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Summary of Positions
  Pro Not Clearly Pro or Con (NC) Con None Found (?)
I. Individuals 55 (23.5%) 46 (19.7%) 69 (29.5%) 63 (26.9%)
II. Organizations 8 (10%) 18 (22.5%) 26 (32.5%) 28 (35%)

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I. Individuals

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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- A -

Individuals Rating Position
Abbott, Geoffrey ?
Abou El Fadl, Khaled , PhD NC
Adams, Roger C. ?
Ahmad, Imad-ad-Dean, PhD Pro
Al Hussein, Zeid Ra'ad, PhD Con
Alarcon, Arthur L., LLB NC
Alarid, Leanne Fiftal, PhD ?
Alexander, Kermit Pro
Appleton, Catherine, DPhil ?
Ash-Sharabasi, Sheik Ahmad Pro
Athar, Shahid, MD Pro

- B -

Individuals Rating Position
Bailey, William C., PhD NC
Baime, David S., JD ?
Bakken, Gordon Morris, JD, PhD ?
Baldus, David C., LLM Con
Barak, Gregg, PhD Con
Baum, Kenneth F., MD, JD NC
Beatty, Gary D., JD ?
Bedau, Hugo Adam, PhD Con
Berk, Richard, PhD ?
Berlow, Alan NC
Berman, Douglas A., JD Pro
Beschle, Donald L., LLM NC
Bessette, Joseph M., PhD Pro
Bienen, Leigh, JD Con
Blecker, Robert, JD Pro
Blomberg, Thomas, PhD ?
Bohm, Robert, PhD Con
Bonsor, Kevin ?
Borg, Marian J., PhD NC
Bratton, Mark, PhD NC
Brennan, William J., Jr., JD Con
Breyer, Stephen G., LLB Con
Briggs, Ron Con
Bright, Stephen B., JD Con
Budziszewski, J., PhD Pro
Burnett, Cathleen, PhD Con
Bush, George W., MBA Pro

- C -

Individuals Rating Position
Cantor, Julie, MD, JD Pro
Caplan, Arthur L., PhD Con
Carroll, Gwendolyn, JD ?
Carter, Jimmy ?
Carter, Linda E., JD ?
Casella, Jean ?
Chambers, Ernie, JD Con
Cheatwood, Derral , PhD ?
Clarke, Alan, JD, LLM Con
Clear, Todd, PhD ?
Clegg, Roger, JD Pro
Clem, Chris, JD Pro
Coke, Tanya, JD Con
Compton, Nicholas J., JD NC
Connor, Eileen M., JD NC
Conrad, John P., MA Con
Conyers, John, Jr., JD Con
Cook, Phillip J., PhD NC
Creech, Mark H. Pro
Cressey, Donald R., PhD NC
Cuomo, Mario M., JD Con

- D -

Individuals Rating Position
Dear, John Con
Devine, Richard A., JD Pro
Dezhbakhsh, Hashem, PhD NC
Diament, Nathan, JD Pro
Dieter, Richard C., MS, JD Con
Donohue III, John J., JD, PhD Con
Dorf, Michael C. , JD ?
Dow, David R., JD Con
Dubber, Markus Dirk, JD NC
Dvorak, John C. ?

- E -

Individuals Rating Position
Earle, Ronald, JD Pro
Ehrlich, Isaac, PhD ?
Eisenberg, Ronald, JD NC
Ekelund, Robert B., PhD NC
Eland, Ivan, MBA, PhD NC
Ellerin, Bruce E., MD, JD Pro
Espy, M. Watt, Jr. Con
Evnen, Robert B., JD Pro

- F -

Individuals Rating Position
Fagan, Jeffrey A., PhD Con
Farber, Neil J., MD NC
Fein, Bruce, JD Pro
Feingold, Russ, JD Con
Feser, Edward, PhD Pro
Finkelman, Paul, PhD NC
Finkelman, Paul, PhD Con
Forst, Brian, PhD, MBA ?
Francis, Pope Con
Free Jr., Marvin D., PhD ?
Fridell, Ron, MA ?
Friedman, David, PhD NC

- G -

Individuals Rating Position
Gaines, Larry K., PhD ?
Gandhi, Mahatma, LLB Con
Garland, David W., PhD, LLB NC
Gawande, Atul , MD, MPH Pro
Gearty, Justin C., Jr., JD Pro
Gershowitz, Adam M., JD NC
Gibbs, Raymond, PhD ?
Gould, Jon B., JD, PhD Con
Graham, Billy NC
Greenman, Lisa, JD Con
Grøver, Bent , PhD ?
Guernsey, JoAnn Bren ?
Gyatso, Tenzin, PhD Con

