Death penalty in the United States: an unbalanced practice

Bibliography:

o Books about death penalty in the world:

Association Hands Cain (2005). The Death Penalty Worldwide, 2005 report. Rome: Furura Grafica.

Normand, Marcel (1980). Que sais-je ? La peine de mort. Paris : Presse Universitaires de France.

Thibault, Laurence (1977). La peine de mort en France et à l'étranger. Saint-Amand: Gallimard.

o Books about politics in the United States:

Kaspi, André (1973). La vie politique aux Etats-Unis. Paris : Colin.

Kaspi, André (2003). La peine de mort aux Etats-Unis. Paris : Plon.

Leon, Enrique (1998). Démocrates et Républicains aux États-Unis au XXe siècle, Partis politiques et groupes de pression. Paris : Colin

Lassale, Jean-Pierre (1997). Les institutions des Etats-Unis. Paris : La Documentation Française

o Books about death penalty in the United States:

Berthès, Colette (2000). La machine à tuer. Paris : Les arènes.

Cesari, Isabelle (2002). Les mineurs délinquants et la peine de mort aux Etats-Unis. Paris : Nicolas Philippe.

Taube, Michel (2001). L'Amérique qui tue. La peine de mort aux USA. Neuilly-sur-Seine : Michel Lafon.

Amnesty International (2003). Death by Discrimination - The Continuing Role of Race in Capital Cases

o Books about death penalty in Texas

Marquart, James W.; Ekland-Olson, Sheldon and Sorensen, Jonathan R. (1993). The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990. Houston: University of Texas Press

o Reviews

Baldus, David C; George Woodworth (2003). «Race Discrimination in the Administration of the Death Penalty: An Overview of the Empirical Evidence with Special Emphasis on the Post-1990 Research» Criminal Law Bulletin 194-226.

Jacobs, David; Stephanie, Kent; Jason, Carmichael (August 2005). «Vigilantism, Current Racial Threat and Death Sentences», American Sociological Review, pp. 657-677.

o Newspapers :

Liberation, (February 9, 2000), « Etats-Unis : on achève bien les innocents. »

Ø Websites :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

o About statistics concerning politics and public opinion:

www.census.gov/: statistics about the American society

http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/cenbr01-1.pdf US Census Bureau, Census 2000

http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2006/jan/images/05_0055_02.gif

o About death penalty in the world:

http://ohchr.org/ United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights which gives a series of international decisions about human rights, including death penalty

www.peinedemort.org/ website of a French organization which shows the global situation about death penalty day after day

o About politics in the United States:

www.50states.com/ descriptions by state and by themes with different links to other websites

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2007/04/12/sam-millsap

http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/usexecute.htm

http://www.prodeathpenalty.com

o About death penalty in the United States:

www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/: website of the Death penalty information center which gives information about the different laws and methods, figures and names of people executed and data on special topics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States brief presentation of the death penalty in the United States and its issues

http://www.fbi.gov Federal Bureau of Investigation

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cp.htm

http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/

http://www.lpj-france.net/cours_droit.htm#peinedemort

o About death penalty in the Texas:

www.courts.state.tx.us/ official site of the judicial system of Texas

www.texasdefender.org/resources.htm website of a non-profit law firm the aim of which is to help improve the quality of representation

www.tcadp.org/facts.php the Texas coalition to abolish the death penalty

www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/deathrow.htm pro-abolition website of information about death penalty in Texas

o Websites of abolitionist associations:

www.abanet.org/about/ the American Bar Association is a voluntary lawyers association whose members assist lawyers and try to promote justice and improve the legal system

www.abolition.fr website of the very dynamic French association «Ensemble contre la peine de mort» which organized the 3d Congress against death penalty in Paris in February 2007

www.amnesty.org Amnesty International, the international organisation of defence of the human rights
www.handsoffcain.org the Italian abolitionist association «Hands off Cain» is for justice without vengeance

www.hrw.org/ Human Rights Watch is an association informing and fighting for the human rights and is very active about abolition ( http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=usa_deathpenalty)

www.ncadp.org national coalition to abolish the death penalty

www.ncmoratorium.org/site/default.asp website of a group of associations in North Carolina which support a moratorium in the state

www.nodeathpenalty.org this website is a campaign to end the death penalty and it also gives information and figures

www.thejusticeproject.org/ association created by veterans of war who fight for justice throughout the United States

www.truthinjustice.org/ips.htm website which aim is to make people aware of wrongful convictions

www.worldcoalition.orgcoaljm00.html website which gathers NGOs and associations fighting for abolition all over the world

http://www.mcadp.org/images/dpmap.gif Coloradans Against the Death Penalty

http://www.revoltes.org/

o Websites of Catholic associations

http://www.collectif2001.org/article.php3?id_article=1

http://www.acat.asso.fr

Ø Filmography:

Beresford, Bruce (1996). Last dance.

Darabont, Frank (2000). The green mile.

Moore, Michael (2002). Bowling for Columbine.

Parker, Alan (2003). The life of David Gale.

Robbins, Tim (1995). Dead Man Walking.