The Death Penalty

Death Row Visiting Hours

Electric Chair

gurney

cells

General Information

Die ultimative Linkliste
Death Row (Winter 2002) -- pdf-file
Chronologie der Todesstrafe in den USA
Methods/Statistics
Pictures of Electric Chairs
Disparities in Federal Death Penalty
Studie zu Fehlurteilen bei Kapitalverbrechen (pdf)
Federal Bureau of Prisons Execution Manual (pdf)

U.S.A. Executions by Year and State (1977-2001)
Executions - Names and dates
1977-1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
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1994
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1997
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2002
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2004
2005-2011
Crimes Punishable by the Death Penalty (as of 12/31/02)
The Federal Death Penalty System: Supplementary Data, Analysis and Revised Protocols for Capital Case Review, U.S. Department of Justice (June 6, 2001)
Report with Recommendations No. 107, from ABA 1997 Midyear Meeting
Audio-Mitschnitt der Hinrichtung von Ivon Ray Stanley im Jahr 1984 (Quelle: Soundportraits.org)
Complete Audio of the Execution Tapes (Quelle: Soundportraits.org)

Pros

Cons

The Case against the Death Penalty (Hugo A. Bedau)
A Perspective on Gerald Bivins' Execution, — Prison Reflections by Joseph Ross (21.03.2001)

Editorials and Press Releases

Editorials-Index

John Ashcroft's Death-Penalty Edicts (07.02.03 — NYT)
3 Justices Call for Reviewing Death Sentences for Juveniles (30.08.02 — NYT)
Still on Death Row, Despite Mounting Doubts (08.07.02 — NYT)
Justices Bar Death Penalty for Retarded Defendants (21.06.02 — NYT)
Court Refuses To Intervene In Death Penalty Case (29.05.02 — Washington Post)
Killer of Judge's Father Executed (28.05.02 — Washington Post)
In Similar Cases, One Inmate Is Executed, One Wins Stay (28.05.02 — NYT)
Death Penalty Is Suspended in Maryland (10.05.02 — NYT)
System dances with death (22.04.02 — NYT)
Few Death Sentences or None Under Overhaul Proposed by Illinois Panel (16.04.02 — NYT)
Illinois Panel: Death Sentence Needs Overhaul (15.04.02 — NYT)
Eighty-Nine Executions
Warden Describes Inmates' Last Hours
Judge O'Connor Questions Death Penalty — Washington Post
Judge O'Connor Questions Death Penalty — NYT
In Dallas, Dismissal of Black Jurors Leads to Appeal by Death Row Inmate (13.02.02 — NYT)
Number of Executions Falls for Second Straight Year (14.12.2001 — NYT)
DNA Clears Virginia Man of 1982 Assault (10.12.2001 — NYT)
Death Row Inmate Is Freed After DNA Test Clears Him — NYT, (23.08.01)
Government Executes Killer in Drug Cases (20.06.2001)
Retarded Man Freed on DNA Evidence (16.06.2001)
Testimony of Former Death Row Inmates (10.12.2000)
How the death penalty revictimizes families (12.03.1998)
Amnesty International (1997)

Various

Dead Man Walking
The Karla Faye Tucker Case
Joseph Roger O'Dell, III
Last Statement, (David Stoker)
McVeigh's final written statement (11.06.2001)
Arizona Chain Gangs — Richard Rossi (04/2000)
A Letter From Death Row, (David Duren)
Albert Fish, a Cannibal

Death of a Friend, (Glen Cornwell)
Evil Personified, (Joseph R. O'Dell, III)
Death Row's My Home, (Michael Wayne Hunter)
Waiting/Living on the Row, (Michael Wayne Hunter)
California's Death Row, (Michael Wayne Hunter)
Dave, (Michael Wayne Hunter)
The Power of a Smile, (Thomas Witlicki)
Pale Guano, (Steven King Ainsworth)
Gedichte von Death Row-Insassen