The Center on Wrongful Convictions is based in Illinois and is dedicated to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and other serious miscarriages of justice.

Equal Justice Initiative provides assistance for death row inmates during the post-conviction appeals process.

Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation is a national organization of family members of both homicide and state killings who oppose the death penalty in all cases. The Deadline DVD features additional excerpts of Mamie Till Mobley's speech, a moving and powerful explanation of why she stands against the death penalty.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund provides legal assistance and greater justice to all Americans.

This public interest legal project for over twenty years has been fighting for the civil and human rights of people of color, poor people, and other disadvantaged citizens facing the death penalty or confined to prisons and jails in the South.

MediaRights is a nonprofit organization that helps media makers, educators, librarians, nonprofits and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues.

Amnesty International's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty (PADP) works toward the abolition of the death penalty worldwide. Collaborating with departments such as Communications, Government Relations and many others, the Program supports the work of Amnesty International's Regional Offices, State Death Penalty Abolition Coordinators (SDPACs), and grassroots activists across the country by serving as a clearinghouse for information and resources on death penalty abolition.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) works daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person by the Constitution and the laws of the United States. In addition to providing relevant news, legislative alerts and resources on the death penalty, the ACLU works to reveal wrongful convictions, racial inequalities and moral injustices that are involved in the process. www.aclu.org/DeathPenalty.

The Center on Wrongful Convictions is based in Illinois and is dedicated to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and other serious miscarriages of justice.

The Death Penalty Information Center is a nonprofit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information regarding capital punishment.

Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation is a national organization of family members of both homicide and state killings who oppose the death penalty in all cases.

The Sentencing Project is a nonprofit organization that promotes reduced reliance on incarceration and increased use of more effective and humane alternatives to deal with crime. It is a nationally recognized source of criminal justice policy analysis, data and program information. The public, policymakers and the media rely upon its reports, publications and staff.

As an international organization dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights, Amnesty International (AI) works for an end to executions and the abolition of the death penalty around the world.

The death penalty is the ultimate, irreversible denial of human rights. By working towards the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty looks to end the cycle of violence created by a system riddled with economic and racial bias and tainted by human error. Please join us in taking action against the death penalty.

The fight for the universal abolition of the death penalty has just begun! Welcome on the website of the youngest abolitionist organization. After organizing the First World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Strasbourg last June, and handing over 500,000 petitions to the U.S. embassy with the help of actress Catherine Deneuve last January, we now launch a new campaign to gather memberships and funds.

No to the death penalty: this is a voice that rises from all over the world, stronger and stronger. Indeed the signatures collected for the appeal launched by the Community of Sant' Egidio at the dawn of the new century for a universal moratorium of all executions, were up to 5 million. There is now a people of men and women from all over the world, from different countries, speaking different languages, of different religions, but all united by the same desire for a world professing a culture of peace. Despite many difficulties, some countries have abolished the death penalty, as just recently did Chile, Serbia-Montenegro and Armenia. In the United States the executions have diminished. Not in China, where they are running constantly on high rates. There is still a long way to take. Our commitment to stop the death penalty is going on.

Created in Roma in May 2002, the Coalition gathers NGOs, Bar associations, unions, local governments, all kinds of organizations who are attached to the struggle against death penalty and want to coordinate their efforts of lobbying and action at an international level.

The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty. We work daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Our job is to conserve America's original civic values - the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

AAC is an ad-hoc group of individuals committed to highly visible and effective public education for alternatives to the death penalty through nonviolent direct action.

The Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project was launched in September 2001 as the American Bar Association's "next step" in working to obtain a nationwide moratorium on executions.

In accordance with ABA policy against the execution of juvenile offenders, we work to help abolish the juvenile death penalty.

AFSC's Criminal Justice Program challenges the morality and effectiveness of the "tough on crime" mentality. The program's ultimate goal is to reduce, and eventually eliminate, the tendency to throw people in jail as a "solution" to crime and violence.

The BPF Prison Project is deeply committed to working with prisoners, their families, and all other persons associated with the prison system, to address the systemic violence within the prison-industrial complex.

We are a national grassroots organization that has chapters in several cities across the country. We are committed to the fight to end the death penalty in the United States. We hold meetings and forums to help educate the public and expose the truth about the racism and unfairness of the death penalty. We also hold rallies, demonstrations and press conferences to pressure our public officials.

Catholics Against Capital Punishment was founded in 1992 to promote greater awareness of Catholic Church teachings that characterize capital punishment as unnecessary, inappropriate and unacceptable in today's world.

Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (CUADP) works to end the death penalty in the United States through aggressive campaigns of public education, and the promotion of tactical grassroots activism.

The Constitution Project's Death Penalty Initiative is a bipartisan committee of death penalty supporters and opponents who all agree that the risk of wrongful executions in this country has become too high. It was formerly known as the National Committee to Prevent Wrongful Executions.

