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A Stolen Life: The Debra Milke Story
By Jana Bommersbach, on 1 January 2019
2019
Book
United States
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Arizona said Debra Milke was a baby killer. Phoenix Homicide Detective Armando Saldate testified she “confessed” to having her four-year-old son murdered when he thought he was going to see Santa. In 1990, she ended up exactly where most thought she deserved–the only woman on Arizona’s death row. This compelling investigative work by one of Arizona’s most acclaimed journalists takes readers inside the case–inside the prison, inside the evidence, inside the breakdown of justice, inside the legal tenacity, inside the heart and mind of Debra Milke.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Women, Death Row Conditions,
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SUSPENSE: TWELVE YEARS LIVING AND LONGING ON DEATH ROW
By Marit Lund Bødtker, on 1 January 2018
2018
Book
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Story of Ivan Ray Murphy Jr who was condemned to death for murder. Over a period of ten years and through the medium of more than a hundred letters, Murphy, who was known as Pee-Wee, shared his innermost thoughts with his twenty years older Norwegian pen friend, the author of this book, Marit Lund Bødtker. The author twice travelled to the prison in Huntsville, Texas, where Murphy was held and from where he worked tirelessly to regain his freedom. ‘Whether he is innocent, as he claims to be, or guilty, Murphy is first and foremost a human being, a man with his own personal strengths and weaknesses, dreams and aspirations. In all probability readers will sometimes find themselves agreeing with him, at other times totally at variance with his conduct and opinions, just as they do with other people they meet or read about.’ From the afterword by John Peder Egenæs, Secretary General, Amnesty International Norway
- Document type Book
- Themes list Innocence,
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Clemency
By Chinonye Chukwu, on 1 January 2019
2019
Multimedia content
United States
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Bernadine Williams, a prison guard, still has to drive an inmate through Death Row. Little by little, his work becomes unbearable.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions,
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Darlie Lynn (song)
By YouTube / Indie Pirate Shop, on 1 January 2019
Multimedia content
United States
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Darlie was convicted and sentenced to death for a crime she did not commit. Ever since that conviction, new attorneys have been working to obtain a new trial and establish her innocence.This story is a tragic one, but it is not finished yet.Song performed and recorded by Indie Pirate Shop.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Women,
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Fourteen Days in May
By Paul Hamann, on 30 November 2018
2018
Arguments against the death penalty
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Death Row Conditions
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Fourteen Days in May is a documentary directed by Paul Hamann. The program recounts the final days before the execution of Edward Earl Johnson, an American prisoner convicted of rape and murder.
The documentary crew, given access to the prison warden, guards and chaplain and to Johnson and his family, filmed the last days of Johnson’s life in detail. The documentary argues against the death penalty and maintains that capital punishment is disproportionately applied to African-Americans convicted of crimes against whites. The programme features attorney Clive Stafford Smith, an advocate against capital punishment.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty / Multimedia content
- Themes list Death Row Conditions
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Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul
By Anthony Graves / Beacon Press, on 1 January 2018
2018
Book
United States
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Autobiography of Anthony Graves, an innocent exonerated from death row in the USA. In the summer of 1992, a family was beaten and stabbed to death in Somerville, Texas. The perpetrator set the house on fire to cover his tracks, deepening the heinousness of the crime and rocking the tiny community to its core. Authorities were eager to make an arrest. Five days later, Anthony Graves was in custody.Graves was indicted, convicted of capital murder, sentenced to death, and, over the course of twelve years on death row, given two execution dates. He was not freed for eighteen years, two months, four days.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence, Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty,
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
By Amazon Digital Services / Lara Love Hardin / Anthony Ray Hinton, on 1 January 2018
Book
United States
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Autobiography of Anthony Ray Hinton, the 152nd death row exoneree in the USA. In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama.With no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution.With the help of civil rights attorney and bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Electrocution, Death Penalty,
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China’s Death Penalty: The Supreme People’s Court, the Suspended Death Sentence and the Politics of Penal Reform
By Susan Trevaskes / British Journal of Criminology, on 1 January 2013
2013
Article
China
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This paper examines the issue of judicial discretion and the role of the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) in death penalty reform since 2007. The SPC has been encouraging judges to give ‘suspended’ death sentences rather than ‘immediate execution’ for some homicide cases. Lower court judges are encouraged to use their discretion to recognize mitigating circumstances that would allow them to sentence offenders to a suspended death sentence. The SPC has used ‘guidance’ instruments which include ‘directives’ and other SPC interpretations and a new ‘case guidance’ system which provides case exemplars to follow. The study explored these guidance instruments as a way of deepening the understanding of how law, politics and judicial practices are interwoven to achieve reform goals.
- Document type Article
- Countries list China
- Themes list Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Juan Melendez-6446
By YouTube / Comision de Derechos Civiles, on 1 January 2014
2014
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Juan Melendez-6446 portrays the story of a New York born Puerto Rican immigrant who was accused of murder in the state of Florida, a crime he did not commit. Juan Melendez was sentenced to death in a trial that only lasted 5 days. He was on death row for 17 years, 8 months and 1 day, until his exoneration on January 3, 2002.
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The Death Penalty in 2014: video summary
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2014
NGO report
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DPIC’s 2014 Year-End Report. Death sentences were at a 40-year low and executions were at a 20-year low. Texas, Missouri, and Florida accounted for 80% of all the executions in the United States. There were 7 exonerations this year and it took an average of 30 years to discover their innocence.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Innocence, Statistics,
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The Death Penalty in Africa : The Path Towards Abolition
By Ashgate Publishing / Aimé Muyoboke Karimunda, on 1 January 2014
Book
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Human development is not simply about wealth and economic well-being, it is also dependent upon shared values that cherish the sanctity of human life. Using comparative methods, archival research and quantitative findings, this book explores the historical and cultural background of the death penalty in Africa, analysing the law and practice of the death penalty under European and Asian laws in Africa before independence. Showing progressive attitudes to punishment rooted in both traditional and modern concepts of human dignity, Aimé Muyoboke Karimunda assesses the ground on which the death penalty is retained today. Providing a full and balanced appraisal of the arguments, the book presents a clear and compelling case for the total abolition of the death penalty throughout Africa.
