The content of the FDPRC webpage is intended to help defense counsel become familiar with the issues, procedures, and practices unique to, or made unique by, capital prosecutions, and to provide guidance in working with these matters. Any content of the FDPRC website can be saved to your computer and used in your practice. We provide : A brief Overview of the Federal Death Penalty Process for those who are just beginning to work on a case. A series of Online Litigation Guides organizing motions, briefs, and memoranda, case summaries, and information sheets and tables, into separate guides concerning the issues, practices, and procedures unique to, or made unique by, federal death penalty cases. A description and report on the current status of each case in which the Attorney General has authorized the death penalty to be sought, in Summaries of Cases Authorized for the Death Penalty . A summary of nearly all the orders and opinions in federal death penalty cases that are available online – published and unpublished – with an index to issues decided, in Summaries of Opinions and Orders . All the appellate briefs filed by defendants in federal capital appeals, accessible in their entirety or through a detailed index of issues, in Appellate Briefs and Issues . Tables of information collected from nearly all federal capital cases showing the way in which the courts have dealt with recurring issues and presenting demographic and other case- or judge-related information, in Useful Information About Death Penalty Trials . The text of all federal capital offense statutes in Federal Capital Offenses . All Past Issues of FDPRC Federal Death Penalty Newsletter , addressing issues and concerns of pressing importance in the defense of federal capital cases. Articles, reports, and reference materials helpful in developing a better understanding of capital defense work and of specific use in litigating certain issues as well as Timely stories concerning federal death penalty cases, the Department of Justice and its policies in capital cases, and other matters that bear upon the defense of capital cases, in   Relevant Reading and Death Penalty Press . A calendar describing Upcoming Seminars relating to death penalty defense. Streaming audio and video presentations by FDPR Counsel and others on topics critical to the defense of clients in capital trials, in Presentations from Past Seminars . Timely stories concerning federal death penalty cases, the Department of Justice and its policies in capital cases, and other matters that bear upon the defense of capital cases, in Death Penalty Press . Cites to Sites on the world wide web that are helpful to the defense of capital cases. A Search Page for the CDN site.