The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. The Center was founded in 1990 and prepares in-depth reports, issues press releases, conducts briefings for journalists, and serves as a resource to those working on this issue. The Center is widely quoted and consulted by all those concerned with the death penalty.

Living in prison is formidable and living on death row can be the most difficult task imaginable. The Engaged Zen Foundation is committed to facilitate the availability of Buddhist chaplains and volunteers to those of us who are condemned to death. Our solidarity and presence with death row prisoners offers human dignity and spiritual counsel to those who await their execution.

Equal Justice USA was launched in 1990, building on several years of Quixote Center work opposing the death penalty in our home state of Maryland. Our purpose was to build public scrutiny and protest of human rights in the U.S. legal system abolishing the death penalty being a top priority.

FOR seeks to replace violence, war, racism, and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace, and justice. We are an interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change. We educate, train, build coalitions, and engage in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally, and globally.

For Whom the Bells Toll is a national initiative to have religious organizations throughout the country toll their bells whenever there is an execution.

The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law was created by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld in 1992. It was set up as and remains a non-profit legal clinic. This Project only handles cases where postconviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of innocence. As a clinic, students handle the casework while supervised by a team of attorneys and clinic staff.

Journey of Hope...from Violence to Healing is an organization that is led by murder victim family members that conducts public education speaking tours and addresses alternatives to the death penalty.

The Justice Project is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to fighting injustice and to creating a more humane and just world. Founders of The Justice Project are men and women who as veterans have been willing to risk our lives fighting injustice. Our military experiences have left us with an understanding of human suffering and a desire to leave a legacy of fairness for future generations. The Justice Project's current programs are the Campaign for Criminal Justice Reform, the Nuclear Threat Reduction Campaign and the Artists' Call for Justice.

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a relief, service, and peace agency of the North American Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches.
The MCC Mission Statement reflects the biblical call to care for the hungry and the thirsty, the stranger and the naked, the sick and those in prison (Matthew 25:35-36).

Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation is a national organization of family members of both homicide and state killings who oppose the death penalty in all cases. Our human rights mission is to abolish the death penalty. We support programs and policies that reduce the rate of homicide and promote crime prevention and alternatives to violence. We advocate for programs that address the needs of victims, helping them to rebuild their lives.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) was founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall. Although LDF's primary purpose was to provide legal assistance to poor African Americans, its work over the years has brought greater justice to all Americans.

Since its inception in 1976, NCADP has been the only fully staffed national organization exclusively devoted to abolishing capital punishment. NCADP provides information, advocates for public policy, and mobilizes and supports individuals and institutions that share our unconditional rejection of capital punishment.

The Other Side is an independent nonprofit publishing ministry founded in 1965. For nearly 40 years its pages have been an ecumenical forum that blends personal spirituality, social transformation, and the creative spirit to advance a progressive Christian vision that is biblical, compassionate, and infused with the radical hope of Jesus. The Other Side is your source for innovative art and writing that engage the pressing justice issues of our day and invites Christians to a deeper faith.

Penal Reform International (PRI) is an international non-governmental organisation. Founded in London, UK, in 1989, PRI has members in five continents and in over 80 countries. PRI develops programmes on a regional basis, assisting both non-governmental organisations and individuals to establish projects in their own countries. It promotes the exchange of information and good practice between countries with related conditions. PRI's regional programmes include sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC) has been the hub of Jewish social justice and legislative activity in the nation's capital for over 40 years. It has educated and mobilized the American Jewish community on legislative and social concerns as an advocate in the Congress of the United States on issues ranging from Israel and Soviet Jewry to economic justice and civil rights, to international peace and religious liberty.

The Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project seeks to build a powerful coalition of faith-based activists. Nationally, it works with official religious bodies to develop strategies and to promote anti-death penalty activism within each faith tradition. At the grassroots level, the Project links with individuals and faith communities, establishing "covenant" relationships to foster local abolition efforts.

Restorative justice is a systematic response to wrongdoing that emphasizes healing the wounds of victims, offenders and communities caused or revealed by the criminal behavior.

The Center's death penalty project challenges discrimination against people of color, the poor and the disadvantaged in the imposition of the death penalty using a strategy which combines litigation, community involvement and public education.

Students Against the Death Penalty (SADP) is a grassroots program mobilizing youth through education and advocacy to reform and ultimately abolish the death penalty. SADP is a program of the American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project and is coordinated by Josh Noble.

In a system run by humans and therefore prone to human error, if you support capital punishment, you accept the fact that some of the people executed will be innocent.

Pope John Paul II, the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the U.S. Catholic Bishops have made it clear that our society has other ways to protect itself from those who commit terrible crimes and ought to forgo the use of the death penalty. Time and time again, Pope John Paul has urged clemency and the end of capital punishment.

Equal Justice USA is a project of the Quixote Center and is dedicated to public education focusing on the injustices perpetrated against the accused and convicted under our legal system.

The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information regarding capital punishment.