Capital Punishment - Death Penalty
**NOTE: Before you print you must either:
1) Highlight what you want on the webpage, go to “File” and “Print,” click the circle next to “Selection,” then “Print.” OR
2) Copy and paste to a Word document (to find “Word,” go to “Start” and choose “Programs.” “MS Office” is where “Word” can be found.) Once you have the information copied and pasted to the Word Document, you can change the size of the font to a smaller size (On the Word Document go to "Edit" then "Select All." Click the arrow next to the font size number at the top and change the number to 10 or 8 if you can read text that small.) OR
3) If you are in a database (Gale, EBSCO, Salem Press etc.) use the “printer friendly” icon and you don’t have to copy and paste.
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*Remember to use quotations (“ “) around any search phrase. Examples: “capital punishment” “death penalty” “united states”
The following are links to purchased databases (provide citations for you):
EBSCO’s MegaFILE:
Go to Advanced Search. Under “Limit your results” select “Full Text.” Type “capital punishment” on the first line (with quotes), verdict on the second line, and “united states” on the third line (with quotes.) Try other combinations.
http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=keh%20
Gale Discovering Collection:
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/start.do?prodId=DC&userGroupName=mnkspps
Gale Virtual Reference Library:
http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/start.do?prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=stpaulps
Como’s Reliable Online Resources (ROR) link includes the above databases and more:
The following are links to websites that are reliable but are not purchased databases (you have to figure out the citation yourself):
Death Penalty Information Center:
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
Exploring Constitutional Conflicts – The Death Penalty:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/conlaw/deathpenalty.htm
Google e-Books:
NOTE: If you select “Full View” you will get entire books. If you select “All Books” your hits will include partial books.
San Francisco Chronicle 12-15-06:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/12/15/MNGS4N03JJ1.DTL
Wikipedia:
(Can have good info, but be cautious since anyone can edit Wikipedia’s entries. NOTE: In left column see “Cite this article” for citation.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States (this link includes a list of states, numbers of executions, and cases.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty
MLA Citation Guideline Sheets:
http://spps.schoolwires.net/Page/4105