Andrea Weckerle

Gary Goldhammer wrote a thought-provoking post about the Zacarias Moussaoui verdict. Gary isn’t just your ordinary blogger writing about what is undoubtedly one of the most high-profile death penalty trials in United States history. He’s also the author of Dead End, a 1994 book that examines the financial and human costs of the death penalty.

For anyone who wants to learn more about the death penalty and how it is administered in the U.S., go to Pro-death penalty.com and the Death Penalty Information Center.

Here are some quick links of interest:

• Crimes punishable by the death penalty (DPIC)
• Methods of execution (DPIC) and methods of execution (Pro-death penalty.com)
• Scheduled executions (Pro-death penalty.com)
• State-by-state death penalty information (DCIP)
• State executions scheduled for 2006 (DCIP)
• The federal death penalty (DCIP)
• Federal death row prisoners (DCIP)

And to test your knowledge about the death penalty, follow this link to DPIC’s 10-question Death Penalty Quiz.