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• Capital punishment (Wikipedia)
  1 Terminology
  2 History
  3 The death penalty worldwide
  4 Ethical views on capital punishment
  5 Religious views on capital punishment
  6 Methods of execution
  7 The death penalty in arts and media ...
  
  

• A world map - The Death Penalty: Abolitionist & Retentionist Countries (worldpolicy.org)

METHODS OF EXECUTION

• UK dilemma: US death penalty drug is supplied by Britain - ACCES PAR MOT DE PASSE
  "Drugs supplied by a UK pharmaceutical company are to be used to execute a convicted murderer in the US state of Georgia on Tuesday.
  The firm's sole shareholder, wholesaler Mehdi Alavi, 50, who declined to comment also supplied California with enough drugs for 85 executions."
  (sabironlangues.typepad.fr)
  
  

• US inmate John Duty executed with animal drug
  "Officials in the US state of Oklahoma have executed a death-row inmate with a drug cocktail that includes a sedative typically used to put down animals."
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• Utah firing squad executes US killer Ronnie Lee Gardner
  "The US has carried out its first execution by firing squad in 14 years."
  (BBC)

• Utah murderer Gardner chooses death by firing squad
  "Of the 35 US states that have the death penalty, Utah is the only one to give firing squads as an option."
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• Ohio man first US person executed by single injection
  "The US state of Ohio has become the first in the country to carry out an execution with a single-drug injection, instead of a combination of three...
  Other states which have the death penalty were reported to be watching closely but some - including Florida, Kentucky, Texas and Virginia - have said they intend to keep the triple-drug method.
  Of the 36 death penalty states which have lethal injection as a means of execution, all but Ohio favour the three-drug method."
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• Methods of Execution Used in Capital Punishment in the USA (infoplease.com)

• Methods of execution (procedure, history, current application) - (clarkprosecutor.org)
  
  

• History of Execution Methods in the U. S. (Research from the Death Penalty Information Center)
  
  
  
  
  
• Upcoming US executions (ccadp.org)
  
  

• Methods of Execution :
  Authorized Methods / Authorized Methods by State / News and Information /
  Description of Each Method / Botched Executions
  (deathpenaltyinfo.org)

• Famous Executions :
  The Rosenbergs - Bruno Hauptmann - Charlie Starkweather & Caril Ann Fugate (courttv.com)

THE PROS AND CONS

• Ethics guide : Capital punishment (BBC)

  

• Capital punishment - a debate : Is it ever justifiable to execute criminals? (markedbyteachers.com) - UPDATED
  
  
  
• Essay on capital punishment.
  "Two different cases can be made. One is based on justice and the nature of a moral community.
  This leads to a defense of capital punishment. The second is based on love and the nature of an ideal spiritual community.
  This leads to a rejection of capital punishment."
  (frontiernet.net)
  
  

• The pros and cons (lots of links) - Articles, essays and argument (clarkprosecutor.org)

• Arguments for and against (Michigan State University)
  - "Click on AGREE and DISAGREE to read both sides of each argument". (deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu)

FOR THE DEATH PENALTY

• Pro Death Penalty (prodeathpenalty.com)

• Death Penalty Organizations & Sites, Pro & Con (justice.uaa.alaska.edu)

AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY

• Against the death penalty - Amnesty International (amnestyusa.org)
  
  
  
  
  
• Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (ocadp.org)
  
  
  
• ACLU "to stop the execution of the innocent" (aclu.org)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• G. Bush : The Texecutioner (ccadp.org)
  
  

FOR ALTERNATIVES

• Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (justicepolicy.com)
  
  

ARTICLES / DOCUMENTS

• Further information on Death penalty/Legal concern, Charles Dean Hood
  "Charles Hood was sentenced to death in 1990 for the murders of Ronald Williamson and Tracie Lynn Wallace in 1989. Twenty years old at the time of the crime, Charles Hood has been on death row for nearly 18 years...
  Texas accounts for 406 of the USA’s 1,106 executions carried out since 1977."
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• Death penalty petition targets US (BBC)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Most US death sentences 'flawed' (BBC)
  
  
  
  
  
• Death row inmate nominated for Nobel Peace Prize (CNN)
  
  

ADS

• "We, on death row" de Benetton (image) ou ici

• The electric chair (Benetton)
  (lclark.edu)
  
  

• Poster : "Thanks to modern politics..." (ACLU)
  (aclu.org)
  
  

CARTOONS (Si le lien est inaccessible, enregistrer l'image pour obtenir la taille initiale.)

Cartoon: American Justice "This cartoon by Steve Bell from The Guardian relates to the execution by lethal injection of death row inmate Troy Davis  in Georgia. The execution went ahead despite  serious doubts about Davis's guilt, after the US supreme court refused a last-minute appeal..." COMMENT + LINKS (englishblog.com)	Death Penalty Cartoons (cartoonstock.com)	April Fool - cartoon
And justice for all (jlcauvin.com)	NO DEATH PENALTY FOR JUVENILES ... by all the top cartoonists! (cagle.slate.msn) (Si le lien est inaccessible, enregistrer l'image pour obtenir la taille normale.)	Life and Death (archive.gamespy.com)

ART

• Andy Warhol's macabre picture of the electric chair at Sing Sing (nga.gov.au)
  
  
  
  
  
• Death Penalty Drawings and Illustrations from News Art (newsart.com)
  
  

TAPES

• Execution tapes - Inmates' Last Words - You can listen to them (soundportraits.org)