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APPENDIX G

Selected Resources

  • ABA Task Force on Death Penalty Habeas Corpus, Toward a More Just and Effective System of Review in State Death Penalty Cases, A Report Containing the American Bar Association=s Recommendations Concerning Death Penalty Habeas Corpus and Related Materials from the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section=s Project on Death Penalty Habeas Corpus, 40 Am. U. L. Rev. 1 (1990).
  • American Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction (James R. Acker, Robert M. Bohm, Charles S. Lanier, editors) (Carolina Academic Press, 1998).
  • Bright, Stephen B., Capital Punishment on the 25th Anniversary of Furman v. Georgia (June 1997), A report by the Southern Center for Human Rights, 83 Poplar Street, N.W., Atlanta, GA 30303; Tel.: 404/688-1202.
  • Capital Punishment 1996 (December 1997), Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, 633 Indiana Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20531; Tel.: 202/307-0765.
  • Carter Center Symposium on Capital Punishment (July 1997),  14 Ga. State U. L. Rev. 329 (1998).
  • Coleman, James C., Jr., Special Edition, AThe Death Penalty and the Organized Bar, Analyses of Issues Raised in the American Bar Association=s 1997 Call for a Moratorium on Executions,@ Duke University School of Law Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems, (publication pending, Summer/Autumn 1998).
  • Coyne, Randall and Entzeroth, Lyn, AReport Regarding Implementation of the American Bar Association=s Recommendations and Resolutions Concerning the Death Penalty and Calling for a Moratorium on Executions.@ Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty, Vol. IV, No. 1 (Fall 1996).
  • A Dead Man Walking Without Due Process? 1996's Dramatically New Capital Punishment System,@ 23 NYU Review of Law and Social Change 163 (1997).
  • Excerpts from AThe Death Penalty in the Twenty-First Century,@ 45 Am. U. L. Rev. 239 (December 1995).
  • Death Penalty Resolution and Report (February 1997), American Bar Association, 740 15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005-1009; Tel.: 202/662-1030; Online: www.abanet.org/irr/.
  • Death Row, U.S.A. (July 1998), NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Suite 600, 99 Hudson Street , New York, NY 10013-2897; Tel.: 212/965-2269.
  • Fact Sheet (July 1998), Death Penalty Information Center, 1320 18th Street, NW, 5th floor, Washington, D.C. 20036; Tel.: 202/293-6970.
  • Innocence and the Death Penalty: The Increasing Danger of Executing the Innocent (July 1997), Death Penalty Information Center, 1320 18th Street, N.W., 5th Floor,Washington, D.C. 20036; Tel.: 202/293-6970.
  • APanel Discussion: Capital Punishment: Is There Any Habeas Left in This Corpus?@, 27 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 523 (1996).
  • A Panel Discussion: The Death of Fairness? Counsel Competency & Due Process in Death Penalty Cases,@ 31 Hous. L. Rev. 1105 (1994).
  • Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Addendum, Mission to the United States of America (April 1998), Mr. Bacre Waly Ndiaye, United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
  • Spangenberg Group, ABA Study: An Updated Analysis of the Right to Counsel and the Right to Compensation and Expenses in State Post-Conviction Death Penalty Cases (June 1996), American Bar Association, Death Penalty Representation Project, 50 F St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001; Tel.: 202/661-6820.
  • Streib, Victor L., The Juvenile Death Penalty Today: Death Sentences and Executions for Juvenile Crimes, January 1, 1973, to May 1998. Contact the American Bar Association, Death Penalty Representation Project, 50 F St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001; Tel.: 202/661-6820.
  • Symposium, APolitics & the Death Penalty: Can Rational Discourse & Due Process Survive the Perceived Political Pressure?@, 21 Fordham Urb. L.J. 239 (1994).
  • Tabak, Ronald J., AHow Empirical Standing Can Affect Positively the Politics of the Death Penalty@, 83 Cornell L. Rev. (forthcoming, Sept. 1998 issue).
  • Tabak, Ronald J., S. Bright, B. Herbert, J. Trulock and W. Moore, AVoices Focus: Capital Punishment,@ Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty, Vol. IV, No. 1 (Fall 1996).
  • Tucker, John C., May God Have Mercy, A True Story of Crime and Punishment (W.C. Norton of Co. 1997).

Other Resources Available through the Death Penalty Information Center

  • The Death Penalty in Black and White: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides (1998)
  • The Future of the Death Penalty in the United States: A Texas-Sized Crisis (1994)
  • Killing for Votes: The Dangers of Politicizing the Death Penalty Process (1996)
  • Millions Misspent: What Politicians Don=t Say About the High Costs of the Death Penalty (1994)
  • On the Front Line: Law Enforcement Views on the Death Penalty (1995)
  • Sentencing for Life: Americans Embrace Alternatives to the Death Penalty (1993)
  • Twenty Years of Capital Punishment: A Re-evaluation (1996)
  • With Justice For Few: The Growing Crisis in Death Penalty Representation (1995)

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