Death Penalty,
and Capital Punishment
organizations links
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South Carolinians Abolishing the Death Penalty (SCADP)
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"SCADP Board members Ron Kaz, Kate Webb and Anna Shockley and volunteer Elaine Cooper traveled to Washington, D.C. for the Abolitionist Action Committee's direct action on Tuesday, January 17, commemorating the execution of Gary Gilmore, the first execution since reinstatement of the death penalty...."
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http://www.sc-abolish.org/
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Southern Center for Human Rights, The (SCHR)
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"...provides legal representation to people facing the death penalty, challenges human rights violations in prisons and jails, seeks through litigation and advocacy to improve legal representation for poor people accused of crimes..."
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http://www.schr.org/
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Spring Break Alternative
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"...designed to give college and high school students something more meaningful to do during their week off, rather than just spending time at the beach or sitting at home catching up on school work."
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http://www.springbreakalternative.org/
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StandDown Texas Project, The
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"Identifying and Advocating Best Practices in the Criminal Justice System. A Texas-Centric Examination of Current Conditions, Reform Initiatives, and Emerging Issues...."
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http://standdown.typepad.com/
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Students Against the Death Penalty
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"... works to end the death penalty through campaigns of public education and the promotion of youth activism."
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http://www.studentabolition.org/
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Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
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"Tennessee's death penalty system is broken. Our state has the 10th largest death row in the country with 88 people: 87 men and 1 woman. Roughly 90% of Tennessee's death row inmates could not afford to hire their own defense at the time of their trial..."
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http://www.tennesseedeathpenalty.org/
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Texas Moratorium Network (TMN)
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"... a grassroots, non-profit organization with the primary goal of mobilizing statewide support for a moratorium on executions in Texas."
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http://www.texasmoratorium.org/
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Texas Students Against the Death Penalty (TSADP)
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"...works to end the death penalty through campaigns of public education and the promotion of youth activism. Texas Students Against the Death Penalty (TSADP) is an all-volunteer, grassroots organization formed in 2005..."
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http://www.texasabolition.org/
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Wisconsin Coalition Against the Death Penalty, The
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"...a coalition that has formed to fight attempts to bring the death penalty back. It is inhumane and racially biased, not an effective deterrent to crime, more costly than life imprisonment. Even with DNA testing there is still a risk of killing innocent people."
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http://www.nodeathpenaltywi.org/
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Witness to Innocence
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"Is there anything more horrific than the execution of a human being for a crime he or she did not commit?"
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http://www.witnesstoinnocence.org/
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