CUADP: For Alternatives To The Death Penalty. four ninth grade girls from the local high school come to Citizens United for Alternativesto the death penalty (CUADP I spoke with some of my students and they http://www.cuadp.org/abdaytour04/SpeakerBios.htm
Extractions: Home $$Donate Contact About ... AbolitionWear There's nothing like experience This February, The Journey of Hope From Violence to Healing and Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (CUADP) are working with activists from Seattle to San Diego to bring a compelling and emotional educational program to your community. Please contact abe@cuadp.org to learn how to get on the schedule. Click here to print a flyer featuring these biographies and feedback from previous panel hosts. Juan Melendez: Juan Roberto Melendez Colon became the 24th person exonerated and released from Florida's death row when he was freed on January 3, 2002 after spending 17 years, eight months and one day facing execution for a crime he did not commit. Melendez was convicted in 1984 at the age of 33 with no physical evidence linking him to the crime and testimony from questionable witnesses. In fact, prosecutors hid evidence and lied to the court in order to protect the real killer, a police informant. Melendez's conviction fell apart when the police informant's confession came to light in 1999 - a confession that prosecutors knew about before they took Melendez to trial. More information about this case is available on the internet at: www.fadp.org/24threlease.html
Disabilities Awareness High School Students as a separate piece to high schools and students SUNY Albany Disabled Student Services,by Aidan Harte. Supreme Court Debates death penalty, by Matthew Cushing http://www.cqc.state.ny.us/disawhs2.htm
Extractions: Articles by High School Students Since 1997 the Commission's newsletter has contained contained a central section of articles on disabilities awareness composed by high school students, which has also been distributed as a separate piece to high schools and students throughout New York State. The articles are reproduced as separate pieces here for individual viewing and/or downloading purposes. Editorial, by Liam Harte Newsletter Editorial Board Members are Honored at Ceremony SUNY Albany Disabled Student Services by Aidan Harte A View from the Fun Side, by Kyle Derkowski: Attitude and friends, not disability, are what counts A Fast Moving Kaleidoscope by Elena Anadolis : Problems in concentration with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder I'm Not Scared, by LaJoan Donley : Poem about a young adult with a serious disease The ADA and the Supreme Court, by Liam Harte : Discussion on important piece of anti-discrimination legislation Stuck in Neutral, reviewed by Daniel Pepe , Book Review on fictional account of 14 year-old boy with CP A Matter of Dignity reviewed by Aidan Harte , Book Review on a book dealing with the daily lives of individuals with disabilities Why is Everyone Looking at Me?
Human Rights Education Library: Secondary And High School Title, death penalty Curricula for high school. Communication Technology Laboratory/deathpenalty Information Center. unit(s), students, teachers, secondary school http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display.php?doc_id=251&category_id=6&category_ty
Death Penalty: Failures Of 3 Main Arguments death penalty Failures of 3 Main Arguments. Objection 1 Imagine a psychologicaltest for high school students whereby it is shown that those who fail are as http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27a/081.html
Extractions: Date: 22 Jun 1997 16:38:53 GMT 22 June, 1997 Murder is unjustified intentional killing. It is not sufficient that there be justification (a sound reason) to kill somebody, the person doing the killing must kill for that reason. Thus, if I should shoot some random person in a driveby shooting, only to have it discovered later that, quite by coincidence, this was somebody who deserved to die, this would not mitigate against the fact that I committed murder. The three most common reasons offered for capital punishment do not justify killing. 1. Specific deterrence: capital punishment is justified to prevent the commission of a future crime. Objection 1: Imagine a psychological test for high school students whereby it is shown that those who fail are as likely to commit a future crime as are those arrested for having committed that crime in the past. The ability to prevent a future crime would be the same in both cases. If it is permissible to kill to prevent a future crime, than we are just as justified in killing those highschool students who fail this test as we are those who have committed murder. Or, in other words, if preventing a future crime does not justify killing these high-school students, it does notjustify capital punishment for murderers. Objection 2: (This is actually a way of rephrasing above), a person being executed to prevent a future crime is, in effect, being punished for a crime that he did not commit. Not only is he being presumed guilty (rather than being presumed innocent unless proved to be guilty), he is being presumed guilty of crime that does not exist.
