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Death qualification has been shown to have a number of biasing effects that appear to undermine a capital defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to a fair jury. Attitudes toward the death penalty have shifted modestly but consistently over the last several decades in ways that may have changed the overall impact of death qualification. Specifically, the very large gap between black and white Americans’ current support for capital punishment raises the question of whether death qualification procedures disproportionately exclude African Americans from capital jury participation. In order to examine this possibility, we conducted two countywide death penalty attitude surveys in the California county that has the highest percentage of African American residents in the state. Results show that death qualification continues to have a number of serious biasing effects—including disproportionately excluding death penalty opponents—which result in the significant underrepresentation of African Americans. This creates a death‐qualified jury pool with the potential to be significantly more likely to ignore and even misuse mitigating factors and to rely more heavily on aggravating factors in their death penalty decision making. The implications of these findings for the fair administration of capital punishment are discussed.

• Document type Academic report

The Permanent Missions to the United Nations in New York listed below present their compliments to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and have the honour to refer to resolution 62/149, entitled “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty”, which was adopted by the Third Committee on 15 November 2007, and subsequently by the General Assembly on 18 December 2007 by a recorded vote. The Permanent Missions wish to place on record that they are in persistent objection to any attempt to impose a moratorium on the use of the death penalty or its abolition in contravention to existing stipulations under international law, for the following reasons:

• Document type United Nations report
• Countries list Afghanistan / Bahamas / Bahrain / Bangladesh / Barbados / Botswana / Brunei Darussalam / Central African Republic / Chad / China / Comoros / Democratic People's Republic of Korea / Dominica / Egypt / Equatorial Guinea / Eritrea / Eswatini / Ethiopia / Fiji / Gambia / Grenada / Guinea / Guyana / Indonesia / Iran (Islamic Republic of) / Iraq / Jamaica / Japan / Jordan / Kuwait / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Libya / Malaysia / Maldives / Mauritania / Mongolia / Myanmar / Niger / Nigeria / Papua New Guinea / Qatar / Saint Kitts and Nevis / Saint Lucia / Saint Vincent and the Grenadines / Saudi Arabia / Singapore / Solomon Islands / Somalia / Sudan / Suriname / Syrian Arab Republic / Thailand / Tonga / Trinidad and Tobago / Uganda / United Arab Emirates / Yemen / Zimbabwe
• Themes list Moratorium
• Available languages مذكرةشفويةمؤرخة١٠شـباط/فبرايـر٢٠٠٩Nota verbal de fecha 10 de febrero de 2009 dirigida al Secretario General por las misiones permanentes ante las Naciones Unidas del Afganistán, la Arabia Saudita, [...] y ZimbabweNote verbale datée du 10 février 2009, adressée au Secrétaire général par les Missions permanentes auprès de l’Organisation des Nations Unies de l’Afghanistan, de l’Arabie saoudite, [...] et du ZimbabweВербальная нота постоянных представительств Афганистана, БагамскихОстровов, […] и Чада при Организации Объединенных Наций от 10 февраля 2009 года на имя Генерального секретаря9年2月10日阿富汗、巴哈马、巴林、[...] 也门和津巴布韦常驻联合国代表团给秘书长的普通照会

The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights confirms its strong opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances. It takes pride in its decisive contribution to making the member states of the Council of Europe a de facto death penalty-free zone. It notes with satisfaction that the death penalty is on the decline world-wide, as shown by a 25% decrease in executions and death sentences between 2005 and 2006. More than 90% of known executions in 2006 took place in only six countries: China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan, and the United States of America – an observer state of the Council of Europe.The small number of countries that still resort to executions on a significant scale is becoming increasingly isolated in the international community. Between 1977 and 2006, the number of abolitionist countries rose from 16 to 89. This number increases to 129 if one includes those countries which have not carried out anyexecutions for the past 10 years or more.A moratorium is an important step as it saves lives at once and has the potential of demonstrating to the public in retentionist countries that an end to state-sponsored killings does not lead to any increase in violent crime. On the contrary, a moratorium on executions can bring about a change of atmosphere in society fostering greater respect for the sanctity of human life, and thus contribute to reversing the trend towards ever-increasing hate and violence.

• Document type International law - Regional body
• Themes list Moratorium ,
• Available languages L’engagement des Etats membres du Conseil de l’Europe à promouvoir au niveau international un moratoire sur la peine de mort

To inform the public and invite everyone to take action, this leaflet: presents arguments against the death penalty, presents the campaign for a worldwide moratorium on death penalty, presents the World Day against the Death penalty, invites all citizens and organisations to take action and to sign the international appeal for a worldwide moratorium on executions.

• Document type Arguments against the death penalty
• Themes list Networks,
• Available languages Brochure journée mondiale 2007 : Non à la peine de mort ! Le monde décide

A tool with testimonies of children with a parent on death row, compiled by the World Coalition thanks to its member organizations.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Mineurs, Coalition Mondiale Contre la Peine de Mort, Peine de Mort,
• Available languages Paroles d'enfants

Paper ini merupakan catatan monitoring KontraS terhadap praktek hukuman mati di Indonesia. Indonesia merupakan salah satu negara di dunia yang masih menerapkan hukuman mati dalam aturan pidananya. Padahal, hingga Juni 2006, lebih dari setengah negara-negara di dunia telah menghapuskan praktek hukuman mati baik secara de jure atau de facto. Di tengah kecenderungan global akan moratorium hukuman mati, praktek ini justru makin lazim diterapkan di Indonesia. Paling tidak selama empat tahun berturut-turut telah dilaksanakan eksekusi mati terhadap para orang narapidana. Pro-kontra penerapan hukuman mati ini semakin menguat, karena tampak tak sejalan dengan komitmen Indonesia untuk tunduk pada kesepakatan internasional yang tertuang dalam Kovenan Internasional tentang Hak Sipil dan Politik serta Kovenan Internasional tentang Hak Ekonomi, Sosial dan Budaya.

• Document type NGO report
• Countries list Indonesia

Information leaflet about the 2010 World Day on the USA. This leaflet provides information on the death penalty in the USA, 10 arguments to end the death penalty and 10 things you can do to abolish the death penalty.

• Document type Arguments against the death penalty
• Themes list Networks,
• Available languages Brochure 10.10.10 : La Peine de Mort Assombrit la Démocratie

At yearend 2009, 36 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons held 3,173 inmates under sentence of death, which was 37 fewer inmates than at yearend 2008. This represents the ninth consecutive year that the population has decreased. California, Florida, Texas, and Pennsylvania held half of all inmates on death row as of December 31, 2009. The Federal Bureau of Prisons held 55 inmates.

• Document type NGO report
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Networks, Statistics,

Article 2 – Right to life1. Everyone’s right to life shall be protected by law. No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law.

• Document type Regional body report
• Themes list International law, Right to life,
• Available languages German : Konvention zum Schutze der Menschenrechte und GrundfreiheitenItalian : Convenzione per la salvaguardia dei Diritti dell'Uomo e delle Libertà fondamentaliКонвенция о защите прав человека и основных свободConvention de sauvegarde des Droits de l'Homme et des Libertés fondamentales

Mobilization Kit for the 2019 World Day Against the Death Penalty.

• Document type Arguments against the death penalty
• Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages Kit de mobilisation 2019

Detailed factsheet on international and regional human rights standards on the right to access to effective legal representation.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Fair Trial, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages Fiche détaillée - Journée mondiale 2020

QUNO’s tool for media.

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages Outil d'information pour les professionnels : médias

Singapore recently amended its laws to replace the mandatory death penalty regime for murder and drug trafficking with a discretionary sentencing regime under certain conditions. One of the conditions with respect to drug trafficking was that the convicted trafficker had to be granted a certificate by the Public Prosecutor stating that the trafficker had provided substantive assistance that led to the disruption of drug trafficking activities. That decision is not subject to judicial review except under very narrow circumstances, protected in the same way as the constitutionally protected prosecutorial discretion.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Due Process , Fair Trial, Death Penalty,

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Juveniles, Fair Trial, Death Penalty,

Leaflet for the 2019 World Day Against the Death Penalty.

• Document type Arguments against the death penalty
• Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages Leaflet arabic 2019النشرة 2019 اليوم العالميBrochure Journée mondiale 2019

QUNO’s tool for defense lawyers.

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages Outil d'information pour les professionnels : avocats de la défense

QUNO’s tool for parliamentarians.

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages Outil d'information pour les professionnels : legislateurs

Bryan Stevenson discusses criminal justice in the United States. He discusses the influence of race in the outcome of criminal justice cases and uses social statistics to give the listeners a broader view of why the US state prisons are comprised of more of one race or another. Between chapter 4 and 8 Stevenson discusses the seemingly inherent racial bias to the administration of capital punishment in the United States.

• Document type Arguments against the death penalty
• Themes list Minorities, Discrimination,

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

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

QUNO’s tool for judges.

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages Outil d'information pour les professionnels : juges

QUNO’s tool for educators.

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages Outil d'information pour les professionnels : enseignants

A tool with testimonies of children with a parent on death row, compiled by the World Coalition thanks to its member organizations (to be printed).

