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(http://www.aclu.org/capital-punishment) - An organization dedicated todefending and preserving the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee to everyone.

(https://bjs.ojp.gov/topics/corrections/capital-punishment) - The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) collects data on persons held under sentence of death and persons executed during the calendar year from the state department of corrections and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Reports produced from this collection summarize the movement of prisoners into and out of death sentence status.

(https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/) - The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public with data and analysis on issues concerning capital punishment and the people it affects. DPIC does not take a position on the death penalty itself but is critical of problems in its application.