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- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
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Parting Words
By Amy Elkins, on 1 January 2014
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Parting Words, a visual photographic archive of the 500+ prisoners to date executed in the state of Texas.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Public debate, Death Row Phenomenon,
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Black is the Day, Black is the Night
By Amy Elkins, on 1 January 2014
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Black is the Day, Black is the Night is conceptual exploration into the many facets of human identity using notions of time, accumulation, memory and distance through personal correspondence with men serving life and death row sentences in some of the most maximum security prisons in the U.S., all of which had served between 13-26 years at point of contact.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Death Row Conditions,
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The last executioner
By Tom waller , on 1 January 2014
Multimedia content
Thailand
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Inspired by true event, The last executioner is the story of Chavoret Jaruboon, the last person in Thailand whose job was to execute by gun.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Thailand
- Themes list Firing Squad,
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Inside Death Row with Trevor McDonald Part 1
By YouTube, on 1 January 2014
Multimedia content
United States
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- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon, Death Penalty,
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Inside Death Row with Trevor McDonald Part 2
By YouTube, on 1 January 2014
Multimedia content
United States
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- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon, Death Penalty,
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Filling The Void
By CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform / Bill Leonard / Maggie Smart, on 1 January 2014
Book
United States
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‘Filling The Void’ is a brutal record of Bill Leonard’s troubled childhood and youth.The memoir provides a shocking insight into the neglect and abuse that he suffered as a child at the hands of his parents and stepfather and gives a frank account of the murders that led to his incarceration. It reveals the horrendous conditions in which Bill is held in Ely State Prison, Nevada and gives a graphic description of the barbarous treatment that he has received at the hands of his prison guards. It also details and examines the flawed process that earned him the death penalty and describes his struggle for self-rehabilitation through a process called neuroplasticity. This is the life story of a man who has suffered a great deal, who has passions that aren’t always under control. A man who loves order and truth but hasn’t always been able to engage in them. Someone who is hugely motivated to learn and develop his abilities. Someone who ought to be alive for a long time. This is Bill Leonard – and this is his story.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty,
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Innocence Lost: A Play About Steven Truscott
By Beverley Cooper / Centaur Theater Company, on 1 January 2013
2013
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In 1959, the Canadian justice system nearly killed an innocent 14-year-old boy. The fact that Steven Truscott was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper that year, and sentenced to hang, now seems surreal. All the more so since he’s alive and well and living quietly with his family after 10 years of unjust incarceration – and many more years as an obscure factory worker, father and grandfather, after suffering the consequences of a destroyed reputation.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Public opinion, Innocence,
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Emergency Exit: Which actions for supporting offenders close te release?
By Save Anthony, on 1 January 2013
NGO report
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In a recent research , Emergency Exit: Which actions for supporting offenders close te release?, 13 key practices have proven to help resettle successfully ex offenders into society at their exit of prison and prevent them from re-offending.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Public debate,
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Trial and Errors : The Texas Death Penalty
By Lisa Maxwell / AMITI, on 1 January 2013
Book
United States
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TRIAL & ERROR takes a thorough look at the most controversial issues of the Texas Death Penalty that have raised questions of fairness and equality. Read words of inmates on death row in interviews conducted by the Amiti Organization, then judge for yourself whether the Death Penalty is administering justice or injustice.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America
By Evan J. Mandery / W. W. Norton & Company, on 1 January 2013
Book
United States
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For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic. But in 1962, Justice Arthur Goldberg and his clerk Alan Dershowitz dared to suggest otherwise, launching an underfunded band of civil rights attorneys on a quixotic crusade. In 1972, in a most unlikely victory, the Supreme Court struck down Georgia’s death penalty law in Furman v. Georgia. Though the decision had sharply divided the justices, nearly everyone, including the justices themselves, believed Furman would mean the end of executions in America.Instead, states responded with a swift and decisive showing of support for capital punishment. As anxiety about crime rose and public approval of the Supreme Court declined, the stage was set in 1976 for Gregg v. Georgia, in which the Court dramatically reversed direction.A Wild Justice is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the Court, the justices, and the political complexities of one of the most racially charged and morally vexing issues of our time.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Due Process , Country/Regional profiles,
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Exile and Embrace: Contemporary Religious Discourse on the Death Penalty
By Northeastern / Anthony Santoro, on 1 January 2013
Book
United States
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With passion and precision, Exile and Embrace examines the key elements of the religious debates over capital punishment and shows how they reflect the values and self-understandings of contemporary Americans. Santoro demonstrates that capital punishment has relatively little to do with the perpetrators and much more to do with those who would impose the punishment. Because of this, he convincingly argues, we should focus our attention not on the perpetrators and victims, as is typically the case in debates pro and con about the death penalty, but on ourselves and on the mechanisms that we use to impose or oppose the death penalty.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Religion ,
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Perspectives on Capital Punishment in America
By CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform / Charles E. MacLean, on 1 January 2013
Book
United States
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Searching inquiry into the contours of capital punishment in America. Containing over 1300 footnotes, the chapters by ten young scholars explore the sometimes-ignored fine details of the death penalty. Topics include the impropriety of applying the death penalty to felony murder, the implications of death row exonerations and their impact on access to post-conviction DNA testing, media impacts on capital cases, death qualification of capital juries and its impact on the right of prospective capital jurors to enjoy First Amendment protection of the free exercise of their religions, the fiscal conservative and social conservative argument favoring abolition of the death penalty, the need for a heightened standard of proof – greater than beyond a reasonable doubt – at the penalty phase of capital trials, federal habeas corpus protections for state-sentenced capital offenders and the constitutionality of limits on “actual innocence” equitable tolling, tips and techniques for capital defense counsel representing defendants who were acutely substance-impaired at the time of the crime or have a history of chronic substance abuse or chemical dependency, the impropriety of allowing counsel to argue fiscal matters to the jury, such as that either execution or life imprisonment is the “cheapest” option for society, and the role the death penalty should and does play within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Due Process ,
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Pictures at an execution: The condemned in art
By BBC / Jason Farago, on 1 January 2014
2014
Article
United States
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This article discusses a new art exhibition in Los Angeles which aims to humanise condemned prisoners. It continues to situate the exhibition in the greater context of the depiction of the death penalty in art history. The conversation this article raises is the link the death penalty in art history has with creating a public discussion. From the sword to the electric chair, the death penalty has inspired challenging art, writes Jason Farago.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public debate,
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Summary of Hands Off Cain 2014 Report
By HANDS OFF CAIN, on 1 January 2014
NGO report
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The worldwide trend towards abolition, underway for more than fifteen years, was again confirmed in 2013 and the first six months of 2014.There are currently 161 countries and territories that, to different extents, have decided to renounce the death penalty. Of these: 100 are totally abolitionist; 7 are abolitionist for ordinary crimes; 6 have a moratorium on executions in place and 48 are de facto abolitionist (i.e. Countries that have not carried out any executions for at least 10 years or countries which have binding obligations not to use the death penalty).Countries retaining the death penalty worldwide declined to 37 (as of 30 June 2014), compared to 40 in 2012. Retentionist countries have gradually declined over the last few years: there were 43 in 2011, 42 in 2010, 45 in 2009, 48 in 2008, 49 in 2007, 51 in 2006 and 54 in 2005.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
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The Harrowing Testimonies of Death Penalty Executioners
By Lucy Tiven / attn, on 1 January 2016
2016
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The accounts of the “anonymous execution teams” who implement the death penalty are chilling, and rarely reach the public sphere, because their identities are protected by stringent state laws. Rare interviews from retired corrections officers, wardens, and prison chaplains, as well as those included in the 2000 Peabody Award winning radio documentary “Witness to an Execution” give us glimpses of executioners and their experiences.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Methods of Execution, Lethal Injection, Electrocution, Death Penalty,
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Shepherds and Butchers
By Oliver Schmitz, on 1 January 2016
Legal Representation
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South Africa, 1987. When Leon, a white 19-year-old prison guard commits an inexplicable act of violence, killing seven black men in a hail of bullets, the outcome of the trial – and the court’s sentence – seems a foregone conclusion.Hotshot lawyer John Weber reluctantly takes on the seemingly unwinnable case.A passionate opponent of the death penalty, John discovers that young Leon worked on death row in the nation’s most notorious prison, under traumatic conditions: befriending the inmates over the years while having to assist their eventual execution.As the court hearings progress, the case offers John the opportunity to put the entire system of legally sanctioned murder on trial. How can one man take such a dual role of friend and executioner, becoming both shepherd and butcher?Inspired by true events, this is the story that puts death penalty on trial and changes history.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Row Conditions, Discrimination, Country/Regional profiles,
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The Last Verdict
By Jamie Arpin-Ricci, on 1 January 2016
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Canada
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What would you do if your child was murdered?What would you do if your child was convicted of murder?Alice Goodman has known great loss. Since the brutal murder of her daughter Madeline decades earlier, she has tirelessly fought to see the killer pay for his crime. Now, after twenty years, the day has arrived that she will witness his long-delayed execution. Will justice finally be done? Will she finally find the peace that has long eluded to her?Lori Williams knows she was not the perfect mother, but she never believed her son Mark could be guilty of the crime that placed him on death row. Confronting every challenge along the way, she refused to give up her pursuit of the truth—a truth she believed would set her son free. Will it be enough?Both women are fighting for a justice they believe has been denied their children. Now, their lives are on a collision course with each other. Is either woman prepared for the truth?
