When the State Kills - Live from Death Row

Information on 5 Cases and a Book

Posted on May 20, 2008. This folder contains information, basic and advanced, on the five death row cases we will be dealing with in this workshop, as well as on the book by Joan M. Cheever "Back from the Dead: One Woman's Search for the Men Who Walked Off America's Death Row." The cases are the ones of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Kevin Cooper, Troy Davis, Kenneth Foster, and Jesse Guardado.

General Material

Posted May 29, 2008. Contains material on the death penalty in the U.S. in general, such as the 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and other issues