EXTERNAL DEATH PENALTY RESOURCES
While Death Penalty Action is a leadership, resource and support organization for those wishing to take action against the death penalty, we invite you to educate yourself about the facts and realities surrounding this issue.
The death penalty in the United States is indisputably racist, arbitrary, costly, error prone, harmful to homicide victim survivors, and prone to geographic disparity, poor legal representation and prosecutorial overreach.
The following web sites provide regularly updated data:
Death Penalty Information Center
Rick Halperin's Execution Database and News
National organizations working primarily on the death penalty:
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty
Congregation of St. Joseph Ministry Against the Death Penalty
Equal Justice USA (Also from EJUSA: Haga clic aquí para recursos en Español, sobre La Pena de Muerte)
Journey of Hope ...From Violence to Healing
Murder Victim's Families for Reconciliation
Death Row Pen Pals:
Recommended faith-based organizations and groups:
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
Unitarian Universalists For Alternatives to the Death Penalty
State-level organizations, in alpabetical order:
Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty (Alabama)
Arkansas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Death Penalty Alternatives for Arizona
Death Penalty Focus (California)
Coloradans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Delaware Citizens Opposed to the Death Penalty
Delaware Repeal Project/American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware
Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Louisiana Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
New Hampshire Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Nevada Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Oklahoma Coalition To Abolish The Death Penalty
Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
South Dakotans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Utahans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty