Capital Punishment, Media and Race Lecture 17 - Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Guest speakers:

• Keith Findlay and John Pray, Clinical Professors of Law, University of Wisconsin - Madison Law School
• Chris Ochoa, student, University of Wisconsin - Madison.
• Wisconsin Innocence Project

Neufeld, Peter and Scheck, Barry.  Actual Innocence:  Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted. Chapter 10, "Race", pp. 193-211 and Appendix 2 "statistics by race", pp. 262-267."

Video: DNA freed Jerry Miller after he spent 26 years in prison (The Colbert Report, Comedy Central)

The Sentencing Project

Real Cost of Prisons Project

• Comix From Inside
• Writing From Prison

Facts for Figures: U.S. Census, Oct. 31, 2005   

Capital Punishment Website review:

1.  ACLU anti-death penalty site
2.  Death Penalty Information Center
3.  Federal Death Penalty Cases: Recommendations Concerning the Cost and Quality of Defense Representation
4.  Campaign to End the Death Penalty
5.  Death Penalty resource page (in English and Spanish)

Pro-Death Penalty Websites:

1. Informational sites

• http://www.prodeathpenalty.com
• http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/links/dplinks.htm

2. Article from PBS Frontline 

3. Myth of Racism in Death Penalty

Other Resources:

1.  Survey of the Federal Death Penalty System, (U.S. Dept. of Justice, released in Sept. 2000).
2.  Bureau of Justice Statistics Capital Punishment survey & statistics (most recent published)

Entire Capital Punishment series

3.  The Justice Project: A Broken System:  Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995

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