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WHAT YOU CAN DO TO END THE
DEATH PENALTY

1. Educate yourself about capital punishment.

Recommended Reading:
Dead Man Walking: Sister Helen Prejean
Adams v. Texas: Randall Adams
The Death Penalty In America: Current Controversies: Hugo Bedau
In Spite of Innocence: Michael Radelet et al
The Death Penalty - An Historical and Theological Survey: James Megivern
The Death Penalty - A Guide for Christians: Bob Goss
Among the Lowest of the Dead: David von Drehle
May God Have Mercy: John C. Tucker
Frontiers of Justice: Biddle Publishing
Punishment In Search of a Crime: Ian Gray, Avon
The Machinery of Death: Amnesty International
Live from Death Row: Mumia Abu-Jamal
Against Capital Punishment: Herbert Haines
An American Tragedy: Theodore Drieser
Death at Midnight: Don Cabana
The Execution Protocol: Stephen Trombley
Capital Punishment and the American Agenda: Franklin Zimmering
Hard Questions, Heart Answers: Rev. Bernice King
Legal Lynching: Rev Jesse Jackson
Mockery of Justice: Sam Reese Sheppard
The Rope, the Chair, & the Needle: Marquart et all
Actual Innocence: Barry Scheck et al
Against the Death Penalty: Gardner Hanks

Websites:
Death Penalty News and Updates: www.smu.edu/~deathpen
Death Penalty Information Center: www.essential.org/dpic
CUADP: www.cuadp.org
TCADP: www.tcadp.org
Lamp of Hope Project: www.c-com.net/~ksebung
NCADP: www.ncadp.org
Amnesty Intl: www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/dp
Equal Justic USA: www.igc.org/quixote/ej
ACLU: www.aclu.org/death-penalty?n
Canadian Citizens Against the Death Penalty: www.ccadp.org
AFSC: www.envisioning.org
Standdown Project: www.standdown.org
Moratorium Now: www.texasmoratorium.org

2. Register to vote and support candidates who support alternatives to the death penalty.

3. Write your state representatives the Governor and members of Congress asking them to replace the death penalty
with alternative sentences which are protective of society.

4. Ask your religious leaders to address the issue from the pulpit or to hold a discussion on the subject at your place
of worship.

5. Invite a knowledgeable speaker to address your favorite groups. Contact the TCADP for speakers.

6. Join a group committed to alternatives to the death penalty, for example, Pax Christi, TCADP, NCADP, CUADP,
Amnesty International.

7. Write a death row prisoner. Contact the TCADP or Lamp of Hope for Information.

8. Provide financial help to organizations working against the death penalty.

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