The Exonerated/ Capital Punishment
Bibliography
Databases
American Civil Liberties Union
Amnesty International
Center on Wrongful Convictions
Death Penalty Information Center
Death Penalty Focus
Equal Justice USA
Innocence Project
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Truth in Justice
Southern Center for Human Rights
Witness to Innocence
People
Anthony G. Amsterdam - NYU Professor of Civil Rights, Criminal Procedure, and Lawyering Theory
Stuart Banner - UCLA Professor of Law, author of The Death Penalty: An American History.
Jessica Blank – Actress, producer, co-writer of The Exonerated.
Stephen Bright – President of the Southern Center for Human Rights, Professor at Yale
University of Law
David I. Bruck - Washington & Lee University School of Law. Director, Virginia Capital Case
Clearinghouse
Kerry Max Cook – Exoneree, author of Chasing Justice.
Richard Dieter – Director of Death Penalty Info
David W. Garland - NYU Professor: Criminal Justice, Author of Peculiar Institution: America's
Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition.
Gary Gauger – Exoneree, Author or In Spite of the System: A Personal Story of Wrongful
Conviction and Exoneration.
Robert Earl Hayes – Exoneree.
Randy Hertz - Vice Dean, NYU Professor of Clinical Law
Kristin Houlé – Executive Director, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Sunny Jacobs – Exoneree, Author of Stolen Time: One Woman’s Inspiring Story as an Innocent
Condemned to Death.
Eric Jensen – Actor, producer, co-writer of the Exonerated
Kathryn Kase – Executive Director, Texas Defender Service
David Keaton – Exoneree
Renny Kushing – Executive Director, Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy – Governor of Connecticut
Lawrence Marshall – Co-Founder of Center on Wrongful Convictions, director of Stanford
University’s legal clinics.
Peter Neufield – Co-Founder of the Innocence Project
Sister Helen Prejean – Catholic nun, Active Death Penalty Abolitionist
Gov. Pat Quinn – Governor of Illinois
Speedy Thomas H. Rice - Professor of Practice, Transnational Law Institute at Washington &
Lee School of Law
Barry Scheck – Co-Founder of the Innocence Project
Bryan Stevenson - NYU Professor of Clinical Law, Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative
Delbert Tibbs – Exoneree, active death penalty abolitionist
Diann Rust-Tierney – Executive Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Margaret Vandiver - University of Memphis Professor, author of Lethal Punishment: Lynchings
and Legal Executions in the South
Cornell West - Princeton University Professor in the Center for African American Studies, Civil
Rights Activist
Articles
Alarcon, Judge Arthur L., Mitchell, Paula M. “Executing the Will of the Voters?: A Roadmap to
Mend of End the California Legislature’s Multi-Billion-Dollar Death Penalty Debacle.” Loyola of
Los Angeles Law Review. Vol. 44:S41 n.d.
Babcock, Sandra. “The Debate on the Death Penalty.” Human Rights Magazine. Vol. 34, No. 2.
ABA, 2012.
Becker, Robert and Andrew Martin. “Vicious Killer or Gentle Farmer?” Chicago Tribune.
Chicago Tribune, 18 April 1995.
Byrne, Nicola. “I Wasn’t Going to Be Defeated.” The Guardian. Guardian Media News and
Media Limited, 19 February 2006.
Cohen, Andrew. “Staying Executions: After Expanding the Death Penalty, the Pendulum Swings
Back.” Human Rights Magazine. Vol. 34, No. 2. ABA, 2012.
D’Amberte, Talbot. “Raising the Bar in Capital Cases.” Human Rights Magazine. Vol. 34 No. 2.
ABA, 2012.
“DNA Testing and the Death Penalty.” ACLU. ACLU, 3 October 2011.
Donald, Mark. “Innocence Lost.” Dallas Observer. Village Voice Media Holdings, 15 July 1999.
Donald, Mark. “Innocence Lost.” Dallas Observer. Village Voice Media Holdings, 22 July 1999.
Erickson, David. “Capital Punishment at What Price: An Analysis of the Cost Issue in a Strategy
to Abolish the Death Penalty.” Death Penalty Focus of California. Spring 1993.
Fleishaker, Barbara. “ABA State Death Penalty Assessments: Facts (Un)Discovered, Progress
(to be) Made, and Lessons Learned” Human Rights Magazine. Vol. 34 No. 2. ABA, 2012.
Freedberg, Sydney. “The Stigma is Always There.” St. Petersburg Times. 4 July, 1999
Graves, Anthony. “An Innocent Man’s Tortured Days on Death Row.” American Civil Liberties
Union. ACLU, 20 June 2012.
Green, Frank. “Question of Life or Death/ Illinois Exonerations Sperk Capital-Punishment
Debate.” Richmond Times-Dispatch. Richmond Times-Dispatch, 2 April 2000.
Hanlon, Stephen F. “Introduction: A Thirty Year Retrospective of the Death Penalty.” Human
Rights Magazine.