- Document type Book
- Countries list Canada
- Themes list Right to life, Clemency, Death Penalty,
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The Death Penalty in 2016: video summary of DPIC Year End Report.
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2016
NGO report
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DPIC’s 2016 Year-End Report: another record decline in death penalty use in the US. A video summary of the report.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
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Abolishing the Death Penalty: Why India Should Say No to Capital Punishment
By Gopalkrishna Gandhi, on 1 January 2016
Book
India
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In Abolishing the Death Penalty: Why India Should Say No to Capital Punishment, Gopalkrishna Gandhi asks fundamental questions about the ultimate legal punishment awarded to those accused of major crimes. Is taking another life a just punishment or an act as inhuman as the crime that triggered it? Does having capital punishment in the law books deter crime? His conclusions are unequivocal: Cruel in its operation, ineffectual as deterrence, unequal in its application in an uneven society, liable like any punishment to be in error but incorrigibly so, these grievous flaws that are intrinsic to the death penalty are compounded by yet another—it leaves the need for retribution (cited as its primary ‘good’) unrequited and simply makes society more bloodthirsty.Examining capital punishment around the world from the time of Socrates onwards, the author delves into how the penalty was applied in India during the times of Asoka, Sikandar Lodi, Krishnadevaraya, the Peshwas and the British Raj, and how it works today
- Document type Book
- Countries list India
- Themes list Capital offences, Public debate, Deterrence , Trend Towards Abolition, Right to life, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Documentary: An eye for an eye
By Ilan Ziv, on 1 January 2016
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United States
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The powerful documentary AN EYE FOR AN EYE, conveys message of forgiveness and healing. Directed by award winning filmmaker Ilan Ziv, AN EYE FOR AN EYE tells the story of death row inmate Mark Stroman, and the friendship he ultimately forges with one of his surviving victims Rais Bhuiyan, who sets about to save Stroman from death row.With unprecedented access and in-depth interviews, the film charts this riveting drama of revenge, change and forgiveness. A powerful human drama that carries a warning and a message of hope in our troubled times.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Capital offences, Murder Victims' Families, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Japanese Moratorium on the Death Penalty
By Mika Obara-Minnitt, on 1 January 2016
Book
Japan
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While the number of states that retain capital punishment is declining, Japan has maintained the death penalty in its legislation. In the case of Japan, the government has consistently justified the retention and use of the death penalty on the basis of national law. However, the country as recently experienced a number of de facto moratorium periods on executions. This book addresses how the Ministry of Justice in Japan has justified capital punishment policy during these de facto moratorium periods. The primary goal of this volume is to provide a better understanding of the elite-driven nature of the capital punishment system in Japan. It also addresses the domestic and cultural factors of the capital punishment policy and the rhetoric of the Ministry of Justice in its justification of capital punishment policy.
- Document type Book
- Countries list Japan
- Themes list Moratorium , Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Dolores Story of Hope and Redemption
By Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA), on 1 January 2016
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Dolores’ world was turned upside down when her husband was arrested. Then the news came that he would be executed. But the abolition of the death penalty has given his whole family a second chance, turning this story, at least until now into one of redemption.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Public debate, Networks, Death Penalty,
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The Death Penalty in China
By Sky News / YouTube, on 1 January 2015
2015
Arguments against the death penalty
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This Sky News Report discusses the administration of the death penalty in China; Innocent people who have been put to death, stealing the organs of the executed and the nature of the death penalty in China.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Available languages Peine de mort en Chine
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The Politics of the Death Penalty in Countries in Transition
By Routledge / Madoka Futamura, on 1 January 2014
2014
Book
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Covering a diverse range of transitional processes in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, The Politics of the Death Penalty in Countries in Transition offers a broad evaluation of countries whose death penalty policies have rarely been studied. The book would be useful to human rights researchers and international lawyers, in demonstrating how transition and transformation, ‘provide the catalyst for several of interrelated developments of which one is the reduction and elimination of capital punishment’.
- Document type Book
- Themes list International law, Trend Towards Abolition,
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Training on death penalty advocacy for the Universal Periodic Review of human rights
By The Advocates for Human Rights / Amy Bergquist / Rosalyn Park / Jennifer Prestholdt, on 1 January 2015
2015
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Video recording of a training session by The Advocates for Human Rights on death penalty advocacy for the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review of human rights. Download the PowerPoint presentation here.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list International law,
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Change of Heart: Justice, Mercy, and Making Peace with My Sister’s Killer
By Jeanne Bishop / Westminster John Knox Press, on 1 January 2015
Book
United States
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Jeanne Bishop has written a new book about her life and spiritual journey after her sister was murdered in Illinois in 1990. Change of Heart: Justice, Mercy, and Making Peace with My Sister’s Killer tells Bishop’s personal story of grief, loss, and of her eventual efforts to confront and reconcile with her sister’s killer. She also addresses larger issues of capital punishment, life sentences for juvenile offenders, and restorative justice. Former Illinois Governor George Ryan said of the book, “When I commuted the death sentences of everyone on Illinois’s death row, I expressed the hope that we could open our hearts and provide something for victims’ families other than the hope of revenge. I quoted Abraham Lincoln: ‘I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.’ Jeanne Bishop’s compelling book tells the story of how devotion to her faith took her face-to-face with her sister’s killer …. She reminds us of a core truth: that our criminal justice system cannot be just without mercy.”
