NGO report

Discrimination, Torture, and Execution: A Human Rights Analysis of the Death Penalty in California and Louisiana

By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) / Jessica Lee and Susan Hu, on 1 January 2013


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This report focuses itsanalysis on discrimination and torture, cruel inhuman and degrading treatment and foundnumerous human rights violations, including the most basic right – the right to life – in theuse of the death penalty in California and Louisiana.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Discrimination,



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