Internet Resources

Contents:
Policy Positions of Religious Communities
Letters from Coalitions of Religious Leaders
Articles/Essays/Speeches on Religion and the Death Penalty
Polls and Statistics on the Death Penalty
General Information and News about the Death Penalty
Pew Forum Resources
Advocacy Groups


Policy Positions of Religious Communities

 

Letters from Coalitions of Religious Leaders

 

Articles, Essays, and Speeches on Religion and the Death Penalty

What the Bible Says About the Death Penalty from ReligiousTolerance.org

Aslam Abdullah, Demystifying Muslim Justice (Beliefnet).

David Anderson, The Death Penalty and the Bible. (Chapter 5 of The Death Penalty: A Defense)

Kerby Anderson, Should Christians Support the Death Penalty? (Probe Ministries, 1992).

Charles Austin, "Clergy Wrestles With Death Penalty," Bergen (NJ) Record, 10 June 2001

David L. Brown, The Bible's Teaching on Capital Punishment (1992).

Deborah Caldwell, That Other Pro-Life Issue: Conservative Christians Are Reaching a Turning Point on Capital Punishment (Beliefnet).

Dudley Sharp, "Christianity and the Death Penalty" (at ProDeathPenalty.com)

Avery Cardinal Dulles, Catholicism & Capital Punishment, First Things (April 2001)30-35.

Tom Flannery, "The Death Penalty: A Christian Defense," (from Christianity.Com, 2000)

Peter Gathje, “The Death Penalty as Rejection of God’s Justice,” Hospitality, July 2000.

His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, “Message Supporting the Moratorium on the Death Penalty.”

Damien P. Horigan, A Buddhist Perspective on the Death Penalty: Of Compassion and Capital Punishment, The American Journal of Jurisprudence Vol. 41 (1996): 271-288.

Ellen Johnson, "The Death Penalty: One Atheist's Position," American Atheist (1998)

Wesley Lowe, “Capital Punishment and Christianity”

David O'Reilly, Religions disagree about morality of the death penalty, Tallahassee Democrat 5 May 2001.

Keith Pavlischek, Capital Punishment, Justice, and Timothy McVeigh, 21 May 2001, Center for Public Justice

Naomi Pfefferman, Jews and the Death Penalty, Jewish Journal, 10 March 2000.

Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., “Would Jesus pull the switch?” Salt of the Earth (Claretian Publications, 1997).

Marc Racicot (former Governor of Montana), The Death Penalty in the 21st Century, 15 April 15 2000.

Karl Shelly and David Whettstone, "State Killing: An Office Guide to the Death Penalty,” (Mennonite Central Committee, 1998-2000)

Ernest van den Haag (Fordham University), The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense, Harvard Law Review, 1986

 

Polls and Statistics on the Death Penalty

Gallup Polls on the Death Penalty

Faith-Based Funding Backed, But Church-State Doubts Abound (April 10, 2001). National poll from the Pew Research Center for People and the Press, in association with the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

Global listing of retentionist & abolitionist nations (from Amnesty International)

International Standards and Treaties on the Death Penalty (from Amnesty International)

Recent Polls on the Death Penalty (from Death Penalty Information Center)

Statistics on Condemned Inmates in Illinois (IL Dept of Corrections)

 

General Information and News About the Death Penalty

 

Pew Forum Resources

 

Advocacy Groups

Amnesty International USA
Catholics Against Capital Punishment
Clergy Coalition to End Executions
Death Sentence 2000
Lamp of Hope Project
The Moratorium Campaign
Murder Victims.com (pro-DP site)
Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation
PaxChristi USA
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
Pro-Death Penalty.com
Unitarian Universalists Againt the Death Penalty

Links on Religion and the Death Penalty
Links to various state (anti-DP) advocacy groups
More links on Religion and the Death Penalty