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Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project
Working to Obtain a Nationwide Moratorium on Executions

ABA Moratorium Reports

"A system that will take life must first give justice."
-- Former ABA President John J. Curtin, Jr.

Building Momentum: The American Bar Association Call for a Moratorium on Executions Takes Hold
A Summary of Moratorium Resolution Impacts from August 2001 through June 2003 (August 2003)

Appendices A-B: ABA, State Bar, and Local Government Resolutions
Appendix C: Summary Overview of Death Penalty-related Data
Appendices D-E: State and Court Decisions Regarding the Execution of Juvenile and Mentally Retarded Offenders
Appendix F: State by State Legislative Statistics
Appendix G: State Moratorium and Study Legislation
Appendix H: State Mental Retardation Legislation
Appendix I: State Juvenile Offender Legislation
Appendix J: State Race Legislation
Appendix K: State Counsel Competence and Compensation Legislation
Appendix L: State Legislation Responding to Ring v. Arizona
Appencix M: State Legislation Regarding Post-conviction Evidence
Appendix N: State Expansion and Abolition Legislation
Appendix O: State Miscellaneous Legislation
Appendix P: Federal Death Penatly-related Legislation
Appendix Q: Exonerations in Death Penalty Cases

Toward Greater Awareness: The American Bar Association Call for a Moratorium on Executions Gains Ground
A Summary of Moratorium Resolution Impacts from January 2000 through July 2001 (August 2001)
Appendix A-B - ABA, state bar, and local government moratorium resolutions
Appendix C-F - State legislative information, statutes, court decisions, exonerations, and other resources

Refocusing the Death Penalty Discussion in America: Impact of the American Bar Association Call for a Moratorium on Executions: Impact of the American Bar Association Call for a Moratorium on Executions (September 1998)

ABA Programs

Capital Punishment in the Twenty-first Century: Introduction to Death Penalty Symposium, Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier, Introduction to American Bar Association 2000 Annual Meeting Program, New York City Law Review, Volume 4 Number 2 (Spring 2002)

The Imposition of the Death Penalty is "Fraught With Error": Where Do We Go From Here?, Program at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting in New York (July 10, 2000), New York City Law Review, Volume 4 Number 2 (Spring 2002)

Call to Action: A Moratorium on Executions, Presented by the American Bar Association on October 12, 2000, at the Carter Center, New York City Law Review, Vol. 4 No. 2 (Spring 2000)
- Introduction by Martha Barnett
- Discussion by Tony Amsterdam
- Morning Panel A: Review of the Administration of the Death Penalty and the Need for a Nationwide Response to the ABA's Moratorium Call. Representation at all stages of the proceedings: The loss of state and federal post-conviction review, including the impact of the AEDPA and the need for an independent state judiciary.
- Morning Panel B: Review of the Administration of the Death Penalty and the Need for a Nationwide Response to the ABA's Moratorium Call. Practices of law enforcement and prosecutors; racial discrimination; juvenile/mentally retarded.
- Morning Panel Conclusion by Martha Barnett and Keynote Address: Rosalyn Carter
- Keynote Address: Governor George Ryan
- Video Address by Senator Feingold
- Afternoon Panel A: Where Do We Go From Here? Survey of Moratorium Efforts and Walk Through the Process of Enacting a Moratorium.
- Afternoon Panel B: Where Do We Go From Here? How Can We Join Forces to Enact a Moratorium?
- Conclusion by Martha Barnett

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