INFORMATION & RESOURCE LINKS


We hope the links listed below are useful in providing information, as well as leading to resources and contacts, in a variety of areas. For example, the links take you to Information and Research on the death penalty, sites dealing with Capital Defense organizations, help and resources for Victims of capital crimes, and both Pro-death penalty and Anti-death penalty web sites. Where available, specific links to New York State agencies and organizations are listed. Also, if you know of an informative and helpful web site not listed below, please bring this source to our attention.

Information and Research Links
The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. The Center was founded in 1990 and prepares in-depth reports, issues press releases, conducts briefings for journalists, and serves as a resource to those working on this issue. The Center is widely quoted and consulted by all those concerned with the death penalty. The Executive Director is Richard C. Dieter, an attorney who has written and spoken extensively on this subject.

This informational site is presented by the Center for Justice in Capital Cases, at the DePaul College of Law. It boasts section dealing with the history of the death penalty, case law, statistics, and scientific evidence and the death penalty. While parts of the site are still “under construction,” it nonetheless is informative and has links to other capital punishment web sites.

The Constitution Project’s Death Penalty Initiative (DPI) is a bipartisan committee of death penalty supporters and opponents who all agree that the risk of wrongful executions in this country has become too high. The DPI of the Constitution Project was known formerly as the National Committee to Prevent Wrongful Executions.

The crisis in indigent representation created by the closing of death penalty “resource centers” around the nation led to the creation of the Cornell Death Penalty Project. From the outside the project was designed to address three primary tasks – to foster scholarship, particularly empirical scholarship, related to the death penalty and its administration in the United States; to provide an opportunity for Cornell students to participate in the representation of death-sentenced inmates; and to provide information, resources, and assistance to attorneys involved in representing capital clients, to fill in, in part, for the defunded resource centers. The site includes links to other related sites, scholarly articles, and online legal research.

The Center on Wrongful Convictions is dedicated to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and other serious miscarriages of justice. The Center has three components: representation, research, and public education. Center faculty, staff and cooperating outside attorneys, and Bluhm Legal Clinic Students investigate possible wrongful convictions and represent imprisoned clients with claims of actual innocence. The research and public education components focus on developing initiatives that raise public awareness of the prevalence, causes and social costs of wrongful convictions and promote substantive reform of the criminal justice system.

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