~ ranking the top 300 oa repositories: University of California eScholarship Repository is ranked 39th globally.

the search for obama's crime policy ...

Huffington Post. President Obama It's now safe to talk about Civil Rights [By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator] -- "... Obama pledged to take swift action on hate crimes, voting rights, employment discrimination, and the repressive drug laws on his campaign website [emphasis added]. Yet they never got off the campaign website and were virtually non existent as campaign talking points..."

what would china do to bernie madoff?

Cancelled luxury auto leases in the U.S. -- "Irving Picard, the trustee in the Madoff case, has asked a federal judge to cancel leases the firm had on six luxury cars, including three Mercedes and a Range Rover. Picard wrote that the vehicles “are of no use or value to the creditors” of the firm and he wanted to cancel the leases to minimize the costs of administration in this case...."

But in China, see prior post ...

i drink milk [teen idles]

China court sentences 2 to death over tainted milk scandal -- from JURIST by Christian Ehret [JURIST] A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced two people to death and several to life imprisonment for their involvement in the melamine-tainted milk scandal [JURIST news archive] that sickened almost 300,000 children and killed at least six. Chairwoman of the now-bankrupt [NYT report] Sanlu Group [Research and Markets profile] Tian Wenhua pleaded guilty [JURIST report] in December and received

preliminary semiannual uniform crime report

CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES - Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report (01.08 to 06.08): Preliminary figures indicate that, as a whole, law enforcement agencies throughout the Nation reported a decrease of 3.5 percent in the number of violent crimes brought to their attention for the first six months of 2008 when compared with figures reported for the same time in 2007. The violent crime category includes murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The number of property crimes in the United States from January to June of 2008 decreased 2.5 percent when compared with data from the same time period in 2007. Property crimes include burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. Arson is also a property crime, but data for arson are not included in property crime totals. Figures for 2008 indicate that arson decreased 5.6 percent in 2008 when compared to 2007 figures. Available @ http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/2008prelim/

[un]speedy

CRIMPROF BLOG - Speedy Trial Case Before Supreme Court This Week

After he was charged with hitting his girlfriend in the face, career criminal Michael Brillon sat in jail without bail for nearly three years, going through six public defenders before being tried for assault.

The delays paid off -- for Brillon, anyway: A Vermont court threw out his conviction and freed him from prison last spring, saying his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial had been violated.

Now, the U.S. Supreme Court is taking up the case, trying to decide whether delays caused by public defenders can deprive a criminal defendant of that right. In particular: Whether governments can be blamed for such delays because they're the ones who assign and pay the lawyers for indigent defendants.

Forty states and 15 organizations -- state governments, county governments, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a victim's rights' group -- are backing the Vermont prosecutor's appeal of the ruling, worried that if it stands, criminal suspects will try to game the system and get the result Brillon did.

"You're greasing that slippery slope," said David Parkhurst, an attorney with the National Governors Association, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the prosecutor's appeal. "That's the big concern here."

Brillon, a 46-year-old construction worker whose criminal past includes convictions for sexual assault on a minor, felony obstruction of justice and cocaine possession, was charged with aggravated domestic assault over the 2001 incident with his girlfriend, who is the mother of his child.

Held without bail, his case inched along as lawyer after lawyer asked for postponements and eventually withdrew or were replaced at Brillon's request. [See also, Law Blog WSJ.com post]

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colbert nation

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Lawrence Lessig

Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD

Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

cls reated web sites

• American Correctional Association (ACA)
• Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS)
• American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)
• American Bar Association (ABA) - Criminal Justice Section
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• American Society of Criminology (ASC)
• Amnesty International (AI)
• British Society of Criminology (BSC)
• Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
• Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
• Corrections.com (Corrections Connection Network)
• CrimeReports.com
• Criminal Justice Links (Florida State University)
• CrimProf Blog
• Department of Homeland Security
• Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP)
• Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center (FJRSC)
• Hieros Gamos Criminal Links
• Human Rights Watch (HRW)
• Infobase of State Activities and Research (ISAR)
• Interpol
• Just Detention International
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
• National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA)
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
• National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
• National Rifle Association (NRA)
• National Youth Gang Center
• Office of Justice Program, U.S. Department of Justice (OJP)
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Rand Organization
• Sentencing Law and Policy blog
• Social Statistics Briefing Room (White House)
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• Uniform Crime Report (FBI)
• United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP)
• United States Department of Justice (DOJ)
• U.S. Secret Service

govdocs

FDLP Desktop Google U.S. Government Search GPO Access GPO Access Training Manual UMich Documents Center

courts

FindLaw - State Resources
A key free legal research portal. FindLaw is a Thomson Reuters business (Westlaw).

