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2016 World Day report
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2017
2017
NGO report
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On 10 October 2016, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty along with abolitionist activists worldwide marked the 13th World Day against the Death Penalty by drawing attention to the death penalty for terrorism. This report presents the activities organised for the 13th world day and the media coverage it received.
- Document type NGO report
- Available languages Rapport Journée mondiale 2016
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Factsheet for Judges – 2020 World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / The Advocates for Human Rights, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
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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
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Voices and video from death row- Ghezelhesar mass-executions
By Iran Human Rights (IHR), on 1 January 2015
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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Death and Harmless Error: A Rhetorical Response to Judging Innocence
By Colin P. Starger / Columbia School of Law, on 1 January 2011
2011
Article
United States
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The ‘Garret Study’ analyses the first 200 post conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. This article wheights the impact of the study and how it will depend on how jurists, politicians, and scholars extrapolate the explanatory power of the data.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
By Bryan Stevenson / Spiegel & Grau, on 1 January 2014
2014
Book
United States
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Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama, has written a new book, Just Mercy, about his experiences defending the poor and the wrongfully convicted throughout the south. It includes the story of one of Stevenson’s first cases as a young lawyer, that of Walter McMillian, who was eventually exonerated and freed from death row. McMillian, a black man, had been convicted of the murder of a white woman in Monroeville, Alabama. His trial lasted just a day and a half, prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence, and the judge imposed a death sentence over the jury’s recommendation for life. Archbishop Desmond Tutu said of the book, “Bryan Stevenson is America’s young Nelson Mandela, a brilliant lawyer fighting with courage and conviction to guarantee justice for all. Just Mercy should be read by people of conscience in every civilized country in the world to discover what happens when revenge and retribution replace justice and mercy. It is as gripping to read as any legal thriller, and what hangs in the balance is nothing less than the soul of a great nation.”
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Due Process , Fair Trial, Death Penalty,
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Application form – Call for Actions in the Maldives and Turkey (18th World Day)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Multimedia content
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Call for actions on the World Day in the Maldives and Turkey
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Death Penalty,
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List of signatories to the Second Optional Protocol by region
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2014
2014
Lobbying
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List of states that have signed and/or ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Classifyied by region of the world as of 1st July 2011.
- Document type Lobbying
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Liste des Etats signataires du deuxième Protocole facultatif par région
Document(s)
The Innocence Files
By Netflix, on 1 January 2020
2020
Multimedia content
United States
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This mini-series sheds light on 8 true stories of wrongful convictions overturned thanks to the work of the Innocence Project and several organizations from the Innocence Network. One of its episode feature the case of Texas death-row exoneree Alfred Dewayne Brown.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence, Legal Representation, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Preuves d'innocence
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Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions: Report of the Special Rapporteur, Philip Alston
By United Nations / Philip Alston, on 1 January 2004
2004
International law - United Nations
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The analytical part of the report focuses in depth on a narrow range of issues, with an overall emphasis on accountability. The four principal topics addressed are: (i) genocide and crimes against humanity; (ii) violations of the right to life in armed conflict and internal strife; (iii) capital punishment; and (iv) violations of the right to life by non-State actors.
- Document type International law - United Nations
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
- Available languages ح ا لا ت ا لإ ع د ا م خ ا ر ج ن ط ا ق ا ل ق ض ا ء أ و ب إ ج ر ا ء ا ت م و ج زة أ و ت عس ف ا ً تقرير المقرر الخاص فيليب ألستونВнесудебные казни, казни без надлежащего судебного разбирательства или произвольные казни: Доклад Специального докладчика Филипа АлстонаExécutions extrajudiciaires, sommaires ou arbitraires: Rapport du Rapporteur spécial, M. Philip Alston法外处决、即审即决或任意处决问题特别报告员; 菲利普·奥尔斯顿Las ejecuciones extrajudiciales, sumarias o arbitrarias: Informe del Relator Especial, Philip Alston
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Flyer for the UN Protocol Ratification Campaign
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2017
2017
Lobbying
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This leaflet gives details about the importance of the Protocol for the abolitionist movement and explains the reasons behind this ratification campaign.
- Document type Lobbying
- Themes list International law,
- Available languages Folleto - campaña de ratificaciónBrochure campagne de ratification Protocole ONU
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Creating More Victims: How Executions Hurt the Families Left Behind
By Robert Renny Cushing / Susannah Sheffer / Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights, on 1 January 2005
2005
NGO report
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This report, released appropriately on International Human Rights Day, serves to strip away the “conspiracy of silence” and give voice to a group of victims who have for too long been largely ignored in the debate surrounding the death penalty: the families of the executed.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families,
Document(s)
The Dark Room
By Amnesty International - Italy / Istituto Europeo di Design, on 1 January 2010
2010
Working with...
