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Portuguese : Instruções: FORMULÁRIO PARA APRESENTAR PETIÇÃO SOBREVIOLAÇÕES DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS
By Organization of American States, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
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O formulário que se segue foi preparado pela Secretaria Executiva da CIDH e se destina a facilitar a apresentação de petições referentes a violações dos direitos humanos praticadas por Estados membros da OEA, denunciadas pelas vítimas de tais violações, por seus familiares, organizações da sociedade civil ou outras pessoas.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Instrucciones: Formulario para Presentar Peticiones sobre Violaciones a los Derechos HumanosInstructions: Formule de Plainte Relative à des Allégations de Violation des Droits de la PersonneInstructions: Form for Filing Petitions alleging Human Rights Violations
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Italian : COS’È L’OSCE?
By Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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L’Europa affronta nuove minacce e sfide. Grazie al suo approccio globale alla sicurezza, l’OSCE offre alla regione un forum per il dialogo e per i negoziati politici, nonché una piattaforma per partenariati multilaterali che attuano iniziative concrete sul terreno.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages German : Was ist die OSZE?What is the OSCE?Что такое ОБСЕ?Qu’est-ce que l’OSCE ?¿QUÉ ES LA OSCE?
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German : Was ist die OSZE?
By Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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Europa ist mit neuen Bedrohungen und Herausforderungen konfrontiert. Mit ihrem vielseitigen Sicherheitsbegriff bietet die OSZE der Region ein Forum für politischen Dialog und Verhandlungen und eine Plattform für multilaterale Partnerschaften, die der praktischen Arbeit vor Ort dienen.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Italian : COS’È L’OSCE?What is the OSCE?Что такое ОБСЕ?Qu’est-ce que l’OSCE ?¿QUÉ ES LA OSCE?
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German : Was ist das ODIHR?
By Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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Das OSZE- Demokratische Institutionen und Menschenrechte (ODIHR) ist weltweiteine der wichtigsten regionalen Menschrechts institutionen. Das ODIHR hat seinen Sitz in Warschau (Polen) und ist in Europa, im Kaukasus, in Zentralasien und in Nordamerika. Das Bro fordert demokratische Wahlen, Respekt Menschenrechte, Toleranz und Nicht diskriminierung, sowie Rechtstaatlichkeit. Das ODIHR ist die Menschenrechts institution der Organisation Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa (OSZE). Die OSZE ist eine zw ischenstaatliche Organisation, die Stabilitt, Prosperit und Demokratie in ihren 56 Teilnehm erstaaten arbeitet. Die OSZE um fasst eine Region, die sich von Vancouver im Westen bis Wladiwostok im Osten erstreckt, und ist damit weltweit die grûte regionale Sicherheits organisation. Menschenrechte und Demokratie sind Grundpfeiler des um fassenden Sicherheitskonzeptes der OSZE.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Polish : Czym jest ODIHR?Greek : Τι είναι το ODIHR;What is the ODIHRЧто такое БДИПЧ?Qu’est-ce que le BIDDH?
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Polish : Czym jest ODIHR?
By Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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Biuro Instytucji Demokratycznych i Praw Człowieka (ODIHR) jest jedną z głównych organizacji praw człowieka na świecie. ODIHR prowadzi aktywną działalność w Europie, na Kaukazie, w Azji Centralnej i Ameryce Północnej. Siedziba ODIHR mieści się w Warszawie. Biuro działa na rzecz wspierania idei demokratycznych wyborów, poszanowania praw człowieka, praworządności, tolerancji i przeciwdziałania dyskryminacji. ODIHR jest instytucją praw człowieka należącą do Organizacji Bezpieczeństwa i Współpracy w Europie (OBWE).
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Greek : Τι είναι το ODIHR;German : Was ist das ODIHR?What is the ODIHRЧто такое БДИПЧ?Qu’est-ce que le BIDDH?
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Japanese : 联合国关于在刑事司法系统中获得法律援助机会的 原则和准则
By Economic and Social Council, on 8 September 2020
United Nations report
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经济及社会理事会决议 [根据预防犯罪和刑事司法委员会的建议(E/2012/30和Corr.1和2)通过]
- Document type United Nations report
- Themes list International law,
- Available languages "مبادئ الأمم المتحدة وتوجيهاا بشأن سبل الحصول على /٢٠١٢ المساعدة القانونية في نظم العدالة الجنائية"United Nations Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice SystemsПринципы и руководящие положения Организации Объединенных Наций, касающиеся доступа к юридической помощи в системах уголовного правосудияPrincipes et lignes directrices des Nations Unies sur l’accès à l’assistance juridique dans le système de justice pénalePrincipios y directrices de las Naciones Unidas sobre el acceso a la asistencia jurídica en los sistemas de justicia penal
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Indonesian : Kaedilan ang Cacat. Peradilan Yang Tidak Adil Dan Hukuman Mati di Indonesia
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
Indonesia
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Meskipun protes keras dari Organisasi lokal dan hak asasi manusia internasional , pemerintah Indonesia baru di bawah Presiden Joko Widodo telah dieksekusi 14 orang , termasuk warga negara Indonesia dan asing , pada tahun 2015. Semua dari mereka telah dihukum karena perdagangan narkoba . Dalam kesempatan lain Presiden Widodo anche Lain Bahwa pemerintah publik akan menolak aplikasi apapun grasi dibuat oleh orang-orang yang dijatuhi hukuman mati untuk kejahatan narkoba . Yang laporan ini didasarkan pada pekerjaan Amnesty International selama tiga Dekade terakhir mendokumentasikan penggunaan hukuman mati di Indonesia , meliputi penelitian dilakukan selama kunjungan Maret 2015 ke negara itu . Laporan ini menyoroti 12 kasus individu tahanan hukuman mati , dari total 131 orang hukuman mati , yang mengarah ke masalah sistemik dalam administrasi Indonesia keadilan itu mengakibatkan pelanggaran hukum dan standar HAM internasional.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Indonesia
- Themes list Fair Trial, Drug Offences, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages Flawed Justice: Unfair Trial and the Death Penalty in indonesiaUne justice déficiente. Procès iniques et recours à la peine de mort en Indonésie
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Japanese : The Chaplain
By Japan Society Film, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
Japan
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The late, great Ren Osugi (Hana-bi) stars as a prison chaplain working on death row in this thought-provoking chamber drama—his final film as an actor and first as a producer. Visiting with a regular roster of inmates who await their final sentence—including a converted ex-yakuza and a philosophy-spouting mass murderer—the newly appointed clergyman gradually learns of their circumstances and is forced to confront his own understanding of life, death and salvation. Featuring unforgettable characters and a restrained visual style, Dai Sako’s searching film takes on the rarely-addressed topic of Japan’s death penalty in order to question the state of the country’s soul.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Japan
- Themes list Retribution, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Prison conditions for women facing the death penalty: A factsheet
By Penal Reform International / Cornwell Death Penalty Project, on 1 January 2018
2018
Campaigning
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There are at least 500 women currently on death row around the world. While exact figures are impossible to obtain, it is estimated that over 100 women have been executed in the last 10 years – and potentially hundreds more. Little empirical data exists about the crimes for which women have been sentenced to death, the circumstances of their lives before their convictions, and the conditions under which they are detained on death row. This Factsheet focuses on the latter topic, with some introductory remarks on the profiles of women under sentence of death. It draws on research published by the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2018, which has shed light on this much-neglected population.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Women,
- Available languages Conditions de détention des femmes condamnées à mort : Une fiche détaillée
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Public Opinion on the Death Penalty
By Cornell Law School, on 1 January 2018
