NACDL

Issues & Organizations

This web site contains facts and figures about imposition of the death penalty in the US and abroad. Among other things, it list the abolishionist and retaining countries and keeps track of ratifications of international treaties to abolish the death penalty.

Anti-Capital Punishment Resources

Capital Defense Discussion List (yahoo.com)

Capital Defense Network

This web site features Habeas Assistance and Training and Federal Defense Counsel Support in death penalty cases. Habeas Assistance and Training covers Upcoming Seminars, Current Developments and Recent Cases , Introduction to the 8th Amendment,Recent Filing and Action in the Supreme Court,and Federal Habeas Corpus Update. The Federal Defense Counsel Support portion of the site includes an Overview of the Federal Death Penalty Process, Online Litigation Guides, Summaries of Cases Authorized for the Death Penalty, Summaries of Opinions and Orders, Appellate Briefs and Issues,Useful Information About Death Penalty Trials,Relevant Reading and Death Penalty Press, Clemency and Executions, Recent Developments,Upcoming Seminars, Presentations from Past Seminars,Recent Briefs, Constitutional Issues

Capital Defense Weekly / Capital Defender's Toolbox

Capital Punishment UK

Centurion Ministries, Inc.

Centurion Ministries 221 Witherspoon St. Princeton, NJ 08542

Citizens for a Moratorium on Federal Executions

Citizens for a Moratorium on Federal Executions is a diverse group of prominent Americans that has called upon Presidents Bush and Clinton to declare a moratorium on federal executions pending a thorough review and full debate of the fairness of the federal capital punishment process. CMFE members include former White House and Justice Department officials, as well as civil rights, civic and religious leaders and artists, a number of whom have worked closely with the President. CMFE brings together both opponents of the death penalty and those who support its use in specific instances provided it is administered in a fair manner.

Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (CUADP)

Cornell LII Death Penalty Page

Critical Criminology Division of the American Society of Criminology

Deadman Talking

Death Penalty Defense

This comprehensive website is an excellent resource for attorneys who have been retained or appointed to represent defendants in capital trials. Access to the website is entirely free, and it contains strategies, pleadings, and advice for winning capital trials and saving your client from Death Row. The site's content, written and developed by experienced capital litigator William S. Geimer, is clear and accessible.

Death Penalty Focus

Death Penalty Information Center

The Death Penalty Information Center site offers breaking news, educational curriculum, information on a wide range of topics, audio and video presentations on death penalty issues and statistics. It is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative sources for urrent death penalty information.

Death Penalty Institute of Oklahoma

Death Penalty (about.com)

Death Penalty (Legal Information Institute)

Death Row Speaks

Derechos Human Rights Death Penalty Links

DOJ Report on Federal Death Penalty System

Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort

Ethics Updates by the Univ. of San Diego

Federal Capital Defense Counsel - Habeas Assistance Project

Hands Off Cain

Human Rights and the Death Penalty

Justice Project

The Justice Project web site contains news, legislation and reports that focus on the gaps that still exist between American Priciples of justice and the American practice of the criminal justice system. It is concerned with the execution of innocent persons and promotes adequate representation for indigent defendants. Therefore, it promotes messures to assure that innocent persons are not executed. For example, it helped pass innocence protection legislation in Texas and Maryland and writes to legislators, drafts op-ed page pieces, consults on political strategies and lectures and teaches accross the country. Innocence protection legislation and Champion of Justice Award winner, Jim Leibman's study on the error rate in death penalty cases are among the items available on this site.

Louisiana Indigent Defense Assistance Board

Moratorium 2000 Campaign & Petition

Moratorium 2000, Community of Sant'Egidio

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

People of Faith Against the Death Penalty

Probono.Net

Developed by the American Bar Association Death Penalty Representation Project, Probono.Net , assists volunteer lawyers who represent death row prisoners. This site serves as a tremendous resource.

Southern Center for Human Rights

Spencer Report on Federal Death Penalty Cases

U.N. Commission on Human Rights

World Congress Against the Death Penalty (2004)

Drugs & Alcohol

Addiction Research Foundation (ARF)

Criminal Justice Policy Foundation (CJPF)

Drug Policy Alliance

Drug Policy Alliance is the nation's leading organization working to end the war on drugs and promote new drug policies based on common sense, science, public health and human rights.