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families,
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Voices and video from death row- Ghezelhesar mass-executions
By Iran Human Rights (IHR), on 1 January 2015
Multimedia content
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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This video was made by IHR after the start of the executions of 77 prisoners in Ghezehesar prison. Two of the prisoners speak about the interrogations, torture, – You also see the last farewell of a prisoner before the execution.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Torture, Death Row Conditions,
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The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2015
By Rick Lines / Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2015
NGO report
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In this new fourth edition of HRI’s ‘Global Overview’ series, HRI updates its previous research on the death penalty for drugs worldwide, and it considers critical developments on the issue. While the report notes that there still are a troubling number of governments with capital drug laws, in practice very few states execute people for drugs. The number of people killed for drug-related offences is high because China, Iran and Saudi Arabia are aggressive executioners. Those governments that kill for drugs are an extreme fringe of the international community.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Drug Offences,
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Last Day of Freedom
By Dee Hibbert-Jones / Nomi Talisman, on 1 January 2015
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When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision: should he call the police? Last Day of Freedom, a richly animated personal narrative, tells the story of Bill’s decision to stand by his brother in the face of war, crime and capital punishment. The film is a portrait of a man at the nexus of the most pressing social issues of our day – veterans’ care, mental health access and criminal justice.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families,
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Ethical Responsibilities of Physicians: Capital Punishment in the 21st Century
By Karen B. Rosenbaum / William Connor Darby / Robert Weinstock / Psychiatric Annals, on 1 January 2015
Article
United States
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The American Medical Association is among many medical professional organizations that prohibit the participation of physicians in the physical act of execution. Despite these clear guidelines, debate remains regarding physician involvement in various aspects of death penalty cases. This article outlines different positions that physicians and specifically forensic psychiatrists have taken on this issue. Our position is that given the overwhelming secondary duty related to their physician role—specifically to do no harm—forensic psychiatrists should not use their expertise if they believe their involvement will be used for the primary purpose of obtaining a death penalty.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Intellectual Disability,
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The death penalty in China
By Bin Lu, Hong Liang / Columbia University Press, on 1 January 2015
Arguments against the death penalty
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Featuring experts from Europe, Australia, Japan, China, and the United States, this collection of essays follows changes in the theory and policy of China’s death penalty from the Mao era (1949–1979) through the Deng era (1980–1997) up to the present day. Using empirical data, such as capital offender and offense profiles, temporal and regional variations in capital punishment, and the impact of social media on public opinion and reform, contributors relay both the character of China’s death penalty practices and the incremental changes that indicate reform. They then compare the Chinese experience to other countries throughout Asia and the world, showing how change can be implemented even within a non-democratic and rigid political system, but also the dangers of promoting policies that society may not be ready to embrace.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Failings of the Supreme Court, Human Sacrifice, Sentencing and the Death Penalty
By Anup Surendranath / Economic and Political Weekly, on 1 January 2020
2020
Article
India
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In the judicial discourse on the relationship between human sacrifice and punishment in criminal law, there are glaring errors. Looking closely at the Supreme Court’s judgment in Ishwari Lal Yadav v State of Chhattisgarh, the deviation from the principle of individualised sentencing and the consequences of ignoring evidence on the complex anthropological and psychological dimensions of human sacrifice are reflected upon.
- Document type Article
- Countries list India
- Themes list Hanging,
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A victim of 9/11 hate crime now fights for his attacker’s life
By Kari Huus / MSNBC, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
United States
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Immigrant badly wounded by ‘Arab Slayer’ mounts long-shot bid to halt execution.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Retribution, Murder Victims' Families,
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on 1 January 2020
2020
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India
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In Abolishing the Death Penalty: Why India Should Say No to Capital Punishment, Gopalkrishna Gandhi asks fundamental questions about the death penalty. Is taking another life a just punishment or an act as inhuman as the crime that triggered it? Does having capital punishment in the law books deter crime? His conclusions are unequivocal: Cruel in its operation, ineffectual as deterrence, unequal in its application in an uneven society, liable like any punishment to be in error but incorrigibly so, these grievous flaws that are intrinsic to the death penalty are compounded by yet another—it leaves the need for retribution unrequited and simply makes society more bloodthirsty.Examining capital punishment around the world from the time of Socrates onwards, the author delves into how the penalty was applied in India during the times of Asoka, Sikandar Lodi, Krishnadevaraya, the Peshwas and the British Raj, and how it works today.
- Document type Book
- Countries list India
- Themes list Public debate, Deterrence , Trend Towards Abolition, Right to life, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain. Audience, Justice, Memory
By Lizzie Seal / Solon, on 8 September 2020
2020
Book
United Kingdom
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Drawing on primary research, this book explores the cultural life of the death penalty in Britain in the twentieth century, including an exploration of the role of the popular press and a discussion of portrayals of the death penalty in plays, novels and films. Popular protest against capital punishment and public responses to and understandings of capital cases are also discussed, particularly in relation to conceptualisations of justice.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United Kingdom
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Courting Death – The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
By Carol S. Steiker / Jordan M. Steiker / Harvard University Press, on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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While execution chambers remain active in several states in the United States, constitutional regulation has contributed to the death penalty’s new fragility. In the next decade or two, Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker argue, the fate of the American death penalty is likely to be sealed by this failed judicial experiment. Courting Death illuminates both the promise and pitfalls of constitutional regulation of contentious social issues.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
: Madam Eswari’s story
By Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA), on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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CADPA invited filmmaker Dawn Mikkelsen to make 8 short videos for a series called ‘Say Yes to Life’. Dawn spoke with many of those intimately linked with people on death row to bring you their stories. “Madam Eswari’s story’ is the first of these.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Arbitrariness, Networks, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Indonesian : Kejaksaan Agung Kembali Akan Laksanakan Hukuman Mati
By Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA), on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
Indonesia
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Mengemukanya rencana kejagung untuk melaksanakan hukuman mati jilid ketiga mau tak mau memunculkan pro kontranya kembali.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Indonesia
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
HANDS OFF CAIN’S 2015 REPORT. The Most Important Facts of 2014 (And the First Six Months of 2015)
By HANDS OFF CAIN, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
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The 2015 HANDS OFF CAIN’s Report analyses the current status of executions around the world, providing detailed regional overviews. The Report confirms the worldwide trend towards abolition, even though the death penalty is still applied for violent and non-violent crimes, as in the contexts of the “war on drugs” and the “war on terror”.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
: Waiting for capital punishment
By Sadegh Souri, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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According to Iranian law, the age when girls are held accountable for criminal punishment is nine years old, while international conventions have banned the death penalty for persons under 18. In Iran, the death penalty for children is used for crimes such as murder, drug trafficking, and armed robbery.Pursuant to the passing of new laws in recent years, the Iranian Judiciary System detains children in Juvenile Delinquents Correction Centers after their death sentence verdict, and a large number of them are hanged upon reaching age 18.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Themes list Juveniles, Women, Death Row Conditions,
Document(s)
The Death Penalty Project’s Annual Lecture 2014
By William A. Schabas / Death Penalty Project, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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On 28th January 2014, DPP’s 3rd lecture was held at the Inner Temple, London. Professor William Schabas delivered a lecture entitled “Universal Abolition: Only a Decade Away“. This video recording of the lecture includes the Q&A session.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
Document(s)
Italian : Lucca Comics & Games: Amnesty International Italia presenta Precious, un gioco di ruolo sulla pena di morte
By Amnesty International - Italy, on 8 September 2020
Article
Italy
