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» The Abolitionist Action Committee (AAC) - Works to find alernatives through abolitionist campaigns.

» Alabama Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty - Provides news updates by month.

» 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.

» Amnesty International: Death Penalty - Offers multinational news, facts, and figures.

» 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.

» Campaign to End the Death Penalty: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapter - Includes action alerts, a calendar of events, and the North Carolina execution schedule.

» 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.

» Capital Defense Weekly - Has resources, news, and media coverage.

» 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.

» Charlotte Coalition for a Moratorium Now - Includes event information, meeting minutes, facts and literature, and news.

» 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.

» 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.

» Cornell University School of Law -- Death Penalty Project - Elements include a capital punishment clinic, a commitment to provide continuing education programs for capital defense attorneys and the active collection and study of data in this field.

» 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.

» 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 response to the serious problem of violent crime.

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

» Human Writes - A non-profit organisation based in England that befriends and supports people on death row through letter-writing.

» 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.

» Lamp of Hope Project

» Law Students Against the Death Penalty - Law student organization against the death penalty encourages awareness and provides useful links.

» Montana Abolition Coalition - A Coalition of organizations united to end the death penalty in Montana. Includes legislative bills, testimony, speeches, newspaper articles, and public education information.

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

» Project Damocles - To provide Death Row Support (any activity involving the moral, intellectual, emotional, practical,or spiritual assistance of death row inmates) to any Death Row inmate in any state of the US without charge of any kind at any time. To provide a site on the net for the express purpose of providing US Death Row inmates with the opportunity to advertise, free of all charges for all time, for pen-pals.

» Religious Organization Against the Death Penalty - Aids in activism with different faiths. Includes statements of support, literature, and current events.

» Stop Capital Punishment Now - Contains information on Canadian activist projects. Also supports George H. Ryan for the Nobel Peace Prize.

» 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.

» Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Information and resources from the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP).

» 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.

» The Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Non-profit organization working to abolish the death penalty in Washington State.

» World Coalition Against The Death Penalty - Provides 'World Day' information, a general overview and history, and press statements. [French and English].

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