Capital Punishment in Connecticut

View statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.

An office of the State of Connecticut Division of Public Defender Services, and a member of the Innocence Project Network, a coalition of Innocence Projects in the fifty states and abroad.

Read general information about the death penalty from the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute.

For analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment, including a searchable database of executions since 1976; reports covering race, innocence, politicization, costs of the death penalty, and more; executions scheduled for 2008 ; and the highly regarded ESPY FILE, an historical database of executions in the United States, 1608-2002, searchable by state.

A Cornell-based database "sharing knowledge, empowering human rights defenders, and building transnational communities to ensure justice for those facing the death penalty."

Search the Connecticut State Library Digital Collections for related resources.
Also search CTDA Digital Collection.

View a statistical survey prepared by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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This resource guide is compiled by the National Center for State Courts.