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages Paroles d'enfant (noir et blanc)

17th World Day Against the Death Penalty Poster

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Juveniles, Public debate, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages Malay : Poster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Malay)German : Poster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)Poster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Persian)Poster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 17ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Cartel - 17º Día Mundial Contra la Pena de Muerte

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

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

The index, created by Justic Project Pakistan, gives statistical information on the use of the death penalty in Pakistan.

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

Témoignages d’enfants dont un parent a été condamné à mort ou exécuté, compilés par la Coalition mondiale contre la peine de mort, avec le soutien de ses organisation membres pour la collecte et le partage des témoignages.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages In Their Own Words (Black and White)

Mobilization Kit for the 2019 World Day Against the Death Penalty, in black and white (to be printed).

• Document type Arguments against the death penalty
• Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages Kit de mobilisation 2019 (noir et blanc)

Tis general comment replaces general comments No. 6, adopted by the Committee at its sixteenth session (1982), and No. 14, adopted by the Committee at its twenty-third session (1984)

• Document type United Nations report
• Themes list Right to life, Death Penalty,
• Available languages : التعليق العام رقم 36 المادة 6 ( الحق في الحياة )Замечание общего порядка No 36 - Статья 6: право на жизньObservation générale n°36 - Article 6 : droit à la vieObservación general núm. 36 - Artículo 6: derecho a la vida第36号一般性意见第六条：生命权

On the occasion of the 2020 World Day, focusing on the right to access to counsel, Repreive and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty released a facthsheet for police officers.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Due Process , World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages Fiche d'information pour la police - Journée mondiale 2020

Death sentences in Texas have dropped more than 70% since 2003, reaching a historic low in 2010. According to data compiled from news sources and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, juries condemned eight new individuals to death in Texas in 2010. This is the lowest number of new death sentences since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas’ revised death penalty statute in 1976. For preious annual reports on Texas please visit: http://tcadp.org/get-informed/reports/

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Statistics,

On the occasion of the 2020 World Day, focusing on the right to access to counsel, Reprieve and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty released a facthsheet for media representatives.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Fair Trial, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages Fiche d'information pour les journalistes - Journée mondiale 2020

On the occasion of the 2020 World Day, focusing on the right to access to counsel, The Advocates for Human Rights and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty released a facthsheet for judges.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Fair Trial, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages : Fiche d'information pour les juges - Journée mondiale 2020

On the occasion of the 2020 World Day, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty has compiled testimonies from those for whom access to counsel is a matter of life or death.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages La parole est à la défense - Journée mondiale 2020

• Document type United Nations report
• Themes list International law, Death Penalty,
• Available languages A/HRC/RES/42/24 - قراراعتمده مجلس حقوق الإنسان في 27 أيلول/سبتمبر 2019 ٤2/2٤- مسألة عقوبة الإعدامA/HRC/RES/42/24 - Резолюция, принятая Советом по правам человека 27сентября2019 года - Вопрос о смертной казниA/HRC/RES/42/24 - Résolution adoptée par le Conseil des droits de l'homme le 27 septembre 2019 - La question de la peine de mortA/HRC/RES/42/24 - 人权理事会 2019 年 9 月 27 日通过的决议 - 死刑问题A/HRC/RES/42/24 - Resolución aprobada por el Consejo de Derechos Humanos el 27 de septiembre de 2019 - La cuestión de la pena de muerte

Moratorium on the use of death penalty (2018)

• Document type United Nations report
• Themes list Moratorium , Death Penalty,
• Available languages وقف العمح فعقوفة الإعداМораторий на применение смертной казниMoratoire sur l'application de la peine de mort暂停使用死刑Moratoria del uso de la pena de muerte

Detailed factsheet for the 2019 World Day, on the rights of children whose a parent has been sentenced to death or executed.

• Document type Arguments against the death penalty
• Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages Fiche détaillée 2019

Mobilization Kit for the 2020 World Day Against the Death Penalty.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Due Process , Fair Trial, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
• Available languages Kit de mobilisation - Journée mondiale 2020 (arabe)Kit de mobilisation - Journée mondiale 2020

The World Coalition has developed and published a training manual on working with the African Union’s human rights organ, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR). This how-to guide was created specifically for civil society to help encourage successful interaction with the ACHPR, a growing and influential human rights mechanism on the continent.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Public debate, Member organizations, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages Comment travailler avec la Commission africaine des droits de l'Homme et des Peuples pour l'abolition de la peine de mort?