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Il 1° novembre, nel corso della fiera Lucca Comics & Games 2014 verrà presentato Precious. La cosa più preziosa il primo gioco di ruolo sulla pena di morte, realizzato dall’Associazione Coyote Press con la collaborazione di Amnesty International Italia. La meccanica del gioco è accompagnata da un ampio saggio sul tema della pena capitale, realizzato dal Coordinamento pena di morte di Amnesty International Italia, che presenta dati e statistiche sul tema, casi per i quali si è attivata, spunti di informazione e discussione – dalla campagna contro la pena di morte ai diversi paradossi che questa porta con sé, la deterrenza, la discriminazione razziale e sociale, la negazione dei diritti. Il saggio è seguito da 10 ritratti di persone reali, coinvolte a vario titolo sul tema: condannati a morte, sostenitori della pena capitale, abolizionisti e attivisti per i diritti umani.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Italy
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
End Crime, not Life is not about protecting criminals, but about protecting vulnerable innocents
By Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA), on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
Malaysia
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Cheong Chun Yin, a Malaysian boy, was about 23 years old when he was arrested for drug trafficking. A trusting boy he was asked to bring some ‘gold’ to Singapore. Merri was a victim of domestic abuse, whose son had a heart defect. She took a job abroad to help pay his hospital bills. A loving man bought her a suitcase for her home journey. The tragedy of such stories is what keeps human rights activists and lawyers from ASEAN unrelenting in their opposition to the death penalty, for reasons they spell out in this video.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Malaysia
- Themes list Arbitrariness, Networks, Country/Regional profiles,
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Film “Kill Troy Killing Me”
By Garry A. Boast / Cerebral Motion Productions, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
United States
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A death penalty abolitionist (Martina Correia) must sound the alarms of our criminal justice system in time to save her brother from lethal injection.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
Film: “Execution”
By Steven Scaffidi / Ghost Rider Pictures, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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Amnesty International Presents a Groundbreaking Film Event That Takes the Audience to the Front Row of an Execution–Regal Cinemas opens its doors in eight major cities across America for this first-of-a-kind motion picture less than 1 week after California’s attempt to repeal the death penalty fails.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Innocence,
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Belarusian : відэа: “Палёт”
By Праваабарончы цэнтр "Вясна", on 8 September 2020
Academic report
Belarus
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Анімацыйная стужка, створаная таленавітымі валанцёрамі кампаніі “Праваабаронцы супраць смяротнага пакарання” раскрывае тэму незваротнасці і жорсткасці смяротнага прысуду. Беларусь — апошняя краіна ў Еўропе і на постсавецкай прасторы, якая выкарыстоўвае смяротнае пакаранне.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list Belarus
- Themes list International law, Public opinion,
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THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTS OF 2011 (and the first six months of 2012)
By HANDS OFF CAIN, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
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THE SITUATION TODAY The worldwide trend towards abolition, underway for more than ten years, was again confirmed in 2011 and the first six months of 2012. There are currently 155 Countries and territories that, to different extents, have decided to renounce the death penalty. Of these: 99 are totally abolitionist; 7 are abolitionist for ordinary crimes; 5 have a moratorium on executions in place and 44 are de facto abolitionist (i.e. Countries that have not carried out any executions for at least 10 years or Countries which have binding obligations not to use the death penalty).
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages Italian : I FATTI PIÙ IMPORTANTI DEL 2011 (E DEI PRIMI SEI MESI DEL 2012)
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Circumstances of Offense: Robert “Saint” Bailey on Death Row
By Chris Dahl / CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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This book is a first-hand account of the life of Simon City Royals gangster Robert “Saint” Bailey who is currently on Death Row in Raiford, Florida. He killed a law enforcement officer in 2005.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Killer Art: Florida’s Death Row Artists
By Chris Dahl / CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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Art and letters from the men who await death in the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, Florida
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Conditions, Country/Regional profiles,
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Mom of murdered son finds ‘only pain’ from death penalty
By Florida Today, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
United States
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Politicians champion the death penalty while they campaign and are in office, and then they retire and move on, never having to deal with the reality of it.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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GUILTY. THE FINAL 72 HOURS OF BALI-9’S MYURAN SUKUMARAN
By Madman Films / Matthew Sleeth / Maggie Miles / Matthew Bate, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
Indonesia
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The final 72-hours in the life of Myuran Sukumaran, the Bali-9 convicted criminal who became an accomplished artist while in Kerobokan prison under the tutorship of artist Ben Quilty. Myuran was executed by Indonesian firing squad on Nusakambangan Island, 29 April 2015 alongside fellow Australian Andrew Chan and six others. Dramatic and archival material takes us into the final three days of Myuran Sukumaran’s life, as he farewells his family and creates his final paintings.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Indonesia
- Themes list Foreign Nationals, Firing Squad,
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BN at 6 – Our Stories, Our Miracles: Sentenced to Death, An Innocent Man Steps Out After 24 Years in Prison – Olatunji Olaide shares his story of Survival, Freedom & Hope
By Adeola Adeyemo / Bellanaija, on 8 September 2020
Article
Nigeria
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Olatunji Olaide was wrongfully arrested and subsequently sentenced to death. He shares the harrowing experience of his time in prison and his survival and freedom with BN and how he kept his head high in the face of the storm.We hope that you are inspired by it.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Nigeria
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
Documentaire: femmes dans la couloir de la mort
By Investigations et Enquêtes , on 17 January 2024
2024
Multimedia content
Death Row Conditions
Gender
United States
Women
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Un regard déchirant sur la vie des femmes condamnées et les failles du système judiciaire américain. Aux Etats-Unis, 54 femmes « attendent » l’exécution de leur peine. Linda Carty et Melissa Lucio sont emprisonnées au Texas, Shawna Forde en Arizona. Elles se livrent. Parmi les prisonnières, certaines espèrent la révision de leur procès.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions / Gender / Women
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Annual Statistics Report 2022
By Project 39A, on 22 February 2023
2023
NGO report
India
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This is the seventh edition of the Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics Report published by Project 39A at National Law University, Delhi. 2022 represents a significant shift in death penalty adjudication, with the Supreme Court recognising the need to reconsider the capital sentencing framework for the first time since it was laid down in Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab in 1980. In a momentous order, the Supreme Court noted the gaps in the death penalty sentencing framework and has sought to address these concerns through a Constitution Bench towards establishing the components of a real, meaningful and effective capital sentencing hearing. In another decision, the Court laid down guidelines for the collection of mitigating material by trial courts. However, in the same year that the Supreme Court cast grave doubts on the death penalty sentencing framework and its implementation by trial courts, it is of concern that 165 death sentences were imposed by Sessions Courts, the highest in a single year since 2000.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list India
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Capital Punishment & Social Rights Research Initiative – Texas
By Barbara Laubenthal, on 12 February 2023
2023
Multimedia content
Death Row Conditions
United States
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The Capital Punishment and Social Rights Research Initiative assesses and analyzes the access of men and women on U.S. death rows to social rights such as health care, social contacts, visitation, communication, recreation and spiritual support. CPSR’s info series on living conditions on death row, state by state. Part 1: Texas
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions
Document(s)
Death Penalty and the Indian Supreme Court (2007-2021)
By Project 39A, on 8 December 2022
2022
NGO report
India
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Death Penalty and the Indian Supreme Court (2007-2021) maps the important trends and developments in the Supreme Court’s death penalty jurisprudence. These past 15 years have witnessed significant developments in the law on capital sentencing, post-mercy jurisprudence, and other procedural developments pertaining to the administration of the death penalty. Imagined as an intellectual successor of PUCL and Amnesty International’s doctrinal study of the Supreme Court’s death penalty cases between 1950 to 2006, in ‘Lethal Lottery: The Death Penalty in India’, this report highlights the sustained inconsistency and judge-centric reasoning in capital cases, with particular emphasis on the problem of arbitrariness in approaches to capital sentencing at the Supreme Court.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list India
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Estimating the effect of death penalty moratoriums on homicide rates using the synthetic control method
By Stephen N. Oliphant, on 18 September 2022
2022
Academic report
Moratorium
United States
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Research examining death penalty deterrence has been characterized as inconclusive and uninformative. The present analysis heeds a recommendation from prior research to examine single-state changes in death penalty policy using the synthetic control method. Data from the years 1979–2019 were used to construct synthetic controls and estimate the effects of death penalty moratoriums on homicide rates in Illinois, New Jersey, Washington, and Pennsylvania. Moratoriums on capital punishment resulted in nonsignificant homicide reductions in all four states.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Moratorium
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No death penalty: Essay on the human dignity of the guilty
By Alfredo De Francesco , on 11 January 2022
2022
Book
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Is the death penalty “natural” or sometimes legally due?