LII / Legal Information Institute (Cornell U Law School) - Listing by Jurisdiction
LII is the best legal research portal online.

NSCS State Court Structure Charts
Presented with an interactive map of the United States - Click on the state of interest and a current court structure chart appears.

National Center for State Courts (NCSC) State Court Web Sites
Povides judicial branch links for each state, focusing on the administrative office of the courts, the court of last resort, any intermediate appellate courts, and each trial court level.

Washlaw Web (A Free Service of Washburn U School of Law)
Washlaw's simple design creates easy access to state court information.

Comparing Federal and State Court Systems
The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land in the United States. It creates a federal system of government in which power is shared between the federal government and the state governments...

FindLaw > Federal Resources > Judicial Branch
Free legal research portal links to all significant federal court sites.

Federal Law Materials - Judicial Opinions [LII / Legal Information Institute]
Linking to decisions of U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts, and U.S. Courts of Special Jurisdiction.

LII / Legal Information Institute (Cornell U Law School) - Federal Law Collection
Federal Law Materials - Judicial Opinions from all U.S. Courts.

Understanding the Federal Courts (Administrative Office of the United States Courts)
This publication was developed by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to provide an introduction to the federal judicial system, its organization and administration, and its relationship to the legislative and executive branches ...

U.S. Courts (Interactive Map)
Interactive map links to federal courts.

U.S. Courts (Official)
Federal courts often are called the guardians of the Constitution because their rulings protect rights and liberties guaranteed by it.

american indian legal resources

American Indian Legal Resources
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American Indian Legal Resources (University of Oklahoma College of Law)
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Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). U.S. Department of the Interior
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Codes, Tribal
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Constitutions, Tribal
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Early Indian Treaties ( University of Nebraska - Lincoln E-Text Center)
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FindLaw – Indian and Native Peoples Law
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FirstGov - Tribal Governments
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Handbook of Federal Indian Law [Felix S. Cohen, 1941]
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Indian Country Today
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Indian Land Cessions 1784-1894. United States Serial Set number 4015
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Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
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Indian Law Bulletin [National Indian Law Library]
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Indian Law Resource Center
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International Indian Treaty Council
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Kappler’s Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
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Law Library of Congress, Indians of North America
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National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
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National Indian Gaming Association
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National Indian Gaming Commission
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National Tribal Justice Resource Center
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Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
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Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
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Tribal Court Clearinghouse
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Tribal Law Gateway, National Indian Law Library (NARF)
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U.S. Census Bureau. American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Data and Links
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U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
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Wex – American Indian Law. LII / Legal Information Institute

open access articles

ARTICLES
Accueil de Persée
CDL: eScholarship
Current Law Journal Content
Directory of open access journals
Google Scholar
NCJRS Library/Abstracts
NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
PubMed
PubMed Central Homepage
ResearchNow
Scirus - for scientific information
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

