View the Powerpoint files here and then read the reports using the links below:
(PPT files require Microsoft PowerPoint to view)
Part One: Cruel and Unusual, Wrong, Political (UPDATED SPRING 2009)
Part Two: Jury Confusion and Incompetence (UPDATED SPRING 2009)
Part Three: Costs (UPDATED SPRING 2009)
Part
Four: Arbitrariness,
Discrimination (UPDATED
SPRING 2009)
1) Show Me the Money! (Costs of Death versus Life)
Costs
of the Death Penalty (by the Death Penalty
Information
Center)
National Coalition to
Abolish the Death Penalty FactSheet -- COSTS
See
an attempt to refute such costs (by
www.prodeathpenalty.com)
2) Give me Your Black and Brown! (Race and Death)
Race
and the Death Penalty (by the Death Penalty
Information
Center)
National Coalition to
Abolish the Death Penalty FactSheet -- RACIAL BIAS
Race and the Death Penalty in North Carolina, An Empirical Analysis: 1993-1997 (by the The Common Sense Foundation, North Carolina Council of Churches)
Innocence
and the Death Penalty (by the Death Penalty
Information
Center)
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty FactSheet -- Innocence
Four
Real Cases: The Case for Innocence (by PBS)
Also see this real case on an
eyewitness identification mistake here
And other profiles of wrongful
convictions here
(by the Justice Project)
and here
(by American Society of Criminology)
See an attempt to refute such studies (by www.prodeathpenalty.com)
A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995 (by Columbia Law School)
A
Broken System, Part II: Why There Is So Much Error in Capital Cases and
What Can Be Done About It (by Columbia Law
School)
Universal Declartion of Human Rights (by the United Nations)
Policy on the Death Penalty (by the European Union)