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The dark room was a photography exhibition planned as part of a project lunched by Amnesty International Italy under the title “I am against the death penalty because…”. The exhibition was held in Rome at Palazzo delle Exposizioni, Sala della Fontana, from 8th to 20th June 2010.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
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Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement
By New York University (NYU) / Robert J. Norris, on 1 January 2017
2017
Book
United States
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In response to recent exonerations, federal and state governments have passed laws to prevent such injustices; lawyers and police have changed their practices; and advocacy organizations have multiplied across the country. Together, these activities are often referred to as the “innocence movement.” Exonerated provides the first in-depth look at the history of this movement through interviews with key leaders such as Barry Scheck and Rob Warden as well as archival and field research into the major cases that brought awareness to wrongful convictions in the United States.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
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Shattered Justice – Crime Victims’ Experiences with Wrongful Convictions and Exonerations
By Kimberly J. Cook, on 12 August 2022
2022
Book
United States
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Shattered Justice presents original crime victims’ experiences with violent crime, investigations and trials, and later exonerations in their cases. Using in-depth interviews with 21 crime victims across the United States, Cook reveals how homicide victims’ family members and rape survivors describe the painful impact of the primary trauma, the secondary trauma of the investigations and trials, and then the tertiary trauma associated with wrongful convictions and exonerations. Important lessons and analyses are shared related to grief and loss, and healing and repair. Using restorative justice practices to develop and deliver healing retreats for survivors also expands the practice of restorative justice. Finally, policy reforms aimed at preventing, mitigating, and repairing the harms of wrongful convictions is covered.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
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The Use of Peremptory Challenges in Capital Murder Trials: A Legal and Empirical Analysis
By George Woodworth / David C. Baldus / David Zuckerman / University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law / Neil Alan Weiner / Barbara Broffitt, on 1 January 2001
2001
Article
United States
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One of the largely unique aspects of the American jury system is that it confers upon the parties the unilateral power – in the form of peremptory challenges – to remove prospective jurors for any non-racial or non-gender-based reason. This article presents an overview of the literature on peremptory challenges, and an empirical analysis of their use in Philadelphia capital cases in the 1980s and 1990s.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Fair Trial,
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A Tale of Two (and Possibly Three) Atkins: Intellectual Disability and Capital Punishment Twelve Years after The Supreme Court’s Creation of a Categorical Bar
By John H. Blume / Sheri Lynn Johnson / William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, on 8 September 2020
2020
Article
United States
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The article, with three co-authors, examines empirically the capital cases decided by the lower courts since the United States Supreme Court created the categorical ban against the execution of persons with intellectual disability twelve years ago in the Atkins decision.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Mental Illness,
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The Logical Framework Approach
By Greta Jenson / Bond - For International Development, on 1 January 2010
2010
Campaigning
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The logframe is a tool for concisely describing the results of an LFA project design process, as it summarises in a standard format: What the project is going to achieve, what activities will be carried out, what means/resources/inputs (human, technical, infrastructural, etc.) are required, what potential problems could affect the success of the project, how the progress and ultimate success of the project will be measured and verified.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Networks,
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Chinese Executions: Visualising their Differences with European Supplices
By Bourgon J / European Journal of East Asian Studies, on 1 January 2003
2003
Article
China
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European executions obeyed a complex model that the author proposes to call ‘the supplice pattern’. The term supplice designates tortures and tormented executions, but it also includes their cultural background. The European way of executing used religious deeds, aesthetic devices and performing arts techniques which themselves called for artistic representations through paintings, theatre, etc. Moreover, Christian civilisation was unique in the belief that the spectacle of a painful execution had a redemptive effect on the criminals and the attendants as well. Chinese executions obeyed an entirely different conception. They were designed to show that punishment fitted the crime as provided in the penal code. All details were aimed to highlight and inculcate the meaning of the law, while signs of emotions, deeds, words, that could have interfered with the lesson in law were prohibited. In China, capital executions were not organized as a show nor subject to aesthetic representations, and they had no redemptive function. This matter-of-fact way of executing people caused Westerners deep uneasiness. The absence of religious background and staging devices was interpreted as a sign of barbarity and cruelty. What was stigmatised was not so much the facts that their failure to conform to the ‘supplice pattern’ that constituted for any Westerner the due process of capital executions.