Focusing in particular on four of the region’s countries – Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda –, this research work aspires to become a practical tool for Great Lakes’ activists: after describing the state of play of the death penalty in the region, it examines the factors arguing in favour of its abolition and suggests strategies for individual and collective action.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages La peine de mort dans l’Afrique des Grands Lacs : acteurs, arguments et stratégies

This article discusses the role of judges in death determinations, identifying jurisdictions that initially (post-1972) allowed judge sentencing and naming the individuals who today remain under judge-imposed death sentences. The decisions guaranteeing a jury determination have so far been applied only to cases that have not undergone initial review in state courts. Key questions remain unresolved, including whether the evolving standards of decency permit the execution of more than 100 individuals who were condemned to death by judges without a jury’s death verdict before implementation of the rules that now require unanimous jury votes.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Due Process , Fair Trial,

Forty-three years after the Supreme Court reversed course and reinstated the death penalty, reliable data on the individuals sent to death row is maddeningly difficult to obtain. The Intercept set out to compile a comprehensive dataset on everyone sentenced to die in active death penalty jurisdictions since 1976. The findings show that capital punishment remains as “arbitrary and capricious” as ever.

• Document type International law - Regional body
• Themes list Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,

True Conviction is a documentary which follows the detective agency started by Christopher Scott, the late Johnnie Lindsey, and Steven Phill—three wrongly convicted Dallas men who were exonerated after spending a combined 60 years in prison—as they work to attempt to free death-sentenced Max Soffar and other wrongly convicted prisoners.

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Innocence, Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty,

This resource is for parliamentarians around the globe, currently working or thinking of working for the abolition of the death penalty. It is intended to provide some of the key arguments for abolition based on a series of case studies, showing how abolition has been achieved and is being achieved around the world. The resource also sets out the mini steps that can be taken toward abolition and some information on the development of parliamentary networks and there are a list of contacts where parliamentarians can find information and support.

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Public debate, Trend Towards Abolition,
• Available languages Les parlementaires et l’abolition de la peine de mort – une ressource

The Parliamentary Assembly deplores the fact that the legislation of eleven Council of Europe member states and seven states whose legislative assemblies enjoy special guest status still provides for the death penalty.

• Document type Regional body report
• Themes list International law,

The Parliamentary Assembly welcomes the abolition of capital punishment for offences committed both in war- and in peacetime in Greece on 16 December 1993, which provides an excellent example for other countries to follow.

• Document type United Nations report
• Themes list International law,

After its national release in October, “Incendiary: The Willingham Case” is now available on DVD and through Apple’s iTunes Movie Store.The film examines the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham in Texas for the murder of his children by arson and centers around evolving standards of scientific evidence and the notion that an innocent man was executed

• Document type Legal Representation
• Themes list Innocence,

This statement is delivered on behalf of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty (WCADP), Iran Human Rights (IHR), Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation,The Advocates for Human Rights, an NGO with special consultative status, and Association for Human Rights in Kurdistan of Iran-Geneva.The statement addresses the following issues: (1) extensive use of the death penalty(official and unofficial figures); (2) the death penalty against juvenile offenders; (3) public executions; (4) the death penalty for murder or “qesas/retribution;” (5) the death penalty for drug-related charges, and; (6) the death penalty for other non-violent offenses.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Juveniles, Minorities, International law, Capital offences, Right to life, Drug Offences, Hanging, Stoning,

One of the most compelling forces behind the evolution of international attitudes towards capital punishment in recent decades has been the increasing recognition of the potential for error in its use – that those states that choose to retain the practice may be taking the lives of innocent individuals. The Death Penalty Project produced this resource on wrongful convictions and the death penalty.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Fair Trial

Status of the ratification of the Protocol 13 ECHR

• Document type Regional body report
• Themes list International law,
• Available languages Italian : Ratifica del protocollo n° 13 alla Convenzione per la salvaguardia dei Diritti dell'Uomo e delle Libertà fondamentali relativo all’abolizione delle pena di morte in ogni circostanzaGerman : Ratifizierung des Protokoll Nr. 13 zur Konvention zum Schutze der Menschenrechte und Grundfreiheiten bezüglich der Abschaffung der Todesstrafe unter allen UmständenРатификация протокола № 13 к Конвенции о защите прав человека и основных свобод относительно отмены смертной казни при любых обстоятельствахRatifcationes du protocole n° 13 à la Convention de sauvegarde des Droits de l'Homme et des Libertés fondamentales, relatif à l'abolition de la peine de mort en toutes circonstances

• Document type Campaigning
• Available languages Kit pour les Villes contre la peine de mortKit Ciudades contra la Pena de Muerte

• Document type Campaigning
• Available languages Folleto Ciudades contra la Pena de MuerteBrochure Villes contre la peine de mort

This Fact Sheet details the progress made in the past 10 years and challenges ahead, stressing the fact that Death Sentences and Executions Have Decreased, there is a Growing Use of a Moratorium, a Growing Restrictions on the Scope of the Death Penalty: Elimination of Mandatory Death Sentences, Growing Restrictions on the Scope of the Death Penalty, Growing Support for the UN General Assembly Resolutions Calling for a Moratorium, Increasing Ratifications of the Protocols to Abolish the Death Penalty, Growing International Statements and a Growing Abolitionist Movement.