If not, is the death penalty always a political instrument?
If so, how and why can it be said that the death penalty is unjust, also considering religious values?
What about in case of war time or of very dangerous criminals?
In which way can there be an irrefutable argument for banning the death penalty worldwide and forever?
These and other issues concerning the death penalty are addressed by the Author of this book.
A book, where the most common theories for and against the death penalty are considered in the light of law history and philosophical views, and where Cesare Beccaria’s approach is revised, taking into account the development of the contemporary criminal law and of the legal positivism.
This is an essay, where the protection of humanity is not considered simply as a hope or as a naive dream, but rather as a juridical concept, absolutely necessary to understand one of most tragic questions of all time: “is it just to kill those who killed?”
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Death Row – The Final Minutes
By Blink Publishing / Michelle Lyons, on 8 September 2020
2020
Book
United States
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First as a reporter and then as a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Michelle was a frequent visitor to Huntsville’s Walls Unit, where she recorded and relayed the final moments of death row inmates’ lives before they were put to death by the state.Michelle was in the death chamber as some of the United States’ most notorious criminals, including serial killers, child murderers and rapists, spoke their last words on earth, while a cocktail of lethal drugs surged through their veins.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Right to life, Death Penalty,
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Chinese Netizens’ Opinions on Death Sentences
By Bin Liang and Jianhong Liu, The University of Michigan Press, on 4 November 2021
2021
Academic report
China
Public Opinion
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The People’s Republic of China no doubt leads the world in both numbers of death sentences and executions. Despite being the largest user of the death penalty, China has never conducted a national poll on citizens’ opinions toward capital punishment, while claiming “overwhelming public support” as a major justification for its retention and use. Based on a content analysis of 38,512 comments collected from 63 cases in 2015, this study examines the diversity and rationales of netizens’ opinions of and interactions with China’s criminal justice system. In addition, the book discusses China’s social, systemic, and structural problems and critically examines the rationality of netizens’ opinions based on Habermas’s communicative rationality framework. Readers will be able to contextualize Chinese netizens’ discussions and draw conclusions about commonalities and uniqueness of China’s death penalty practice.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list China
- Themes list Public Opinion
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The war on drugs, forensic science and the death penalty in the Philippines
By Maria Corazon A.De Ungria and Jose M.Jose, on 10 August 2021
2021
Academic report
Drug Offenses
Philippines
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The effectiveness of the death penalty to deter heinous crimes remains a contentious issue even though it has been abolished in many countries. Three years into President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration, the push to re-impose the death penalty is being taken seriously.
There is urgency in providing options to the drug problem other than killing drug suspects in the streets or sentencing them to death. The drug problem is a complex issue and exposes the human vulnerability of its users for criminal exploitation.
We propose here that addressing these vulnerabilities in a balanced and comprehensive manner through health-focused, rights-based criminal justice responses, conducting forensic science-based drug investigations and determining the social causes of drug abuse is an alternative solution that demands cooperation across different sectors of society as well as underscores the fundamental value of human life.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list Philippines
- Themes list Drug Offenses
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The Phantom
By Patrick Forbes, on 10 August 2021
Multimedia content
Innocence
Public Opinion
United States
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THE PHANTOM tells the story of one of the darkest episodes in the long history of American justice. A story of how the State of Texas knowingly sent an innocent man to his death and left a serial killer at large. A case in which – for the first time – it can be conclusively proven that the US courts executed a blameless man.
This film uncovers the shocking truth behind a tale of murder, corruption and lies that unfolded in the dusty, desperate streets of a Texas oil town nearly thirty years ago.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence / Public Opinion
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Let the Lord Sort Them. The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
By Maurice Chammah, on 27 January 2021
2021
Book
Public Opinion
United States
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Maurice Chammah (The Marshall Project) explores the rise and fall of capital punishment in Texas where it appears to durably decline in spite of the state’s long use of the death penalty.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public Opinion
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Capital Punishment, 2016 – Statistical Brief
By Bureau of Justice Statistics / Elizabeth Davis, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
United States
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Presents statistics on persons under sentence of death at year-end 2016, including summary trends in the population, admissions to and releases from death row, the number of persons executed, and an advance count of executions in 2017. Data are from BJS’s National Prisoner Statistics(NPS-8 series.Highlights:- At year-end 2016, a total of 32 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) held 2,814 prisoners under sentence of death, which was 58 (2%) fewer than at year-end 2015.- California (26%), Florida (14%), and Texas (9%) held nearly half (49%) of the nation’s prisoners under sentence of death at year-end 2016; in 2016, Texas executed seven prisoners, Florida executed one, and California did not execute any prisoners.- In 2016, the number of prisoners under sentence of death decreased for the sixteenth consecutive year.- Twelve states received a total of 32 prisoners under sentence of death in 2016.- Five states executed a total of 20 prisoners in 2016, with Georgia (9) and Texas (7) accounting for 80% of executions.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list United States
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Article: “Troy Davis: Why Poster Boys Don’t Matter”
By David R. Dow / Guerinca, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
United States
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Is the Troy Davis case the tipping point on the capital punishment debate? Unfortunately, not until the majority of Americans believes that killing—even an unquestionably guilty murderer—is wrong.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
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Italian : I FATTI PIÙ IMPORTANTI DEL 2011 (E DEI PRIMI SEI MESI DEL 2012)
By HANDS OFF CAIN, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
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L’evoluzione positiva verso l’abolizione della pena di morte in atto nel mondo da oltre dieci anni, si è confermata nel 2011 e anche nei primi sei mesi del 2012.I Paesi o i territori che hanno deciso di abolirla per legge o in pratica sono oggi 155. Di questi, i Paesi totalmente abolizionisti sono 99; gli abolizionisti per crimini ordinari sono 7; quelli che attuano una moratoria delle esecuzioni sono 5; i Paesi abolizionisti di fatto, che non eseguono sentenze capitali da oltre dieci anni o che si sono impegnati internazionalmente ad abolire la pena di morte, sono 44.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTS OF 2011 (and the first six months of 2012)