- Document type Article
- Countries list China
- Themes list Networks,
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Death by hanging
By Nagisa Oshima, on 1 January 1968
1968
Multimedia content
Japan
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- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Japan
- Themes list Hanging, Death Penalty,
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Retribution and Redemption in the Operation of Executive Clemency
By Elizabeth Rapaport / Chicago Kent Law Review, on 1 January 2000
2000
Article
United States
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In this Article, my goal is to raise doubts about the adequacy of the neo-retributive theory of clemency and stimulate reappraisal and development of what I will call the “redemptive” perspective. To this end I will present an exposition and critique of neo-retributive theory of clemency.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Retribution, Clemency,
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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
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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Pennsylvania capital post-conviction reversals and subsequent dispositions
By Death Penalty Information Center / Robert Brett Dunham, on 1 January 2018
2018
NGO report
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In Pennsylvania, death-row prisoners whose convictions or death sentences are overturned in state or federal post-conviction appeals are almost never resentenced to death, a new Death Penalty Information Center study has revealed. Since Pennsylvania adopted its current death-penalty statute in September 1978, post-conviction courts have reversed prisoners’ capital convictions or death sentences in 170 cases. Defendants have faced capital retrials or resentencings in 137 of those cases, and 133 times—in more than 97% of the cases—they received non-capital dispositions ranging from life without parole to exoneration. Only four prisoners whose death sentences were reversed in post-conviction proceedings remain on death row
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
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World Day Poster 2022
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 9 June 2022
2022
Campaigning
World Coalition
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20th World Day on “Torture and the death penalty”.
- Document type Campaigning / World Coalition
- Available languages 2022 ملصق اليوم العال مPoster Spanish – 2022 Día Mundial contra la Pena de MuertePoster Farsi 2022 - بیستمین روز جهانی علیهمجازات مرگAffiche Journée mondiale 2022Poster Russian 2022 - 20Й ВСЕМИРНЫЙ ДЕНЬ ПРОТИВ СМЕРТНОЙ КАЗНИPoster Chinese 2022- 第20届世界反死刑日
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Poster World Day 2009
By World Coalition against the death penalty , on 10 October 2009
2009
Campaigning
Trend Towards Abolition
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Poster world day against the death penalty 2009
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition
- Available languages Affiche journée mondiale 2009
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USA: Death in Florida
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2017
2017
Academic report
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In March 2017, Rick Scott, Governor of Florida, responded to a State Attorney’s decision not to pursue the death penalty because of its demonstrable flaws by ordering her replacement with a prosecutor willing to engage in this lethal pursuit. Since then the governor has transferred 27 capital murder cases to his preferred prosecutor. Two of these cases have already resulted in juries voting for death sentences.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Fair Trial, Legal Representation, Country/Regional profiles,
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Remedies for California’s Death Row Deadlock
By Judge Arthur Alarcon / Southern California Law review, on 8 September 2020
2020
Article
United States
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This Article identifies the woeful inefficiencies of the current procedures that have led to inexcusable delays in arriving at just results in death penalty cases and describes how California came to find itself in this untenable condition. The article makes recomendations.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Fair Trial,
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Justice Advocates Project
By Death Penalty Focus, on 1 January 2012
2012
Multimedia content
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The Death Penalty Focus Justice Advocates Project empowers people with firsthand experience of the death penalty system to become advocates for fairness and justice by telling their personal stories to the public. Justice Advocates include the wrongfully convicted and law enforcement professionals, who bring their varied experiences of the flaws and dangers of the death penalty system to the public discourse
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Innocence,
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Iran Annual Report Oct ’17 – Oct ’18
By Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), on 1 January 2018
2018
NGO report
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Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- On the World Day Against the Death Penalty, the Center of Statistics at Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) has published its annual report, in efforts to sensitize the public about the situation of the death penalty in Iran.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
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Fight for Life on Death Row (Greg Tomson)
By 60 Minutes / CBS News, on 1 January 2008
2008
Legal Representation
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This video explores the case of Greg Tomson who killed a 28 year woman. Originally he was seen as competent to stand trial, now his defense who are appealing his case, are trying to show that Tomson was not mentally stable when he committed the crime and also that he does not understand why the state is seeking the death penalty against him.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Networks,
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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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Children, Yet Convicted as Adults
By Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran, on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
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In May 2019, at least 85 alleged juvenile offenders were sitting on death row in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Last year, seven child offenders were executed, and since the year 2000, Iran has put to death at least 140 individuals for offenses they allegedly committed as children. Today, on World Day Against the Death Penalty, Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran (ABC) releases an original report titled, Children, Yet Convicted as Adults, which challenges Iran’s justifications for the use of capital punishment against child offenders, examines the question of maturity through the lens of empirical scientific research, and calls on the Islamic Republic to take immediate action to ensure that no individual is put to death for crimes committed as a child
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Juveniles, Death Penalty,
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Annual Report on Human Rights 2009
By United Kingdom Foreign & Commonwealth Office, on 1 January 2010
2010
Government body report
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During 2009, we continued to strive for the global abolition of the death penalty. We made our opposition to it clear in our engagement with countries around the world, both bilaterally and in partnership with the EU. Bilaterally, we continue to fund work in the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Asia from our Human Rights Strategic Programme Fund. This includes working with key NGO partners, such as the Death Penalty Project and the Centre for Capital Punishment Studies at Westminster University in London. We also continued to raise the death penalty directly with governments, including China, Jamaica and the US.