• Document type Campaigning
• Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,

This article addresses the effect of judge versus jury decision making through analysis of a database of all capital sentencing phase hearing trials in the state of Delaware from 1977-2007. Over the three decades of the study, Delaware shifted responsibility for death penalty sentencing from the jury to the judge. Currently, Delaware is one of the handful of states that gives the judge the final decision making authority in capital trials. Controlling for a number of legally-relevant and other predictor variables, we find that the shift to judge sentencing significantly increased the number of death sentences. Statutory aggravating factors, stranger homicides, and the victim’s gender also increased the likelihood of a death sentence, as did the county of the homicide. We reflect on the implications of these results for debates about the constitutionality of judge sentencing in capital cases.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,

The permanent missions to the United Nations in New York listed below have the honour to refer to General Assembly resolution 67/176, entitled “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty”, which was adopted by the Third Committee on 19 November 2012, and subsequently by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012 by a recorded vote. The permanent missions wish to place on record that they are in persistent objection to any attempt to impose a moratorium on the use of the death penalty or its abolition in contravention of existing stipulations under international law, for the following reasons:

• Document type United Nations report
• Countries list Afghanistan / Antigua and Barbuda / Bahrain / Bangladesh / Barbados / Botswana / Brunei Darussalam / Chad / China / Democratic People's Republic of Korea / Egypt / Equatorial Guinea / Eritrea / Eswatini / Ethiopia / Grenada / Guyana / India / Iran (Islamic Republic of) / Iraq / Jamaica / Kuwait / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Libya / Malaysia / Mauritania / Myanmar / Nigeria / Oman / Pakistan / Papua New Guinea / Qatar / Saint Kitts and Nevis / Saint Lucia / Saint Vincent and the Grenadines / Saudi Arabia / Singapore / Solomon Islands / Somalia / Sudan / Syrian Arab Republic / Tonga / Trinidad and Tobago / Uganda / United Arab Emirates / Yemen / Zimbabwe
• Themes list Moratorium
• Available languages مذكرة شفوية مؤرخة 16 نيسان/أبريل 2013 موجهة إلى الأمين العام من البعثة الدائمة لمصر لدى الأمم المتحدةNota verbal de fecha 16 de abril de 2013 dirigida al Secretario General por la Misión Permanente de Egipto ante las Naciones UnidasNote verbale datée du 16 avril 2013, adressée au Secrétaire général par la Mission permanente de l’Égypte auprès de l’Organisation des Nations UniesВербальная нота Постоянного представительства Египта при Организации Объединенных Наций от 16 апреля 2013 года на имя Генерального секретаря2013年4月16日埃及常驻联合国代表团给秘书长的普通照会

Previous research findings gathered by the Capital Jury Project showed that many jurors whoserved on capital murder trials experienced significant stress and suffered extreme emotionalsetbacks. The present analysis extends these findings by focusing on gender-specific variationsin responses given by male and female jurors as revealed through extensive in-depth inter-views. Findings from structured questions and juror narrative accounts about psychologicaland physical suffering revealed that more females than males reported generalized fear, feltan overwhelming sense of loneliness or isolation, and experienced a significant loss of appetiteduring the trial. While male and female jurors both mentioned becoming emotionally upsetabout the crime-scene evidence and trial testimony, experienced sleeping problems, and start-ed using prescription drugs or illicit substances, these issues were discussed more often byfemales.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Women, Fair Trial, Arbitrariness,

The worst day of Olaniyi Emiola’s life was Mar. 17, 1998. At least it was for Olaniyi Emiola, 22, the spare motor parts trader. For Olaniyi Emiola, the armed robber, it was a lucky escape as another man with the same name had been wrongly sentenced to death for a crime he committed.