Article
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Public officials in retentionist or de facto abolitionist countries often invoke public support for the death penalty as one of the reasons why they do not promote abolition. A closer look at this justification, however, reveals some common flaws. This note offers a critical assessment of public opinion polls on the death penalty and suggests tools to properly gauge the level of public support for the death penalty.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate, Death Penalty,
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Prison guards and the death penalty
By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2015
2015
NGO report
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How are prison guards affected by overseeing prisoners on death row or even participating in executions? What effects does it have in the short and the longer term?This short paper draws on research and interviews with prison guards to outline the psychological impact that guards who have worked with prisoners for many years on death row can experience when a prisoner is put to death.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,
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DPIC Year End Report: Death Sentences, Executions Drop to Historic Lows in 2016
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2016
2016
Article
United States
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A press release on the DPIC Year End Report 2016: Use of the death penalty fell to historic lows across the United States in 2016. States imposed the fewest death sentences in the modern era of capital punishment, since states began re-enacting death penalty statutes in 1973. New death sentences are predicted to be down 39% from 2015’s 40-year low. Executions declined more than 25% to their lowest level in 25 years, and public opinion polls also measured support for capital punishment at a four-decade low.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
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Sharia law and the death penalty
By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2015
2015
NGO report
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PRI has witnessed the death penalty’s abolition in a majority of the world’s nations, but it continues to be used in most Muslim countries. One of the main reasons for this is the justification that it is permitted by the Quran, the Islamic holy book. In many Islamic countries which continue to carry out executions, the death penalty has become a taboo subject. Governments frequently use Sharia to justify why they retain and apply capital punishment, and this can seem to close discussion on the subject. However, Sharia law is not as immutable on the death penalty as many scholars or states say. Among the misconceptions about Sharia law is the belief that there is a clear and unambiguous statement of what the punishments are for particular offences. In fact, there are several different sources referring to punishments, and different schools of Sharia law give different weight to them.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Religion , Methods of Execution,
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Killing in the Name of Justice. The Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia
By Amnesty International / Amnesty International UK, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
Saudi Arabia
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The 2015 Amnesty International’s Report on Saudi Arabia gravely confirms that Saudi Arabia remains one of the most prolific executioners in the world. Between January 1985, the earliest year from when information on executions is available, and June 2015 it executed at least 2,200 persons, almost half of whom were foreign nationals. Over one third of these executions were carried out for offences that do not meet the threshold of “most serious crimes” for which the death penalty can be imposed under international law. Most of these crimes, such as drug-related offences, are not mandatorily punishable by death according to the authorities’ interpretation of Islamic Shari’a law.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Saudi Arabia
- Themes list Drug Offences, Foreign Nationals, Most Serious Crimes, Death Penalty,
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2015 World Day Against the Death Penalty: Not the Solution to Drug-Related Crimes
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2015
2015
NGO report
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Drug-related offences are still punishable with the death penalty in more than 30 countries despite clear restrictions set out in international law to limit use of the death penalty to the “most serious crimes”. The 2015 World Day Against the Death Penalty (10 October) draws attention to the use of the death penalty for drug-related offences as a human rights violation.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Drug Offences,
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Flawed Justice: Unfair Trial and the Death Penalty in indonesia
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2015
NGO report
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Despite strong protests from local and international human rights organisations, the new Indonesian administration under President Joko Widodo has executed 14 people, including Indonesian and foreign nationals, in 2015. All of them had been convicted of drug trafficking. In other occasions President Widodo also stated publicly that the government would deny any application for clemency made by people sentenced to death for drug-related crimes. This report, which builds on Amnesty International’s past work over three decades documenting the use of death penalty in Indonesia, includes research carried out during a March 2015 visit to the country. The report highlights 12 individual cases of death row prisoners, out of a total of 131 people on death row, which point to systemic problems in Indonesia’s administration of justice that resulted in violations of international human rights law and standards.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Fair Trial, Drug Offences, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages Indonesian : Kaedilan ang Cacat. Peradilan Yang Tidak Adil Dan Hukuman Mati di IndonesiaUne justice déficiente. Procès iniques et recours à la peine de mort en Indonésie
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Capital punishment and the implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty – Yearly supplement of the Secretary-General to his quinquennial report
By United Nations / Human Rights Council, on 8 September 2020
2020
United Nations report
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The Report examines the possible consequences of the imposition and application of the death penalty on the enjoyment of various human rights, including human dignity, the right to life, the right to freedom from torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the right to a fair trial and the right to equality and non-discrimination. It further examines the human rights consequences of the lack of transparency in the imposition and application of the death penalty.
- Document type United Nations report
- Themes list Fair Trial, Right to life, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment,
- Available languages Смертная казнь и осуществление мер, гарантирующих защиту прав лиц, приговоренных к смертной казни. Ежегодное дополнение Генерального секретаря к его пятилетнему докладу по вопросу о смертной казниPeine capitale et application des garanties pour la protection des droits des personnes passibles de la peine de mort. Supplément annuel au rapport quinquennal du Secrétaire général sur la peine capitale死刑和保护死刑犯权利的保障措施的执行情况 秘书长关于死刑问题的五年一度报告的年度补编La pena capital y la aplicación de las salvaguardias para garantizar la protección de los derechos de los condenados a la pena de muerte. Suplemento anual del Secretario General de su informe quinquenal sobre la pena capital
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High-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty
By United Nations / Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) , on 1 January 2019
2019
International law - United Nations
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The Report of the UN Hugh Commissioner for human Rights provides a summary of the high-level discussion on the question of the death penalty, held on 4 March 2015, at the twenty-fifth session of the Council. The aim of the panel discussion was to exchange views on the question of the death penalty, and to address regional efforts aiming at the abolition of the death penalty and the challenges faced in that regard.