- Document type Government body report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
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The North Carolina Racial Justice Act
By North Carolina Coalition For A Moratorium / YouTube, on 1 January 2009
2009
Arguments against the death penalty
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House Bill 472 and Senate Bill 461, known as The North Carolina Racial Justice Act, addresses racial discrimination in capital sentencing. This video featuring death row exonoree Edward Chapman, talks about racial bias and how the Racial Justice Act attempts to assure that race would not play a role in who gets the death penalty.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Discrimination,
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Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions: Report of the Special Rapporteur, Bacre Waly Ndiaye
By United Nations / Bacre Waly Ndiaye, on 1 January 1997
1997
International law - United Nations
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This report is submitted pursuant to Commission on Human Rightsresolution 1997/61 of 16 April 1997 entitled “Extrajudicial, summary orarbitrary executions”. It is the sixth report submitted to the Commissionon Human Rights by Bacre Waly Ndiaye and the fifteenth submitted to theCommission since the mandate on “Summary and arbitrary executions” wasestablished by Economic and Social Council resolution 1982/35 of 7 May 1982.
- Document type International law - United Nations
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
- Available languages حالات الإعدام خارج نطاق القضاء أو بإجراء اتموجة أو تعسفاً تقرير المقرر الخاص باكرة والي ندايةВнесудебные, суммарные и произвольные казни: Отчет специального докладчика Бакре Вали Ндиай (Bacre Waly Ndiaye)Exécutions extrajudiciaires, sommaires ou arbitraires: Rapport du Rapporteur spécial, Bacre Waly Ndiaye法外处决 即审即决或任意处决: 特别报告员巴克雷瓦利恩迪亚耶先生Las ejecuciones extrajudiciales, sumarias o arbitrarias: Informe del Relator Especial, Bacre Waly Ndiaye
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Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions: Report of the Special Rapporteur, Ms. Asma Jahangir
By United Nations / Asma Jahangir, on 1 January 1999
1999
International law - United Nations
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This report is submitted pursuant to Commission on Human Rightsresolution 1998/68 of 21 April 1998 entitled “Extrajudicial, summary orarbitrary executions”. It is the first report submitted to the Commission byMs. Asma Jahangir and the sixteenth submitted to the Commission since themandate on “summary and arbitrary executions” was established by Economic andSocial Council resolution 1982/35 of 7 May 1982.
- Document type International law - United Nations
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
- Available languages حالات الإعدام خارج نطاق القضاء أو بإجراء اتموجة أو تعسفاً تقرير المقرر الخاص اسمة جهانقيرВнесудебные, суммарные и произвольные казни: Отчет специального докладчика Асмы Джахангир (Asma Jahangir)Exécutions extrajudiciaires, sommaires ou arbitraires: Rapport de Mme Asma Jahangir, Rapporteuse spéciale法外处决即审即决或任意处决: 特别报告员阿斯玛贾汉吉尔女士Las ejecuciones extrajudiciales, sumarias o arbitrarias: Informe de la Relatora Especial, Sra. Asma Jahangir
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RECOMMENDATION 1246 (1994) on the abolition of capital punishment
By Council of Europe / Parlamentary Assembly, on 1 January 1996
1996
Regional body report
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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,
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2010 World Day Report on the USA
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2010
2010
Campaigning
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It presents all the actions that were taken for the 2010 World Day on the USA.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Rapport Journée mondiale 2010: Etats-Unis
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Film “THE ROAD TO LIVINGSTON”
By The Austin Film Society / Chelsea Hernandez, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
United States
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Delia Perez-Meyer, an elementary school teacher, has taken a weeklyjourney from the classroom to death row for the past 12 years. She tells of her personal voyage, beginning from a place of frustration to acceptanceand hopeful activism.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Women, Innocence,
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Killing the Willing: “Volunteers,” Suicide and Competency
By John H. Blume / Michigan Law Review, on 8 September 2020
Article
United States
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Every death-row volunteer inevitably presents us with the following question: Should a death-row inmate who wishes to waive his appeals be viewed as a client making a legal decision to accept the justness of his punishment, or as a person seeking the aid of the state in committing suicide?
