The following links will direct you to other resources and anti-death penalty organizations. By listing these links, CAADP means to provide you with useful information about the death penalty. CAADP does not necessarily support the views represented on the Web sites listed below.
A Phoenix-based anti-death penalty group that focuses on educational activities. CAADP and the Arizona Death Penalty occasionally collaborate on projects.
This Web site contains information about the Catholic Church's stance on capital punishment. It includes information about relevant church documents, such as Pope John Paul II's Evangelium Vitae or The Catechism of the Catholic Church or publications from the United States Catholic Conference.
An article from the Criminal Justice Reform Education Fund regarding the impact that use of the death penalty has on states' budgets.
One of the best resources for information about the death penalty. The site includes a database of inmates, data related to the death penalty, a discussion of various death penalty-related issues, and so forth.
An expanded list of death penalty-related links.
Equal Justice USA is a project of the Quixote Center in Washington, DC. You can find useful information about political, grassroots efforts to enact a moratorium and end the death penalty.
The executive summary from this report describes its contents thus: "Our 23 years worth of results reveal a death penalty system collapsing under the weight of its own mistakes. They reveal a system in which lives and public order are at stake, yet for decades has made more mistakes than we would tolerate in far less important activities. They reveal a system that is wasteful and broken and needs to be addressed."
Middle Ground Prison Reform — an Arizona nonprofit company that works on prison reform issues — is one of CAADP's organizational members. Donna and James Hamm, who run Middle Ground, are founding members of CAADP, and James is currently a member of the CAADP Steering Committee.
Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation is a non-religious, death penalty abolition organization that includes people of a wide variety of faiths and belief systems. Its goal is to abolish the death penalty, and its membership includes individuals who have "lost a loved one to murder — through homicide or execution — and every [member] opposes the death penalty."
The only fully staffed national organization devoted exclusively to abolition of the death penalty. CAADP is the Arizona chapter of NCADP.
The official Web site for Helen Prejean, CSJ, a leader in the movement to abolish the death penalty and a member of the CAADP advisory committee. Sister Prejean is the author of Dead Man Walking, which also was made into a movie. Recently, she published her book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions.
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