Drug Testing FAQ

1. DETECTION TIMES 1.1 Halflife of TetraHydroCannabinol 1.2 Detection times of several drugs 1.3 Positive (definition) 1.3.1 Second hand smoke and positives 1.4 Decreasing detection times 2. TEST METHODS 2.1 Substances that are detectable 2.2 DrugAlert 2.3 Gas Chromatography 2.4 Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry 2.5 Hair testing 2.6 High Performance Liquid Chromatography 2.7 Immunoassay 2.7.1 Radio ImmunoAssay (aka Abuscreen) 2.7.2 Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique 2.7.3 Fluorescence Polarization ImmunoAssay 2.8 PharmChek 2.9 TestCup 2.10 Thin Layer Chromatography 3. TEST STANDARDS AND ACCURACY 3.1 Procedures used 3.2 False positives 3.2.1 Ibuprofen 3.2.2 Cold remedies, pain relievers, hay fever remedies, & diet pills 3.2.3 Antibiotics 3.2.4 Melanin (black skin) 3.2.5 DHEA 3.3 True positives (legitimate) 3.3.1 Poppy seeds 3.3.2 Testosterone supplements 4. A NOTE ON COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS 5. THINGS TESTED TO DETECT COUNTER MEASURES 5.1 Color 5.2 Temperature 5.3 Creatinine 5.4 pH 5.5 Specific gravity 5.6 Age 5.7 Gender 6. PRODUCING CLEAN URINE 6.1 Dilution 6.1.1 Water 6.1.2 Creatinine level 6.1.3 Vitamin B 6.2 Diuretics 6.2.1 Ultimate Blend (c) (was Test Free) 6.2.2 Detoxify Carbo Clean (c) 6.2.3 Naturally Klean Herbal Tea (c) 6.2.4 Goldenseal 6.2.5 Certa or Certo 6.2.6 Vales Original Formula 6.2.7 Lasix 6.3 Vinegar 6.4 Dexatrim 6.5 Fiber 6.6 Vitamin lecithin 6.7 How to give a clean sample 6.8 Exercise 6.9 Beta-2 agonists 6.10 Beta-3 agonists 6.11 Low dosaging 7. DRUG SCREENS 7.1 Drug screens that work 7.1.1 Aspirin 7.2 Drug screens that do not work 7.2.1 Goldenseal 7.2.2 Niacin 7.2.3 Zinc sulfate 7.3 Untested drug screens 7.3.1 Puri-Blend (c) 7.3.2 The Stuff (c) 8. DOPING SAMPLES 8.1 Effective additives 8.1.1 Bleach 8.1.2 Klear (c) 8.1.3 Water 8.2 Ineffective additives 8.2.1 Ammonia 8.2.2 Blood 8.2.3 Draino 8.2.4 Goldenseal 8.2.5 Hydrogen peroxide 8.2.6 Lemon juice 8.2.7 Liquid soap 8.2.8 Mary Jane's SuperClean 13 (c) 8.2.9 Purifyit (c) 8.2.10 Sodium nitrate 8.2.11 Table salt 8.2.12 UrinAid (c) 8.2.13 Vinegar 8.2.14 Visine 8.2.15 WD40 8.3 Untested additives 8.3.1 Papain 9. SUBSTITUTION 9.1 Substitution methods 9.1.1 Concealed container 9.1.2 Injection 9.1.3 Catheterization 9.2 Where to get clean urine 9.2.1 Urine from a donor 9.2.2 Powdered urine 9.2.2.1 Making your own powdered urine 9.2.3 Dog urine 10. STEALING URINE 11. IF YOU FAIL THE TEST 12. WHO DRUGTESTS? 12.1 Which companies test, and which don't? 13. POLITICS AND ETHICS OF DRUG TESTING 14. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 14.1 Contacting the author 15. FOOTNOTES 16. SOURCES 16.1 Contributors 16.2 Works cited 16.3 For more information 16.3.1 Drug testing consultants on the net 16.3.2 Drug testing mailing list 16.3.3 Sites 16.3.4 Newsgroups 17. DISTRIBUTION RULES

Localization of Drugs and Metabolites In Human Hair

by Kathryn S. Kalasinsky, Keith L. Egli and Alison F. Grieshaber Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner, Division of Forensic Toxicology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC 20306-6000, USA

Medical & Toxicological Information (MTI)

MTI specializes in the identification, retrieval, and analysis of scientific information. By calling on MTI, you combine the talents of medical/scientific information consultants and the largest research libraries in the world, such as the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health Library, and the Library of Congress, to meet your needs. No matter where you are or what information needs you have, MTI makes it possible for you to be only minutes away from the sound science you require. MTI has been in operation since 1996 and in that time we have assisted a number of attorneys in all areas of practice all across America. Recently, much of our work has been in the area of criminal defense. For instance, the assistance we provided to an Alabama attorney recently resulted in the exoneration of a man who had been erroneously convicted of murder and had been on death row for over six years; in another case, one involving a DUI in California, the sound science help we gave to an attorney led to the dismissal of DUI charges against his client.

National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)

National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD)

National Drug Strategy Network (NDSN)

National Institute on Drug Abuse

National Library of Medicine's Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT)

NORML

November Coalition

Office of National Drug Control Policy - Drug Facts and Figures

Partnership for a Drug-Free America - Drug Resources

Web of Addictions

Ethics

ABA Center for Professional Responsibility

LegalEthics.com

Firearms

Association of Firearm & Toolmark Examiners

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

Firearm Image Library

Firearms Tutorial

Fraud

DOJ Internet Fraud Page

Immigration

Immigration and Naturalization Service

Immigration Lawyers on the Web

National Immigration Law Center

National Immigration Project, National Lawyers Guild

Indigent Defense

DOJ Indigent Defense Page

State Sentencing and Corrections Program

Informants

PBS Frontline

Innocence Projects

The Innocence Project

International

Association of Defence Counsel Practising before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia - ADC-ICTY

ADC-ICTY is an independent professional association organized under the laws of the Netherlands. It is not an organ of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. We are, however, recognized as the Defence Counsel organisation serving the Tribunal pursuant to Rule 44 RPE.

International Criminal Law Network (ICLN)

Juvenile Justice

New England Juvenile Defender's Center

Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention

Mental Health

American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

American Psychiatric Association

American Psychological Association

Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project

The Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project is an unprecedented, national effort coordinated by the Council of State Governments (CSG) to help local, state, and federal policymakers and criminal justice and mental health professionals improve the response to people with mental illness who become involved in, or are at risk of involvement in, the criminal justice system. The landmark Consensus Project Report, which was authored by CSG and representatives of leading criminal justice and mental health organizations, reflects the results of a series of meetings among 100 of the most respected criminal justice and mental health practitioners in the country. Since the release of the report in June 2002, the Consensus Project has continued to promote practical, flexible approaches to this issue through educational presentations, technical assistance, and the dissemination of information about programs, research, and policy developments in the field. The Consensus Project Web site provides access to the Project Report, information about relevant research, statistics, and Web-based resources, and a searchable database of programs from around the country, which allows visitors to communicate with program administrators online.

GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System

Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy

Psych Central - Psych Resources

Psychiatry and Law Updates