capital punishment casebook

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT CASEBOOK
ABDUR'RAHMAN V. BELL, 537 U.S. 101 (2002) ADAMS V. TEX., 448 U.S. 38 (1980) ALA. V. SHELTON, 535 U.S. 654 (2002) APPRENDI V. N.J., 530 U.S. 466 (2000) ARAVE V. CREECH, 507 U.S. 463 (1993) ARIZ. V. FULMINANTE, 499 U.S. 279 (1991) ATKINS V. VA., 536 U.S. 304 (2002) AYERS v. BELMONTES (SCT - 05-493) (11.13.2006) BAGLEY, U.S. V., 473 U.S. 667 (1985) BANKS V. DRETKE, 540 U.S. 668 (2004) BARCLAY V. FLA., 463 U.S. 939 (1983) BAREFOOT V. ESTELLE, 463 U.S. 880 (1983) BATSON V. KY., 476 U.S. 79 (1986) BAZE V. REES (No. 07-5439) BELL V. CONE, 535 U.S. 685 (2002) BOOTH V. MD., 482 U.S. 496 (1987) BRADY v. MD., 373 U.S. 83 (1963) BULLINGTON V. MO., 451 U.S. 430 (1981) BURDINE V. JOHNSON, 262 F.3d 336 (5th Cir. 2001) CABANA V. BULLOCK, 474 U.S. 376 (1986) CAL. V. RAMOS, 463 U.S. 992 (1983) CALDWELL v. MISS., 472 U.S. 320 (1985) CALLINS V. COLLINS, 510 U.S. 1141 (1994) CAREY V. MUSLADIN (SCT - 05-493)(12.11.2006) CHAPMAN V. CAL., 386 U.S. 18 (1967) CLEMONS V. MISS., 494 U.S. 738 (1990) COKER V. GA., 433 U.S. 584 (1977) COLEMAN V. THOMPSON, 501 U.S. 722 (1991) DARDEN V. WAINWRIGHT, 477 U.S. 168 (1986) DOBBS V. ZANT, 506 U.S. 357 (1993) DUSKY V. U.S., 362 U.S. 402 (1960) EDDINGS V. OKLA., 455 U.S. 104 (1982) ENMUND V. FLA., 458 US 782 (1982) EX PARTE MEDELLIN (TEX.CRIM.APP)(11.15.2006) FORD V. WAINWRIGHT, 477 U.S. 399 (1986) FURMAN V. GA., 408 U.S. 238 (1972) GARDNER V. FLA., 430 U.S. 349 (1977) GIDEON V. WAINWRIGHT, 372 U.S. 335 (1963) GODFREY V. GA., 446 U.S. 420 (1980) GODINEZ V. MORAN, 509 U.S. 389 (1993) GRAY V. MISS., 481 U.S. 648 (1987) GREGG V. GA., 428 U.S. 153 (1976) HERRERA V. COLLINS, 506 U.S. 390 (1993) HILL V. MCDONOUGH, 547 U.S. ___ (2006) JACOBS V. SCOTT, 513 U.S. 1067 (1995) JUREK V. TEX., 428 U.S. 262 (1976) KAN. V. MARSH, 126 S.Ct. 2516, 165 L.Ed.2d 429 (No. 04-1170)(2006) KELLY V. S.C., 534 U.S. 246 (2002) KEMMLER, IN RE, 136 U.S. 436 (1890) KENNEDY V LOUISIANA (07–343) (June 25, 2008) KYLES V. WHITLEY, 514 U.S. 419 (1995) LACKEY V. TEX., 514 U.S. 1045 (1995) LOCKETT V. OHIO, 438 U.S. 586 (1978) LOCKHART V. FRETWELL, 506 U.S. 364 (1993) LOCKHART V. MCCREE (1986) LOWENFIELD V. PHELPS, 484 U.S. 231 (1988) MAYNARD v. CARTWRIGHT, 486 U.S. 356 (1988) MCCLESKEY V. KEMP, 481 U.S. 279 (1987) MCCLESKEY V. ZANT, 499 U.S. 467 (1991) MCFARLAND V. SCOTT, 512 U.S. 849 (1994) MCGAUTHA V. CAL., 402 U.S. 183 (1971) MCKOY V. NORTH CAROLINA, 494 U.S. 433 (1990) MEDELLIN v. TEXAS (06-984) (March 28, 2008) MESSER v. KEMP, 474 U.S. 1088 (1986) MICKENS V. TAYLOR, 535 U.S. 162 (2002) MILLER-EL V. DRETKE, 545 U.S. 231 (2005) MINISTER OF JUSTICE V. BURNS, 1 S.C.R. 283, 2001 SCC 7 (2001) MORGAN V. ILL., 504 U.S. 719 (1992) MURRAY V. GIARRATANO, 492 U.S. 1 (1989) NELSON V. CAMPBELL, 541 U.S. 637 (2004) NORRIS V. ALA., 294 U.S. 587 (1935) OHIO ADULT PAROLE AUTHORITY V. WOODARD, 523 U.S. 272 (1998) O’SULLIVAN V. BOERCKEL, 526 U.S. 838 (1999) PANETTI V. QUARTERMAN (No. 06-6407) (06.28.2007) PAYNE V. TENN., 501 U.S. 808 (1991) PENRY V. JOHNSON, 532 U.S. 782 (2001) PENRY V. LYNAUGH, 492 U.S. 302 (1989) POWELL V. ALA., 287 U.S. 45 (1932) PROFFITT V. FLA., 428 U.S. 242 (1976) PULLEY V. HARRIS, 465 U.S. 37 (1984) RHINES V. WEBER, 544 U.S. 269 (2005) RING V. ARIZ., 536 U.S. 584 (2002) ROBERTS V. LA., 428 U.S. 325 (1976) ROBINSON V. CAL., 370 U.S. 660 (1962) ROPER V. SIMMONS, 543 U.S. 551 (2005) S.C. V. GATHERS, 490 U.S. 805 (1989) SAWYER V. WHITLEY, 505 U.S. 333 (1992) SCHRIRO V. SUMMERLIN, 542 U.S. 348 (2004) SHAFER V. S.C., 532 U.S. 36 (2001) SIMMONS V. S.C., 512 U.S. 154 (1994) SKIPPER V. S.C., 476 U.S. 1 (1986) SMITH V. TEX., 543 U.S. 37 (2004) SNYDER v. LOUISIANA (06-10119)(March 19, 2008) SPAZIANO V. FLA., 468 U.S. 447 (1984) STANFORD V. KY., 492 U.S. 361 (1989) STEWART V. MARTINEZ-VILLAREAL STONE V. POWELL, 428 U.S. 465 (1976) STRICKLAND V. WASH., 466 U.S. 668 (1984) TEAGUE V. LANE, 489 U.S. 288 (1989) THOMPSON V. OKLA., 487 U.S. 815 (1988) TISON V. ARIZ., 481 U.S. 137 (1987) TROP V. DULLES, 356 U.S. 86 (1958) TUILAEPA V. CAL., 512 U.S. 967 (1994) TURNER V. MURRAY, 476 U.S. 28 (1986) UTTECHT v. BROWN (06-413) (06.04.2007) WALTON V. ARIZ., 497 U.S. 639 (1990) WEEKS V. ANGELONE, 528 U.S. 225 (2000) WEEMS V. U.S., 217 U.S. 349 (1910) WHITMORE V. ARK., 495 U.S. 149 (1990) WIGGINS V. SMITH, 539 U.S. 510 (2003) WILLIAMS V. NEW YORK , 337 U.S. 241 (1949) WILLIAMS V. TAYLOR, 529 U.S. 362 (2000) WITHERSPOON V. ILL., 391 U.S. 510 (1968) WITHROW V. WILLIAMS, 507 U.S. 680 (1993) WOODSON v. N.C., 428 U.S. 280 (1976) ZANT V. STEPHENS, 462 U.S. 862 (1983)