- Document type International law - United Nations
- Themes list Death Penalty,
- Available languages Обсуждение вопроса о смертной казни в рамках дискуссионной группы высокого уровня. Доклад Верховного комиссара Организации Объединенных Наций по правам человекаRéunion-débat de haut niveau sur la question de la peine de mort. Rapport du Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l’homme死刑问题高级别小组讨论会. 联合国人权事务高级专员的报告Mesa redonda de alto nivel sobre la cuestión de la pena de muerte. Informe del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos
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The Death Penalty in the U.S. in 2015: infographic
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2015
2015
Multimedia content
United States
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- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
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MADP 2015 Annual Report: Infographics
By Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2015
Multimedia content
United States
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Missouri has had a surge in executions since 2008. The following data shows just how arbitrary and discriminatory Missouri’s death penalty system is. Such disparities in race, geography, and gender, are causes for concern that this system is broken and applied capriciously.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Discrimination, Country/Regional profiles,
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Growing up on death row. The death penalty and juvenile offenders in Iran
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2016
2016
NGO report
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Two decades after Iran ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the authorities continue to show contempt for one of its core principles – the prohibition of the death penalty for juvenile offenders (people younger than 18 at the time of the crime). Indeed, Iran tops the grim global table of executioners of juvenile offenders.The report analyses the Iranian Penal System with regard to juvenile offenders, acknowledges the reforms, presents the recent trends and points out the major shortcomings that still need to be addressed in view of a full compliance of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the international standards.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Juveniles, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages Iran: Synthèse et les conclusions du rapport sur la peine de mort en Iran.
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Death sentences and executions in 2015
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2016
NGO report
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This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2015. As in previous years, information is collected from a variety of sources, including: official figures; information from individuals sentenced to death and their families and representatives; reporting by other civil society organizations; and media reports. Amnesty International reports only on executions, death sentences and other aspects of the use of the death penalty, such as commutations and exonerations, where there is reasonable confirmation.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages СМЕРТНЫЕ ПРИГОВОРЫ И КАЗНИ 2015Condamnations à mort et exécutions en 2015Condenas a muerte y ejecuciones 2015
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The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area: Background Paper 2016
By Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), on 1 January 2016
International law - Regional body
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The background paper provides information on changes and developments withregard to the death penalty in the OSCE area and new developments on the internationallevel. In this year’s edition, there is a specific focus on the relationship betweencapital punishment and the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhumanor degrading treatment or punishment.
- Document type International law - Regional body
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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The Death Penalty in the U.S. in 2016: infographic
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2016
NGO report
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Figures on the application of the death penalty in the US in 2016: Another record decline in death penalty use
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
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China’s deadly secret
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
China
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The Chinese government continues to conceal the extent to which capital punishment is being used in China, despite more than four decades of requests from UN bodies and the international community and despite the Chinese authorities’ own pledges to bring about increased openness in the country’s criminal justice system. This report focuses on the extent to which the authorities maintain near absolute secrecy over the death penalty system, while using partial and generally unverifiable disclosures to claim progress and reject demands for greater transparency.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list China
- Themes list Drug Offences, Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages 中国的致命秘密
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Capital Clemency Resource Initiative
By American Bar Association, on 1 January 2018
2018
Arguments against the death penalty
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This ressource provided by the American Bar Association permits to help fill clemency petitions in the United States.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Clemency, Death Penalty,
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Locked up and Forgotten: The Need to Abolish the Death Penalty in Ghana
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2017
2017
NGO report
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Death sentences in Ghana continue to be imposed. At the end of 2016, 148 people were on death row, all sentenced to death for murder. While the last executions were carried out in July 1993, there is no official moratorium on executions in Ghana. Research carried out by Amnesty International in Ghana has highlighted concerns with the use of the death penalty, access to fair trial rights and poor prison conditions. Amnesty International calls on the Ghanaian authorities to commute the death sentences of all people on death row and to abolish the death penalty for all crimes.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Public debate, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on a gender-sensitive approach to arbitrary killings
By United Nations, on 8 September 2020
2020
International law - United Nations
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In the report, the Special Rapporteur considers key elements of a gender-sensitive perspective to the mandate, in the interests of strengthening an inclusive application of critical norms and standards related to the right to life. These elements include consideration of the impact of gender identity and expression, intersecting with other identities, on the risks factors to killings or death, the degree of predictability of harm and States’ implementation of its due diligence obligations. Applying gender lenses to the notion of arbitrariness, the Special Rapporteur highlights that gender-based killings — when committed by non-State actors — may constitute arbitrary killings. It also shows that violations of the right to life stem not only from an intentional act of deprivation of life by the State or a non-State actor, but also from the deprivation of basic conditions that guarantee life, such as access to essential health care
- Document type International law - United Nations
- Themes list International law, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Torture, Arbitrariness, Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty,
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Singapore: Cooperate or die: Singapore’s flawed reforms to the mandatory death penalty
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
Singapore
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Singapore has recorded a significant reduction in its use of the death penalty in recent years, with executions dropping from more than 70 per year in the mid-1990s to single figures in the subsequent decade. Despite this progress, the death penalty in the country continues to be used in violation of international law and standards, particularly with respect to its mandatory application and use for drug-related offences.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Singapore
- Themes list Mandatory Death Penalty, Member organizations, Death Penalty,
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The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area: Background Paper 2017
By Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), on 1 January 2017
2017
International law - Regional body
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OSCE participating States have made a number of commitments regarding the death penalty, including considering the potential abolition of capital punishment, to exchange information toward that end and to make information on the use of the death penalty available to the public.1 Where the death penalty is still in use, participating States have agreed that it could be imposed only for the most serious crimes and only in line with international commitments.2 In light of these commitments and its mandate, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) monitors trends and new developments regarding human rights standards and practices among OSCE participating States related to the death penalty. The findings are presented each year in the Background Paper on the Status of the Death Penalty in the OSCE Area. The background paper is based on the information provided by participating States, in the form of responses to ODIHR questionnaires. The information from their responses has been included in the present report, to the extent possible, and is supplemented with information from international and regional human rights bodies, non-governmental organizations and media reports.
