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Authors of this page: Dr Robert N Moles and Bibi Sangha

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To argue that people who have been acquitted at trial are not “actually innocent” because a prosecutor holds some lingering belief in the person’s guilt is to turn suspicion into a permanent stigma. That goes against the most fundamental principle of our constitutional system. No one should have to prove his or her innocence. The status of innocence is a person’s full right unless the state has proven them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. If we throw out that protection, we have abandoned one of this country’s most important founding principles. 28 March 2008 - Death Penalty Focus - Report: Wrongful Convictions in California Capital Cases

Links

Texas Dept Criminal Justice Death Row Information
Texas Death Penalty Blog
Death Penalty Information Centre - A tremendous source of information on all aspects of the death penalty
Campaigns by Amnesty International - including Death Penalty
Juveniles on Alabama's Death Row - Including resources on related issues, organisations, materials on rights of the child
Australian Story - The Hanged Man's Shadow The Gun Alley Murder (Melbourne)

Reports

28 March 2008 - Death Penalty Focus - Wrongful Convictions in California Capital Cases
2008 - Report: Ohio group to stop executions

Books

A Saint On Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green. Thomas Cahill reviewed by David Hendricks

UK Law Reports - convictions overturned after people executed

Timothy Evans - see book by Ludovic Kennedy - 10 Rillington Place - Chief Crown witness was the likely murderer
1949 - George Kelly - non disclosure - false evidence by police
1952 - Derek Bentley - inappropriate directions by trial judge
1952 - Mahmood Mattan - Chief Crown witness was the likely murderer

Cameron Todd Willingham

7 September 2009 - New Yorker - Trial by Fire: Did Texas execute an innocent man? [Cameron Todd Willingham] major article
For more articles on this case go to Forensic Issues - arson - Willingham

3 January 2010 - LA Times - Doubts remain -- but legal recourse does not -- in Kevin Cooper case
30 November 2009 - New York Times - California: Inmate’s Appeal Is Rejected
25 September 2009 - Daily Bulletin - Death Row inmate petitions U.S. Supreme Court
30 March 2009 - ContraCosta Times - Cooper's appeals taking time
4 May 2007 - Political Affairs - Talking Sports from Death Row with Kevin Cooper

