The following are other web sites you might find useful in obtaining information about the death penalty in Illinois and around the country.

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
http://www.ncadp.org

American Civil Liberties Union death penalty section
http://www.aclu.org/death-penalty/

Death Penalty Information Center
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org

Amnesty International death penalty section
www.Amnesty-usa.org/abolish/index

This web site tells the story of Bill Heirens, imprisoned since 1946. He was coerced into falsely confessing to 3 murders in order to avoid the death penalty:
http://www.freeheirens.com

Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation:
www.murdervictimsfamilies.org

Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (CUADP) works to end the death penalty in the United States through aggressive campaigns of public education and the promotion of tactical grassroots activism.:
http://www.cuadp.org

Campaign to End the Death Penalty (CEDP)
http://www.nodeathpenalty.org/

Death Penalty Focus (DPF)
http://www.deathpenalty.org/

Legal Information Institute (LII) site about court cases, decisions and laws
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/death_penalty.html

Michigan State University site--curricula for high school
http://deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/

A look at the death penalty by a professor; includes Chicago Tribune articles
http://www.uncp.edu/home/vanderhoof/death.html

Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/deathpenalty/

Cornell Law School Death Penalty Project
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/death/

The Public Cause Network
http://www.thepubliccause.net/DeathPenalty.html

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/national/criminal/cappunishment.htm

Catholics against Capital Punishment
http://www.cacp.org/

The Dalai Lama's view on the death penalty
http://www.engaged-zen.org/HHDLMSG.html

Save Jimmy Davis! highlights the case of a death row inmate who maintains he is innocent:
http://www.jimmydennis.org

Hands Off Cain against the death penalty inthe world:
http://www.handsoffcain.org

Deadly Decisions by American RadioWorks examines how jurors decide who should live and who should die:
http://americanradioworks.org/features/deadlydecisions/index.html

Recommend a death penalty web site via email by clicking here: info@icadp.org