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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What is the ODIHR
By Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), on 1 January 2009
2009
Working with...
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The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is one of the world’s principal regional human rights bodies.It promotes democratic elections, respect for human rights, tolerance and non-discrimination, and the rule of law. ODIHR is the human rights institution of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), an intergovernmental body working for stability, prosperity and democracy in its 56 participating States.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Polish : Czym jest ODIHR?Greek : Τι είναι το ODIHR;German : Was ist das ODIHR?Что такое БДИПЧ?Qu’est-ce que le BIDDH?
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Dangerousness, Risk Assessment, and Capital Sentencing
By Aletha M. Claussen-Schulza / Psychology, Public Policy and Law / Marc W. Pearceb / Robert F. Schopp, on 1 January 2004
2004
Article
United States
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Judges, jurors, police officers, and others are sometimes asked to make a variety of decisions based on judgments of dangerousness. Reliance on judgments of dangerousness in a variety of legal contexts has led to considerable debate and has been the focus of numerous publications. However, a substantial portion of the debate has centered on the accuracy and improvement of risk assessments rather than the issues concerning the use of dangerousness as a legal criterion. This article focuses on whether dangerousness judgments can play a useful role in capital sentencing decisions within the framework of “guided discretion” and “individualized assessment” set forth by the Supreme Court of the United States. It examines the relationship between these legal doctrines and contemporary approaches to risk assessment, and it discusses the potential tension between these approaches to risk assessment and these legal doctrines. The analysis suggests that expert testimony has the potential to undermine rather than assist the sentencer’s efforts to make capital sentencing decisions in a manner consistent with Supreme Court doctrine. This analysis includes a discussion of the advances and limitations of current approaches to risk assessment in the context of capital sentencing.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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REPORT ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN JAMAICA
By IACHR , on 1 January 2013
2013
NGO report
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The report presents the conclusions of monitoring by the IACHR in recent years, including an on-site visit to Jamaica in December 2008, several public hearings on human rights in the country, as well as a constant exchange of information with the State and civil society organizations.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
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Bringing Reliability Back In: False Confessions and Legal Safeguards in the 21st Century
By Steven A. Drizen / Bradley R. Hall / Peter J. Neufeld / Richard A. Leo / Wisconsin Law Review / Amy Vatner, on 1 January 2006
2006
Article
United States
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In this Article, we point out the failures of the legal tests governing admissibility of confessions, tracing the historical development of these flawed standards. We propose a new standard that we believe reinvigorates the largely forgotten purpose of the rules—reliability of confession evidence—in part by requiring the electronic recording of custodial interrogations.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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Anatomy of a Miscarriage of Justice: The Wrongful Conviction of Peter J. Rose
By Susan Rutberg / Golden Gate University Law Review, on 1 January 2006
Article
United States
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This Article examines one case in which students and lawyers from Golden Gate University’s Innocence Project won the exoneration of Peter J. Rose, a man who served nearly ten years of a twenty-seven year State Prison sentence for the rape and kidnap of a child before DNA proved his innocence. The analysis of this case focuses on how the conduct of two police detectives, the prosecutor and the defense attorney contributed to this miscarriage of justice.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
When the State No Longer Kills: International Human Rights Norms and Abolition of Capital Punishment
By Sangmin Bae / State University of New York Press, on 1 January 2007
2007
Book
Republic of Korea
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This book tries to explain what leads a state to abolish capital punishment or impose a moratorium, by offereing in-depth analyses of four countries: Ukraine, South Africa, South Korea and the United States. Focusing on the role of political leadership and domestic political institutions, Bae clarifies the causal mechanisms that lead to state compliance or noncompliance with the norm.
