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[ prisons -- issues -- death penalty ] The Death Penalty is Dead Wrong! For the 15 year period in which California carried out an execution every other month (1952 to 1967), murder rates increased 10% annually, on average. Between 1967 and 1991, when there were no executions in California, the murder rate increased 4.8% annually. The study also found that, in the four months preceding Harris' death, the average monthly number of homicides in California was 306. In the four months following his highly publicized execution, an average of 333 persons fell victim to homicides, an astonishing 9% increase. from Homicides Up With Executions, by the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice. Featured Resources for Abolition Highly recommended: Arnold Erickson's (Prison Law Page) excellent listing of links on the death penalty called Links Toward Abolition The Death Penalty Information Center -- Tons of very useful info. Check it out. Derechos Derechos, meaning "rights" in Spanish, is a new human rights organization. Derechos has great death penalty resources and info about executions around the U.S. On Death Row in Virginia: Virginia wants to execute Joseph Roger O'Dell III, who's likely innocent. Check out this appeal. The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal NEW: Abolition Road: a Path to Non-Violent Solutions. Abolition Road was founded to take the message of abolition of the death penalty on the road in order to educate the people on the real picture of what the death penalty is: an arbitrarily used, irreversible state sanctioned murder that is racially and economically biased and kills innocent people. Abolition Road's website features writings and artwork by death-row prisoners and anti-death activists. Anti-death pages from ACLU and Death Penalty Focus. "death penalty": Search the SF Bay Area Progressive Calendar and groups database by this keyword Statistics and Reference Info Homicides Up with Executions: Study by Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice finds homicide rate goes up during periods of executions Abolition: Amnesty International's comprehensive information on the Death Penalty worldwide Virginia's History of Prosecution and Execution exposes the cases of several innocent people executed by the state of Virginia. VERA: Stats and such from the Vera Institute for Justice The National Criminal Justice Reference Service is a good source of statistics on all aspects of the prison system. Groups Click here for death penalty groups. News Click here for news about the death penalty.