Facts and Resources about the Death Penalty

The Last Suppers raises issues that are as relevant today as they were in the 1950s: poverty, racism, the death penalty, and sexual inequality. The book, although fiction, has sparked important discussions and debates.

Click here to read several statistics about the death penalty in the U.S.

For those who wish to learn more about the death penalty — past and present — below is a list of resources.

• Death Penalty Information Center
• National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
• NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
• Ministry Against the Death Penalty (Sister Helen Prejean)
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Amnesty International