- Document type Book
- Countries list Republic of Korea
- Themes list Moratorium ,
Document(s)
United Nations Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems
By Economic and Social Council, on 1 January 2012
2012
United Nations report
enarrufresMore details See the document
Resolution adopted by the Economic and Social Council [on the recommendation of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (E/2012/30 and Corr.1 and 2)]
- Document type United Nations report
- Themes list International law,
- Available languages Japanese : 联合国关于在刑事司法系统中获得法律援助机会的 原则和准则"مبادئ الأمم المتحدة وتوجيهاا بشأن سبل الحصول على /٢٠١٢ المساعدة القانونية في نظم العدالة الجنائية"Принципы и руководящие положения Организации Объединенных Наций, касающиеся доступа к юридической помощи в системах уголовного правосудияPrincipes et lignes directrices des Nations Unies sur l’accès à l’assistance juridique dans le système de justice pénalePrincipios y directrices de las Naciones Unidas sobre el acceso a la asistencia jurídica en los sistemas de justicia penal
Document(s)
Contradictions in Judicial Support for Capital Punishment in India and Bangladesh: Utilitarian Rationales
By Saul Lehrfreund / Carolyn Hoyle / Asian Journal of Criminology, on 1 January 2019
2019
Article
Bangladesh
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This article draws on two original empirical research projects that explored judges’ opinions on the retention and administration of capital punishment in India and Bangladesh. The data expose justice systems marred by corruption, incompetence, abuses of due process, and arbitrary and inconsistent treatment of defendants from arrest through to conviction and sentencing. It shows that those with the power to sentence to death have little faith in the integrity of the criminal process. Yet, a startling paradox emerges from these studies; despite personal knowledge of its flaws, judges have trust in the death penalty to deter crime and to realise other sentencing aims and feel retention benefits society. This is explained by reference to utilitarian values. Not only did our judges express strongly utilitarian justifications for sentencing people to death, in terms of their erroneous belief in its deterrent effect, but some also articulated utilitarian justifications for misconduct in pre-trial processes, suggesting that it was necessary to break the rules to secure convictions when the system was dysfunctional and ineffective.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Bangladesh
- Themes list Arbitrariness, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: An Analysis of Post-Furman Capital Errors
By Talia Roitberg Harmon / Criminal Justice Policy Review, on 1 January 2001
2001
Article
United States
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The issue of erroneous convictions in capital cases has recently gained considerable nationwide media attention. This article builds on prior research by examining 76 cases of inmates who were released from death rows between 1970 and 1998 because of doubts about their guilt. By using sources, or persons who have extensive insider knowledge about these cases, as well as published court opinions, it was possible to identify the causes of the wrongful convictions as well as the significant events that led to the discovery of the miscarriages of justice. The data indicate that prosecutorial misconduct, perjury of witnesses, police misconduct, and racial discrimination were influential factors that led to the wrongful convictions. In addition, continued investigation by the defense attorney, new witnesses coming forward, and/or a confession from another person were the factors most often leading to the discovery of errors. These findings suggest that there have not been any significant changes in causes of erroneous convictions since the implementation of contemporary safeguards. As a result, policy changes are suggested to decrease the chances of erroneous executions.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
NGO Media Outreach: Using the Media as an Advocacy Tool
By Coalition for the International Criminal Court, on 1 January 2003
2003
Working with...
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A guide for NGOs to use media effectively. This guide explains the importance of media, how to create contacts, how to prepare a media outreach campaign, how to deliver a campaign to the media and how to use available resources to support your media campaign.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Cross-National Variability in Capital Punishment: Exploring the Sociopolitical Sources of Its Differential Legal Status
By Terance D. Miethe / Hong Lu / Gini R. Deibert / International Criminal Justice Review, on 1 January 2005
2005
Article
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Guided by existing macrolevel theories on punishment and society, the present study explores the independent and conjunctive effects of measures of sociopolitical conditions on the legal retention of capital punishment in 185 nations in the 21st century. Significant correlations are found between a nation’s retention of legal executions for ordinary crimes and its level of economic development, primary religious orientation, citizens’ voice in governance, political stability, and recent history of extrajudicial executions. Subsequent multivariate analyses through qualitative comparative methods reveal substantial context-specific effects and wide variability in legal retention even within countries with similar sociopolitical structures. These results are then discussed in terms of their theoretical implications for future cross-national research on punishment and society.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Film: “The Execution of Wanda Jean”
