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Innocence and the Death Penalty
By Death Penalty Focus, on 1 January 2011
2011
Arguments against the death penalty
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The wrongful execution of an innocent person is an injustice that can never be rectified. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty, 139 men and women have been released from death row nationally.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Innocence,
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Leaflet 10.10.10: The Death Penalty Casts a Shadow on Democracy
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2010
2010
Arguments against the death penalty
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Information leaflet about the 2010 World Day on the USA. This leaflet provides information on the death penalty in the USA, 10 arguments to end the death penalty and 10 things you can do to abolish the death penalty.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Brochure 10.10.10 : La Peine de Mort Assombrit la Démocratie
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Videos of the 4th World Congress
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), on 1 January 2010
Arguments against the death penalty
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This video was filmed at the 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Geneva in February 2010. Speaker is Elizabeth Zitrin at the opening session.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Les vidéos du 4ème congrès mondial
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Fault Lines: Politics of Death Penalty
By Fault Lines / YouTube, on 1 January 2010
Arguments against the death penalty
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FaultLines explores the death penalty in the United States. Interviews with murder victim families, politicans and the exonerated are included.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
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Cut This: The Death Penalty
By ABC7 / YouTube, on 1 January 2010
Arguments against the death penalty
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An anti death penalty video which advocates the abolition of the death penalty. The personalities in the video suggest using the money which is currently used on the death penalty for improving the community.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Networks,
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Execution Facility Tour of North Carolina Death Row
By Scott Langley / YouTube, on 1 January 2010
Arguments against the death penalty
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This video gives a tour of the death row facilities at North Carolina. It also explores the protocol for execution by lethal injection.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Lethal Injection,
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Myths and Facts about the Death Penalty
By Death Penalty Focus, on 1 January 2009
2009
Arguments against the death penalty
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8 Myths about the death penalty are explored in this text: 1. the death penalty is needed to keep society safe, 2. the death penalty is applied fairly, 3. the death penalty is used worldwide, 4. the death penalty deters crime, 5. execution is cheaper than permanent imprisonment, 6. the death penalty offers justice to victims’ families, 7. only the truly guilty get the death penalty, 8. religious teachings support the death penalty.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Mitos y Realidades de la Pena de Muerte
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Mike Farrell: Paul House and Death Row
By Air America Media / YouTube, on 1 January 2009
Arguments against the death penalty
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Mike Farrell talks about the death penalty in the United States. Amongst many things he speaks about innocence, deterrence and retribution.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Networks,
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Racial Disparities
By Death Penalty Focus, on 1 January 2009
Arguments against the death penalty
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The race of the victim and the race of the defendant in capital cases are major factors in determining who is sentenced to die in this country. In 1990 a report from the General Accounting Office concluded that “in 82 percent of the studies [reviewed], race of the victim was found to influence the likelihood of being charged with capital murder or receiving the death penalty, i.e. those who murdered whites were more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Discrimination,
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The North Carolina Racial Justice Act
By North Carolina Coalition For A Moratorium / YouTube, on 1 January 2009
Arguments against the death penalty
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House Bill 472 and Senate Bill 461, known as The North Carolina Racial Justice Act, addresses racial discrimination in capital sentencing. This video featuring death row exonoree Edward Chapman, talks about racial bias and how the Racial Justice Act attempts to assure that race would not play a role in who gets the death penalty.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Discrimination,