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ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Project ABA Moratorium ACLU : Death Penalty AI - Death Penalty AI : Abolitionist/Retentionist AMA : E-2.06 American Constitution Society : ACS Blog Amnesty International Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Bureau of Justice Statistics California Appellate Report Capital Defense Network Capital Defense Weekly CrimeReports.com Criminal Justice Journalists' News Center CrimProf Blog Death Penalty Links European Union and the Death Penalty (Capital Punishment) Eyewitness Identification Reform Blog FAMM Home Page Human Rights Magazine - ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities Human Rights Watch: United States: The Death Penalty Justice Policy Institute Justice Research and Statistics Association Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention LAPD Blog NAACP Legal Defense Fund National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law National Criminal Justice Reference Service National Institute of Justice Neuroethics & Law Blog Ninth Circuit Capital Punishment Handbook public criminology Real Cost of Prisons Weblog Reprieve SCOTUSblog ScotusWiki Sentencing Law and Policy Sentencing Project Southern Center for Human Rights Southern Poverty Law Center StandDown Texas Project TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime US Sentencing Commission Vera Institute of Justice Sentencing and Corrections Warhol, Electric Chair

select fed agencies

ATF CIA DEA FBI NSA U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services U.S. Customs Service U.S. Marshals Service U.S. Secret Service U.S. State Department Diplomatic Security

u.s. congress

U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. House of Representatives Committees
U.S. House of Representatives, Speaker of the House
U.S. Senate
U.S. Senate Committees

capital punishment ~ key sites

American Bar Association (ABA) Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project
The Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project, led by director Deborah Fleischaker, was launched by the American Bar Association (ABA) in September 2001 as the "next step" towards a nationwide moratorium on executions.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) : Capital Punishment Project (CPP)
The Capital Punishment Project (CPP) challenges the unfairness and arbitrariness of capital punishment while working toward the ultimate goal of abolishing the death penalty.

