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Kevin Keith Could be Executed Despite Evidence of Innocence Unless Governor Intervenes
CA Governor “borrowing” $64 million from the general fund to begin construction of the new death row housing facility
Public Opinion is Shifting
Of polls and leadership
Innocence Matters!
Swimming Against the Death Penalty
Cut This: The Death Penalty Video
AOL News: Death Penalty Only Hurts Victims' Families
CCV/Victims
Public Opinion is Shifting
Cut This: The Death Penalty Video
AOL News: Death Penalty Only Hurts Victims' Families
Readers react to the Democratic Party's call for ending CA's death penalty
Justice for all crime victims, not just symbolism for a few.
Bud Welch on the Rachel Maddow Show
Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty in Honor of Victims' Rights Week
A Sad Commentary on Our State's Priorities
Meet CCV's New Outreach Coordinator for Southern California
Leaving room for revenge; thoughts on Thanksgiving dinner conversations
Cost
CA Governor “borrowing” $64 million from the general fund to begin construction of the new death row housing facility
Of polls and leadership
Cut This: The Death Penalty Video
NH Supreme Court Justice on the Death Penalty
Great Article - "Dems want to scrap death penalty in California"
Why stretch and manipulate the truth?
Even Texas is looking at the staggering cost of the death penalty
Debating the death penalty's cost
Police Chiefs Reject Death Penalty as Useful Tool
Rally Calls for a People's Budget Fix in California: Includes Ending the Death Penalty
Deterrence
NH Supreme Court Justice on the Death Penalty
Why stretch and manipulate the truth?
Police Chiefs Reject Death Penalty as Useful Tool
Innocence
A life you saved
Kevin Keith Could be Executed Despite Evidence of Innocence Unless Governor Intervenes
Innocence Matters!
NH Supreme Court Justice on the Death Penalty
Justice Project Blog on Crime Labs
Johnny Depp advocates for the West Memphis 3
Why stretch and manipulate the truth?
An Exoneration Story
Did Texas execute an innocent man?
New Report Shows that Cameron Todd Willingham, Executed in Texas in 2004, Was Innocent
International
A Club of 18 Nations the US must QUIT
Opening Ceremony of 4th World Congress: Address at the Palais des Nations
DPF Opens the 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
World Abolitionists to Meet in Geneva
The 20th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Europe Gains Increased Protection Against US Death Penalty
The International Campaign for Universal Abolition
World Day Against the Death Penalty Oct. 10
More Good Abolition News from Africa
Taking a Leaf Out of Kenya's Book
Lethal Injection
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The Empty Chair
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Cut This: The Death Penalty Video
The June issue of The Sentry is here!
NH Supreme Court Justice on the Death Penalty
From San Quentin to Auschwitz
Readers react to the Democratic Party's call for ending CA's death penalty
50 Years of Struggle Against the Death Penalty
Photos from DPF's 2010 Awards Dinner
Wilbert Rideau on NPR's Fresh Air; will be in CA next month
Bud Welch on the Rachel Maddow Show
Johnny Depp advocates for the West Memphis 3
Sentencing
NH Supreme Court Justice on the Death Penalty
San Bernardino Jury Rejects Death Sentence
US Supreme court cites international standards of decency -- quick note
US Supreme Court
US Supreme court cites international standards of decency -- quick note
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Profiles of Exonerees, Victims, and Law Enforcement
One father's message to another
Stories of Wrongful Conviction from California
California Warden Now Believes that Executions Don't Make us Safer
Former Florida Warden Haunted by Botched Execution
Former Prosecutor Acknowledges Death Penalty Perpetuates Vicious Cycle of Violence
It is time to end the sentence of shame for family members of the executed
A Former Judge Asks, Should Executions Continue?
