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Activist Sites
Amnesty International
A worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all.
www.amnesty.org
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
TCADP is a grassroots organization comprising Texas individuals and groups who are working to end the death penalty in the state.
http://www.tcadp.org
The Fortune Society
American organization working to 'change minds and build lives' by supporting prisoners and ex-prisoners to provide a positive contribution to society.
www.fortunesociety.org
Books Through Bars
Send quality reading material to US prisoners and encourage creative dialogue on the criminal justice system.
www.booksthroughbars.org
Prison Activist Resource Center
A source of progressive and radical information on American prisons and the criminal prosecution system.
www.prisonactivist.org
Prison Moratorium Project
Brooklyn-based organization dedicated to the abolition of prisons.
www.nomoreprisons.org
Prison Sucks
An American project of the Prison Policy Initiative
providing 'research on the crime control industry'.
www.prisonsucks.com
Prison Policy Initiative
Documenting
the impact of 'mass incarceration on individuals, communities and the national welfare' of the USA.
www.prisonpolicy.org
Death Penalty Information Center
Washington based non-profit organization founded in 1990 serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment.
www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
Texas Execution Information Center
A privately run site with information about executions in Texas and includes a watch list and statistics.
www.txexecutions.org
Death Penalty and Execution News
An anonomously run collection of news articles and editorials about the death penalty.
http://people.smu.edu/rhalperi/updates.html
Todesstrafe Texas
German site committed to the fight for human rights. English language version covering Texas Death Row.
www.todestrakt-texas.de
D.R.I.V.E.
Four language activist site of the Death Row Inner-communalist Vanguard Engagement who seek to 'unite the Death Row Community' to bring about change for inmates.
http://drivemovement.org
Campaign to End The Death Penalty
CEDP is a national membership-driven and chapter-based grassroots organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment in the US.
http://nodeathpenalty.org
Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort
French association Together Against the Death Penalty. Site is in the French language but can be translated by Google Translate.
www.abolition.fr
Texas Moratorium Network
A grassroots non-profit organization dedicated to mobilizing statewide support for a moratorium of executions in Texas. This site is their political arm.
http://tmnpac.org/
Stop Executions Blogspot
Blog site promoted by the Texas Moratorium Network
(above).
http://stopexecutions.blogspot.com/
Lifespark
A Swiss non-profit organisation founded in 1993 to
campaign against the Death Penalty.
www.lifespark.org
Texas Death Penalty Blog
Blog run by Texas Students Against the Death Penalty (TSADP)
http://texasdeathpenalty.blogspot.com
At 10 a.m. — when the execution was scheduled to begin (at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility) — the group assembled into a loose circle. The president of Ohioans to Stop Executions, Sister Alice Gerdeman of Cincinnati, read a prayer. Then another member of the group tolled a bell while the rest stood in silence until Sister Gerdeman received a phone call from inside the prison informing the assembly that Barton died at 10:27 a.m.
"Everybody, no matter how heinous an action they have performed, they're still human beings and they need to be mourned by someone," Sister Gerdeman said before the execution. "Every time the state takes a life, I believe that some people need to bear witness to the fact that we do not accept that this is done in our names or in our safety."
Tom Beyerlein, American-Statesman
13th July 2006