There's been some discussion recently on another thread, about the death penalty and actual innocence.
For those interested in pursuing research, or discussion, I'm happy to share these resources from my own research.
An Open Letter to the President
http://www.federalmoratorium.org/Law...oPresident.htm
Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science
http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/dnaevid.txt
Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science – Commentaries
http://www.criminallawyers.ca/newsle...6/06CONVIC.HTM
Factors Leading to Wrongful Convictions
http://www.chartoftheday.com/20000726b.htm
DEATH PENALTY
Case Against the Death Penalty
http://ethics.acusd.edu/Bedeau.html
Death Penalty Links
http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/links/dplinks.htm
Death Penalty News from Amnesty.org
http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/Index/...UNTRIES\CANADA
Death Penalty Representation Project
http://www.deathpenaltyattorney.com/form.html
Death Row’s Living Alumni
http://www.crimelynx.com/commentarydeathrow1.html
Public Opinion Polls
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Polls.html
Stop the Execution of the Innocent
http://www.aclu.org/action/dpinnocence107.html
DNA – SCIENCE & THE LAW
About DNA Evidence
http://law.about.com/cs/dnaevidence1/
DNA Evidence Banking
http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/cons/...e/banking.html
DNA Files .Org
http://www.dnafiles.org/home.html
DNA Forensics Conference – Spring 2000
http://www.healthtech.com/conference/00fdx/
DNA Guide
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/BC000657.htm
DNA in the Dock
http://www.unesco.org/courier/2000_04/uk/ethique.htm
DNA Search Warrants
http://www.victimsofviolence.on.ca/dna.htm
DNA Tells All – Doesn’t It?
http://whyfiles.org/014forensic/genetic_foren.html
Establishing a DNA Database
http://www.sgc.gc.ca/epub/pol/e199611/e199611.htm
Forensic DNA Analysis
http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/li...bs/bp443-e.htm
Genomics Newswire
http://www.genomicsnews.com/public/profiling.cfm
How DNA Evidence Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/dna-evidence.htm
International DNA Database
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/law/lws...4_2/05_TXT.htm
National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/dnamtgtrans6/welcome.html
Picturing DNA
http://www.geneart.org/genome-toc.htm
The DNA Revolution
http://www.crimelibrary.com/forensics/dna/index.htm
INNOCENCE PROJECT WEBSITES
California Innocence Project
http://www.cwsl.edu/icda/i_Innocence.html
Innocence Project – Cardozo
http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/innocence_project/
Innocence Project – Michigan
http://www.sado.org/cdn/cooley.htm
Innocence Project – Osgoode Hall
http://www.yorku.ca/dmartin/Innocence/innocenc.htm
Innocence Project Northwest
http://www.ipnw.org/
North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence
http://ncinnocencecenter.law.duke.edu/
Remington Center Innocence Project
http://www.law.wisc.edu/FJR/innocence/index.htm
U Missouri-KC Innocence Project
http://www.umkc.edu/umkc/catalog/htmlc/law/c656c.html
INTERVIEWS
Angels of Justice – Salon
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/03/17/scheck/
Barry Scheck on Frontline
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...ws/scheck.html
Peter Neufeld – A Passion for Justice
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/peo...feld-con0.html
Rubin Carter – Penthouse 1975
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip...interview.html
Senate Judiciary Committee Testimony of Barry Scheck
http://www.criminaljustice.org/publi...3?OpenDocument
LATEST NEWS
DNA in the News
http://www.ndaa.org/apri/DNA/index.html
DNA Warrants
http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/08/09/dn....ap/index.html
New Book on Truscott Case
http://www.newswire.ca/releases/Octo.../09/c4570.html
Timing Running Out to Close Loopholes
http://www.newswire.ca/releases/Sept.../08/c5893.html
USA Time to Stop Executing Juvenile Offenders
http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/Index/...=COUNTRIES\USA
Victim’s Family Joins Wrongly Convicted Staples In Suit Against Police
http://www.hamilton-justice.com/june5newsconf.htm
NEWS & ARTICLES
69th Person Set Free By Innocence Project
http://www.channel2000.com/news/stor...21-202006.html
A Canadian Tragedy
http://cbc.ca/news/indepth/canadian_tragedy/
A Rally for Justice and Accountability
http://www.lakecityreporter.com/news.../010302n3.html
Actual Innocence – case studies
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/se...-s14_prn.shtml
Barry Scheck, DNA Pioneer
http://archive.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/scheck1031/
Death Row Inmates, Lifers to get DNA aid
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/new..._20000501.html
DNA Databanks giving police powerful weapon: the instant hit
http://anon.razorwire.com/nytimes-le...-database.html
DNA Evidence Is Setting Felons Free
http://www.africana.com/DailyArticle...x_20000605.htm
DNA Testing: The Next Big Crime-busting Breakthrough
http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_dna_testing.html
DNA Tests Not Likely After An Execution
http://www.geocities.com/icacpstudent/franksmith.html
Ex-boxer Now Fights For Justice
http://detnews.com/2001/metro/0103/15/c09d-199719.htm
Expanding file of DNA riles Britain
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/09/07/p1s3.htm
Fear, Loathing and DNA
http://shadow.autono.net/sin001/dna.htm
Inmate Calls on Innocence Project
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/M.../16021493.html
Innocence Project begins in New England
http://www.s-t.com/daily/08-00/08-19-00/a03sr021.htm
Innocence Project credited with expanding awareness of DNA
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/12/22/in....project.crim/
Making Amends for Jailing the Innocent
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/199...p1s4-csm.shtml
New DNA tests are seen as key to Virginia Case
http://www.talkleft.com/dnava.html
Prison work fuels professor’s passion for justice
http://umns.umc.org/01/feb/068.htm
Reasonable Doubts: Is the US executing innocent people?