- Document type International law - Regional body
- Themes list International law, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Capital punishment and the implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty
By United Nations, on 1 January 2017
United Nations report
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The present report is submitted pursuant to resolution 30/5 of the Human Rights Council. The report examines the consequences arising at various stages of the imposition and application of the death penalty on the enjoyment of the human rights of those facing the death penalty. It pays specific attention to the right to equality and non-discrimination in the context of the use of the death penalty. The report also highlights the discriminatory application of the death penalty to foreign nationals.
- Document type United Nations report
- Themes list International law, Right to life, Death Penalty,
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Halting the Death Penalty in Divine Hodud Punishments from a Practical Expediency Perspective
By Human Rights & Democracy for Iran, on 1 January 2017
NGO report
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Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation and Various Iranian Religious AuthoritiesAbdorrahman Boroumand FoundationNovember 16, 2017Report
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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These families lost loved ones to violence. Now they are fighting the death penalty;
By The America Magazine , on 1 January 2017
Working with...
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- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Murder Victims' Families, Death Penalty,
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Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty
By Antoinette Bosco, on 1 January 2001
2001
Working with...
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Written in the spirit of “Dead Man Walking,” this book by Antoinette Bosco conveys both the powerful personal experience of a mother whose son was murdered and a wealth of information about the criminal justice system in America. (Orbis Books, 2001)
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Public opinion, Murder Victims' Families, Death Penalty,
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Father Finds Peace in Forgiveness
By NPR Books , on 1 January 2008
2008
Working with...
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Hector Black’s daughter was murdered after she surprised an intruder in her Atlanta home. In this powerful recording, Black discusses how he found peace in forgiving the man who murdered his child.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families, Death Penalty,
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SHAMS Center issues a report on the status of death penalty in the Palestinian territories: in 2017
By Human Rights & Democracy Media Center (SHAMS), on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
State of Palestine
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In this report, SHAMS emphasizes that in Palestine they apply inconsistent legal combination of laws that punish with death penalty, which are not Palestinian laws basically.The problem is that capital punishment violates against an essential human right, and it is irreversible once executed. It doesn’t represent a public deterrent so; it is nothing but a form of violence not a solution for it.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list State of Palestine
- Themes list Death Penalty,
- Available languages مركز “شمس” يصدر تقريراً حول واقع عقوبة الإعدام في الأراضي الفلسطينية في العام 2017
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FREE MEN
By Anne-Frédérique Widmann / International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, on 1 January 2018
2018
Multimedia content
United States
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How can a human being stand up, under conditions of unjust imprisonment on death row, alone and without hope of being released? In this documentary film, Anne-Frédérique Widmann draws the portrait of Kenneth Reams, who wakes up every day with an unwavering desire to live, and succeeds in writing, testifying, painting and loving a woman. A film about the art, resistance and dignity of every human life.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence, Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty,
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Final declaration of the African Congress
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), on 1 January 2018
Article
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On 9 and 10 April, more than 300 abolitionists, activists, diplomats, politicians, parliamentarians, lawyers, former death row inmates and citizens gathered in Abidjan for the first African Congress against the death penalty. After two days of debating and sharing experiences, the delegates adopted a final declaration at the closing ceremony.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages Congrès Africain: déclaration finale pour une Afrique abolitionniste
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The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
By Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), on 1 January 2014
2014
International law - Regional body
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This publication covers the period 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 and offers a concise update that highlights only those changes in the status of the death penalty made since the last Background Paper.
- Document type International law - Regional body
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THE STATE OF AFRICAN REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS BODIES AND MECHANISMS 2018-2019
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
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The report presents a comprehensive review of the current state and performance of the African regional human rights system in the period between 1 January 2018 and 30 June 2019. It appraises the functioning, working methods, outputs and impact of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR); the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC); and the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR) during the reporting period.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list International law,
- Available languages LA SITUATION DES ORGANES ET MÉCANISMES RÉGIONAUX DE PROTECTION DES DROITS HUMAINS EN AFRIQUE
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Getting It Right Project
By Brandon Garret / The Innocence Project, on 1 January 2011
2011
Legal Representation
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Getting it right is a project to learn more about the central causes of wrongful convictions and suggested reforms to prevent future injustice. It analyses the role of eyewitness, forensics, confessions, informants, representation and law enforcement.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Innocence,
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Working with Victims: A Guide for Activist
By Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights, on 1 January 2009
2009
Working with...
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The common assumption is that all victims’ family members support the death penalty. We cannot expect to abolish the death penalty without presenting an alternative view. Victims’ voices have a powerful effect – lawmakers have voted against the death penalty as a result of hearing victims’ testify for abolition. Including victims’ stories when working for abolition is strategically wise and is essential to bringing new people into the abolition movement. Here are a few suggestions. We encourage activists to consult with MVFHR for further guidance.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
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Instructions: Form for Filing Petitions alleging Human Rights Violations
By Organization of American States, on 8 September 2020
2020
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The following form, prepared by the Commission’s Executive Secretariat, is intended to make it easier for victims of violations, their family members, organizations of civil society or other persons to file complaints alleging human rights violations by OAS member States.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Instrucciones: Formulario para Presentar Peticiones sobre Violaciones a los Derechos HumanosInstructions: Formule de Plainte Relative à des Allégations de Violation des Droits de la PersonnePortuguese : Instruções: FORMULÁRIO PARA APRESENTAR PETIÇÃO SOBREVIOLAÇÕES DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS
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False Confessions and Recording of Custodial Interrogations
By The Innocence Project, on 8 September 2020
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Many of the nation’s 249 wrongful convictions overturned by DNA evidence involved some form of a false confession. Yet it’s virtually impossible to fathom wh a person would wrongly confess to a crime he or she did not commit. The causes behind false confessions is explored in this text.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Confesiones Falsas Y Grabación De Interrogatorios En Custodia Policial
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Overview – Association of Southeast Asian Nations
By Association of Southeast Asian Nations, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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This document provides a quick overview of ASEAN, going through its aims and purposes, fundamental principles, its community and its charter.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Networks,
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Child Rights and the League of Arab States
By Childrens Rights Information Network, on 1 January 2011
2011
Working with...
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This document provides a list of the members of the Arab League and the origins of the organisation. It also describes its composition and provides contact information.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
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Witness to Innocence – from death row to freedom
By Witness to Innocence, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
United States
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Errors have been made repeatedly in death penalty cases because of: poor legal representation, racial prejudice, prosecutorial misconduct, the presentation of erroneous evidence, false confession, junk science, eyewitness error. Once convicted, a death row prisoner faces enormous obstacles in convincing any court that he or she is innocent.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
African Court on Human and Peoples Rights Quick Facts
By African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, on 1 January 2006
2006
Working with...
