Source Biographies - Death Penalty

Source Biographies

	Pro	Not Clearly Pro or Con (NC)	Con	None Found (?)
"Should the Death Penalty Be Allowed?" Summary of Positions
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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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

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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.		?

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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

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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

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- 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		?

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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

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- 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

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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

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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

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- 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

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- 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

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- 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		?

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- 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		?