The Justice Project
- A federal and state legislative campaign to address the injustices evident in the administration of the death penalty in the US criminal justice system.
- http://justice.policy.net
A Fighting Chance - Giving poor people facing the death penalty the facts for their defense. History of the organization, description of current projects, volunteer opportunities, and news. - http://www.a-fighting-chance.org/
Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) - A non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment in the United States. - http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
World Coalition Against The Death Penalty - Provides 'World Day' information, a general overview and history, and press statements. [French and English]. - http://www.worldcoalition.org/
Law Students Against the Death Penalty - Law student organization against the death penalty encourages awareness and provides useful links. - http://www.law.nyu.edu/studentorgs/lsadp/
Stop Capital Punishment Now - Contains information on Canadian activist projects. Also supports George H. Ryan for the Nobel Peace Prize. - http://www.stopcapitalpunishment.org/
Religious Organization Against the Death Penalty - Aids in activism with different faiths. Includes statements of support, literature, and current events. - http://www.deathpenaltyreligious.org/
Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CCADP) - Not-for-profit international organization which assists and supports death row inmates, their families, and the families of victims through programs such as pen-pals for inmates. Also works to initiate social action against the death penalty. - http://www.ccadp.org/
Capital Defense Weekly - Has resources, news, and media coverage. - http://www.capitaldefenseweekly.com/
Campaign to End the Death Penalty - Grassroots organization focused on abolishing the death penalty in the United States. Includes contact information to local chapters, news, articles, and opportunities to assist the cause. - http://www.nodeathpenalty.org/
Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing - State organization opposing capital punishment. Includes information about chapters and organization activities, as well as news and information related to the death penalty. - http://www.tcask.org/
Illinois Coalition Against The Death Penalty - ICADP is the only organization in Illinois whose single goal is abolition of the death penalty. It is a not-for-profit, grassroots organization that has been working since 1976. - http://www.icadp.org
Texas Moratorium Network - Texas Moratorium Network is a grassroots organization with the primary goal of mobilizing statewide support for a moratorium on executions in Texas. - http://www.texasmoratorium.org
Moratorium Campaign - Works to obtain a moratorium on the death penalty by gathering petition signatures to lobby state and federal legislators. Includes ideas for action, current moratorium legislation, events, merchandise, news, and action alerts. - http://www.moratoriumcampaign.org/
Amicus - Charity designed to assist in the provision of legal representation for those awaiting capital trial and punishment in the US, and to raise awareness of potential abuses of their rights. - http://www.amicus-alj.org/
Death Penalty Legal Representation Project for the Innocent - This international and national project was established to provide legal representation to death row inmates who are innocent and to provide them with a means to locate an attorney. - http://www.deathpenaltyattorney.com/
Human Writes - A non-profit organisation based in England that befriends and supports people on death row through letter-writing. - http://www.humanwrites.org
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Information and resources from the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP). - http://www.lonestar.texas.net/~acohen/tcadp/
Coloradans Against the Death Penalty - A non-profit organization dedicated to abolishing the death penalty in Colorado. We are concerned citizens, religious leaders, political leaders, criminal defense lawyers, and relatives of murder victims. - http://www.coadp.org
Crime Victims for a Just Society - Among our board members is Bud Welch, whose daughter was killed in the Oklahoma blast. Bud now works to end the death penalty, and he has even visited the McVeigh family and is trying to help them save their son. - http://www.crimevictims.net
Death Penalty Information - Anti-Capital Punishment Resources from the ASC's Critical Criminology Division - http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/dp/dp.html
New Yorkers Against The Death Penalty - New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty (NYADP) is a statewide coalition of organizations and individuals committed to the abolition of capital punishment. - http://www.nyadp.org
Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty - This organization works to end the death penalty in the United States through aggressive campaigns of public education and the promotion of tactical grassroots activism. - http://www.cuadp.org/
Catholics Against Capital Punishment - National advocacy organization working for the abolition of the death penalty in the United States. Promotes greater awareness of Catholic Church teachings that characterize capital punishment as inappropriate and unacceptable. - http://www.igc.org/cacp/
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - NCADP advocates for public policy and mobilizes and supports people and institutions that share our unconditional rejection of the state's use of homicide as an instrument of social policy. - http://www.ncadp.org/
Ohioans To Stop Executions - The purpose of Ohioans To Stop Executions is to end the use of capital punishment in the state of Ohio through education. - http://www.otse.org/
Equal Justice USA - Through education and mobilization, the project seeks to expand public opposition to the death penalty, as well as bring into clear focus the racial, economic and political biases active in U.S. courts, prisons, jails and policing agencies. - http://www.quixote.org/ej/index.html
Death Penalty Focus of California - Death Penalty Focus of California is an active, non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and information dissemination. The death penalty is an ineffective, brutal, and simplistic - http://www.deathpenalty.org/