• Document type Legal Representation
• Themes list Innocence,

This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list International law,
• Available languages Evolution de la campagne de ratification 17 - mars 2015

In striking down the death penalty for intellectually disabled and juvenile defendants, Atkins v. Virginia and Roper v. Simmons have been understandably heralded as important holdings under the Court’s Eighth Amendment jurisprudence that has found the death penalty “disproportional” for certain types of defendants and crimes. This Article argues, however, that the cases have a far more revolutionary reach than their conventional understanding. In both cases the Court went one step beyond its usual two-step analysis of assessing whether imposing the death penalty violated “evolving standards of decency.” This extra step looked at why even though intellectual disability and youth were powerful mitigators, juries were not able to reliably use them in their decision making. The Court thus articulated expressly for the first time what this Article calls the “unreliability principle:” if too great a risk exists that constitutionally protected mitigation cannot be reliably assessed, the unreliability means that the death penalty cannot be constitutionally imposed. In recognizing the unreliability principle, the Court has called into serious question the death penalty for other offenders to whom the principle applies, such as mentally ill defendants. And, unlike with the “evolving standards” analysis, the unreliability principle does not depend on whether a national consensus exists against the practice. This Article identifies the six Atkins-Roper factors that bring the unreliability principle into play and shows why they make application of the death penalty to mentally ill defendants unconstitutional. The principle, which finds its constitutional home in the cases of Woodson v. North Carolina and Lockett v. Ohio, has profound implications for the death penalty, and if taken to its logical endpoint calls into question the Court’s core premise since Furman v. Georgia, that by providing individualized consideration of a defendant and his crime, the death penalty decision will be free of arbitrariness.

• Document type NGO report
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Fair Trial, Intellectual Disability,

The Innocents documents the stories of individuals who served time in prison for violent crimes they did not commit. At issue is the question of photography’s function as a credible eyewitness and arbiter of justice.

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Innocence,

Death penalty information and statistics by state.

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

This mobilisation kit for the 2012 World Day suggests activities and gives advice to hold successful World Day events.

• Document type Campaigning
• Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
• Available languages Kit de mobilisation 2012

PowerPoint presentation used at The Advocates for Human Rights’ training session on death penalty advocacy for the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review of human rights. See also the video of the presentation here.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list International law,

For the past seven years, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have quietly financed investigations to help free Jason Baldwin, Jesse Misskelley Jr., and Damien Echols, known as the the West Memphis Three, who were wrongly convicted in 1994 of murdering three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis , Arkansas. This piece provides and in-depth look into Peter and Fran’s involvement with the investigattion, the creation of ‘West of Memphis’ as a way to expose key developments in the infamous murder case and Jackson’s main goal, to exonerate the West Memphis Three and help find the real killer.

• Document type Academic report
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Innocence,

Poster of the 10th World Day against the Death Penalty:Abolish the Death Penalty. It’s a better world without it.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
• Available languages 海報 - 2012 年世界反死刑日پوستر روز جهانی سال 2012плакатAffiche Journée mondiale 2012Cartel Día Mundial 2012

The leaflet on the 2012 World Day provides information on the evolution of the abolition of the death penalty in the past ten years and presents the challenges ahead. It also gives arguments against the death penaty.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
• Available languages Leaflet Spanish 2012Leaflet Farsi 2012Leaflet Russian 2012Leaflet chinese 2012单张 - 2012 年世界反死刑日بسته حاوی اطلاعت : 2012 روز جهانی علیه مجازات اعدامлистовкаBrochure Journée mondiale 2012Folleto Día Mundial 2012

The Parliamentary Assembly recalls its Resolution 1044 (1994) on the abolition of capital punishment. It welcomes the complete abolition of capital punishment in Italy, Spain, Moldova and Belgium during the last two years, which provide an excellent example for other countries to follow.

• Document type Regional body report
• Themes list International law,

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

• Document type Academic report
• Countries list Dominican Republic
• Themes list International law,
• Available languages Kit de ratification - République dominicaineKit de ratificación - República Dominicana

This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list International law,

This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list International law,
• Available languages Evolution de la campagne de ratification 11 - mai 2013

Educational booklet compiling testimonies, arguments, legal and historical facts about the path towards abolition in Lebanon.

• Document type Campaigning
• Themes list Public opinion, Public debate, Trend Towards Abolition,

This manual was written by Death Penalty Worldwide, a project affiliated with the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law, and the law firm of Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. The manual aims to provide lawyers with legal arguments and strategic guidance in their representation of individuals facing the death penalty around the world. It sets forth the best practices in the defense of capital cases, based on the experiences of advocates around the world, international human rights principles, and the jurisprudence of both national courts and international tribunals.

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Legal Representation, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages La défense de condamnés à mort : Guide de bonnes pratiques à l’usage des avocats

Detailed information on the death penalty and mental health.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability,
• Available languages Fiche sur la peine de mort et la santé mentale

Produced to guide organisers, the kit suggests action and provides information about World Day and the theme chosen. For example, the section called “10 things you can to do on 10.10” suggests 10 activities to carry out within the framework of World Day such as participation in an art project, organisation of an event, or writing to those sentenced to death. It also proposes 10 tips for successful action.

