Moratorium Resources 

Equal Justice USA/Quixote Center, P.O. Box 5206, Hyattsville, MD 20782; 301-699-0042; 301-864-2182 (fax)

• Raise the Call for a Moratorium on Executions: An Organizing Packet - Includes model moratorium resolutions, sample press release, ideas for working with the media, death penalty background information, etc. ($10)
  
• Equal Justice Under Law? Racism and the Death Penalty - A brochure summarizing the issue for general outreach (one copy free, call for bulk rates)
  
• Dead Man Walking - Sister Helen Prejean's bestseller ($12)
  
• Frontiers of Justice Volume 1: The Death Penalty - Edited by Claudia Whitman and Julie Zimmerman, Biddle Publishing, Brunswick, ME ($15)
  
• Religious statements on the death penalty - A compilation of documents ($3)

(All books, add $4 per order for shipping and handling; bulk rates available)

American Friends Service Committee, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102; 215-241-7130; 215-241-7119 (fax)

• Dead Man Walking Study Guide - A guide to be used with the movie that proposes thought provoking questions surrounding the death penalty. ($10)
  
• "Envisioning a World Without Violence - Organizing the Religious Community Against the Death Penalty" - T-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, tote bags (Call 215-241-7124 to order)
  
• Various books available for sale (Visit www.afsc.org/resource/crimjusp.htm)

Death Penalty Information Center, 1320 18th St. NW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20036; 202-293-6970; 202-822-4787 (fax)

• Death Penalty Fact Sheet
  
• Reports (also available at website listed below):
  
  • Innocence and the Death Penalty: The Increasing Danger of Executing the Innocent (1997)
    
  • Killing for Votes: The Dangers of Politicizing the Death Penalty Process (1996)
    
  • Twenty Years of Capital Punishment: A Re-evaluation (1996)
    With Justice for Few: The Growing Crisis in Death Penalty Representation (1995)
    
  • On the Front Line: Law Enforcement Views on the Death Penalty (1995)
    
  • The Future of the Death Penalty in the United States: A Texas-Sized Crisis (1994)
    
  • Millions Misspent: What Politicians Don't Say About the High Costs of the Death Penalty (1994)
    
  • Sentencing for Life: Americans Embrace Alternatives to the Death Penalty (1993)

Presbyterian Church (USA), Criminal Justice Program, 100 Witherspoon St., Louisville, KY 40202; 502-569-5810; 502-569-8116 (fax)

• Discussion Guide for Dead Man Walking - For use in Christian and Jewish communities. Includes process guidelines for discussion, 30 questions to assist in considering issues raised by the film. (Free)
• Young People and the Death Penalty - A study resource for church groups. Updated in 1995. Material for three sessions, including bible study, suggested activities and handouts. Designed for youth. Also suitable for adults. (Free)

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, 1436 U St. NW, Suite 104, Wash, DC 20009; 202-387-3890; 202-387-5590 (fax)

• National Execution Alert - Annotated listing of scheduled executions published monthly. (Call to subscribe)
• The 1997 Abolitionist Directory - A listing of anti-death penalty groups throughout the U.S. ($3)
  
• NCADP Public Opinion Polling Booklet - A summary of over 10 public opinion polls on the death penalty.
  
• Death as Penalty - A moral, practical and theological discussion by Howard Zehr. ($1)
  
• Who is My Neighbor? - A guide in learning to care for victims of crime by Howard Zehr. ($1)
  
• A Case Against the Death Penalty - A beginning guide to death penalty facts and issues by Hugo Bedau. ($1)
  
• Facing the Death Penalty - A collection of essays on a cruel and unusual punishment edited by Michael Radelet (1989). ($5)
  
• yeah clementine - A collection of poetry by H.L. "Wili" Otey, who was executed by Nebraska in September 1994. ($3)
  
• The Death Penalty: A Guide for Christians - A comprehensive guide to help Christians approach the death penalty. 1991. ($5)
  
