1. Alternatives to the Death Penalty
   The Problem with Life Imprisonment
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2007
   
2. The Capital Punishment Debate 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1984
   The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
3. Capital Punishment: The most Deplorable form of Deliberate Murder
   Resource Type: Article
   A society that legally permits the killing of human beings can never prevent its repetition by the general public. The abolition of capital punishment and declaring the value of human life is the first step in the struggle against a culture of murder in society.
4. Connexions
   Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1979
   
5. Connexions
   Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1979
   
6. Connexions
   Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1987
   
7. Crime and Criminals 
   Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1902
   So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousands of poor people to jail. So long as men are allowed to monopolize all the earth, and compel others to live on such terms as these men see fit to make, then you are bound to get into jail.
8. Death Blossoms
   Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997
   
9. Decline of the English Murder
   And Other Essays
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1950   Published: 1981
   A collection of essays by George Orwell.
10. A Duty of Honour
    Against Capital Punishment
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1918
    The existing penal system, which is permeated through and through with the brutal class spirit and barbarism of capitalism, must be extirpated root and branch.
11. The Everyday Activist
    365 Ways to Change the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
12. Execution Day in Zhengzhou
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    A first-hand account of an execution day in China.
13. An Execution in the Family
    One Son's Journey
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    A memoir by the son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
14. Hanging in Canada
    A Concise History of a Controversial Topic
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1982
    
15. Invitation to a Hanging
    Pity the Executioner
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A recently filed lawsuit suggests Texas execution officials were forced to engage in illegal activities in order to obtain a death dealing drug.
16. Iraq: Guerrilla War in Sadr City
    Against The Current vol. 114
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    In attacking first Najaf, then Tal Afar and Samarra, and finally tackling the center of Sunni resistance in Fallujah, the United States was seeking to reverse this process. But these attacks were not designed to restore order; they were, instead, intended to prevent the consolidation of a very orderly anti-American status quo in a constantly expanding set of "liberated" areas. Ironically, the American attacks in the Fall of 2004 underscore the larger contradictions in American policy in Iraq: that the chaos American leaders keep saying there are preventing will, in fact, occur only if U.S. military forces succeed in destroying these nascent city-states.
17. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
18. Live From Death Row
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    A collection of prison writing by Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was sentenced to death in 1982 for the murder of a police officer after a dubious trial.
19. The London Hanged
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993   Published: 2006
    History and examination of how punishment and crime changed to reflect the changes taking place in society itself.
20. Oh! How -- German is this Revolution!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1918
    The existing penal system, breathing the spirit of brutal class-spirit and capitalist barbarism must be torn up by the roots. A fundamental system of prison-reform must be inaugurated immediately.
    
21. Once a Jolly Hangman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    When this book was first published in Asia in July 2010, UK journalist Alan Shadrake was arrested and tried, then sentenced to jail—for daring to put the Singapore justice system in the dock. This revised and updated edition covers Shadrake’s arrest, and his ongoing campaign against the death penalty.
22. A Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice Newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    A newsletter that argues against capital punishment.
23. Requiem for a Fourteen-Year-Old
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1959
    Pierre Berton's poem, Requiem for a fourteen-year-old, appeared in the Toronto Star on Oct. 5, 1959; six days after 14-year-old Steven Truscott was sentenced to hang.
24. Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg.
25. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
    Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
26. The State of the World Atlas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    
27. The Steven Truscott Case: I am a Canadian . . . hero?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    
28. The Trial of Steven Truscott
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966
    LeBourdais makes the case for the innocence of Steven Truscott, a 14-year-fold boy convicted, and sentenced to death, for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in southwestern Ontario.
29. Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    How to push for social change without breaking the law.
30. What Justice Breyer's Dissent on Lethal Injection Showed About the Death Penalty's Defenders
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Just after 2 a.m. on Monday, June 29, 2015 -- some seven hours before the U.S. Supreme Court would reject the latest challenge to the death penalty in Glossip v. Gross -- former death row prisoner Glenn Ford died in Louisiana. Ford, 65, left prison with stage four lung cancer in 2014, after spending almost 30 years facing execution for a crime he did not commit.

Experts on Pena Capital in the Sources Directory

1. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
2. United Nations Human Rights Council