Sources for your death penalty research
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The Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (KCADP) maintains a database of family members of murder victims, religious leaders, law-enforcement officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys, family members of the condemned and executed, lawmakers, and others who are willing to talk about their opposition to the death penalty with students.
You also can get the opinions of people on all sides of the justice system–but united by their opposition to the death penalty–at KCADP’s YouTube channel.
For more information, contact Kaye Gallagher at staff@kcadp.org or 502.636.1330.
And if you’d like KCADP to weigh in with our opinion, contact KCADP’s chairperson, Rev. Pat Delahanty, at delahantyp@bellsouth.net or 502.494.3298.
Statistics
Sixty-seven percent of Kentuckians in a 2006 poll selected options other than the death penalty as the most appropriate sentencing alternatives from choices available to Kentucky jurors serving in capital murder trials.
Pages in the Why Abolish section of this website also contain data about the death penalty in Kentucky and nationwide.
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) has the most complete data on the death penalty in the United States. For information about executions in Kentucky, visit DPIC’s state-by-state database.
For breaking developments, check its website’s press room, and for urgent questions call DPIC at 202.289.2275.
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