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The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights was established by the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Court’s Protocol). The Court’s mission is to complement and reinforce the functions of the Commission in promoting and protecting human and peoples’ rights, freedoms and duties in African Union Member States.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Portuguese : Tribunal Africano dos Direitos Humanos e dos PovosAfricaine Cour des Droits de l'Homme et Des Peuples
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Death Penalty Lessons from Asia
By David T. Johnson / Franklin E. Zimring / Asia-Pacific Journal, on 1 January 2009
2009
Article
China
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Part one of this article summarizes death penalty policy and practice in the region that accounts for 60 percent of the world’s population and more than 90 percent of the world’s executions. The lessons from Asia are then organized into three parts. Part two describes features of death penalty policy in Asia that are consistent with the experiences recorded in Europe and with the theories developed to explain Western changes. Part three identifies some of the most significant diversities within the Asian region – in rates of execution, trends over time, and patterns of change – that contrast with the recent history of capital punishment in non-Asian locations and therefore challenge conventional interpretations of death penalty policy and change. Part four discusses three ways that the politics of capital punishment in Asia are distinctive: the limited role of international standards and transnational influences in most Asian jurisdictions; the presence of single-party domination in several Asian political systems; and the persistence of communist versions of capital punishment in the Asia region.
- Document type Article
- Countries list China
- Themes list Death Penalty,
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Convention on the Rights of the Child
By United Nations, on 1 January 1989
1989
United Nations report
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Article 37States Parties shall ensure that:(a) No child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Neither capital punishment nor life imprisonment without possibility of release shall be imposed for offences committed by persons below eighteen years of age.
- Document type United Nations report
- Themes list Juveniles, International law,
- Available languages اتفاقية حقوق الطفلКонвенция о правах ребенкаConvention relative aux droits de l'enfant儿童权利公约Convención sobre los Derechos del Niño
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Department of Public Information Non-Governmental Organizations
By United Nations / Department of Public Information Non-Governmental Organizations, on 8 September 2020
2020
Working with...
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The NGO Relations Cluster is the link to over 1,500 Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) associated with the Department of Public Information and supports their efforts to interact effectively with the United Nations in their areas of expertise.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Sección de las Organizaciones no Gubernamentales联合国新闻部非政府组织Section des Organisations Non GouvernementalesНеправите Неправительственные организации (льственные организации)
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AMERICAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS “PACT OF SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA”
By Organization of American States, on 8 September 1969
1969
United Nations report
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Article 4. Right to Life1. Every person has the right to have his life respected. This right shall be protected by law and, in general, from the moment of conception. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life.
- Document type United Nations report
- Themes list International law, Right to life,
- Available languages CONVENCION AMERICANA SOBRE DERECHOS HUMANOS "PACTO DE SAN JOSE DE COSTARICA"
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Courtroom Contortions: How America’s application of the death penalty erodes the principle of equal justice under law
By Anthony G. Amsterdam / American Prospect, on 8 September 2020
2020
Article
United States
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One cost this country pays for the death penalty is that its courts are constantly compelled to corrupt the law in order to uphold death sentences. That corruption soils the character of the United States as a nation dedicated to equal justice under law.This is not the only price we pay for being one of the very few democracies in the world that retains capital punishment in the 21st century. But it is a significant item on the cost side of the cost-benefit ledger, something that each thinking person ought to balance in deciding whether he or she supports capital punishment. And it warrants discussion because this cost is little understood. I have spent much of my time for the past 40 years representing death-sentenced inmates in appeals at every level of the state and federal judicial systems, and I am only lately coming to realize how large a tax the death penalty imposes on the quality of justice in those systems.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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The death penalty in China today: Kill fewer, kill cautiously
By Susan Trevaskes / Asian Survey, on 1 January 2008
2008
Article
China
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While the PRC death penalty debate has been an ongoing and highly contentious issue in the international human rights arena, death sentence policy and practice in China has remained relatively static since the early 1980s. Events in late 2006 and early 2007 have now dramatically changed the landscape of capital punishment in China. This paper analyses the recent debate on the death penalty in terms of the shifting power relationships in China today. The Supreme People’s Court wants to strictly limit the death penalty to only the ‘most heinous’ criminals while the politburo on the other hand, wants to maintain the two-decade old ‘strike hard’ policy which encourages severe punishment to be meted out to a wider range of serious criminals.
- Document type Article
- Countries list China
- Themes list Public debate,
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Write a Letter to the Editor
By National Coalition Against the Death Penalty / Wisconsin Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2007
2007
Working with...
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Writing a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, or submitting a story to a local blog, is a great way to fight the continued use of the death penalty. This site gives helpful tips on how to write such a letter.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
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Death Penalty Laws in states
By Capital Punishment in Context, on 8 September 2020
2020
Working with...
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This document provides state by state information in the United States regarding laws that govern the death penalty.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
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What is the OSCE?
By Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), on 1 January 2013
2013
Working with...
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Europe faces new threats and challenges. The OSCE, with its multi-faceted approach to security, offers the region a forum for political dialogue and negotiations and a platform for multilateral partnerships that pursue practical work on the ground.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages German : Was ist die OSZE?Italian : COS’È L’OSCE?Что такое ОБСЕ?Qu’est-ce que l’OSCE ?¿QUÉ ES LA OSCE?
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Summaries of Key Supreme Court Cases Related to the Death Penalty
By Capital Punishment in Context, on 1 January 2012
2012
Legal Representation
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Summary of key supreme court cases in the United States, these cases deal with juror problems, the constitutionality of the death penalty and juveniles amongst key cases discussed.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Networks,
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The Peculiar Forms of American Capital Punishment
By David Garland / Social Research: An International Quarterly, on 1 January 2007
2007
Article
United States
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There are two puzzles that confront observers of American capital punishment at the start of the 21st century. One concerns the legal and administrative arrangements through which it is enacted, which strike many commentators as irrational, or at least poorly adapted to the traditional ends of criminal justice. The other concerns the persistence of capital punishment in the USA in a period when comparable nations have decisively abandoned its use. In this essay, I will address both of these two questions, beginning with the first and offering conclusions that bear upon the second.The historical struggles around issues of capital punishment, structured as they have been by the American polity with its distinctive mix of federalism, sectionalism, and democratic populism, form the necessary basis for understanding the American present and for comparing America’s current practices with those of other western nations. Any explanation of American capital punishment ought to begin by focusing attention on these structures and these struggles.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Death Qualification
By Capital Punishment in Context, on 8 September 2020
2020
Working with...
