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Books
Movies
Theater
Art
Death Penalty Websites
Books
Women on the Row: Revelations from Both Sides of the Bars by Kathleen O'Shea, Firebrand Books, Ithaca
Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future, by Rev. Jessie L. Jackson, Sr., Representative Jessie L. Jackson, Jr., and Bruce Shapiro, The New Press
Actual Innocence by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld and Jim Dwyer, Doubleday
Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House by Scott Christianson, New York University Press.
The Death Penalty in America, ed. by Hugo Adam Bedau, Oxford
Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty by Antoinette Bosco, Orbis
Not In Our Name: Murder Victims' Families Speak Out Against the Death Penalty, into. by Sr, Helen Prejean, MVFR, 2161 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140
Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Avon
All Things Censored by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Alice Walker, and Noelle Hanrahan (editor), Seven Stories Press
Death Blossoms: Reflections of a Prisoner of Conscience, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Cornel West, Plough Publishing Press
May God Have Mercy: A True Story of Crime and Punishment, John C. Tucker, Delta
What To Do When the Police Leave: A Guide to the First Days of Traumatic Loss by Bill Jenkins, WBJ Press.
Funny - He Doesn't Look Like a Murderer by Shirley Pierce Bostrom, forward by David Kaczynski, Calie Books, 24 Pond View Lane, Marlborough, CT 06447
WAMC Special Conversation with David Kaczynski, interviewed by Alan Chartock, compact disk, 55 minutes, $15 to NYADP, 40 N. Main Ave., Albany, NY 12203.
Lethal Justice: One Man's Journey of Hope on Death Row by Joy Elder, New City Press.
Movies and Documentaries
- Dead Man Walking (1995)
- The Thin Blue Line (1988), documentary
- A Case of Reasonable Doubt?: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal (1997), documentary
- The Farm: Angola, USA (1998), documentary about Angola prison
- The Green Mile (1999)
- Monster's Ball (2001)
Read an excellent discussion of the death penalty in movies by death penalty scholar Austin Sarat.
Theater
- http://cwww.livingtheatre.org/nimn/index.html The Living Theatre performs Not In My Name in public spaces in NYC on or about nights when an actual execution is scheduled to occur.
Art from Death Row
Anti-Death Penalty Comics
Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation
If you are interested in hosting an exhibit of art work, please contact NYADP for assistance.
Websites
Clemency Project
Seeks the release from prison of battered women who have killed or injured their abusers.
Death Penalty Information Center
American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project
Amnesty International-USA Program to Abolish the Death Penalty
New Jerseyans for a Death Penalty Moratorium
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Center for Constitutional Rights
Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
CBS News interactive information source.
National Council on Crime and Deliquency
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
Death Penalty Focus of California
Lower East Side Call for Justice
Rosenberg Fund for Children
Assists families that have been targeted for political activity. The Director, Robert Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and anti-death penalty activist, speaks to audiences all over the country.