State Information
The National Judicial College has compiled the following resources
specific to each state that currently has the death penalty.
This list will continue to be updated, so please continue
to check back for additional resources.
ALABAMA
Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center
Alabama Criminal Code Sections 13A-5-30 to 5-59
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ARIZONA
Arizona Department of Corrections, Arizona Death Penalty History
Office of the Attorney General, Capital Case Commission Interim Report (2001)
The objective of the Commission is to review the capital punishment process in Arizona in its entirety to ensure that it works in a fair, timely and orderly manner. To that end, the Commission examined the current system beginning with the pre-trial process, and continuing through the trial process and the completion of the appellate process.
ABA's
Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project
The Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project was launched in September 2001as the American Bar Association's "next step" in working to obtain a nationwide moratorium on executions. The individual state assessments will consist in large part of reviewing and analyzing each state's laws and processes affecting death penalty administration. The Project intends to conduct three sets of assessments -- each containing approximately five states. Arizona was one of the states that was assessed.
Arizona Criminal Code
Capital Case Commission Final Report (Office of the Attorney General, State of Arizona, Dec. 31, 2002)
Cara S. O'Driscoll, The Execution of Foreign Nationals in Arizona: Violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 32 ARIZ. ST. L. J. 323 (2000).
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ARKANSAS
Arkansas Supreme Court
Arkansas Crime Information Center
ARKLEG: Arkansas Codes Annotated
Arkansas Integrated Justice Information Systems Project
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CALIFORNIA
California judges benchguides. Death penalty benchguide: penalty phase and posttrial.
[Compiled by California Center for Judicial Education and Research (CJER)]. Rev. 2007 ed. [San Francisco, Calif.]: Center for Judicial Education and Research: Judicial Council of California, [199u]-
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FLORIDA
ABA’s Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project
The Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project was launched in September 2001as the American Bar Association's "next step" in working to obtain a nationwide moratorium on executions. The individual state assessments will consist in large part of reviewing and analyzing each state's laws and processes affecting death penalty administration. The Project intends to conduct three sets of assessments -- each containing approximately five states. Florida was one of the states that was assessed.
O.H. Eaton, Capital Punishment: An Examination of Current Issues and Trends and How These Developments May Impact the Death Penalty in Florida, (PDF file) 34 STETSON L. R. 9 (Fall 2004)
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ILLINOIS
Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA)
State of Illinois
DuBage County Bar Association
Report of the (Illinois) Governor’s Commission on Capital Punishment (PDF file) (April 2002)
This two hundred eighty-one page study focuses on thirteen Illinois death row inmates who had their convictions overturned. This report includes recommendations on how to ensure the "Illinois capital punishment system is fair, just and accurate."
Thomas P. Sullivan, Efforts to improve the Illinois capital punishment system: worth the cost? 41 U. RICH. L. REV. 935-968 (2007). [return to state
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LOUISIANA
Capital Crimes Benchbook Committee, Louisiana Capital Crimes
Benchbook (Feb. 2004).
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NEW JERSEY
Trial Judges Committee on Capital Cases, Judges Bench Manual for Capital Cases (May 1, 2005).
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NORTH CAROLINA
Robert L. Farb, North Carolina Capital Case Law Handbook (2nd ed. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Institute of Government, 2004).
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OHIO
Ohio Death Penalty Information
Victor L. Streib, The Fairer Death: Executing Women in Ohio (Ohio University Press 2006)
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OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma State Courts Network
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PENNSYLVANIA
http://www.courts.state.pa.us/education/DesktopDefault.aspx
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Pennsylvania Death Penalty
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SOUTH CAROLINA
Gary E. Clary and Walter M. Bailey, Jr., The South Carolina Capital Trial (South Carolina Bar 2001)
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TENNESSEE
Tennessee Department of Corrections, Death Penalty in Tennessee
Tennessee’s Death Penalty: Costs and Consequences (PDF file)
ABA’s Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project The Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project was launched in September 2001as the American Bar Association's "next step" in working to obtain a nationwide moratorium on executions. The individual state assessments will consist in large part of reviewing and analyzing each state's laws and processes affecting death penalty administration. The Project intends to conduct three sets of assessments -- each containing approximately five states. Tennessee was one of the states that was assessed.
Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts, Capital Case Information and Filings
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TEXAS
Texas Criminal Court of Appeals
University of Texas: Guide to Texas Death Penalty Law
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VIRGINIA
Virginia Supreme Court
Virginia Capital Case Clearinghouse through the Washington and Lee University School of Law
The issue of capital punishment is controversial. But there should be no controversy about this: a legal system that takes life must first ensure an adequate defense for every person whose life might be taken. The Virginia Capital Case Clearinghouse was created to help meet that obligation to indigent capital defendants in Virginia.
Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, Virginia General Assembly, Review of Virginia’s System of Capital Punishment (2001) (PDF file) The report examines the State’s implementation of the capital punishment statutes by focusing on two important elements of the system: the use of prosecutorial discretion by Commonwealth's Attorneys, and the judicial review of capital murder cases in which sentences of death have been imposed.
The Innocence Commission for Virginia, A Vision for Justice: Report and Recommendations regarding Wrongful Convictions in the Commonwealth of Virginia (March 2005).
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WYOMING
Allen C. Johnson, Capital Cases Benchguide: Wyoming District Courts (Wyoming Supreme Court, 1999).
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