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Blawg Directory: Death Penalty

Grits for Breakfast
This blawg covers "the political, economic and social consequences of crime, punishment and justice in the Lone Star State, from police searches at traffic stops to the county jail, the courts, the prison system, community supervision, and everything they influence. Welcome to Texas justice: You might beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride."
Capital Defense Weekly
Discussions and rulings on cases of interest to criminal defense lawyers who handle death penalty cases.
Death Penalty Open Access Research
Death Penalty Open Access Research bills itself as an open access case book for death penalty jurisprudence. It has links to statutes, articles, cases and other sources of death penalty information.
StandDown Texas Project
The Project identifies and advocates best practices in the indigent criminal justice system. The blog pays particular attention to issues involving capital punishment and the administration of the death penalty.
Crime and Consequences
"Discusses crime and the criminal law. Topics include 1) criminal and crime-related civil cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. 2) Significant decisions in the field by other courts. 3) Studies with public policy implications related to crime and criminal justice. 4) Links to and discussion of news items and blogs related to criminal law."
Abolish the Death Penalty
An advocacy blog published by the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Features personal stories of crime victims, death row inmates and activists. The blog mission is to "put a human face on the debate over capital punishment."
Death Penalty Information Center
Features the latest news, court rulings and information relating to the death penalty.
Kansas Death Penalty Focus
Kansas Death Penalty Focus says its mission is "focusing attention on the injustice of the Kansas death penalty."
Texas Death Penalty Blog
This blawg follows death penalty cases and legislation in Texas and elsewhere.
Texas Moratorium Network
"Working to stop executions in Texas since 2000."
The Justice Gambit
"Commentary on events in the U.S. system of justice from a social science perspective."
Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog
This blawg covers information about law and order in Florida for both practitioners and potential clients. Also some discussions about evidence and the death penalty.
Prevention Not Punishment
"Educating the public on the intersection of the death penalty and severe mental illness."
tcask:: on the road (to abolition)
The Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing posts news and information relating to the death penalty.
Lethal Injection
Features news, commentary and analysis of the issue of lethal injection in the United States, although there is an emphasis on Florida.
Seeking Justice
"This blog will be devoted to exploring the crisis in the Catholic Church, the destruction of Western Civilization, and the airing of my gripes about my professional field, criminal justice, viewed from my lofty perch as a local prosecutor in the trenches. I make no apologies for my visceral traditionalism nor for my heroes, such as (in random order) Chesterton, Salazar, Scalia, Marcel Lefebvre."
Deathwatch North Carolina
"We provide news updates, with links to relevant sources and documents, several times a week. On occasion, we publish longer opinion-based articles about specific cases or major issues in capital and/or criminal defense."
A Criminal Enterprise
"We started this blog to think about criminal law issues beyond the scope of our respective caseloads. We hope that by taking the pulse of criminal law news and scholarship (including relevant developments in other fields), we can create a bridge between people in scholarship, policy, and law practice. The posts inevitably reflect our own views, which are largely informed by our experiences representing indigent capital defendants in the South."
Gamso - For the Defense
"Commentary from an Ohio criminal defense lawyer and anti-death-penalty activist on criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, jurisprudence, and related matters."
Terry Lenamon’s Death Penalty Blog
"Focuses upon capital punishment in America today."