I want to live in safe community without the death penalty
Italian Catholics Changed My Perspective on the Death Penalty
The death penalty is not civilized
The Death Row Population
Death Row Population Size and Characteristics
Women on Death Row
Mental Illness on Death Row
Foreign Nationals on Death Row
The Federal Death Penalty: An Overview
10 Reasons to Oppose the Death Penalty
Innocence and the Death Penalty
Racial Disparities
Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Inadequate Legal Representation
Deterrence
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Arbitrariness in the Application of the Death Penalty
Religious Perspectives on the Death Penalty
Death Penalty Can Prolong Suffering for Victims' Families
The High Cost of the Death Penalty
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June 13, 2010
More Than 100 International Organizations Gathered in San Francisco to Oppose the United States’ Continued Use of the Death Penalty
April 12, 2010
Alec Baldwin, Paul Haggis, Sherry and Leo Frumkin, Richard Dieter and Sister Suzanne Jabro to be honored for opposing the death penalty
January 13, 2010
California Death Row Reaches 700
December 18, 2009
Death Sentences Reach Their Lowest Point Since 1976
December 15, 2009
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty moves closer to achieving worldwide abolition of the death penalty
October 20, 2009
New Report Shows States Can Save Hundreds of Millions by Abolishing the Death Penalty
October 8, 2009
World Day Against the Death Penalty to be marked around the globe on October 10
September 2, 2009
New Poll Shows Declining Support for the Death Penalty in CA; Innocent Man Executed in Texas
June 30, 2009
Hundreds to Testify in First-Ever Public Hearing on California’s Death Penalty
May 19, 2009
Governor Bill Richardson, Former Attorney General John Van de Kamp, and Former San Quentin Warden Jeanne Woodford to be honored for opposing the death penalty
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History
Lethal Injection
The History of California's Death Penalty
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Op-eds, Newspaper and Magazine articles
"Pena capital es un despilfarro," La Opinion, Natasha Minsker, 2009-03-18
"Readers Forum: Capital Punishment is a costly mistake", Ray Samuels, op-ed, Contra Costa Times, December 20, 2008
"Activists: Halt death penalty in California", By Donald A. McCartin and Mike Farrell, op-ed, Los Angeles Daily News, July 23, 2008
"What we sacrifice on Death Row," Nancy Oliveira, op-ed, San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, June 30, 2008
"Italian Catholics changed my perspective on the death penalty," Nancy Oliveira, op-ed, The Tidings, Friday, May 2, 2008
"Let's stop, reconsider: Should executions continue?" Rudolph J. Gerber, op-ed, Sacramento Bee, Monday, April 21, 2008
"The death penalty is not civilized," Aundré M. Herron, op-ed, Sacramento Bee, Sunday, April 20, 2008
"A sentence too close to death: Wrongly convicted, I am proof that the state should reconsider execution," op-ed, Harold Hall, Los Angeles Times, March 27, 2008
"IT’S A GRAY AREA: Facing facts on the death penalty," Opinion, JUDGE JAMES P. GRAY, The Daily Pilot, March 15, 2008
"Death-penalty system loaded with racial bias," op-ed, Gloria Romero, Los Angeles Daily News, 02/27/2008
Publications, Books, and Multi-Media
The Sentry: DPF's Quarterly Newsletter
Death Penalty Books and Movies
DPF's Brochures and Publications
YouTube Videos and Films on the Death Penalty
For the Record: DPF's Legislative Bulletin
Recent Reports
"Death Penalty Sentencing In Decline Across U.S." by the ACLU of Northern California, March 30, 2010
"Death Sentences and Executions 2009" by Amnesty International, March 2010
"DO EXECUTIONS LOWER HOMICIDE RATES?: THE VIEWS OF LEADING CRIMINOLOGISTS" By Michael L. Radelet and Traci L. LaCock, July 2009
"Racial Disparities in Capital Punishment: Blind Justice Requires a Blindfold" By Scott Phillips - October 2008
"CALIFORNIA COMMISSION ON THE FAIR ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE: OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE FAIR ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN CALIFORNIA" - June 30, 2008
"Wrongful Convictions in California Capital Cases" - March 28, 2008
"Death by Geography" - March 27, 2008
"The Hidden Death Tax" - March 27, 2008
"A Crisis of Confidence: Americans' Doubts About the Death Penalty" - June 9, 2007
"Innocent and Executed" - 2006
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