• Document type Campaigning
• Themes list Public debate,
• Available languages 海報 - 2013 年世界反死刑日Kit de mobilisationKit de movilización动员材料大全

Detailed information on the death penalty in the Greater Caribbean

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Due Process , Deterrence , Mandatory Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
• Available languages Fiche sur la peine de mort dans les Caraïbes

The 2013 World Day leaflet provides information on the issues surrounding mental health and the death penalty. It also gives arguments against the death penalty.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability,
• Available languages Brochure Journée mondiale 2014

More than 2500 individuals are now under sentence of death in the United States. At the same time, multiple indicators—public opinion polls, legislative repeal and judicial invalidation of deathpenalty laws, the reduction in new death sentences, and infrequency of executions—suggest that support for capital punishment has significantly eroded. As jurisdictions abandon or consider eliminating the death-penalty, the fate of prisoners on death row—whether their death sentences, valid when imposed, should be carried out or whether these individuals should instead be spared execution—looms as contentious political and legal issues, fraught with complex philosophical, penological, and constitutional questions. This article presents a detailed account of what has happened historically to persons awaiting execution, principally within the United States but also internationally, at the time capital-punishment legislation is repealed or invalidated (either completely, or with respect to a narrow category of crimes or persons). Our analysis has uncovered no instances of executions being carried out under those circumstances. This finding has important policy implications and is directly relevant to the Supreme Court’s Eighth Amendment jurisprudence, which relies on execution practices as one measure to help inform the Court about whether the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment.

• Document type Academic report
• Countries list United States

Poster of the 12th World Day against the Death Penalty dedicated to mental health:Mental disorder is never a crimeCare. Don’t kill

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability,
• Available languages плакат - Всемирный день海報 - 2014 年世界反死刑日Cartel - Día Mundial 2014بوستر اليوم العالمى 2014پوستر روز جهانی سال 2014Affiche Journée mondiale 2014

For the 2013 World Day, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is asking Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago to abolish the mandatory death penalty for all crimes.

• Document type Academic report
• Countries list Barbados
• Themes list Mandatory Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
• Available languages Pétition - Barbade et Trinité-et-Tobago

For the 2013 World Day, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is asking Guatemala to abolish the death penalty for all crimes in law.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list International law, Country/Regional profiles,

• Document type Academic report
• Available languages Kit pour les Villes contre la peine de mort - 2015Kit Ciudades contra la Pena de Muerte - 2015

This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list International law,

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

• Document type Academic report
• Countries list Togo
• Themes list International law,
• Available languages Kit de ratification - Togo

The leaflet of the 2013 World Day provides information on the death penalty in the Greater Caribbean. It also gives arguments against the death penalty.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Public debate, Deterrence , Mandatory Death Penalty,
• Available languages Brochure Journée mondiale 2013Folleto Día Mundial 2013

Poster of the 11th World Day against the Death Penalty dedicated to the Caribbean:Stop Crime, not Live. Abolish the Death Penalty now

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Public debate, Deterrence , Mandatory Death Penalty,
• Available languages Affiche Journée mondiale 2013

This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list International law, Right to life,
• Available languages Evolution de la campagne de ratification 16 - octobre 2014

The animation film, created by talented volunteers of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders against Death Penalty”, dwells on the topic of the cruelty and inhumanity of the death penalty in Belarus. Our country is the last one in Europe and on the post-Soviet space where the death penalty is still used

• Document type Academic report
• Countries list Belarus
• Themes list International law, Public debate,

While the death penalty remains, persons with mental disabilities are at risk of being sentenced to death and executed in breach of international standards. This briefing paper provides concrete examples of what can be done to address this risk, including by ensuring that all states have laws that embed international protections in their domestic legislation and by extending protection to those with [serious] mental illness not covered by existing proscriptions against executing persons affected by “insanity”.

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability,
• Available languages Fiche pratique pour les parlementaires

Tant que la peine de mort continue d’exister, les personnes souffrant de déficiences mentales courent le risque d’être condamnées à mort et exécutées, en violation des normes internationales. Ce document de synthèse montre quelles mesures peuvent être prises pour supprimer ce risque, notamment en luttant contre la stigmatisation des personnes souffrant d’un handicap mental ou intellectuel, en particulier lorsque les médias entretiennent des idées reçues erronées concernant les risques que ces personnes représentent.