Bakersfield.com | Nation of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin, and he could face the death penalty. in jailGARLAND, Texas (AP) More than two dozen high school students have been http://www.bakersfield.com/24hour/nation/
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The Death Penalty On Trial -- Encyclopædia Britannica fit to decide a case involving the death penalty. jurors to serve in deathpunishablecases articles, specially written for elementary and high school students. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=414926
Law, Crime, And Law Enforcement -- Encyclopædia Britannica Convention on Human Rights, which banned the death penalty in all Encyclopedia Britannicaarticles, specially written for elementary and high school students. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=422197
TCLA Bill Of Rights High School Exit Exam The problems revealed by California s high school exit exam won solved only by providingall students a real moratorium on his state s use of the death penalty. http://www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/rights/latest/7/hs_exit_op_ed.html
Extractions: Reprinted in the Los Angeles Times October 6, 2002 Jeannie Oakes is presidential professor and director of UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA). Professor John Rogers is IDEA's associate director L ast Monday, the state released the latest round of scores on California's High School Exit Exam. More than half of the 431,000 10th-graders who took the exam last spring failed itmost for the second time. They will have more chances to pass, but unless something extraordinary happens, they can forget about a high school diploma. They can also forget about attending any of California's public universities, even if they've had all the right classes, gotten good grades and taken the SAT. The exit exam is a blunt instrument, useful for exposing the California schools in greatest need of attention and resources. But it should not be used to bludgeon students whose misfortune it is to attend those schools. Consider the prospects of 11th-graders at L.A.'s Crenshaw High School. After one month of school, many have not yet received textbooks for their classes. More than a third of their teachers lack full credentials. This is not an exceptional year for these students, who have faced similar or worse conditions year after year. Now, though, the state has come along and threatened their futures with a test that their school has not prepared them to take.
CBS News | Two Dead In School Shooting | March 6, 2001 07:31:24 he could face life in prison, but not the death penalty. Santana high school, about10 miles northeast of San Diego, opened its doors to students for the http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/03/05/national/main276424.shtml
Extractions: choose one How to Apply Financial Aid LL.M. Programs Joint Degree Academic Calendar Library Hours Records Law School Administration High Tech Law Institute International Law Public Interest and Social Justice Law KGACLC Media Relations SCU Homepage SiteMap Home Clinic, Intern and Volunteer Opportunities Clinic and volunteer opportunities allow students to experience law practice from initial client contact to courtroom representation under attorney supervision. Lawyering skills such as interviewing, counseling, negotiation, and trial practice are fostered in these learning environments. Participation in these experiential programs enables Santa Clara students to serve the social justice needs of the surrounding community, while enhancing their legal education. The Pro Bono Project The Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) is a new clinical program developed by the Santa Clara University Criminal Defense Clinic. NCIP identifies prisoners with innocence claims and provides direct services to them. NCIP serves as a resource center for the legal community in innocence cases. Street Law Program The Death Penalty Clinic provides students with the opportunity to be involved in the defense of a capital case. Each student will be paired with an attorney who represents a person either charged with or convicted of a capital offense. The student will be involved in the preparation of both the guilt phase and the penalty phase including gathering of physical and forensic evidence, preparation of discovery requests and responses, investigation and preparing life histories and mitigating evidence and maintaining regular client contact.
Extractions: c1998 San Francisco Chronicle The Oakland school district, which shows an amazing knack for getting itself into trouble, has another public relations nightmare brewing over a death row inmate from Philadelphia. It began with an Oakland teachers union plan, announced during the holiday break, to sponsor a voluntary ``teach-in'' at all schools next Thursday on issues surrounding the death penalty, highlighting the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of killing a police officer. The more cynical district employees even have labeled the teach-in ``ebonics II,'' referring to the national uproar the district created two years ago when the school board hastily passed a resolution that it planned to use teaching methods that recognized so- called black English. Unlike the ebonics uproar, the reaction to the teach-in has been low-key and limited to the city limits so far. ``We got more calls when the superintendent suspended the Oakland football coaches,'' Sue Piper, assistant to the superintendent, said yesterday. Still, critics say the teach-in, like ebonics, shows what happens when people, many with good intentions, use education to advance controversial political positions.
Extractions: Welcome to the TEACHER EDITION of our High School Curriculum on the Death Penalty site. The death penalty in the United States has always been a controversial issue and recent developments concerning the death penalty have once again made an appearance in the public sphere. The purpose of this curriculum is to encourage civic participation, critical thinking and the development of research skills among students utilizing a topic of current interest. This Web site and its accompanying materials are designed to assist both teachers and students in an exploration of capital punishment, arguments for and against its use, as well as issues of ethics and justice that surround it. Teachers will find detailed lesson plans for two possible two-week units. However, teachers are encouraged to take a look at the rationales of the units and explore strategies of their own. Supplementary research materials and Internet links to a wide array of other resources are provided. The curriculum is designed for upper middle and high school students in such courses as social studies, history, civics, US Government, ethics, public speaking, and current events. Students will find an innovative and interactive Web site that is ideally suited for classroom use involving group work, class discussions, and independent reflection. However, students doing independent projects may also use the site. The
Widespread Opposition To Death Penalty Legislation In Michigan have no death penalty and that the Michigan legislation represented a retrogradestep to bring it back. Others, including high school students, addressed the http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/apr1999/dpen-a01.shtml
Extractions: 1 April 1999 "The killing business," is how many described the death penalty at a public hearing in Pontiac, Michigan last week. Several speakers passionately opposed the death penalty in their testimony March 23 before the state Senate Judiciary Committee, which is debating legislation to resume executions in Michigan for the first time in 153 years. More than 400 people, the overwhelming majority opposed to the death penalty, packed the first of several public hearings to debate the issue. Senate Republicans David Jaye and Bill Bullard have introduced a pair of resolutions in the Michigan State Senate to bring back capital punishment in cases of first degree murder. The legislation requires a two-thirds majority vote in both the House and Senate to be placed on the ballot in the year 2000. Thirty-eight states currently have the death penalty; Michigan is one of twelve that does not. Michigan was the first government in the English speaking world to abolish the death penalty, partly because of the hanging of an innocent man. Patrick Fitzgerald was hung in 1837 in nearby Windsor, Ontario for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl. Another person later confessed to the crime. Michigan's 1846 constitution incorporated a ban on capital punishment.