Media Reports

5 January 2010 - New York Times - Group Gives Up Death Penalty Work [American Law Institute] 
17 December 2009 - The Tennessean - Autopsy on executed inmate Cecil Johnson denied
17 October 2009 - Baltimore Sun - Key lawmakers question Maryland execution process
8 October 2009 - Associated Press - Alabama man executed for 1992 killing of store owner” [Max Payne, Alabama]
October 2009 - Media-Newswire.com - 'Dead Man Walking' author to receive honoary degree from Marquette [Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ]
26 September 2009 - Cincinnati Enquirer - All eyes on Lucasville in next execution attempt”. [Romell Broom]
22 September 2009 - The Telegraph - Japan's new justice minister opposes executions
12 September 2009 - Agence France-Presse - Ohio executes inmate with single drug [Kenneth Biros]
6 September 2009 - Herald Tribune - A look at what death row holds [Michael King]
14 August 2009 - New York Times - Judges’ Dissents for Death Row Inmates Are Rising
30 July 2009 - Associated Press - Executions fell in '08, report finds; China still at top
27 July 2009 - Daily Herald - Man wrongly convicted in Nicarico murder speaks out [Rolando Cruz]
20 July 2009 - CNN - Texas reporter's seen unrivaled number of U.S. executions
17 June 2009 - Daily News - Ohio Supreme Court sets 3 execution dates
29 June 2009 - CNN - Justices delay death row inmate's appeal [Troy Davis]
18 June 2009 - Jackson Free Press - Former Justice Fights Death Penalty [Kennedy Brewer case]
2 June 2009 - Gadsden Times - Execution to Death Row? Tight finances should force states to rethink policy
2 June 2009 - AlterNet - 200 Executions and Counting: Texas Gov. Rick Perry's Cruel Death Tally
1 June 2009 - Associated Press - Clay and others speak out on behalf of prisoner facing execution in 2 weeks [Reggie Clemons]
May 2009 - Innocence Project - After 22 Years on Death Row, Paul House is Cleared
14 March 2009 - The Guardian - I helped save a man from death row
13 March 2009 - Seattle Times - State Supreme Court delays Brown execution [Cal Coburn Brown]
26 March 2009 - The Etownian - New Mexico governor repeals death penalty option
11 March 2009 - Canwest News - World weighs in on Canada's capital-punishment stance [Ronald Smith, Montana]
6 March 2009 - Hartford Courant - Capital Punishment: It's Not Justice [Connecticut]
5 March 2009 - Globe and Mail - Clemency Policy: Ottawa told to help killer on death row in U.S. [Ronald Smith]
2 March 2009 - WZTV - AG asks Supreme Court to allow Alabama execution [Phillip Hallford]
3 March 2009 - Associated Press - Texas to carry out 9th execution of the year [Willie Pondexter]
1 March 2009 - The Times-Standard - Death penalty: a DA's decision [California]
28 February 2009 - Annapolis.com - Death penalty repeal fails [Maryland]
28 February 2009 - Canwest News - Montana could commute death penalty for Canadian [Ronald Smith]
26 February 2009 - Houston Chronicle - Court rejects inmate’s request to delay execution [Willie Pondexter]
21 February 2009 - NV Daily - Slain officer's friends react to Bell's execution [Edward N Bell]
22 February 2009 - San Francisco Chronicle - 3 years later, state executions still on hold [Michael Morales]
20 February 2009 - Capital News - Victim's mother urges death penalty repeal [Vicki Schieber]
18 February 2009 - New York Times - Judge Sharon Keller and the death penalty
18 February 2009 - Daily Record - Death penalty advocates, opponents appeal to legislators
1 February 2009 - Sunday Monitor (Kampala) - Death penalty is bad
22 January 2009 - Associated Press - Man convicted of strangling stepmother executed [Reginald Perkins]
22 January 2009 - Houston Chronicle - Room for doubt: Convicted murderer’s execution should be stayed [Larry Swearingen]
31 December 2008 - ProPublica - In 90’s, Burris Sought Death Penalty for Innocent Man” [Rolando Cruz]
November 2008 - Book: Execution’s Doorstep - True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned: Northeastern University Press
11 November 2008 - Amnesty - USA: Spate of executions during election month - 'chilling reminder' of human rights failings
10 November 2008 - American Chronicle - Are Prosecutors Really Seeking Death Penalty Against 8-Year Old Boy?
9 November 2008 - Times Online - Why you're safe from the death penalty (but only by a decade)
9 November 2008 - Houston Chronicle - Ex-judge wants man off death row [George Whitaker]
7 November 2008 - Boston Herald - Killer spared in first NH death trial in 49 years” [John Brooks]
6 November 2008 - Canwest News - Death penalty hearing set in Alberta. woman's murder case in N.C.” [Brad Cooper]
31 October 2008 - Associated Press - Death row survivors call for moratorium
16 November 2008 - Baltimore Sun - Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment
14 November 2008 - Associated Press - New York parolee executed in Texas for robbing, raping and shooting Army Medic. [Denard Manns]
1 November 2008 - Jamaica Observer - An eye for an eye makes the world blind
26 September 2008 - Associated Press - Oklahoma executes polygamist who killed young niece [Jessie James Cummings Jr]
19 September 2008 - Atlanta Journal Constitution - Protests held downtown over Troy Davis execution
19 September 2008 - The Times of South Africa - Texas death penalty put on trial
5 September 2008 - AP - Exonerated inmates argue against death penalty
3 September 2008 - Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Killer of Savannah police officer [Troy Anthony Davis] set to die Sept. 23
5 September 2008 - UPI - Wrongly imprisoned man demands apology
20 August 2008 - Baltimore Sun - Voices against death penalty
13 August 2008 - Dallas News - An inside look at Blockbuster killer Leon Dorsey's execution
6 August 2008  - New York Times - Texas Executes Mexican Despite Objections
15 July 2008 - St Louis Post-Dispatch - Court holds back Missouri execution [John Middleton]
9 July 2008 - The Oklahoman - Board asks Henry to stop inmate's execution [Kevin Young]
3 July 2008 - Associated Press - California Capital Punishment on Death Row
3 July 2008 - Daily Telegraph - Death row inmate freed after 20 years
26 June 2008 - New York Times - Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty for Child Rape
19 June 2008 - Associated Press - Prosecutors: No crying in death penalty closings
13 June 2008 - Houston Chronicle - Texas gets off to slow restart on executions