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This document describes who is elgible for Death Qualification, Jury Selection, and what death qualification entails.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
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PROTOCOL TO THE AMERICAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
By Organization of American States, on 1 January 1990
1990
Regional body report
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Article 1The States Parties to this Protocol shall not apply the death penalty in their territory to any person subject to their jurisdiction.
- Document type Regional body report
- Themes list International law,
- Available languages PROTOCOLO A LA CONVENCIÓN AMERICANA SOBRE DERECHOS HUMANOS RELATIVO A LA ABOLICIÓN DE LA PENA DE MUERTE
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Racial Bias
By National Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2014
2014
Arguments against the death penalty
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This webpage provides information on the link between racism and the death penalty in the United States.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Discrimination,
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Clemency Procedures in Death Penalty States
By Capital Punishment in Context, on 8 September 2020
2020
Working with...
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This file is relevant to the US, giving a list of states where governors can grant clemency, where the governor must have recommendations of clemency and where governors recieve a non-binding recommendation of clemency.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
So You Want to Start an Innocence Project
By Sheila Martin Berry / Truth in Justice, on 1 January 2011
2011
Campaigning
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This document gives advice and help to those wishing to create an innocence project. The topics covered are varied and detail what is required in terms of office space, professional skills, etc.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Networks,
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Overview of the Capital Trial Process
By Capital Punishment in Context, on 8 September 2020
2020
Working with...
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This document briefly goes through the steps involved in a death penalty case, from the point of arrest to judge sentences.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
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Facts on Post-Conviction DNA Exonerations
By The Innocence Project, on 8 September 2020
Working with...
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This fact sheet gives facts on post DNA exonerations and provides information on the main causes of wrongful conviction including eyewitness misidentification, false confessions and snitches.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
AFRICAN CHARTER ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS
By African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, on 8 September 1981
1981
United Nations report
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ARTICLE 4Human beings are inviolable. Every human being shall be entitled to respect for his life and the integrity of his person. No one may be arbitrarily deprived of this right.ARTICLE 5Every individual shall have the right to the respect of the dignity inherent in a human being and to the recognition of his legal status. All forms of exploitation and degradation of man, particularly slavery, slave trade, torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment and treatment shall be prohibited.
- Document type United Nations report
- Themes list International law,
- Available languages Charte Africaine des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples
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Stop the Death Penalty: Worldwide Abolition Now
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2007
2007
Arguments against the death penalty
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This video by Amnesty International talks about how the administration of the death penalty is cruel, often sought after unfair trials and how innocent people have been wrongfully convicted. Voice over by Colin Firth.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Available languages فيديو حول عقوبة الاعدام يسردها الممثل كولن فيرثDiaporama animé sur la peine de mort dans le mondeFotogalería: historias de todo el mundo sobre la pena capital
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Cost
By National Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2014
2014
Arguments against the death penalty
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This document provides information on the cost of death penalty cases in the United States.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Networks, Financial cost,
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‘A “Most Serious Crime”? – The Death Penalty for Drug Offences and International Human Rights Law’
By Rick Lines / Amicus Journal, on 1 January 2010
2010
Article
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An in-depth analysis of the international law ramifications of applying the death penalty for drug offences. It reviews the the ‘most serious crimes’ threshold for the lawful application of capital punishment as established in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It then explores the question of whether drug offences meet this threshold by examining the issue through the lenses of international human rights law, the domestic legislation in retentionist states, international narcotics control law, international refugee law and international criminal law. The article concludes that drug offences do not constitute ‘most serious crimes’, and that executions of people for drug offences violates international human rights law.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Drug Offences, Most Serious Crimes,
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The Global Debate on the Death Penalty
By Sandra Babcock / Human Rights Magazine, on 1 January 2007
2007
Article
United States
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Many human rights organizations and intergovernmental organizations, such as the European Union, see the death penalty as one of the most pressing human rights issues of our time and have taken an active role in persuading countries to halt executions. The debate over capital punishment in the United States—be it in the courts, in state legislatures, or on nationally televised talk shows—is always fraught with emotion. The themes have changed little over the last two or three hundred years. Does it deter crime? If not, is it necessary to satisfy society’s desire for retribution against those who commit unspeakably violent crimes? Is it worth the cost? Are murderers capable of redemption? Should states take the lives of their own citizens? Are current methods of execution humane? Is there too great a risk of executing the innocent?
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Deterrence ,
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Host a Speaking Event
By Witness to Innocence, on 8 September 2020
2020
Working with...
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Are you stressing about finding that perfect speaker for your next event? Worried that the speaker be inspirational, educational, and entertaining all at the same time? Look no further. We are awaiting your call to help you organize an unforgettable and unique experience for your audience.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
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What is the ODIHR
By Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), on 1 January 2009
2009
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The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is one of the world’s principal regional human rights bodies.It promotes democratic elections, respect for human rights, tolerance and non-discrimination, and the rule of law. ODIHR is the human rights institution of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), an intergovernmental body working for stability, prosperity and democracy in its 56 participating States.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Polish : Czym jest ODIHR?Greek : Τι είναι το ODIHR;German : Was ist das ODIHR?Что такое БДИПЧ?Qu’est-ce que le BIDDH?
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
By United Nations, on 1 January 1948
1948
United Nations report
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On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and “to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories.” Article 3 – Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
- Document type United Nations report
- Themes list International law, Right to life,
- Available languages المتحدة الإعلان العالمي لحقوق الإنسانВсеобщую декларацию прав человекаDéclaration universelle des droits de l'homme世界人权宣言Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos
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Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
By United Nations, on 1 January 1989
1989
United Nations report
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The States Parties to the present Protocol,Believing that abolition of the death penalty contributes to enhancement of human dignity and progressive development of human rights,Recalling article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted on 10 December 1948, and article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted on 16 December 1966,Noting that article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights refers to abolition of the death penalty in terms that strongly suggest that abolition is desirable,Convinced that all measures of abolition of the death penalty should be considered as progress in the enjoyment of the right to life,Desirous to undertake hereby an international commitment to abolish the death penalty,Have agreed as follows:Article 11. No one within the jurisdiction of a State Party to the present Protocol shall be executed.2. Each State Party shall take all necessary measures to abolish the death penalty within its jurisdiction.
