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This is by no stretch of the imagination meant to be a comprehensive list of Death Penalty-related websites. Both Google and Yahoo will provide you with more links than you could ever possibly visit--and among those you can pinpoint several such comprehensive lists. The links here are rather just some of the sites I consider the most informative, useful, or interesting.

Organizations
- American Bar Association
  "Your most powerful source for legal information."
- ACLU: Death Penalty Campaign
  While I don't necessarily agree with everything the ACLU advocates, I do agree with them on this. Their page offers, among other things, free faxes to your legislators and this execution counter.
- Amnesty International: Website Against The Death Penalty
  For perhaps the worldwide leader in protecting human rights, this particular site is somewhat disappointing and hasn't been updated in years. However, it may have been abandoned in favor of the AI-USA site--
- Amnesty International: Program To Abolish The Death Penalty
  This is an excellent source of information on the Death Penalty, particularly if you are against it.
- National Association Of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  "Ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime..."
Resources
- Death Penalty Information Center
  Richard Dieter's Washington-based DPIC offers an amazingly thorough online compendium of, well, Death Penalty information.
- Equal Justice Initiative Of Alabama
  "Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama is a private, nonprofit organization that provides legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system."
- The Justice Project
  "The Justice Project is committed to educating the American public about our deeply flawed capital justice system." Sign up for email updates, fax your legislators, and sign petitions online.
- Southern Center For Human Rights
  The Southern Center for Human Rights carries out two projects: a death penalty project and a prison and jail project. In addition, the Center has a human rights internship project which involves students in human rights work. Many of SCHR Director Stephen Bright's articles, speeches and reports are available here.
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice: Statistics & Death Row
  Enough to glut even the most morbid fascination with Death Row and executions in the Lone Star State.
Death Row Prisoners
(Inmates do not have internet access; the following pages have been created and maintained by supporters in the world.)
- Dead Man Talkin'
  Dean Carter is a California Death Row inmate writing about what life is like waiting to die in San Quentin.
- Death Row Speaks
  Created and maintained by friends of David Hammer, a Federal Death Row inmate, this site features online journals, artwork and poetry by Death Row prisoners, and lots and lots of practical information, especially about the Federal Death Row in Terre Haute.
- Martin Draughon - Inmate On Texas Death Row
  Niels Graverholt maintains this page as a subsection of his Danish-and-English Fight The Death Penalty In The USA. I cannot recommend Martin's Writings From Death Row strongly enough. This is probably the best prisoner page on the Web.
- Anthony Graves: Innocent Man On Death Row
  Sure, everyone's innocent on Death Row, right? Read his story. If you don't believe him, read his co-defendant's last statement on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice website.
- The Lamp Of Hope Project
  The Lamp of Hope Project was founded by Texas Death Row prisoners. Its goals include public education about the Death Penalty and offering support to the families of both victims and prisoners.
- A couple of men I used to know:
  - Napoleon Beazley
  - Kevin Zimmerman
Visuals
- Ken Light, Texas Death Row
  A series of black and whites taken in 1994 at the old Ellis Unit in Huntsville, Texas Death Row's erstwhile home. Visit the site. Buy the book.
- Washington Post | PhotoVoyage | Death Row
  Also shot at Ellis. The unidentified prisoner portraits include those of Max Soffar, Granville Riddle, and Calvin Burdine. Be sure to follow the link to Witness To An Execution, narrated by former Huntsville "Walls" Unit Warden Jim Willett.

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