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Websites on Religion: Capital Punishment
The Atla Websites on Religion LibGuide is a growing, selective, annotated collection of web resources for the study of religion.
A large collection of links on capital punishment, focusing on Catholic resources. Links to statements on the death penalty made in other faith traditions.
DPIC provides a compilation of statements about the death penalty from a broad array of religious denominations. DPIC occasionally highlights the views of those speaking from a faith perspective when the comments relate to a case or controversy involving capital punishment. Finally, it features the results of death penalty polls when broken down by particular faiths.
A collection of categorized links: facts, law, websites pro and con, people on death row, documents, reports, etc. The overall slant of the site is against the death penalty.
This is the text of a full length book by Pope John Paul II, which expresses the official Catholic viewpoint on abortion, euthanasia, and the death penalty.
Literary Executions: Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925 by 