Kreuter, William. Justice: Denied. “The Innocent Executed.” N.p. n.d
Liptak, Adam. “Group Gives Up Death Penalty Work.” The New York Times. The New York
Times, 5 January 2010.
Love, David A. “40 years after Furman, the U.S. Death Penalty Is In Disarray.” The Huffington
Post. The Huffingtonpost.com, Inc., 28 June 2012.
Marshall, Lawrence C. “Death No Option If We Can’t Find Right Men Guilty.” Chicago Sun
Times. Northwestern University School of Law, 23 October 2002.
McRoberts, Flynn, Mills, Steve. “Digitalized Prints Can Point Finger at Innocent.” Chicago
Tribune. Chicago Tribune, 3 January 2005.
Mills, Steve. Hinkel, Dan. “DNA is Readily Used to Convict, but Prosecutors Often Challenge
Results.” Chicago Tribune. Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2012
Minsker, Natasha. “The Secret Costs of Seeking Execution in California.” ACLU of Northern
California. N.d.
Myers, Rachel. “Spared From a Death Sentence Based on Falsehoods.” American Civil
Liberties Union. ACLU, 14 June 2012.
Pierce, Glenn L., Radelet, Michael L. “Monitoring Death Sentencing Decisions: The Challenges
and Barriers to Equity” Human Rights Magazine. Vol. 34 No. 2. ABA, 2012.
Preston, Sarah. “Historic Racial Justice Act Faces Repeal.” ACLU Blog of Rights. ACLU, 14
May 2012.
Reggio, Michael H. “History of the Death Penalty” PBS. WGBH Educational Foundation, 19952012.
“Report and Recommendations on the Administration of the Death Penalty in California.”
California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice. 30 June 2008.
“Scattered Justice: Geographic Disparities of the Death Penalty.” ACLU. ACLU, 5 March 2004.
Segura, Lilliana. “Opposing the Death Penalty.” WIN Magazine. War Resisters League, Fall
2009.
Sherrer, Hans. “Las Vegas Police and Prosecutors Frame Woman 170 Miles From Murder
Scene – Kirstin Lobato’s ‘Peculiar Story.’” Justice: Denied. Issue 26. Justice Denied, Fall 2004.
P.5, 19-29.
Sloan, Virginia. “A Journey to Abolition.” Human Rights Magazine. Vol. 34 No. 2. ABA, 2012.
“Supreme Court Bars Executing Mentally Retarded.” CNN.com Law Center. Cable News
NetworkLP, LLLP, 2003.
Tabak, Ronald J. “Human Rights Hero: Anthony G. Amsterdam.” Human Rights Magazine. Vol.
34, No. 2. ABA, 2012.
Tabak, Talbot. “Mental Disability and Capital Punishment: A More Rational Approach to a
Disturbing Subject” Human Rights Magazine. Vol. 34 No. 2. ABA, 2012.
Telegraph, Tyler Morning. “Old DNA Evidence to be Tested in 1977 Murder Case.” KYTX.
London Broadcasting Company, 08 June 2012.
Zorn, Eric. “Justice for Juan Rivera, but Now What About the Victim?” Chicago Tribune. Chicago
Tribune, 6 January 2012.
Books
Abu-jamal , Mumia. Live from Death Row. New York: Harper Perennial, 1996.
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow. New York: The New Press, 2010.
Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem. New York: Penguin Group, 1963.
Banner, Stuart. The Death Penalty: An American History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
2003.
Baldus, David C., Woodworth, George C., Pulaski Jr., Charles A. Equal Justice And The Death
Penalty: A Legal and Empirical Analysis. 1St Edition Northeastern University Press, 1990.
Bedau, Hugo Adam. The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1998.
Brown, Joyce. Joyce Brown: Justice Denied. Noble Pr, 1990.
Cabana, Donald A. Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner. Northeastern, 1998.
Callahan, Michael. Too Politically Sensitive: Since When Is Murder Too Politically Sensitive.
Land of Lincoln Pr Inc; 1St Edition, 2009.
Cohen, Stanley. The Wrong Men: America's Epidemic of Wrongful Death Row Convictions.
Carroll and Graf, 2003.
Cook, Kerry Max. Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death
Row for a Crime I Didn’t Commit. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 2008.
Gaie, Joseph B.R. The Ethics of Medicine in Capital Punishment. The Netherlands: Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 2004.
Garland, David. Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition. USA:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Gauger, Gary. In Spite of the System. A Personal Story of Wrongful Conviction and
Exoneration. Lake Geneva: Fourcatfarm Press, 2008.
Gauger, Gary. “I Stepped into a Dream: A Useful Fiction.” Vollen, Lola and Eggers, Dave.
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated. San Francisco:
McSweeney's, 2005.
Greenwald, Glenn. With Liberty and Justice for Some. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2011.
Gray, Ian & Moira Stanley. A Punishment in Search of a Crime. New York: Avon Books, 1989.