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Italian : I FATTI PIU´ IMPORTANTI DEL 2002
By HANDS OFF CAIN, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
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La situazione ad oggi : La situazione della pena di morte nel mondo è quanto mai cambiata negli ultimi anni. I paesi o i territori che in un modo o nell´altro hanno deciso di rinunciare a praticarla sono oggi 130. Di questi 78 sono totalmente abolizionisti; 14 sono abolizionisti per crimini ordinari; 2 in quanto membri del Consiglio d´Europa sono impegnati ad abolirla e, nel frattempo, attuano una moratoria delle esecuzioni; 6 attuano una moratoria delle esecuzioni; 30 sono abolizionisti di fatto (non eseguono sentenze capitali da oltre dieci anni). I paesi mantenitori della pena di morte sono 66, anche se non tutti la praticano con assiduità. Nel 2002, solo 34 di questi paesi hanno compiuto esecuzioni che sono state almeno 4.078, un po´ in calo rispetto al 2001 quando erano state almeno 4.700.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages SUMMARY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTS OF 2002
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Italian : I FATTI PIù IMPORTANTI DEL 2005 (e dei primi sei mesi del 2006)
By HANDS OFF CAIN, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
enMore details See the document
La situazione ad oggi : L’evoluzione positiva verso l’abolizione della pena di morte in atto nel mondo da almeno dieci anni, si è confermata anche nel 2005 e nei primi sei mesi del 2006. I paesi o i territori che hanno deciso di abolirla per legge o in pratica sono oggi 142. Di questi, i paesi totalmente abolizionisti sono 90; gli abolizionisti per crimini ordinari sono 10; 1 paese, la Russia, in quanto membro del Consiglio d’Europa è impegnato ad abolirla e, nel frattempo, attua una moratoria delle esecuzioni; quelli che hanno introdotto una moratoria delle esecuzioni sono 5; i paesi abolizionisti di fatto, che non eseguono cioè sentenze capitali da oltre dieci anni, sono 37.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTS OF 2005 (AND THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 2006)
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Japanese : 「人権と死刑を考える国際リーダーシップ会議」
By Japan Federation of Bar Associations, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
Japan
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欧州連合(EU)の行政機関として、死刑廃止政策を積極的に推進するECからは、駐日EC代表部のライテラー公使が、裁判員制度を目前に控えるなか、死刑の存廃・目的・機能、適用方法、犯罪被害者遺族のみならず被執行者遺族の問題を議論することが必要と指摘し、「世論調査による80%の死刑支持率は、死刑継続の正当化ではなく、さらなる議論を要することを示すもの」と語った。またABAからは、多忙なスケジュールの合間をぬって来日したマイケル・グレコ会長が発言した。ABAは、死刑存廃に関する態度は留保したまま、死刑制度に関するさまざまな問題点を指摘し、97年2月に死刑執行停止を求める決議を採択し、死刑制度の運用や死刑事件弁護等に関するガイドラインを制定するほか、さまざまなプログラムを全米さらには海外で展開している。グレコ会長は、「命が奪われる前には、公正な裁判が行われなければならない」として、法律家の責任を強く訴えた
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Japan
- Themes list Networks,
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Italian : SINTESI DEI FATTI PIU’ IMPORTANTI DEL 2004 (e dei primi mesi del 2005)
By HANDS OFF CAIN, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
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La situazione ad oggi : L’evoluzione positiva verso l’abolizione della pena di morte in atto nel mondo da almeno dieci anni, si è confermata anche nel 2004 e nei primi mesi del 2005. I paesi o i territori che hanno deciso di abolirla per legge o in pratica sono oggi 138. Di questi, i paesi totalmente abolizionisti sono 86; gli abolizionisti per crimini ordinari sono 11; 1 paese, la Russia, in quanto membro del Consiglio d’Europa è impegnato ad abolirla e, nel frattempo, attua una moratoria delle esecuzioni; quelli che hanno introdotto una moratoria delle esecuzioni sono 5; i paesi abolizionisti di fatto, che non eseguono cioè sentenze capitali da oltre dieci anni, sono 35. Dall’inizio del 2004, 3 paesi sono passati dal fronte dei mantenitori a quello a vario titolo abolizionista, mentre altri 5 hanno fatto ulteriori passi in avanti all’interno dello stesso fronte abolizionista.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTS IN BRIEF 2004 (and up to September 15, 2005)LES FAITS LES PLUS IMPORTANTS DE 2004 (ET DES PREMIERS NEUF MOIS DE 2005)
Document(s)
Italian : I FATTI PIU´ IMPORTANTI DEL 2003 (e dei primi mesi del 2004)
By HANDS OFF CAIN, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
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La situazione ad oggi : La situazione della pena di morte nel mondo è ulteriormente e positivamente cambiata in senso abolizionista nell´ultimo anno. I paesi o i territori che a vario titolo hanno deciso di rinunciare a praticarla sono oggi 133. Di questi 81 sono totalmente abolizionisti; 14 sono abolizionisti per crimini ordinari; 1 (la Russia) in quanto membro del Consiglio d´Europa è impegnato ad abolirla e, nel frattempo, attua una moratoria delle esecuzioni; 5 hanno stabilito una moratoria delle esecuzioni; 32 sono abolizionisti di fatto (non eseguono sentenze capitali da oltre dieci anni).
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
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Portuguese : A PENA DE MORTE NA LEGISLAÇÃO CRIMINAL COMUM DO BRASIL -O CASO MOTTACOQUEIRO E SUA REPERCUSSÃO
By SÉRGIO DA COSTA FRANCO, on 8 September 2020
Article
Brazil
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Este artigo trata da pena de morte dentro da legislação criminal brasileira, analisando algumas sanções impostas no período colonial, por meio do Livro V das Ordenações Filipinas, bem como da legislação pertinente no Brasil Império, pelo Código Criminal de 1830 e suas reformas de 1832 e 1835. Por fim, discorre sobre o processo Motta Coqueiro e sua repercussão na sociedade, após decisão condenatória do réu, posteriormente provado inocente, com o intuito de acabar com este tipo de penalidade no Brasil.
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- Countries list Brazil
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Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
By Scott Turow / Picador, on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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Turow bases his opinions on his experiences as a prosecutor and, in his post-prosecutorial years, working on behalf of death-row inmates, as well as his two years on Illinois’s Commission on Capital Punishment, charged by the former Gov. George Ryan.Turow presents both sides of the death penalty debate and seems himself to flip sides depending on the argument.Turow’s reflections include: * Thoughts on victims’ rights vs. community rights * Whether execution is a deterrent * The possible execution of an innocent person * If not the death penalty, what to do with the worst offenders
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- Countries list United States
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Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America’s Future
By Bruce Shapiro / Rev. Jesse L. Jackson / Anchor , on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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In this collaborative work, the Jacksons, father (former presidential candidate and founder of the Rainbow Coalition) and son (a congressional representative) with Salon.com editor Shapiro, pursue a nationwide conversation on the issues surrounding the death penalty one that begins with the proposal of a moratorium and could lead to the eventual cessation of capital punishment. This book describes a bureaucratic nightmare involving defense lawyers asleep at trial, vengeance-hungry politicos and a problematic, imperfect justice system in which the handing out of death sentences is skewed, both racially and economically. An objective examination of this penal system would be beneficial to all, say the authors: since the Supreme Court allowed executions to resume in 1976, one in every eight prisoners on death row has been found innocent and released. There are undoubtedly cases, the authors argue, where the proof of innocence didn’t see the light of day in time. Navigating the historical precedents of the death penalty and the reasons why federally mandated executions were restored following a 10-year moratorium imposed in 1967, the authors thoroughly detail legitimate questions regarding what they view as erroneous deterrence theories, scriptural misrepresentation and simple vengeance.
