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Blawg Directory: Death Penalty

Abolish the Death Penalty
An advocacy blog published by the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Features personal stories of crime victims, death row inmates and activists. The blog mission is to "put a human face on the debate over capital punishment."
Capital Defense Weekly
Discussions and rulings on cases of interest to criminal defense lawyers who handle death penalty cases.
Death Penalty Blog
"Get the latest news on the death penalty in the United States and worldwide, and learn how you can work with Amnesty International USA to abolish capital punishment."
Death Penalty Information Center
Features the latest news, court rulings and information relating to the death penalty.
Death Penalty Open Access Research
Death Penalty Open Access Research bills itself as an open access case book for death penalty jurisprudence. It has links to statutes, articles, cases and other sources of death penalty information.
Deathwatch North Carolina
"We provide news updates, with links to relevant sources and documents, several times a week. On occasion, we publish longer opinion-based articles about specific cases or major issues in capital and/or criminal defense."
Deliberations
This blawg covers jury matters of all kinds and their implications for trial lawyers, from new case law, social science research, current trials, and the blogosphere. The site includes a section collecting sample juror questionnaires to assist lawyers preparing for voir dire.
Grits for Breakfast
This blawg covers "the political, economic and social consequences of crime, punishment and justice in the Lone Star State, from police searches at traffic stops to the county jail, the courts, the prison system, community supervision, and everything they influence. Welcome to Texas justice: You might beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride."
Kansas Death Penalty Focus
Kansas Death Penalty Focus says its mission is "focusing attention on the injustice of the Kansas death penalty."
Lethal Injection
Features news, commentary and analysis of the issue of lethal injection in the United States, although there is an emphasis on Florida.
Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog
This blawg covers information about law and order in Florida for both practitioners and potential clients. Also some discussions about evidence and the death penalty.
Prevention Not Punishment
"Educating the public on the intersection of the death penalty and severe mental illness."
Second Circuit Sentencing Blog
Second Circuit Sentencing Blog has summaries and commentary on substantive sentencing decisions in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in New York.
Seeking Justice
"This blog will be devoted to exploring the crisis in the Catholic Church, the destruction of Western Civilization, and the airing of my gripes about my professional field, criminal justice, viewed from my lofty perch as a local prosecutor in the trenches. I make no apologies for my visceral traditionalism nor for my heroes, such as (in random order) Chesterton, Salazar, Scalia, Marcel Lefebvre."
StandDown Texas Project
The Project identifies and advocates best practices in the indigent criminal justice system. The blog pays particular attention to issues involving capital punishment and the administration of the death penalty.
TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime
TalkLeft says it contains "liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news." Its mission is to "intelligently and thoroughly examine issues, candidates and legislative initiatives as they pertain to constitutional rights, particularly those of persons accused of crime."
tcask:: on the road (to abolition)
The Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing posts news and information relating to the death penalty.
Texas Death Penalty Blog
This blawg follows death penalty cases and legislation in Texas and elsewhere.
Texas Moratorium Network
"Working to stop executions in Texas since 2000."
The Justice Gambit
"Commentary on events in the U.S. system of justice from a social science perspective."