Year 11 Core Topics

Capital Punishment
Sister Helen's site 1996 Speech The woman behind the film	Dead Man Walking Sites connected with the film and Sister Helen Préjean
The Pope's 1995 statement	from Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life)
The Death Penalty	from Michigan State University - for & against resources a must see site!
Amnesty International	Against the Death Penalty
CAPC	Catholics Against Capital Punishment
Religious Organizing Against     the Death Penalty	religious organisations - including statements
Religious Perspectives	from Religious Tolerance
Pastor David L. Brown	Biblical view in favour of capital punishment
Pro Death Penalty Webpage	by Wesley Lowe - note his use of the Bible
University of Alaska	comprehensive site including material on the religious perspectives, 'Dead Man Walking' and Sister Helen Préjean's work with death row inmates
Capital punishment in the UK
The BBC's AS General Studies Guru	has an interesting exercise
The Public Record Office	has some interesting documents
Why was capital punishment    abolished?	some interesting sources from the Learning Curve
Reprieve	"Reprieve provides effective legal representation and humanitarian assistance to impoverished people facing the death penalty at the hands of the state in the US and the Caribbean." Look at 'Britons on Death Row' and 'Religion and the Death Penalty'
BBC News article	- does this mean Britain still executes?

Links to follow

Abortion - see GCSE site  Euthanasia - see GCSE site Life after death