• Unequal Justice? - A look at mental retardation and the criminal justice system by Robert Perske. 1991. ($5)
  
• Restorative Justice - A discussion paper on crime and justice by Rev. Virginia Mackey. ($2)

NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, 99 Hudson St., 16th Floor, New York, NY 10013; 800-622-7822; 212-219-2052 (fax)

• Double Justice (video) - Combines history of the racially biased use of the death penalty with contemporary research. (Free)
  
• Death Row USA - Listing of everyone on death row in the U.S published quarterly. The list is broken down in terms of race and sex. (Free)

Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, P.O. Box 65675, Los Angeles, CA 90065; 800-973-6548; 213-254-2884 (fax)

Abolition Wear- "I oppose the death penalty," "Execution is not the solution," and other T-shirts, bumpers stickers, buttons and banners. Call for a free catalogue or send an e-mail to cuadp@cuadp.org.

Shari Silberrstein
Equal Justice USA/Quixote Center
301-699-0042; 301-864-2182 (fax)
sharis@quixote.org

Diann Rust-Tierney
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
202-331-4090
diann@ncadp.org

Ron Tabak, Esq.
ABA Individual Rights Section
212-735-2226; 212-451-7000 (fax)
rtabak@skadden.com

Richard Dieter
Death Penalty Information Center
202-289-2975
ddieter@deathpenaltyinfo.org

Renny Cushing
Murder Victims Families for Human Rights
617-491-9600
rrcushing@earthlink.net

• Guidelines for Appointment and Performance of Counsel in Death Penalty Cases (1989), Death Penalty Representation Project, American Bar Association, Washington, DC; 202-662-1513.
  
• "Report Regarding Implementation of the American Bar Association's Recommendations and Resolution Concerning the Death Penalty and Calling for a Moratorium on Executions," Randall Coyne and Lyn Entzeroth, Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty, Fall 1996; 202-662-9468.
  
• ABA Study: An Updated Analysis of the Right to Council and the Right to Compensation and Expenses in State Post-Conviction Death Penalty Cases, Spangenberg Group, June 1996, American Bar Association Post-conviction Death Penalty Representation Project,Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC; 202-662-9263.
  
• Capital Punishment 1995, Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin, U.S. Department of Justice Programs, 633 Indiana Ave, NW, 5th Floor, Washington DC 20531.
  
• The Death Penalty in America (Third Edition), Hugo Adam Bedau, Oxford University Press (New York, Oxford) 1982.
  
• The Death Penalty in America, Current Controversies, Hugo Adam Bedau, Oxford University Press (New York, Oxford) 1997.
  
• Death at Midnight: Confessions of an Executioner, Don Cabana, Northeastern University Press (Boston) 1996.
  
• Administration of the Death Penalty in the United States, June 1996, Report of a Mission, International Commission of Jurists (Geneva, Switzerland), U.S. office: 212-972-0883.
  
• "Counsel for the Poor: The Death Sentence Not for the Worst Crime but for the Worst Lawyer," Stephen Bright, Yale Law Journal 103, no. 7 (May 1994) 1835-83. (Reprinted in The Death Penalty in America, Current Controversies - listed above)
  
• "Judges and the Politics of Death: Deciding Between the Bill of Rights and the Next Election in Capital Cases," S. Bright and P. Keenan, Boston University Law Review 75 (1995).
  
• "Too Young to Die - Juveniles and the Death Penalty," Sheri Jackson, New England Journal on Crime and Civil Confinement 22, 391 (Spring 1996).
  
• The Christian and Jury Duty, Duane Ruth-Heffelbower, Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Office of Criminal Justice, 220 West High St, Elkhart, IN 46516.
  
• Shot in the Heart, Mikal Gilmore (brother of Gary Gilmore, first person to be executed after death penalty was upheld in 1976), Doubleday (1993).
  
• Legal Lynching: Racism, Injustice & The Death Penalty, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Marlowe and Company (1996).

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