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	Capital Punishment/Death Penalty
Return to CVSCS Library Media Center Homepage	Capital Punishment (death penalty) Definition: A punishment in which a convicted criminal faces some form of execution, such as lethal injection.
Return to CVSCS Library Media Center Homepage	Neutral Sites	Pro-Death Penalty	Anti-Death Penalty
	The Death Penalty Information Center: Arguments For and Against	Pro-Death Penalty	ACLU: Death Penalty
	Bureau of Justice Statistics Capital Punishment Statistics	The New American: Capital Punishment	The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
	Capital Punishment (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)		Amnesty International Web Site Against the Death Penalty
	Capital Punishment: Life or Death		National moratorium on executions
	Death Penalty / Capital Punishment Debate Links
	Other Sites
	History Reference Center
	Capital punishment statistics
	Race of Defendants Executed Since 1976 as of August 19, 1999
	8th Amendment : The Death Penalty
	Human Rights Watch
	The Case for Innocence
	Number on death row, executions, and minimum age for execution
	The Ultimate Punishment
	The Row Behind Death Row : Examining the Key Issues Behind Death Penalty Cases
	23 innocent people