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Below are resources (books, articles, etc.) in the Connexions Library related to this topic. Clicking on an item's title takes you to its bibliographic page, which typically contains author, publisher, and cataloguing details, an abstract where available, and a link to the full text if available online, as well as links to related topics in the subject index. You can also search for materials through the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, Library of Congress, and Format indexes.
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  1. Alternatives to the Death Penalty
    The Problem with Life Imprisonment

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
  2. The Capital Punishment Debate 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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/Report/Letter
    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. Crime and Criminals 
    Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  5. Death Blossoms
    Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
  6. Decline of the English Murder
    And Other Essays

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1950   Published: 1981
    A collection of essays by George Orwell.
  7. A Duty of Honour
    Against Capital Punishment

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1918
  8. 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.
  9. Execution Day in Zhengzhou
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    A first-hand account of an execution day in China.
  10. Hanging in Canada
    A Concise History of a Controversial Topic

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1982
  11. Kara Smierci
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1984
    Celowe, prawnie sankcjonowane odbieranie z.ycia ludzkiego, jest silnym emocjonalnym totemem, czynem, przez który symbolicznie uczestniczymy w zakazanym akcie zabijania. Nic dziwnego wie;c, z.e debata na temat kary s'mierci budzi tyle emocji, jest tak kategoryczna, uboga w analize; na temat tego, czy kara s'mierci w?as'ciwie ma jakis' sens.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  15. A Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice Newsletter
    Periodical profile published 1979

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  16. Requiem for a Fourteen-Year-Old
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  17. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7 from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but some articles and other background are available on this Web site.
  18. The Steven Truscott Case: I am a Canadian . . . hero?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2000
  19. 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.

Experts on Capital Punishment in the Sources Directory

  1. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
  2. Simon Fraser University
  3. United Nations Human Rights Council



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