American Constitution Society (ACS) - ACSBlog
ACS promotes the vitality of the U.S. Constitution and the fundamental values it expresses: individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, access to justice, democracy and the rule of law.

American Medical Association (AMA) Policy E-2.06 Capital Punishment
A physician, as a member of a profession dedicated to preserving life when there is hope of doing so, should not be a participant in a legally authorized execution.

Amnesty International: Abolitionist Retentionist Countries
More than two-thirds of the countries in the world have now abolished the death penalty in law or practice...

Amnesty International: Human rights by topic - Death penalty
The death penalty violates the right to life. It is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It has no place in a modern criminal justice system.

Bureau of Justice Statistics (Dept. of Justice)
BJS mission: To collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.

California Appellate Report
Thoughts on recent Ninth Circuit and California appellate cases from Professor Shaun Martin at the University of San Diego School of Law.

Capital Defense Network
Supporting the Federal Capital Defense Lawyer. Providing Habeas Assistance and Training as well as Federal Capital Defense Counsel Support.

Capital Defense Weekly (Blog)
Tracking capital issues throughout the U.S. If you need to know, minute to minute, the latest death penalty developments, subscribe to CDW's RSS feed.

Capital Punishment Statistics (Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice)
Presents characteristics of persons under sentence of death at yearend and of persons executed. The annual BJS report summarizes movement of prisoners into and out of death sentence status during the year.

CrimeReports.com
Mapping crime incidents -- CrimeReports.com makes it simple and easy for police agencies to share timely and important local crime data with citizens, activists and other community organizations [This is a GIS].

CrimProf Blog
A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network.

Death Penalty Focus
A non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and the dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives.

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

Death Penalty Links, 1000+
Clark County, Indiana, Prosecuting Attorney Office.

Death Penalty Overview [Wex - LII / Legal Information Institute]
Wex is a collaboratively-created, public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School.

Eyewitness Identification Reform Blog
Faulty eyewitness identifications are a well-known problem in the American criminal justice system, as demonstrated by over 200 exonerations brought about by the Innocence Project -- a full 75% of which are attributable to false eyewitness IDs.

European Union (EU) Policy and Action on the Death Penalty
The European Union (EU) is opposed to the death penalty in all cases and has consistently espoused its universal abolition, working towards this goal.

FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums)
Mandatory minimum sentencing laws require harsh, automatic prison terms for those convicted of certain crimes, most often drug offenses.

Human Rights Watch, Death Penalty
Human Rights Watch is a non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.

Innocence Project
The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.

justcrim - open access research cases and materials
Digital surrogate for capital punishment seminar content -- An open access (free) case book for death penalty jurisprudence.

LethalInjection.org
Lethalinjection.org is a project of the Death Penalty Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law. The mission of lethalinjection.org is to create a web-based clearinghouse for information about lethal injection and challenges to lethal injection as a method of execution.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.

Ninth Circuit Capital Punishment Handbook
This 2006 electronic edition of the Capital Punishment Handbook has been revised and updated. It is current through March 10, 2006.

Reprieve
Reprieve uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.

SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) BLOG
The best law blog available, period. Tracking all things SCTOUS related but especially strong at Capital Punishment issues.

SCOTUS WIKI
The same people who excel at SCOTUS BLOG excel at sharing key information via the SCOTUS Wiki.

Sentencing Law and Policy (Blog)
A member of the Law Professor Blogs Network.

State of California, Capital Punishment
State web-based clearinghouse on capital punishment from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

State of California, Death Row Pictures
Includes images from San Quentin and the Central California Women's Facility. Click the thumbnail image to open the Hi-Res photo in a new browser window, then follow the instructions for your platform and browser.

State of California, History of Capital Punishment in California
Legal executions in California were authorized under the Criminal Practices Act of 1851. On February 14, 1872, capital punishment was incorporated into the Penal Code.

State of California, Lethal Injection Facility Virtual Tour
View a virtual tour of the existing lethal injection facility and the proposed lethal injection facility.

Warhol's Electric Chairs
Andy Warhol's Electric Chairs: Reflecting on Capital Punishment in America presented Warhol's Electric Chair series of paintings and prints ... as a catalyst to generate dialogue around the various sides of the capital punishment debate.