http://www.quixote.org/ej/grip/reaso...ubt/index.html
San Diego first to offer inmates free DNA tests
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/07/27/dna.testing/
Scheck taking a turn for the state
http://63.147.65.175/news/jon16.htm
Texas inmates confession slips through the cracks
http://www.talkleft.com/texfall.html
The Guy Paul Morin Story
http://www.razberry.com/raz/laframbo...in/gpmorin.htm
The Innocence Project seeks to free innocent prisoners
http://www.browndailyherald.com/stories.cfm?S=0&ID=1881
The Ordeal of Guy Paul Morin: Canada copes with systematic injustice
http://www.nacdl.org/CHAMPION/ARTICLES/98aug01.htm
The Wrong Man
http://www.uwyo.edu/pols/online/sche...WrongMan1.html
The Wrong Man .pdf file
http://eyewitnessconsortium.utep.edu/berlow.pdf
Tipping the scale at Wenatchee
http://www.wenworld.com/News/features/innocence.html
U. Missouri KC Plans Fight For Inmates
http://www.studentadvantage.lycos.co...132595,00.html
UH Law Students Confront Convictions
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_sout...ence_15te.html
Unlocking the cells
http://www.reason.com/0001/fe.rb.unlocking.html
When innocence isn’t good enough
http://www.truthinjustice.org/clarencepageed.htm
Worried police refuse to give DNA samples
http://www.lineone.net/express/00/07...s/n0240-d.html
Wrongfully Convicted – CBC News Online
http://cbc.ca/news/indepth/facts/wrong_convicted.html
ORGANISATIONS
American Civil Liberties Union
http://www.aclu.org/death-penalty/
Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted
http://www.aidwyc.org/
Centurion Ministries
http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/free...s?opendocument
Citizens for a Moratorium on Federal Executions
http://www.federalmoratorium.org/index.shtml
Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
http://www.cuadp.org/
Criminal Lawyers Association of Ontario
http://www.criminallawyers.ca/
National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers
http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/Free...e?OpenDocument
National Institute of Justice
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/welcome.html
New York State Defenders Association
http://www.nysda.org/Hot_Topics/DNA/dna.html
RECOMMENDED READING
A Mother’s Story – Joyce Milgaard
http://chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?C...FA0BA4FED52717
Actual Innocence – Scheck, Neufeld, Dwyer
http://chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?C...C638BBCB311917
DNA in the Courtroom
http://www.genelex.com/paternitytest...rnitybook.html
Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter
http://chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?C...F866DEDCFC3017
In Spite of Innocence – Radelet
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...281567-6927340
Lazarus and the Hurricane
http://chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?C...F866DEDCFC3017
REDRUM the Innocent – Makin
http://chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?C...E4EBB9C8943617
The 16th Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 42472
http://chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?C...F866DEDCFC3017
When Justice Fails: The David Milgaard Story
http://chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?C...075D3F085A3817
RELATED WEBSITES
CSIS Seminar to Explore Ramifications of DNA Forensics
http://www.csis.org/press/ma_2001_0502.htm
CUADP.org
http://www.cuadp.org/about.html
Death Penalty Information Center
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
Dr. Edmund Higgins
http://www.dredmundhiggins.com/
Rutgers.edu
http://law-crime.rutgers.edu/inno-links.html
Truth in Justice
http://www.truthinjustice.org/
SONGS
Hurricane – Bob Dylan
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.n...25696900386AA4
Wheat Kings – Tragically Hip, for David Milgaard
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tragi...heatkings.html
TELEVISION & FILM
Justice Denied: The Hurricane Carter Story
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/ju...-j17_prn.shtml
Milgaard
http://www.telefilm.gc.ca/en/prod/tv/tv99/029.htm
The Hurricane
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/ja...-j18_prn.shtml
WHO’S WHO
Barry Scheck
http://www.roycecarlton.com/speakers/scheck_bio.html
National Law Journal recognizes Scheck & Neufeld
http://www.nlj.com/power/05.html
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter
http://www.speakers.ca/carter.html
INNOCENCE PROTECTION ACT OF 2001
SECTION-BY-SECTION SUMMARY by NACDL
The Innocence Protection Act of 2001 is a carefully crafted package of criminal justice reforms aimed at reducing the risk that innocent persons may be executed. Most urgently, the bill would afford greater access to DNA testing by convicted offenders; and help States improve the quality of legal representation in capital cases.
Source:
http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/news...6?opendocument
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