NGO report

Creating More Victims: How Executions Hurt the Families Left Behind

By Robert Renny Cushing / Susannah Sheffer / Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights, on 1 January 2005


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This report, released appropriately on International Human Rights Day, serves to strip away the “conspiracy of silence” and give voice to a group of victims who have for too long been largely ignored in the debate surrounding the death penalty: the families of the executed.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Murder Victims' Families,



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