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The Transitional Justice Working Group’s 2019 report “Mapping the Fate of the Dead: Killings and Burials in North Korea” is based on four years of research(2015-2019) to document and map three types of locations connected to human rights violations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea):

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign as of 20 June 2019. This update gives information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries

• Document type Lobbying
• Themes list International law,
• Available languages Evolution de la campagne de ratification 25 - juin 2019

Facts and figures from Amnesty International’s 2019 report on death sentences and executions in 2018

• Document type World Coalition
• Themes list Juveniles, Methods of Execution, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Statistics,
• Available languages Faits et chiffres 2019

The Egypt Death Penalty Index is a joint initiative of Reprieve and the Daftar Ahwal Data Research Center. The Index tracks Egypt’s use of capital punishment between 25 Janurary 2011 and 23 Septembrer 2018.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

This article deals with one of the main arguments of defenders of the capital sentence: is the death penalty a source of relief for the victims?

• Document type Article
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Public debate, Death Penalty,

Trial by Fire is the true-life Texas story of the unlikely bond between an imprisoned death row inmate (Jack O’Connell) and a mother of two from Houston (Laura Dern) who, though facing staggering odds, fights mightily for his freedom. Cameron Todd Willingham, a poor, uneducated heavy metal devotee with a violent streak and a criminal record, is convicted of arson-related triple homicide in 1992. During his 12 years on death row, Elizabeth Gilbert, an improbable ally, uncovers questionable methods and illogical conclusions in his case, and battles with the state to expose suppressed evidence that could save him.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

The Pakistan Capital Punishment Study is the result of a two-year long research and analysis project undertaken by lawyers and academics at the Foundation for Fundamental Rights (‘FFR’) in Pakistan and international legal non-profit organization, Reprieve.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

Most of the world’s countries or territories have either abolished the death penalty or no longer use it. More than half of those that retain the death penalty, of which many are in South-East Asia, do so for drug-related offences. Most prisoners on death row in South-East Asia have been convicted of drug-related offences, although law and practice vary considerably among countries that retain the death penalty.

• Document type International law - United Nations
• Themes list Death Penalty, Statistics,

This report, Mass Injustice, presents the Egypt Death Penalty Index (“the Index”), a first-of-its-kind website and statisticaldatabase on Egypt’s application of thedeath penalty. The report provides background information on Egypt’s growing unlawful application of the death penalty, and explains how the Index was compiled.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

The use of the death penalty for crimes committed by people younger than 18 is prohibited under international human rights law, yet some countries still execute child offenders. Since 1990 Amnesty International has documented 145 executions of child offenders in 10 countries: China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Sudan, the USA and Yemen. This is the most up to date version of this document.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Juveniles, Death Penalty, Statistics,
• Available languages عمليات إعدام الأحداث التي تم تنفيذها منذ 1990 وحتى أبريل/نيسان 2019Ejecuciones de personas que eran menores de edad en el momento del delito desde 1990 hasta abril de 2019