- H -

Individuals Rating Position
Haase, Paul J., JD ?
Hanisee, Michele, JD Pro
Harris, Charles M., JD Con
Harris, Kamala, JD Con
Harris, Rabia Terri Con
Hartman, Kenneth E.
Hatch, Orrin G., JD Pro
Head, Tom Con
Henderson, Harry ?
Henry, Carl F. H., ThD, PhD Pro
Hewitt, John D., PhD ?
Hing, Bill O., JD Con
Hood, John Pro
Hoven, Ardis Dee, MD NC

- I -

- J -

Individuals Rating Position
Jacobs, Louis, PhD NC
Johnson, Colleen F. , PhD NC
Johnson, Jeffrey L., PhD NC

- K -

Individuals Rating Position
Kerr, Judy Con
Kirk, Stuart, DSW ?
Kobil, Daniel T., JD ?
Koch, Edward, LLB Pro
Kovandzic, Tomislav, PhD NC
Kozinski, Alex, JD Pro
Kreitzberg, Ellen S., JD Con
Kroll, Michael A. Con
Kronenwetter, Michael ?
Kumar, T., LLM Con

- L -

Individuals Rating Position
Lama, Dalai Con
Lamperti, John, PhD Con
Lappin, Harley G., MA ?
Lasagna, Louis, MD ?
Lempert, Richard, JD, PhD Con
Lerman, Daniel N., JD, PhD NC
Lesser, Wendy, PhD Con
Leuchter, Jr., Frederick A. ?
Levi, Nicholas W., JD ?
Liebman, James S., PhD NC
Liptak, Adam , JD ?
Lowe, Wesley Pro
Lucken, Karol, PhD ?

- M -

Individuals Rating Position
Mandery, Evan, JD ?
Markel, Dan, JD Con
Markel, Howard, PhD, MD ?
Marquis, Joshua, JD Pro
Marshall, Thurgood, LLB Con
Masur, Louis P., PhD ?
McAdams, John C., PhD Pro
McCartin, Donald, JD Con
McCulloch, Robert P., JD Pro
McVeigh, Timothy J. ?
Megivern, James J., ThD Con
Metcalfe, David NC
Miller, Roger Leroy, PhD ?
Mitchell, Paula M., JD NC
Mocan, H. Naci, PhD NC
Morris, Cynthia ?
Moulds, John F., JD Con
Moylan, Mary-Beth, JD ?
Muhlhausen, David B., PhD Pro
Muni, Jagdish NC

- N -

Individuals Rating Position
Nagin, Daniel S., PhD ?

- O -

Individuals Rating Position
O'Malley, Martin, JD Con
Obama, Barack, JD Pro
Ochs, Holona LeAnne, PhD ?

- P -

Individuals Rating Position
Pataki, George, JD Pro
Pepper, John V., PhD ?
Plaut, Steven, PhD Pro
Pojman, Louis P., PhD Pro
Powell, Jr., Lewis Franklin, LLM Pro
Prabhupada, Srila Pro
Prejean, Helen, MA Con

- Q -

- R -

Individuals Rating Position
Radelet , Michael L., PhD Con
Rakoff, Jed S., JD Con
Ramadan, Tariq, PhD Con
Reggio, Michael H. ?
Regoli, Robert, PhD ?
Reno, Janet, LLB NC
Rice, Charles E., JSD Pro
Richardson, William D., PhD Pro
Ridgeway, James ?
Robillard, Kevin ?
Roman, John, PhD NC
Rowe, Walter F., PhD ?
Rubin, Paul H., PhD ?
Ryan, George Con

- S -

Individuals Rating Position
Sanders, Joseph, JD, PhD ?
Saraswati, Parmatmananda Pro
Saraswati, Samvidananda Con
Sarat, Austin D., JD, PhD Con
Sarokin, H. Lee, LLB Con
Sasaki, Tomoko Pro
Scalia, Antonin, JD Pro
Schaefer, David, PhD NC
Scheidegger, Kent, JD Pro
Schindler, Hal ?
Schroth, Raymond A., SJ Con
Schubert, Anne Marie, JD Pro
Sharp, Dudley Pro
Shepherd, Joanna, PhD NC
Sherrer, Hans ?
Sherrill, Robert Con
Simmons, Shraga NC
Simonovic, Ivan, PhD, LLM Con
Singh, Robert, PhD Con
Smykla, John Ortiz, PhD ?
Spitzer, Eliot, JD Pro
Stefoff, Rebecca, MA ?
Stevens, John Paul, JD Con
Stevenson, Bryan, JD Con
Stewart, Steven D., JD Pro
Summers, Michael, PhD, MBA NC
Sunstein, Cass R., JD Pro
Sutherland, Edwin H., PhD Con
Sylvester, Ron NC

