Also Try Convicting the Innocent Lists Anti-Death Penalty Links (Office of the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney) Provides carefully selected links on the anti-death penalty position. 6-00 Deterrence and the Death Penalty (Office of the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney) Provides carefully selected resources. 6-00 Pro and Con Essays on the Death Penalty (Office of the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney) Provides carefully selected essays for and against the death penalty. 6-00 Pro-Death Penalty Links (Office of the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney) Provides carefully selected links on the pro-death penalty position. 6-00 Race and Class Bias in Use of the Death Penalty (Office of the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney) Provides carefully selected resources. 6-00 News 1-11-03 Governor Empties Death Row (CNN - Flock) "Outgoing Illinois Gov. George Ryan announced Saturday that he had commuted the sentences of all of the state's death row inmates and said he would 'sleep well knowing I made the right decision.' " 1-03 Papers Capital Punishment - Recommendations (DeathPenaltyInfo.org) Provides recommendations related to capital punishment, based on an extensive review of facts by the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment. "In January 2000, Ryan appointed the 14-member Commission after Illinois had released 13 innocent inmates from death row in the same time that it had executed 12. Ryan asked the group, which includes "some of the best, brightest, and most honorable people in Illinois," to closely examine the administration of the death penalty in the state. His deep concern that flaws in Illinois's current policies would result in the execution of an innocent person also led him to declare a groundbreaking moratorium on executions." The Commission released 85 recommendations, including: "-Videotaping of all interrogations of capital suspects conducted in a police facility. -Reducing the number of crimes eligible for a death sentence from 20 to five (cases in which the defendant has murdered two or more persons, where the victim was either a police officer or firefighter, where the victim was an officer or inmate of a correctional institution, when the murder was committed to obstruct the justice system, or when the victim was tortured in the course of the murder). Forbidding capital punishment in cases where the conviction is based solely on the testimony of a single eyewitness. -Barring capital punishment in cases where the defendant is mentally retarded. -Establishing a state-wide commission -- comprised of the Attorney General, three prosecutors, and a retired judge -- to confirm a local state's attorney's decision to seek the death penalty. -Intensifying the scrutiny of testimony provided by in-custody informants during a pre-trial hearing to determine the reliability of the testimony before it is received in a capital trial. -Requiring a trial judge to concur with a jury's determination that a death sentence is appropriate, or, if not, sentence the defendant to natural life." 2-03 Capital Punishment - Recommendations (Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment) Provides facts about capital punishment and then recommendations. 2-03 China Among the Top in Executions (ABC News) "Executions in the United States were down from last year, while Iran and Saudi Arabia appeared near the top of the list of the world's top executioners, the anti-death penalty group Hands Off Cain said in a report about 2008 and the first six months of this year." "The report said China accounted for at least 5,000 executions — or 87.3 percent of the total — the same estimate as last year." 07-09 Death Penalty (Michigan State University) Provides resource materials for examining pro and con arguments related to the death penalty. 1-01 Deterrence and the Death Penalty (Office of the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney) Provides results of research related to the deterrence effect of the death penalty. Results did not support the notion that the death penalty deters homicides. 6-00 History of Capital Punishment in the USA (Office of the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney) Provides statistics related to the use of the death penality in the USA. 6-00

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