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The article “The Meaning and Challenges of an Interdisciplinary Sentencing Exercise: Reflections from a Death Penalty Mitigation Practice” published in Socio-Legal Review examines how India’s death penalty framework requires a socio-legal or interdisciplinary approach that combines law with social sciences.

• Document type Academic Article
• Countries list India
• Available languages The Meaning and Challenges of an Interdisciplinary Sentencing Exercise: Reflections from a Death Penalty Mitigation Practice

• Document type Campaigning / Working with...
• Available languages Fiche d’information à l’intention des parlementaires

• Document type Campaigning / Working with... / World Coalition
• Available languages Le mythe de la sécurité et la peine de mort Quelles nouveautés depuis 2024?

• Document type Working with... / World Coalition

• Document type Campaigning / World Coalition

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Public Opinion
• Available languages Comment réagir face au risque d'un retour à la peine de mort ?

Twenty years after Roper v. Simmons ended the juvenile death penalty, new scientific and societal insights challenge the age-18 cutoff. This report introduces new DPI analysis of the trends in sentencing and executions of defendants age 18 to 20 based on twenty years of data, from the time of the Roper decision on March 1, 2005 through the end of 2024.

• Document type NGO report
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Clemency / Death Row Conditions / Drug Offenses / Innocence / Intellectual Disability / Juveniles / Mental Illness / Trend Towards Abolition

• Document type World Coalition
• Available languages Modèle budget FSTP_2025

• Document type World Coalition
• Available languages Soutien financier aux tiers - Consortium mondial pour l'abolition de la peine de mort - FORMULAIRE DE DEMANDE

In this submission in support of the Pan African Lawyers Union, the amici explain that the death penalty per se is an arbitrary deprivation of life, in violation of Article 4 of the African Charter, because the weight of the evidence shows that the death penalty is not necessary to achieve the stated purpose of reducing crime and as a penalty implicating human rights under the Charter it is disproportionate to the benefits it seeks to capture.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment / Drug Offenses / Fair Trial / Gender / Legal Representation / Moratorium / Murder Victims' Families / Terrorism / Trend Towards Abolition / Women