- T -

Individuals Rating Position
Taylor, Stuart, Jr., JD Pro
Teeters, Negley K., PhD ?
Thompson, Semon Frank, Jr. Con
Trump, Donald J. Pro
Truog, Robert, MD NC

- U -

- V -

Individuals Rating Position
Van Alstyne, William W., JD ?
Van Den Haag, Ernest, PhD Pro
Vermeule, Adrian, JD Pro
Vila, Bryan, PhD Con

- W -

Individuals Rating Position
Waisel, David, MD NC
Wang, Hsiao-Ming, PhD ?
Weinberg, Steve, MA NC
Weisberg, Robert, JD, PhD NC
Whitford, Andrew B., PhD ?
Whitt, Laurelyn, PhD Con

- X -

- Y -

Individuals Rating Position
Yusuf Sulaiman, Ahmad, PhD Pro

- Z -

Individuals Rating Position
Zimmers, Teresa A., PhD NC
Zimring, Frank, JD Con

II. Organizations

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

- # -

- A -

Organizations Rating Position
American Bar Association (ABA) NC
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Con
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (fourth edition) ?
American Medical Association (AMA) NC
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) NC
Amnesty International Con
Assemblies of God (USA) NC
Associated Press (AP) ?

- B -

Organizations Rating Position
Bloomberg Con
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) NC
British Medical Association Con
BuddhaNet NC
Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF) Con

- C -

Organizations Rating Position
California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice NC
California District Attorneys Association (CDAA) Pro
California Medical Association (CMA) NC
Capital Punishment in Context ?
Catholic Church Con
CBS News ?
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints NC
CNN (Cable News Network) ?
Columbia Encyclopedia (6th edition) ?

- D -

Organizations Rating Position
Death Penalty Curricula for High School ?
Death Penalty Focus Con
Death Penalty Information Center Con
Democracy Now! ?

- E -

Organizations Rating Position
Encyclopedia Britannica ?
Evangelical Lutheran Church Con

- F -

Organizations Rating Position
Federal Judicial Center NC
First Federal Congress Project ?
Forbes.com ?

- G -

Organizations Rating Position
Gallup ?

- H -

- I -

Organizations Rating Position
Idaho State Judiciary Con

- J -

Organizations Rating Position
Jewish Social Policy Action Network (JSPAN) Con
Justice Center of the University of Alaska at Anchorage ?

- K -

- L -

Organizations Rating Position
Law.com ?
Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association (LAAPOA) Pro
Los Angeles Times ?
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Pro

- M -

Organizations Rating Position
Michigan Battered Women's Clemency Project ?

- N -

Organizations Rating Position
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Con
National Association of Evangelicals Pro
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP) Con
National Council of Synagogues Con
National Institute of Justice (NIJ) ?
National Institutes of Health (NIH) ?
National Public Radio (NPR) ?
New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission Con
New York State Defenders Association NC
New York Times ?

- O -

Organizations Rating Position
Office of Legislative Research for the Connecticut General Assembly ?
Office of the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney Pro

- P -

Organizations Rating Position
Presbyterian Church (USA) Con
Progressive Jewish Alliance Con

- Q -

- R -

Organizations Rating Position
Rabbinical Assembly of America Con
Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association Con
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC) Con
Reuters ?

- S -

Organizations Rating Position
Society of Correctional Physicians (SCP) NC
Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Pro
State of Arizona Office of the Attorney General NC
State of Connecticut Commission on the Death Penalty NC

- T -

Organizations Rating Position
The Catholic Encyclopedia ?
The Economist Con
The History Channel ?
The Lancet Con
TIME Magazine ?
Turner Publishing Company ?

- U -

Organizations Rating Position
Understanding Islam Pro
United Church of Christ (UCC) Con
United Methodist Church Con
United Nations (UN) Con
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Con
US Bureau of Justice Statistics (USBJS) ?
US Department of Justice (USDOJ) NC
US Department of State NC
US Government Accountability Office (GAO) NC
US Library of Congress ?

- V -

- W -

Organizations Rating Position
Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) NC
WithChrist.org Pro

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