Race for the White House - 2008

• "Where they stand" A non-partisan look at the positions of all the candidates regarding the death penalty.  Compiled by the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

Newsletters

• There is a great deal of up-to-date information in the WCADP Quarterly Newsletters.

Declaration of Life

• Declaration of Life Form  A downloadable PDF form you can use to indicate your wishes to prosecutors, family and friends, and others that you do not want them to pursue the death penalty in the event that you die at the hands of another.  (To download a copy of the form:  Windows users can "right-click" on the link and then select "save target as" to save the file on your hard drive.  Mac users press "command" + click on the link and save the form.)

Death Penalty Stats in Washington State

• Legal History of the Death Penalty in Washington State
• Washington Department of Corrections death-penalty information.
  Note that the DOC's list of current prisoners is often less up-to-date than ours.
• Recent Executions
• Convictions of Innocent Persons
• Washington's capital punishment law

Death Penalty Discussion

• Recently published books on the death penalty
• Exonerations in the US 1989 thru 2003 (requires Adobe PDF)
• Suggested Reading
• Talking points on the death penalty
• Murder victims' families who oppose the death penalty 
      (Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation Website)
• Debate in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1997
• Famous statements on the death penalty
• Washington Law Review Article on Proportionality and the Death Penalty in Washington State (requires Adobe PDF)

Execution of the Innocent

• Innocent and Executed (From the Natl. Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, NCADP.  Requires Adobe PDF.)

Death Penalty and the Mentally Ill

• Beyond Reason:  The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation
• Mental Illness and the Death Penalty

Physician Participation in the Death Penalty

• Breach of Trust:  Physician Participation in Executions in the United States

Human Rights Watch Report on Lethal Injection

• "So Long as They Die," a report by Human Rights Watch on Lethal Injection in America

Death Penalty Videos

• YouTube Videos

Other Death Penalty Information Websites

• Washington Death Penalty Assistance Center  (See their latest study on the death penalty in Washington State)
• ACLU of Washington State
• National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP)
• Death Penalty Information Center (including Lesson Plans)
• Amnesty International Death Penalty Project
• Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation
• Stop Capital Punishment Now!
• Sr. Helen and Dead Man Walking
• The Dead Man Walking School Theater Project