- Podcast - The Supreme Court of California: The Death Penalty and the Appellate Process
by UCTV: University of California, Berkeley
In this podcast, we are able to listen to the University of California Law students have a debate over the issue of whether of not the death penalty should be abolished.
This is a very valuble websit with many different resources such as statistics about death penalty cases as well as links to find out more about the death penalty in your state.
- Book - The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies by Hugo Adam Bedau
In this book all of the death penalty cases that have previously taken place are talked about and discussed and issues such as the wrong man on death row or how long an individual can wait for their execution date on death row are all addressed in this book.
- Book - Death Penalty Cases: Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment by Barry Latzer
This book closely related to my topic and was very useful in my research as to the fact that a majority of the cases that were discussed in this book were in favor of my opinion that the death penalty should be abloished in all U.S states.
- Video - The Wrong Man on Death Row by Ray Krone
This is a video of a gentleman who tells his story of being wrongly convicted of raping a young girl. He was incarcerated and mistreated for many years, and had his "normal" life ripped away from him. Even today when he has been set free he still feels as though he has lost so much due to this wrong conviction, his closest friends and family were ripped from him and he will always be looked down upon in today's society.
- Video - Victim to Panel: No to Death Penalty, No to Revenge by Aundre Herron
This is a video of a sister of a man who was murdered a few years ago, who was in strong favor of the death penalty when he brother was first killed but is now fighting to get the murderer off of death row in hopes to save his family from the pain and suffering she has endured since her brothers death. She now realized that the one thing death penalty should be used for is revenge and she will not have it.
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