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The Film
Race to Execution
Get screening information about the film, view movie clips, download press kits and more.
Lioness Media Arts
The filmmaker's site features information on documentaries and education programs from the production company.
Capital Punishment and the U.S. Criminal Justice System
Equal Justice Initiative
The Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, one of the few U.S. states that does not have a statewide public defender system, provides legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system.
Center for Justice in Capital Cases, DePaul University
Learn more about the Center, a national resource for capital defense attorneys that offers training for attorneys appointed to defend individuals charged with a capital crime and serves as a training ground for students interested in working on capital cases.
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
The Institute, a part of Harvard University's Law School, was established by Charles Ogletree, who is featured in RACE TO EXECUTION.
The Center for Communications and Community
The Center for Communications and Community (C3) is a journalism, research and training institution working at the intersection of communications, race and community transformation.
Death Penalty Information Center
Read fact sheets, reports, articles, state-by-state information on capital punishment and much more at this online information clearinghouse.
Justice for All
Justice for All, a criminal justice reform organization that promotes victims rights and supports the death penalty, sponsors this site which includes a wide range of resources designed to support those who want to keep capital punishment.
National Death Penalty Archive
Learn more about the National Death Penalty Archive, the first archive exclusively dedicated to the history of the death penalty in the U.S. and a partnership between the University at Albany Libraries and the Capital Punishment Research Initiative at the university's School of Criminal Justice.
Innocence Project
Read case profiles and more from the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal clinic and criminal justice resource center working to exonerate the wrongfully convicted through post-conviction DNA testing.
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: The Death Penalty
The Pew Charitable Trust supports this non-partisan site that includes polling data related to the death penalty as well as articles exploring ethical and religious dimensions of the debate.
Southern Center for Human Rights
The Southern Center for Human Rights is a non-profit, public interest law firm dedicated to enforcing the civil and human rights of people in the criminal justice system in the South.
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
The only fully staffed national organization exclusively devoted to abolishing capital punishment, the NCADP provides information, advocates for public policy and mobilizes and supports individuals and institutions that share unconditional rejection of capital punishment.
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Get the facts and listen to voices from death row from this national membership-driven, chapter-based grassroots organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment in the United States.
Death Penalty: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns
Read the death penalty blog, find calls to action and learn more through Q&As, fact sheets, case updates and other news items.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch "opposes capital punishment in all circumstances because of its cruel and inhumane nature." Read about their latest work on capital punishment in the United States.
ACLU: Race and the Death Penalty
Read statistics and recent reports concerning race and the death penalty in the United States from the American Civil Liberties Union.
Journey of Hope
Journey of Hope is an organization led by murder victim family members joined by death row family members, family members of the executed, the exonerated and others with stories to tell, that conducts public education speaking tours and addresses alternatives to the death penalty.
Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, Inc.
MVFR is a non-religious, death penalty abolition organization that includes people of a wide variety of faiths and belief systems, working with murder victims’ families to become an effective voice opposing the death penalty.
Life After Exoneration Program
Learn more about the program, which is dedicated to helping survivors of wrongful conviction re-enter society and rebuild their lives.
Books
From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America
Edited by Charles J. Ogletree Jr. and Austin Sarat
(New York University Press, 2006)
Read assessments on the influence and impact of racism on U.S. death penalty cases.
When The State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition
By Austin Sarat
(Princeton University Press, 2002)
Political science professor Austin Sarat's arguments for the abolition of the death penalty, and the intersection of race and capital punishment.
Jurors' Stories of Death: How America's Death Penalty Invests in Inequality
By Benjamin Fleury-Steiner
(University of Michigan Press, 2004)
Jurors in capital punishment cases speak in their own words about the death penalty, race, gender and class.
No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System
By David Cole
(The New Press, 2000)
Georgetown University law professor David Cole presents how the U.S. criminal justice system has become a two-tiered system based on race and class.
In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases
By Micheal L. Radelet
(Northeastern University Press, 1994)
Read about 400 cases of innocent Americans falsely convicted of capital crimes.
The Death Penalty: An American History
By Stuart Banner
(Harvard University Press, 2003)
This book presents an overview of American attitudes toward capital punishment, from the 17th century to today.
Sources
The following served as information sources for the Cases of Race section of this site:
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