13 June 2008 - Death Penalty Information Centre - Anthony Graves Case Raises the Dead ... Again
13 June 2008 - Canadian Press - Most Canadians oppose death penalty: poll
21 June 2008 - Canwest News Service - Death sentence reprieve for man handed over by Canadian border services
10 June 2008 - New Scientist - Does lethal injection amount to human experimentation?
10 June 2008 - Lufkin Daily News - Mr Lesniak Changes His Mind [on the death penalty]
9 June 2008 - ABC News - Virginia Gov Grants Triple Murderer [Percy Levar Walton] Clemency
27 May 2008 - ABC - Pardon not enough, murdered girl's relative says [Colin Ross]
27 May 2008 - Associated Press - Australian [Colin Ross] hung 86 years ago - pardoned
3 May 2008 - New York Times - After Hiatus, States Set Wave of Executions
9 April 2008 - Liverpool Echo - Murder Most Foul: An innocent man [George Kelly] died on gallows
8 April 2008 - Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel - Death penalty diminishes U.S. moral standing
23 February 2008 - Tucson Citizen - Lawyers say system failing: Those most in need get inadequate representation
21 February 2008 - Los Angeles Times - Lawyers divided on death penalty system
1 February 2008 - Times Colonist - MP shares emotional tale of family's brush with death penalty
31 January 2008 - The Independent - Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights
19 January 2008 - New York Times - Lawyer Reveals Secret, Toppling Death Sentence
8 January 2008 - ABC News - Scot freed after 21 years on US death row
6 January 2008 - AFP - US Supreme Court to review legality of lethal injection
2 January 2008 - San Bernardino County Sun - Convicted killer [Kevin Cooper] continues death sentence fight
December 2007 - Press release - Australian Lawyers Alliance Executions are state-based murder - Van Nguyen
14 December 2007 - Reuters - New Jersey ends death penalty
4 December 2007 - Daily Bulletin - Cooper's appeal fails - Judges reject convicted killer's claims
17 November 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Court unlikely to rule against lethal injections
31 October 2007 - ABC News - Prisoner temporarily spared death penalty by court
30 October 2007 - New York Times - Supreme Court Stays Execution in a Sign of a Broader Halt
29 Oct 2007 - Reuters - Lawyers' group urges death penalty moratorium
13 October 2007 - Sydney Morning Herald - Killing undertaken by the state is still killing
13 October 2007 - Globe and Mail - Canada: How Mulroney buried the move to reinstate capital punishment
12 October 2007 - Nevada Appeal - Nevada has long history of inflicting capital punishment
11 October 2007 - Houston Chronicle - Lawyers say judge violated executed man's rights
8 October 2007 - Chicago Tribune - It's U.S. versus Texas in death penalty case
4 October 2007 - Courier Mail - Court closed at five, inmate executed
21 September 2007 - Associated Press - Texas: Man executed for part in 1999 triple slaying
21 September 2007 - UN News Service - Gabon: Abolition of Death Penalty Welcomed By UN Human Rights Chief
20 September 2007 - Reuters - Nashville: Judge rules against lethal injection procedure
25 August 2007 - The Scotsman - Sunny's side of life, a remarkable story
24 August 2007 - Herald Sun - Texas kills its 400th convict
23 August 2007 - UK Guardian - Alberto Gonzales, angel of death
19 July 2007 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Pope asks Perdue to spare Troy Anthony Davis's life
4 July 2007 - Associated Press - Mother of Condemned Inmate Executed Sues Over 90-Minute Execution
27 June 2007 - CNN (AP) - Did Missouri execute an innocent man? [Larry Griffin 25 years ago]
27 June 2007 - Seattle Times - Patrick Knight executed without telling joke he promised
27 June 2007 - ABC News Oklahoma - Terminally Ill Man Executed
22 June 2007 - The Courier-Journal - Kentucky: Charles Bussell on death row gets new trial: court: Lawyer was ineffective
22 June 2007 - Associated Press - Texas man [Gilberto Rayes] executed for killing ex girlfriend
23 June 2007 - Star News Southern Carolina - man [Calvin Alphonso Shuler] executed for killing guard
22 May 2007 - Blade Columbus Bureau - No clemency in slaying of cellmate, Strickland decides
22 May 2007 - GateHouse News Service - Life in Limbo: Fate of Illinois' death penalty
24 May 2007 - Sandusky Register - Former Huron man to be executed this morning
23 May 2007 - Associated Press - Robert Comer (Arizona) dropped appeals - executed
22 May 2007 - Columbia Tribune - “Prisons chief hails execution team secrecy
20 May 2007 - KXAN News Service - Kansas Prison Escapee Who Killed Texas Deputy Executed
20 May 2007 - The Jamaica Gleaner - Earl Pratt (Jamaica) writing book about life in jail
12 May 2007 - Associated Press - Oklahoma - former death row inmate set free
7 May 2007 - Tennessean - Let's set the record straight about the death penalty's effects
7 May 2007 - Catholic News Service - dark act done under the cover of night
7 May 2007 - Ventura County Star - Schwarzenegger plans to restart capital punishment soon
7 May 2007 - WANE - AP - convicted murderer (David Woods) was executed early Friday morning
24 April 2007 - Associated Press - Lawyer group wants death penalty process studied
24 April 2007 - AHN - Filiaggi Executed In Ohio After Supreme Court Denies Appeal
24 April 2007 - Scientific American - Executed in US may be awake as they suffocate
20 April 2007 - Bucyrus Telegraph - Ohio Gov refuses clemency
20 April 2007 - Chicago Tribune - Resistance to death penalty grows across US
20 April 2007 - Tyler Morning Telegraph - Mother protests death penalty
14 April 2007 - Philadelphia News, once on death row they urge end to executions
14 April 2007 - California Post Chronicle - new execution chamber
14 April 2007 - Dallas Morning News - paper calls for end to death penalty
11 April 2007 - Arizona - prepares to execute Robert Comer
10 April 2007 - NBC News - James Lee Clark faces execution next week
10 April 2007 - Chicago Tribune - the paper comes out against the death penalty
10 April 2007 - The Times Picayne - Tulane to show unique death penalty film
9 April 2007 - Cincinatti Post - Marco Chapman asks to be executed in Kentucky
8 April 2007 - Japan Focus - the death penalty in Japan
11 May 2006 - WA Bar Association: Death Penalty being Applied or Reintroduced in Australia
20 April 2006 - Amnesty International - death penalty rates world wide

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