Sociology--Death Penalty In America: Research Resources
Recent Death Penalty News/Issues
Lethal injection room at San Quentin Prison, California (via wikimedia commons)
- "The Death Penalty Deserves the Death Penalty" New Yorker (April 15, 2015)Excellent overview of the legal and ethical issues of lethal injection and the death penalty. Discusses Glossip v. Gross, the case before the US Supreme Court.
- "The Dawn of a New Form of Capital Punishment" Time Magazine (April 10, 2015)Is nitrogen asphyxiation an alternative to lethal injection?
- "Less Support for Death Penalty, Especially Among Democrats" Pew Research Center (April 16, 2015)A report from the Pew Research Center, a non partisan think tank that specializes in collecting and documenting public opinion on a wide variety of topics.
General Magazines, Newspapers, & Journals
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- ProQuest (dates vary)
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Thousands of full-text U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and journals.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Great resource for scholarly articles.
Other Death Penalty Resources
Old Sparky, the electric chair formerly used in the Huntsville Unit Prison in Texas (via wikimedia commons)
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- Capital Punishment Portal--Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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Excellent portal with links to viewpoint articles for and against the death penalty, reference articles, news, journal articles, statistics and more. - Death Penalty: Will capital punishment be abolished in America? (CQ Researcher, May 2014)
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Capital punishment is gradually fading from the American criminal justice system, and fewer criminals are being sentenced to death in states that still impose the death penalty... - "U.S. Death Penalty Facts" Amnesty InternationalResources and data from Amnesty International, a human rights organization that opposes capital punishment.
- Death Penalty Information Center"The Death Penalty Information Center is a national non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment."
Check out their Fact Sheet for a very useful set of statistics.
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