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The Global Overview 2011. It provides a country-by-country analysis of the death penalty for drugs, and is intended to inform policy-makers of the potential for change as well as to shed some light on the environments in which the international fight against illicit drugs is pursued.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Drug Offences,

A military court yesterday acquitted Chiang Kuo-ching (江國慶), who was executed for the rape and murder of a girl 15 years ago, in a posthumous trial.

• Document type Legal Representation
• Themes list Innocence,

A Taiwanese air force private executed 14 years ago for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl was innocent after all, a military court has ruled.

• Document type Legal Representation
• Themes list Innocence,

Reflecting schisms of race, class, and political power at the core of the Philippines’ tumultuous democracy, clashing families, institutions, and individuals face off to convict or free Paco, accused of the rape and murder of two chinese-philipino women.

• Document type Legal Representation
• Themes list Innocence,

PRI information kit on the alternative sanctions to the death penalty: ; a review of current practices; the increasing use of ‘life’ and long-term sentences and their contribution to growing prison numbers; 12 steps toward alternative sanctions to the death penalty that respect international human rights standards and norms.

• Document type Arguments against the death penalty
• Themes list Sentencing Alternatives,

PRI training resource (1/3): Aimed mainly to mid-level prison officers, this resource’s trains these stakeholders on: due process and fair trial standards, international standards on the treatment of prisoners, vulnerable prisoners, building a rehabilitation-oriented penal culture.

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Fair Trial, Death Row Conditions,

In Alabama, elected trial judges can override jury verdicts of life and impose death sentences. Although judges have authority to override life or death verdicts, in 92% of overrides elected judges have overruled jury verdicts of life to impose the death penalty.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Fair Trial, Arbitrariness, Sentencing Alternatives,

• Document type Campaigning
• Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Torture, Death Row Conditions,
• Available languages Petition 2011 contre la peine de mortпетицию关于在全球范围暂缓使用死刑的呼吁Pétition Journée mondiale 2011World Day 2011 Petitionدرخواست برای توقف مجازات اعدام در سراسر جهانPetición de 2011 contra la pena de muerte

The petition calls on retentionist states to establish a moratorium on the use of the death penalty with a view to abolish it on the ground that it is inhumane.

• Document type Campaigning
• Themes list Networks,
• Available languages Petition 2011 contre la peine de mortпетицию关于在全球范围暂缓使用死刑的呼吁Pétition Journée mondiale 2011World Day 2011 Petitionدرخواست برای توقف مجازات اعدام در سراسر جهانPetición de 2011 contra la pena de muerte

The International Jurisprudence Factsheet is divided in four topics: 1. The Right to Be Free from Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 2. Methods of Executions 3. Death Row Conditions 4. Families of the Persons Sentenced to Death. The relevant international entities have been investigated regarding these topics and their conclusions are presented in this factsheet.

• Document type Campaigning
• Themes list Networks,
• Available languages Fiche jurisprudence internationale : "La peine de mort est inhumaine"