By Liz Garbus / New Video Group, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
United States
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In THE EXECUTION OF WANDA JEAN, award-winning filmmaker Liz Garbus continues her investigations into the American criminal justice system with the compelling story of convicted murderess Wanda Jean Allen
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
Document(s)
Swahili – Ripoti ya kimataifa ya amnesty international: hukumu za kifo na watu walioadhibiwa kifo 2023
on 29 May 2024
2024
NGO report
Trend Towards Abolition
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Ufuatiliaji wa Amnesty International wa matumizi ya adhabu ya kifo duniani ulibaini watu
1,153 wanaofahamika kuwa walinyongwa mwaka 2023, ambalo ni ongezeko la asilimia
31 kutoka 883 mwaka 2022. Hata hivyo nchi zinazowanyonga watu zilipungua kwa
kiwango kikubwa kutoka 20 mwaka 2022 hadi 16 mwaka 2023
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition
Document(s)
Witness to Innocence – from death row to freedom
By Witness to Innocence, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
United States
More details See the document
Errors have been made repeatedly in death penalty cases because of: poor legal representation, racial prejudice, prosecutorial misconduct, the presentation of erroneous evidence, false confession, junk science, eyewitness error. Once convicted, a death row prisoner faces enormous obstacles in convincing any court that he or she is innocent.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
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.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
Document(s)
David R. Dow: Lessons from death row inmates
By David R. Dow / TED, on 1 January 2012
2012
Multimedia content
United States
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What happens before a murder? In looking for ways to reduce death penalty cases, David R. Dow realized that a surprising number of death row inmates had similar biographies. In this talk he proposes a bold plan, one that prevents murders in the first place.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Due Process ,
Document(s)
Death sentences and executions in 2008
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2009
2009
NGO report
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This document summarises Amnesty International’s global research on the death penalty. Information was gathered from various sources including official statistics (where available), non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations, human rights defenders, the media and interviews with survivors of human rights violations.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages أحكام الإعدام الصادرة وما نُفِّذ من أحكام في عام 2008СМЕРТНЫЕ ПРИГОВОРЫ И КАЗНИ В 2008 ГОДУCONDAMNATIONS À MORT ET EXÉCUTIONS RECENSÉES EN 2008CONDENAS A MUERTE Y EJECUCIONES EN 2008
Document(s)
2018 World Day – Report
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
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Report of the 2018 World Day Against the Death Penalty, on the conditions of detention on death row.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Journée mondiale 2018 - Rapport
Document(s)
In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America
By Univerity if North Carolina / Diane Christian, on 1 January 2012
2012
Book
United States
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In this comprehensive, well-crafted book, published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, SUNY-Buffalo professors Jackson and Christian build upon the photographs and interviews from death row in Texas that yielded their 1979 book and documentary Death Row
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Phenomenon,
Document(s)
European Aid for Executions : How European Counternarcotics Aid Enables Death Sentences & Executions in Iran and Pakistan
By Reprieve, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
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Information gathered by Reprieve andpublished for the first time in this reportexposes how counter-narcotics aidprovided to Iran and Pakistan by Europeangovernments has ended up enabling andencouraging death sentences and executionsfor drug offences in those countries. Thereport’s findings are the product of two yearsof research, synthesising unpublished deathrow data obtained from Iranian and Pakistaniprisons with data on European counter-narcotics aid delivered through the UnitedNations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Drug Offences, Networks, Statistics,
Document(s)
17 Indians Tortured, Sentenced to Death
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2010
2010
Legal Representation
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Seventeen Indian migrant workers have been sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), after an unfair trial, for the murder of a Pakistani national.Some of the 17 are said to have been tortured to make them “confess.” They may be at risk of further torture.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Torturados y Condenados a Muerte 17 Indios
Document(s)
Coping with Innocence after Death Row
By Kimberly J Cook / Saundra D Westervelt / Contexts, on 1 January 2008
2008
Working with...