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability,
• Available languages Factsheet for Journalists

While the death penalty remains, persons with mental disabilities are at risk of being sentenced to death and executed in breach of international standards. This briefing paper provides concrete examples of what can be done to address this risk, including by working towards the reduction of stigma against persons with mental or intellectual disabilities, particularly where media reports promote inaccurate public beliefs about risks posed by such persons.

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability,
• Available languages Fiche pour les journalistes

While the death penalty remains, persons with mental disabilities are at risk of being sentenced to death and executed in breach of international standards. This briefing paper provides concrete examples of what can be done to address this risk, including by ensuring that adequate mental health expertise is available for defendants in capital cases in which mental or intellectual disabilities are claimed as a factor.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability,
• Available languages Fiche pratique pour les avocats

While the death penalty remains, persons with mental disabilities are at risk of being sentenced to death and executed in breach of international standards. This briefing paper provides concrete examples of what can be done to address this risk, including by implementing existing standards barring the imposition of death sentences or executions on those with intellectual disabilities and those who are seriously mentally ill.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability,

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,

In the run up to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, intemational criticism of China’s human rights record has highlighted the use of the death penalty. Although global activists may try to intemationalise China’s use ofthe death penalty, capital punishment is a domestic issue.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Public debate, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Country/Regional profiles,

For this 12th World Day Against the Death Penalty the World Coalition has decided to focus on a social media campaign which it hopes will spread the truth about death penalty more widely than ever before. The concept is simple. People will make signs stating why they are against the death penalty and take a photo of themselves holding that sign and upload it onto a social media platform, with the hashtag #nodeathpenalty. With the photo uploaded, the person will nominate at least 3 people to do the same, thus creating an exponential (snowball) effect.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Public opinion, Trend Towards Abolition,
• Available languages #nodeathpenalty - Flyer

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

• Document type Academic report
• Countries list Morocco
• Themes list International law,
• Available languages Kit de ratification - MarocKit de ratificación - Marruecos

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

• Document type Academic report
• Countries list Samoa
• Themes list International law,
• Available languages Kit de Ratification - SamoaKit de ratification - SamoaKit de ratificación - Samoa

The 2% Death PenaltyEXECUTIVE SUMMARYContrary to the assumption that the death penalty is widely practiced across thecountry, it isactuallythe domain of a small percentage of U.S. counties in a handful ofstates. The burdens created by this narrow but aggressive use, however, areshiftedtothe majority of counties that almost never use it.The disparate and highly clustered use of the death penalty raises seriousquestions of unequal and arbitraryapplication of the law. It also forcesthejurisdictionsthat have resisted the death penalty for decadesto pay fora costlylegalprocess thatisoftenmarred withinjustice.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Statistics,

Numerous studies have examinedthe psychological sequelae thatresult from the murder of a loved one. Except for the death penalty,however, sparse attention has been paidto the impact of the murderer’ssentence on homicide survivors’ well-being. Given the steadfastness ofthe public’s opinion that the death penalty brings satisfaction and closureto survivors, it is surprising thatthere has been no systematic inquirydirectly with survivors about whether obtaining the ultimate punishmentaffects their healing. This Study used in-person interviews with arandomly selected sample of survivorsfrom four time periods to examinethe totality of the ultimate penal sanction (UPS) process and itslongitudinal impact on their lives. Moreover, it assessed the differentialeffect of two types of UPS by comparing survivors’ experiences in Texas,a death penalty state, and Minnesota, a life without the possibility ofparole (LWOP) state. Comparing states highlights differences primarilyduring the postconviction stage, specifically with respect to the appealsprocess and in regard to survivor well-being. In Minnesota, survivors ofadjudicated cases show higher levels of physical, psychological, andbehavioral health. This Study’s findings have implications for trialstrategy and policy development.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Murder Victims' Families,

For this 12th World Day Against the Death Penalty the World Coalition has decided to focus on a social media campaign which it hopes will spread the truth about death penalty more widely than ever before. The concept is simple. People will make signs stating why they are against the death penalty and take a photo of themselves holding that sign and upload it onto a social media platform, with the hashtag #nodeathpenalty. With the photo uploaded, the person will nominate at least 3 people to do the same, thus creating an exponential (snowball) effect. Think of it as a cross between the #bringbackourgirls campaign in support for

• Document type Academic report
• Available languages #nodeathpenalty - Signs_Farsi#nodeathpenalty - Signs_Russian#nodeathpenalty - Pancarte#nodeathpenalty - Signs_Chinese#nodeathpenalty - Signs_Spanish

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

• Document type Academic report
• Countries list Madagascar
• Themes list International law,
• Available languages Kit de ratification - Madagascar