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The ACLU says one of the targets of the law is the Canadian Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, which has an extensive Web site that publishes letters from death row inmates around the United States, including Arizona.

The CCADP said on its site that a "new Iron Curtain is emerging around America’s Death Camps." It views the Arizona law as an attempt to legislate what advocacy groups can put on their Web site.

The CCADP is a rabble-rousing Web site that not only publishes letters from death row prisoners, but includes a memorial page for convicted murders who have been executed; Web pages for individual death row prisoners; information on upcoming executions; and requests from death row inmates for pen pals.

The site also accuses President George Bush of 154 "homicides," the number of executions he allowed during his time as governor in Texas. The site also calls Bush a "serial killer." The site refers to Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating as "Killer Keating" for allowing executions in his state.

The Arizona law bars inmates from having access to the Internet through the use of a computer, computer systems, network, a communications service provider or remote computing system. Inmates are also forbidden from sending or receiving mail from a communication service provider or remote computer site.

The ACLU had sent a letter to the Arizona Department of Corrections in June demanding that the law be suspended, calling the measure an attempt at censorship and a violation of freedom of speech.

The ADOC countered that it had no authority to suspend a law passed by the legislature and signed by the governor.