Extractions: PIERRE South Dakota has become the latest state to eliminate the death penalty for juveniles. Gov. Mike Rounds has signed into law a bill that will eliminate the death penalty for those who are 16- and 17-years old at the time their crimes are committed. ''It was extremely timely for South Dakota to pass this law,'' said Sen. Patti de Hueck, R-Pierre, the main sponsor of SB182. The nation's highest court ruled in 1988 that no one younger than 16 can be executed, so the South Dakota law banning execution of juveniles applies to 16- and 17-year-old convicts. Of 38 states that allow capital punishment, South Dakota and Wyoming joined 17 others that do not allow the death penalty for 16- and 17-year-olds. Laws barring the execution of juveniles were signed in both states Wednesday.
Student's Senior Project Explores at a Virginians Against the death penalty Conference last But students were leavingfor Chrismas break she contacted to Kimberly Kemp at Massaponax high school. http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2002/042002/04032002/561277
Extractions: High School auditorium, ready to receive a lethal injection. The 10th-grader portrayed John Dixon, convicted of murdering a 16-year-old gas station attendant and his boss in the play "The Executioners." Prison guards, played by Greg and James Pavela, strapped Santiago to the table during the March 26 performance. The production served as a senior project for the play's director, Elizabeth Simpson, 18, a senior at Courtland High School and Commonwealth Governor's School. It was her first experience in the theater world. The one-act play, which portrays four murderers about to be killed with a lethal injection, addresses some of the hottest issues of the death penalty.
Extractions: of Northern California 1998 Annual Report S ince 1991, the Friedman Education Project has served high school teachers and students by supporting organizing efforts and providing substantive information about civil rights and civil liberties. Student Organizing All of the student programs are designed, implemented and evaluated by the ACLU Student Advisory Committee, a dedicated group of 35 high school students from as far away as Vallejo and San Jose who meet throughout the year. With each program, a new group of students are attracted to the ACLU and join the Student Advisory Committee bringing new creative ideas and energy for planning future events on student rights and liberties. All programs are free to students and schools. SAY WHAT!! Students Celebrate Freedom of Expression This year, the annual conference for high school students to debate, discuss, and organize around key civil liberties issues was moved to Sacramento to expose California legislators to the views and opinions of youth. The March conference attracted more than 500 students from 26 different schools throughout northern California. The new location allowed students from schools in more remote areas to attend. While the conference focused on criminal justice the war on drugs, police brutality, and the death penalty we also covered other key issues including same sex public schools, homelessness, bilingual education, rights of teen parents, empowering gay students, and race relations on campus. The students lobbied their legislators on the Gang Violence and Juvenile Crime Prevention Act, and held a rally on the Capitol steps to oppose bill.
Extractions: g PHILADELPHIA"In Italy, Japan, France, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and throughout the United States, thousands of people have petitioned, organized, and demonstrated in the streets demanding justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal, an end to the death penalty, and a new trial. This is one of the most important political campaigns for justice today," stated Pam Africa, chairperson of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal (ICFFM). She was speaking before an African-American history class at Temple University on October 31. In speaking engagements across the country to build for an international day of protest November 6, Africa insists, "In fighting to save the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal you are not fighting simply for him, but you are fighting for yourselves." This case has brought international attention and pressure against the racist nature of the death penalty, which, as Abu-Jamal says, "is the fastest growing housing track for African-Americans in the country today." The campaign to free the Pennsylvania death row inmate is exposing the racist nature of the entire judicial process, stated Africa. Abu-Jamal was convicted in 1982 of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner and has been on death row ever since. The battle for his freedom is currently focusing on winning a new trial.
ABOLISH Archives, 1 August, 1997 -> Present: Death Penalty News Some of America s brightest high school students feel the ruling is right ontarget these students feel the that death penalty should be imposed for http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/ABOLISH/aug97/0151.html
Death Penalty Information, High School Curriculum Arguments For Against the death penalty. Stages in a Capital Case. Historyof the death penalty. Methods of Execution. Interactive US Maps. http://deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/