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The enduring images of exonerees are of vindicated individuals reunited with family and friends in a moment of happiness and relief, tearful men embraced by supporters who have long fought for their release.We think of these moments as conclusions, but really they’re the start of a new story, one that social science is beginning to tell about how exonerees are greeted by their communities, their homes, and their families, and how they cope with the injustice of their confinement and rebuild their lives on the outside.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Factsheet for Police Personnel – 2020 World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / Reprieve, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
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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
Document(s)
Factsheet for Media Representatives – 2020 World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / Reprieve, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
frMore details Download [ pdf - 206 Ko ]
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
Document(s)
Call Tender Evaluation 2021
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 June 2021
2021
World Coalition
Maldives
Philippines
Turkey
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External Evaluation of the project “Preventing the risk of resurgence of the death penalty in three abolitionist countries” of 36 months in the Maldives, Philippines and Turkey
- Document type World Coalition
- Countries list Maldives / Philippines / Turkey
- Available languages Appel d'Offre Evaluation 2021
Document(s)
Racial Disparities
By Death Penalty Focus, on 1 January 2009
2009
Arguments against the death penalty
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The race of the victim and the race of the defendant in capital cases are major factors in determining who is sentenced to die in this country. In 1990 a report from the General Accounting Office concluded that “in 82 percent of the studies [reviewed], race of the victim was found to influence the likelihood of being charged with capital murder or receiving the death penalty, i.e. those who murdered whites were more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Discrimination,
Document(s)
Taking Capital Punishment Seriously
By Franklin E. Zimmering / David T. Johnson / Asian Journal of Criminology, on 1 January 2006
2006
Article
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Although Asia is the most important region of the world when it comes to capital punishment, it is also one of the most understudied. This article identifies four research questions that deserve attention from students and scholars who believe taking capital punishment seriously requires studying Asia seriously too. What are the empirical contours of capital punishment in contemporary Asia? What are the histories of capital punishment in Asia? Can Western theories of capital punishment explain patterns and changes in Asia? And what is the future of capital punishment in Asia? If researchers take the trouble to explore these questions, the death penalty will not only become an interesting window into law and society in Asia, but Asia will prove to be an instructive window into the death penalty—the gravest real-life problem in the law.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Overview of the Capital Trial Process
By Capital Punishment in Context, on 8 September 2020
2020
Working with...
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This document briefly goes through the steps involved in a death penalty case, from the point of arrest to judge sentences.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
The Role of Race in Washington State Capital Sentencing, 1981-2014
By Katherine Beckett / University of Washington, on 1 January 2014
2014
Academic report
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This report assesses whether race influences the administration of capital punishment in Washington State, and if so, where in the process it matters.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Discrimination, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
The Story of Chiou Ho-shun
By Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty / Ho Chao-ti, on 1 January 2011
2011
Legal Representation
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Chiou Ho-shun, a death row inmate in Taiwan, may be executed at any time. He said, ‘ I hope you can save me, but if it’s too late, please scatter my ashes in the Longfeng harbour, and buy a meatball, come and see me.’
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Torture,
Document(s)
Videos of the 4th World Congress
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), on 1 January 2010
2010
Arguments against the death penalty
frMore details See the document
This video was filmed at the 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Geneva in February 2010. Speaker is Elizabeth Zitrin at the opening session.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Les vidéos du 4ème congrès mondial
Document(s)
An Ancient Precedent: Reflections on the Tale of Korea’s Abolitionist King
By Damien P. Horigan / Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law, on 8 September 2020
2020
Article
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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This article will first briefly describe the current situation in the two Koreas and the local anti-death penalty movement before turning to an examination of an ancient Korean precedent for abolition based on an understanding of Buddhist teachings.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Child Rights and the League of Arab States
By Childrens Rights Information Network, on 1 January 2011
2011
Working with...
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This document provides a list of the members of the Arab League and the origins of the organisation. It also describes its composition and provides contact information.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Making up for Lost Time : What the Wrongfully Convicted endure and how to Provide Fair Compensation
By The Innocence Project, on 1 January 2010
2010
Working with...
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It’s an accepted principle of fairness in our society to compensate citizens who, through no fault of their own, have suffered losses. When a person’s land has been seized for public use, they receive adequate repayment. Crime victims and their families receive financial compensation in all 50 states. Yet, strangely, the wrongfully imprisoned, who lose property, jobs, freedom, reputation, family, friends and more do not receive compensation in 23 states of the nation. These recommendations for state compensation laws have been developed by the Innocence Project after years of working with exonerees and their families, legislators, social workers and psychologists.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Incendiary: the Willingham case
By Joe Bailey Jr. / Indira Barykbayeva / YOKEL production, on 1 January 2011
2011
Legal Representation
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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,
Document(s)
The ECHR in 50 questions
By Council of Europe, on 1 January 2014
2014
Working with...
enenfrMore details See the document
This document describes the European Court of Human Rights, how it was formed, how many judges sit on the court, the proceedings at the court, etc. These and many more questions about the Court are answered in this text.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages German : Der Gerichtshof in 50 FragenUkrainian : ЄСПЛ у 50-ти запитанняхLe CEDH en 50 questions
Document(s)
The Executioner’s Song
By Norman Mailer / Vintage , on 8 September 2020
2020
Book
United States
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Norman Mailer tells Gary Gilmore’s story, and those of the men and women caught up in his procession toward the firing squad, with implacable authority, steely compassion, and a restraint that evokes the parched landscapes and stern theology of Gilmore’s Utah.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Will Wrongful Convictions Be a Catalyst for Change in Japanese Criminal Justice?
By David T. