Task Force to
Abolish the Death Penalty

Death Penalty Links - Virginia and other Unitarian Universalist Web Sites

• First Unitarian Church of Richmond UUADP Chapter
  Organizes execution vigils at the Greensville Correctional Center.

• Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
  A non-partisan, statewide association for persons of faith who advocate for social justice.

• Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (VADP)
  Citizens' organization dedicated to educating the public about alternatives to the death penalty. Also seeks to provide outreach to murder victims' families.
  
  The Northern Virginia chapter of VADP meets on the second Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at UUCA.

• UUs for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
  An independent affiliate of the UUA that seeks to give witness to the five UUA resolutions of past years calling for an end to capital punishment.

Other Death Penalty and Related Web Sites:

• American Bar Association - Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project
  The Project was created to encourage other bar associations to press for moratoriums in their jurisdictions and to encourage state government leaders to establish moratoriums and undertake detailed examinations of capital punishment laws and processes in their jurisdictions.

• ACLU's Death Penalty Pages
  Includes their Execution Watch, "a counter of the number of U.S. executions since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976."

• Amnesty International USA: The Program to Abolish the Death Penalty
  Covers: weekly events, newsletter, fact sheets, death penalty in the US and worldwide, press releases and juveniles and the death penalty, among other information.

• Center on Wrongful Convictions, at Northwestern University School of Law
  Center staff pioneered the investigation and litigation of wrongful convictions - including the cases of nine innocent men sentenced to death in Illinois. These efforts were a driving force behind both Governor George H. Ryan's decision to suspend executions in Illinois and the current nationwide movement to reform the criminal justice system.

• Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (CUADP)
  CUADP works to end the death penalty in the United States through public education and grassroots activism. This web site offers news, press releases, a discussion of viable alternatives to the death penalty, a list of events nation wide, suggested readings, and more.

• Constitution Project's Death Penalty Initiative
  A bipartisan death penalty initiative formed to begin "the critically important task of examining our country's present course, and of recommending ways to ensure that fundamental fairness is guaranteed for all."

• Criminal Justice Project: Campaign for Criminal Justice Reform
  CCJR identifies solutions to one of the most pressing problems in the American criminal justice system: the rising incidence of people being wrongfully sentenced to death.

• Derechos Human Rights Death Penalty Links
  Great set of links covering: abolition, regional sites, pro death-penalty sites, law, people on death row, resolutions, reports and communiques, articles.

• Death Penalty Information Center
  Non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. Prepares in-depth reports, issues press releases, conducts briefings for journalists, and serves as a resource to those working on this issue

• Innocence Project, at the Cardozo School of Law
  A non-profit legal clinic that handles only cases where postconviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of innocence.

• Moratorium Campaign
  Calls for an immediate moratorium on executions so that serious questions about the application of the death penalty can be reviewed.

• Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, Inc.
  MVFR is a non-religious organization that includes people of a wide variety of faiths and belief systems. It is a national organization of family members of both homicide and state killings who oppose the death penalty in all cases.

• National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP)
  Coalition of organizations and individuals committed to the abolition of capital punishment. Provides information, advocates for public policy, and mobilizes and supports individuals and institutions that share the unconditional rejection of capital punishment.

• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  NACDL's Death Penalty Committee is actively involved in abolition and moratorium efforts around the country and the world. The committee is involved in assisting members in achieving due process and justice for their clients through a number of projects.

• Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project
  Works with official religious bodies to develop strategies and to promote anti-death penalty activism within each faith tradition.

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