Jackson, George. Soledad Brother. New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 1994.
Jacobs, Sunny. Stolen Time: One Woman’s Inspiring Story as an Innocent Condemned to
Death. London: Doubleday, 2008.
Kronenwetter, Michael. Capital Punishment. USA: Michael Kronnenwetter, 2001.
Lief, Michael S. and H. Mitchell Caldwell and Ben Bycel. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury.
New York: Touchstone, 1998.
Perin, Margo. Only the Dead Can Kill. Berkeley: Community Works/ West, 2006.
Prejean, Helen. Dead Man Walking. New York: Vintage, 2004.
Rosenberg, Susan. An American Radical. New York: Kensington Publishing Corp, 2011.
Scheck, Barry, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer. Actual Innocence. New York: New American Library, 2003.
Terkel, Studs. Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a
Faith. New York: New Press, 2001.
Tibbs, Delbert. And I Only am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee: Job 3:17. Chicago, IL : Rouselle
Communications, 1992.
Tibbs, Delbert. Poems, Prayers & Logics. Chicago, IL : ENAAQ Publications, 1984.
Zinn, Howard. Voices of a People's History of the United States. New York: Seven Stories Press; 2
edition, 2011.
Films
Documentary
Booker, Linda. Love Lived on Death Row. By the Brook Films, 2007.
Chevingy, Katy, and Kirsten Johnson. Deadline. Homevision, 5 October 2004.
Feldman, Lauri. The Innocent. Little English Films in association with Brainchild Productions and
Pathway Productions, 2005.
Herzog, Werner. Into the Abyss. IFC Films, 2011.
Lyon, Rachel. Race to Execution. 2006.
Marks, Jeff and Adam Elend. Fighting for Life in the Death-Belt. E.M Productions, 2005.
Feature Films
Robbins, Tim. Dead Man Walking. 2000.
Balaban, Bob. The Exonerated. Monterey Media, 2005.
Other Media
Pamphlets
ACLU. “The Death Penalty”
Barret, Paul M. “Bryan Stevenson's Death-Defying Acts”
Polls/Charts
Public Agenda: “Two-thirds of Americans say they favor the death penalty for murderers, but
when given the choice of life without parole, support falls to half”
Public Agenda. “Half of Americans say the death penalty is not imposed enough, but most
believe that at least one innocent person has been sentenced to death in the past five years”
Public Agenda: “Six in 10 Americans say the death penalty does not act as a deterrent to
murder”
Short Videos
Amnesty International: “Death Penalty in 2011” YouTube. Amnesty International, 26 March
2012.
Amnesty International. “Stop the death penalty: Worldwide abolition now.” YouTube. Amnesty
International, 8 November 2007. (5:04)
Amnesty USA. “Troy Davis Case: Part One (and Two, Three, and Four).” YouTube. Amnesty
International, 24 August 2011.
Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SH4IpmJl6M (9:16)
Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajDmdDl-FhM&feature=relmfu (8:37)
Part Three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mcraX7yq_0&feature=relmfu (8:00)
Part Four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJxudiudK4c&feature=relmfu (5:04)
“Getting it Right: Eyewitness Identification.” Innocence Project. 7 April 2011. (7:43)
“Eric Glisson, Convicted Of Murdering Baith Diop, Says He Was Wrongfully Convicted.” The
Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc., 04 August 2012.
Ernestoleonpintor. “Gloria Rubac - Death Penalty (Part One, Two, Thee, and Four).” YouTube.
2 March 2010.
Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no1jiOFE6Ow&feature=relmfu (9:56)
Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVwRsbYTgOA&feature=relmfu (9:56)
Part Three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt5NRyP54xc&feature=relmfu (9:54)
Part Four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wi9y1-iup4&feature=relmfu (9:30)
The Evidence. “What is Forgiveness.” YouTube. The Evidence, 30 May 2007. (3:48)
HoustonPBS. “Kerry Max Cook on InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse.” YouTube. PBS, 23 March
2011. (26:48).
Innocence Project. “Innocence Project: Life After Exoneration.” YouTube. Innocence Project, 28
July 2010. (3:07).
“The True Story Behind ‘Conviction.’” Innocence Project. 16 November 2010. (3:07)
“West Memphis 3: Freed Prisoner Makes Film…” Democracynow.org, 6 February 2012. (18:46)
Wrongfulconvictions. “Convicted Despite DNA: the Juan Rivera Case.” YouTube. Center on
Wrongful Convictions, 14 March 2010. (7:24)
Wrongfulconvictions. “Ronald Kitchen’s Wrongful Conviction Lawsuit.” YouTube. Center on
Wrongful Convictions, 8 July 2010. (3:20)
Wrongfulconvictions. “The Exoneration Maurice Patterson.” YouTube. Center on Wrongful
Convictions, 7 December 2010. (5:34)
Audio
“Kerry Max Cook: ‘Chasing Justice.’” The Diane Rehm Show. WAMU, 27 February 2007. Radio.