Death+Penalty

Our goal in this space is to get some **context** about the Death Penalty from which we can build a script (see link below)

This is where we will work on our script

(or create a new category)
 * Put links you find with Death Penalty info into one of the categories below:**

Louisiana considering [|execution of a man for rape].
 * CURRENT EVENTS**

[|Gulity Man Released from Death Row?] (My mom and I were talking about the case of Glen Chapman, who recently got off on perhaps a technicality or was innocent. He's being made in news to be completely innocent, but recently a prosecutor involved in case says the reason he was originally convicted was because he had information only the murderer could.)

[|New Jersey gets rid of DP] (well, it got rid of it once the governor signed off -- but it was considering the issue as early as 2006 and this is a good article that provides context for the issue)

[|Efforts to end the DP in NC]

[|List of people currently on death row in NC]

This is [|general info from the NC Prison Dept]

U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case on the topic now.

Here's a [|NYT article] about that Supreme Court case (it has to do with whether lethal injection is "cruel and unusual" punishment).

Here's a [|brief history of the Death Penalty in the US].
 * HISTORY**

New Jersey recently decided to get rid of the Death Penalty, leaving 37 U.S. states with the death penalty.
 * STATE BY STATE**

NC is one of them -- how do governor candidates come out on this issue? Mary: i looked on both Bev Perdue and Richard Moore's websites, but i can't find what their views are. Bev Perdue has a contact thing where you can send for information, so I did that and i'm waiting to hear back.

http://www.ncmoratorium.org/site/default.asp -- this is the link to the north carolina coalition for a moratorium website FYI: What is a moratorium? A moratorium is a temporary suspension of executions while the legislature enacts necessary reforms to the capital punishment process. Death penalty trials and appeals would not be suspended during the study, only executions.

What is the appeals process like?
 * LARGER POLICY ISSUES**

How much does it cost to execute someone versus life in prison?

Racial issues (ACLU)

What has been the history of the Death Penalty, both in the US as a whole and here in NC?

What nations around the world have the death penalty? How many people are executed per country?
 * WORLD CONTEXT**

Here's some info about the [|use of capital punishment around the world] (scroll down a little to see a map that shows which nations use the DP)