- Document type United Nations report
- Themes list International law,
- Available languages البروتوكول الاختياري الثاني الملحق بالعهد الدولي الخاص بالحقوق المدنية والسياسية بهدف العمل علي إلغاء عقوبة الإعدامВторой Факультативный протокол к Международному пакту о гражданских и политических правах, направленный на отмену смертной казниDeuxième protocole facultatif se rapportant au Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques, visant à l'abolition de la peine de mort第二任择议定书的公民权利和政治权利国际公约,其目的在废除死刑Segundo Protocolo Facultativo del Pacto Internacional de Derechos Civiles y Políticos, destinado a abolir la pena de muerte
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Where is the justice for me?’ The case of Troy Davis, facing execution in Georgia
By Amnesty International / Amnesty International - USA, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
United States
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Troy Anthony Davis has been on death row in Georgia for more than 15 years for the murder of a police officer he maintains he did not commit. Given that all but three of the witnesses who testified against Troy Davis at his trial have since recanted or contradicted their testimony amidst allegations that some of it had been made under police duress, there are serious and as yet unanswered questions surrounding the reliability of his conviction and the state’s conduct in obtaining it. As the case currently stands, the government’s pursuit of the death penalty contravenes international safeguards which prohibit the execution of anyone whose guilt is not based on “clear and convincing evidence leaving no room for an alternative explanation of the facts”. Amnesty International does not know if Troy Davis is guilty or innocent of the crime for which he is facing execution. As an abolitionist organization, it opposes his death sentence either way. It nevertheless believes that this is one in a long line of cases in the USA that should give even ardent supporters of the death penalty pause for thought. For it provides further evidence of the danger, inherent in the death penalty, of irrevocable error. As the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court wrote in 1993, “It is an unalterable fact that our judicial system, like the human beings who administer it, is fallible. Or as a US federal judge said in 2006, “The assessment of the death penalty, however well designed the system for doing so, remains a human endeavour with a consequent risk of error that may not be remediable.”
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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The Night I Forgave My Daughter’s Killer
By Marietta Jaeger-Lane / Yes! Magazine / Lynsi Burton, on 1 January 2011
2011
Legal Representation
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How a grieving mother put compassion before vengeance, and found closure along the way.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families,
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Myth #10 – The death penalty is not political
By Reprieve / Emmanuelle Purdon , on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
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MYTH: The death penalty is not political. FACT: The death penalty is often driven by politics rather than a desire to repair social problems and bring justice.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Fair Trial,
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Anthony Graves: The TT Interview
By Brandi Grissom / The Texas Tribune, on 1 January 2011
2011
Legal Representation
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The state of Texas incarcerated him for nearly two decades — and nearly executed him twice — for murders he didn’t commit. And now, the state is balking at giving him the $1.4 million he’s owed for all the years he spent wrongfully imprisoned.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Innocence,
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Myth #9 – The Bible supports the death penalty
By Reprieve / Emmanuelle Purdon , on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
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MYTH: The Bible preaches retribution. Jesus supports the death penalty. FACT: People have been arguing for decades over interpretations of the Bible. The Church has officially declared its opposition to the death penalty. The concept of “mercy” is preached in the majority of religions.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Religion ,
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Myth #8 – Executions help victims’ families to heal
By Reprieve / Emmanuelle Purdon , on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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MYTH: Executions help victims’ families to heal. FACT: Whilst we cannot speak for all victims’ families, it is clear that not all families are healed after the execution. Rather, the death penalty creates more victims and more brutality.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Retribution, Murder Victims' Families,
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When Law and Ethics Collide — Why Physicians Participate in Executions
By Atul Gawande / New England Journal of Medecine 354(12), 1-13., on 1 January 2006
2006
Article
United States
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Evidence from execution logs showed that six of the last eight prisoners executed in California had not stopped breathing before technicians gave the paralytic agent, raising a serious possibility that prisoners experienced suffocation from the paralytic, a feeling much like being buried alive, and felt intense pain from the potassium bolus. This experience would be unacceptable under the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment. So the judge ordered the state to have an anesthesiologist present in the death chamber to determine when the prisoner was unconscious enough for the second and third injections to be given — or to perform the execution with sodium thiopental alone.The California Medical Association, the American Medical Association (AMA), and the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) immediately and loudly opposed such physician participation as a clear violation of medical ethics codes. “Physicians are healers, not executioners,” the ASA’s president told reporters. Nonetheless, in just two days, prison officials announced that they had found two willing anesthesiologists. The court agreed to maintain their anonymity and to allow them to shield their identities from witnesses. Both withdrew the day before the execution, however, after the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit added a further stipulation requiring them personally to administer additional medication if the prisoner remained conscious or was in pain. This they would not accept. The execution was then postponed until at least May, but the court has continued to require that medical professionals assist with the administration of any lethal injection given to Morales. This turn of events is the culmination of a steady evolution in methods of execution in the United States.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Lethal Injection,
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Myth #7 – Executions are humane
By Reprieve / Emmanuelle Purdon , on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
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MYTH: Executions are humane. The process is painless and orderly. FACT: There is no decent way to kill a prisoner. Hanging, stoning, beheading and electrocuting all constitute cruel, inhumane and degrading punishment.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment,
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Myth #6 – The death penalty applies to everyone equally
By Reprieve / Emmanuelle Purdon , on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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MYTH: The death penalty applies to everyone equally, regardless of race, wealth or background. FACT: People who are convicted of the same crime receive vastly different penalties, across the world and within the same country or even case.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Arbitrariness,
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Myth #5 – Death penalty trials are a fair process
By Reprieve / Emmanuelle Purdon , on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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MYTH: Death penalty trials are a fair process. Trials and appeals are closely scrutinised. The defendant’s basic rights are protected. FACT: People are executed around the world every day because they did not have a fair trial.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Fair Trial,
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Capital Punishment in Context
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 8 September 2020
Campaigning
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Capital Punishment in Context contains several cases of individuals who were sentenced to death in the United States. Each case presents a narrative account of the individual’s crime, trial and punishment, along with guidelines for analysis, discussion and further research on issues raised by the case. The narratives are supplemented by resources such as original police reports from the homicide investigation and transcripts of testimony from witnesses. After reading the case, you can further explore issues by following a series of links to new information. Each case, along with the related materials, delineates a path through the criminal justice system. At every stage of the process, questions are raised about how the system works. These questions can lead to an analysis of key topics, such as the quality of legal representation for criminal defendants, the risk of wrongful convictions, the role of capital jurors, judicial independence, and the role that race may play in the criminal justice system.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Death isn’t Justice
By Poster for Tomorrow, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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Poster for tomorrow is an independent, non-profit international project whose goal is to encourage people, both in and outside the design community, to make posters to stimulate debate on issues that affect us all.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Networks,
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Myth #4 – Only evil people are executed
By Reprieve / Clive Stafford Smith , on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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MYTH: Only evil people are executed. People on death row are truly evil. FACT: There is a lot more to a human being than his worst action.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Right to life,
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Myth #3 – The death penalty saves money
By Reprieve / Clive Stafford Smith , on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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MYTH: The death penalty saves money. It costs less to kill people than to imprison them for life. FACT:The death penalty costs millions more than a sentence of life without parole. Taxpayers’ money could be used more efficiently on crime prevention programs and police.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Sentencing Alternatives, Financial cost,
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Myth #2 – The death penalty reduces crime
By Reprieve / Clive Stafford Smith , on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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MYTH: The death penalty acts as a deterrent to potential criminals. FACT: The death penalty does not deter crime. It stimulates it.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Deterrence ,
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Myth #1 – Innocent people are not executed
By Reprieve / Clive Stafford Smith , on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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MYTH: Only guilty prisoners are sent to their death. FACT: Professionals in the justice system know that innocent people have been executed.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
Compensating the Wrongfully Convicted
By The Innocence Project, on 1 January 2012
2012
Working with...