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- Countries list United States
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Italian : I FATTI PIÙ IMPORTANTI DEL 2001
By HANDS OFF CAIN, on 8 September 2020
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Il 2001 ha confermato l´evoluzione verso l´abolizione della pena di morte in corso ormai da dieci anni. Nell´anno, la Repubblica Federale di Iugoslavia è diventata totalmente abolizionista, il Cile ha abolito la pena di morte per i crimini ordinari, l´Irlanda l´ha abolita anche dalla Costituzione, il Burkina Faso è entrato a fare parte del gruppo degli abolizionisti di fatto non avendo eseguito sentenze capitali da oltre dieci anni, il Libano ha deciso di attuare una moratoria delle esecuzioni.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
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A Life in the Balance: The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story, A Journey from Murder to Redemption Inside America’s Worst Prison System
By Jodie Sinclair / Billy Wayne Sinclair / Arcade Publishing, on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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Life in the Balance: a book on the Billy Wayne Sinclair Story, A Journey from Murder to Redemption Inside America’s Worst Prison System. The New York Times Book Review called it a “numbing tale of crime, punishment, and redemption.”
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence, Country/Regional profiles,
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Italian : Sintesi dei fatti più rilevanti del 2000
By HANDS OFF CAIN, on 8 September 2020
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In questi anni, abbiamo assistito ad un progressivo rafforzamento del processo abolizionista, ed anche i fatti registrati nel 2000 confermano questo trend positivo. Al 31 dicembre 2000, sono 123 i paesi abolizionisti a vario titolo: 77 sono totalmente abolizionisti, 12 abolizionisti per crimini ordinari, 30 abolizionisti di fatto, 2 impegnati ad abolire la pena di morte in quanto membri del Consiglio d´Europa, 2 attuano una moratoria legale delle esecuzioni. I paesi mantenitori sono 73.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
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Italian : Riflessioni sulla pena di morte
By Albert Camus, on 8 September 2020
Book
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- Themes list Beheading, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Reflections on the guillotine: An essay on capital punishmentRéflexions sur la guillotine思索斷頭台
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The Last Meals Project
By The Last Meals Project, on 8 September 2020
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This series visually documents the face and last meal of a convicted killer and is without question honest and true. This will be an ongoing project as executions continue to take place in the United States.
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Italian : Dei delitti e delle pene-Consulte criminali
By Cesare Beccaria-Bonesana / Garzanti Libri, on 8 September 2020
Book
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‘Dei delitti e delle pene’ è il testo da cui nasce la moderna criminalistica. Non è un trattato di giurisprudenza; è piuttosto un pamphlet, un libretto coraggioso, liberissimo”, nel quale “in massa le idee tutte si aggirano, e cospirano in vari punti di vista, che formano una grand’opera”, come ebbe a scrivere Alessandro Verri. Filosofo, economista e illustre letterato di metà Settecento, Beccaria spera che dall’aspra battaglia contro le istituzioni esistenti possa nascere un nuovo ordine, la cui affermazione è legata alla forza di espressione delle esigenze di progresso. “Le Consulte criminali” affrontano invece con impeto i temi della pena di morte, della prevenzione del crimine e delle condizioni di vita e di assistenza nelle carceri.
- Document type Book
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German : Über Verbrechen und Strafen
By Cesare Beccaria-Bonesana / Tendler, on 8 September 2020
Book
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Im Sommer des Jahres 1764 erschien in Livorno im Großherzogtum Toskana, das damals zum Habsburger Reich gehörte, ohne Namen des Verfassers ein schmales Buch von eben hundert Seiten über Verbrechen und Strafen: ‘Dei Delitti e delle Pene’. Das Titelblatt gab einen Satz Bacons wieder, der besagen sollte, daß der Zweck, dem dieses Buch diente, nicht sofort und mit einem Male zu erreichen sei, doch an die Beständigkeit und Festigkeit seiner Propagierung der Erfolg sich knüpfen werde. Cesare Beccaria (geboren am 15. März 1738 in Mailand, gestorben am 28. November 1794 ebendort) bestritt in dieser Abhandlung den Sinn der Todesstrafe und verfocht soziale Bedingungen, die Verbrechen einschränken müßten. Es war dies der erste wahrhaft unabhängige und von Rücksichten freie literarische Ausdruck der Aufklärung im Reich der Kaiserin Maria Theresia. Die vorliegende Neuübersetzung folgt der letzten Ausgabe Beccarias von 1766 und bringt im Anhang Texte aus der zeitgenössischen Diskussion.’Mißhandlung und Folter, all das Furchtbare wurde entweder tatsächlich beseitigt oder in den Strafprozessen aller Staaten wenigstens abgemildert; und dies ist das Werk nur eines Buches.’
- Document type Book
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The State of Texas vs. Melissa
By Sabrina Van Tassel, on 25 March 2020
2020
Multimedia content
Fair Trial
United States
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Melissa Lucio was the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death in Texas. For ten years she has been awaiting her fate, and she now faces her last appeal.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Fair Trial
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I Spent A Day With Death Row Survivors
By Anthony Padilla, on 1 January 2020
2020
Multimedia content
United States
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Anthony Padilla interviewed 4 death row survivors to shed light on sentencing innocent people to death for a crime they did not commit. Derrick Jamison, Nick Yarris, Peter Pringle and Sunny Jacobs spent between 15 and 23 years awaiting executions, before being finally released from death row.
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- Countries list United States
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The last executioner: memoirs of Thailand’s last prison executioner
By Chavoret Jaruboon / Nicola Pierce / kindle edition, on 8 September 2020
2020
Book
Thailand
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Chavoret Jaruboon was personally responsible for executing 55 prison inmates in Thailand’s infamous prisons. As a boy, he wanted to be a teacher like his father, but his life changed when he chose one of the hardest jobs in the world. Honest and often disturbing – but told with surprising humour and emotion – ‘The Last Executioner’ is the remarkable story of a man who chose death as his vocation.
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- Countries list Thailand
- Themes list Firing Squad,
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Death Penalty – Mistake (Leonel Herrera)
By Amnesty International / YouTube, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
United States
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This video explores the story of Leonel Herrera who was sentenced to death for the murder of a police man. A statement from his nephew came many years later that shed light on Leonels innocence.
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- Countries list United States
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- Available languages Death Penalty - Mistake (Leonel Herrera)
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Elmer ‘Geronimo’ Pratt dies at 63; former Black Panther whose murder conviction was overturned
By Robert J. Lopez / Los Angeles Times, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
United States
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Elmer G. “Geronimo” Pratt, a former Los Angeles Black Panther Party leader whose 1972 murder conviction was overturned after he spent 27 years in prison for a crime he said he did not commit, has died. He was 63.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
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America’s Death Penalty: Between Past and Present
By David Garland / Jonathan Simon / Douglas Hay / Michael Meranze / Randall McGowen / New York University (NYU) / Rebecca Mc Lennan, on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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This volume represents an effort to restore the sense of capital punishment as a question caught up in history. Edited by leading scholars of crime and justice, these original essays pursue different strategies for unsettling the usual terms of the debate. In particular, the authors use comparative and historical investigations of both Europe and America in order to cast fresh light on familiar questions about the meaning of capital punishment.
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- Countries list United States
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Victim’s son objects as Texas sets execution in hate crime death
By Karen Brooks / Reuters, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
United States
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As Texas prepares to execute one of his father’s killers, Ross Byrd hopes the state shows the man the mercy his father, James Byrd Jr., never got when he was dragged behind a truck to his
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families,
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Outlook: The release of Sierra Leone’s longest serving female death row prisoner.
By BBC, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
Sierra Leone
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The release of Sierra Leone’s longest serving female death row prisoner.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list Sierra Leone
- Themes list Innocence,