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Those proven to have been wrongfully convicted through postconviction DNA testing spend, on average, 12 years behind bars. The agony of prison life and the complete loss of freedom are only compounded by the feelings of what might have been, but for the wrongful conviction. Deprived for years of family and friends and the ability to establish oneself professionally, the nightmare does not end upon release. With no money, housing, transportation, health services or insurance, and a criminal record that is rarely cleared despite innocence, the punishment lingers long after innocence has been proven. States have a responsibility to restore the lives of the wrongfully convicted to the best of their abilities. This document describes how a state can try to recompensate an exonerated person.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Akmal Shaikh
By Reprieve, on 1 January 2009
2009
Legal Representation
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It was during this time Akmal met a man who claimed to be in the music industry; he told Akmal he could help him realise his dream of becoming a pop, When Akmal landed in China on 12 September 2007 the police stopped him, searched his bag, where they alleged they found around 4 kg of heroin, and arrested him on drug charges sensation and sent him to Kyrgyzstan to meet with his “colleagues”. In Kyrgyzstan Akmal was asked to accompany one of the men to China. The man claimed to own a nightclub there and said he wanted Akmal to sing in his club. Excited at the prospect, Akmal agreed to travel to China with him; Before boarding the plane Akmal was asked to carry this mans suitcase, he did so without knowing that there were drugs in it.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
The Political Sociology of the Death Penalty: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis
By Jason T. Carmichael / David Jacobs / American Sociological Review, on 1 January 2002
2002
Article
United States
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Despite the interest in the death penalty, no statistical studies have isolated the social and political forces that account for the legality of this punishment. Racial or ethnic threat theories suggest that the death penalty will more likely be legal in jurisdictions with relatively large black or Hispanic populations. Economic threat explanations suggest that this punishment will be present in unequal areas. Jurisdictions with a more conservative public or a stronger law and order Republican party should be more likely to legalize the death penalty as well. After controlling for social disorganization, region, period, and voilent crime, panel analyses suggest that minority presence and economic inequality enhance the likelihood of a legal death penalty. Conservative values and Republican strength in the legislature have equivalent effects; A supplement time-to-event analysis supports these conclusions. The results suggest that a political approach has explanatory power because threat effects expressed through politics and effects that are directly political invariable account for decisions about the legality of capital punishment.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.
By Capital Punishment U.K., on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
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Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported per month.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
Document(s)
Death Penalty Trends in Asia Have Possible Implications for China
By Dui Hua Human Rights Journal , on 1 January 2011
2011
Article
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This article analyses the latest controversy over the use of the death penalty that erupted not in mainland China but across the strait in Taiwan. In January, the defense ministry there was forced to issue a public apology for a wrongful execution in 1997, followed in early March by the execution of five prisoners without notifying their families.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Executions per Death Sentence
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2010
2010
NGO report
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Executions per Death Sentence, with cumulative death sentences (1977 through 2010), cumulative executions (1977 through 2010) and executions per death sentence, per State.
- Document type NGO report
Document(s)
Iran must halt execution of web programmer
By Amnesty International - Canada, on 1 January 2012
2012
Legal Representation
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Saeed Malekpour was sentenced to death in December 2010 following what appears to have been an unfair trial, without access to his lawyer, and amid allegations that he was tortured and forced to confess to crimes which he did not commit. Iran must not execute this web programmer sentenced to death after one of his web programs was used to post pornographic images without his knowledge, Amnesty International said today, as the Iranian authorities continue their crackdown on bloggers and other users of the internet.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Networks,
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The European Union and the Abolition of the Death Penalty
By Christan Behrmann and Jon Yorke / Pace University, School of Law, on 1 January 2013
2013
Academic report
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This article investigates how the EU has evolved its abolitionist position. It analyzes the development of the region’s internal policy beginning in the European Parliament, to the rejection of the punishment being mandated as a Treaty provision, which evolves into anintegral component of the external human rights project. The EU has now formulated technical bilateral and multilateral initiatives to promote abolition worldwide. This is most clearly evidenced in the EU playing an important role in the 2007 United Nations General Assembly Resolution on the moratorium on the use of the death penalty, and the strengthening of the resolution in 2008, 2010, and 2012. This article demonstrates that the EU’s contribution to the abolition of the deathpenalty is a recognizable success story of human rights, and it is one aspect of the regions’ policies that was rewarded in 2012 with the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
Document(s)
Is the Death Penalty an Asian Value?
By Sangmin Bae / Asian Affairs, on 1 January 2008
2008
Article
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Since World War, a growing number of countries around the world have joinedthe movement to abolish capital punishment. Asia remains the exception and ithas been argued by some Asian leaders that the abolition of capital punishmentis in conflict with “Asian values” and that the abolitionist argument constitutesan illegitimate interference in what is essentially a domestic concern. Thisarticle reviews the death penalty in the context of international human rightsand examines the Asian values argument. Reviewing the teachings of Confuciusand other Asian philosophers, it suggests that the ongoing use of the deathpenalty in Asia is not rooted in intrinsic cultural traditions, but in fact is tiedto internal political decisions. The Asian values argument has been largelyused as a means to maintain political legitimacy, and not anything inherent tocultural factors.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Networks,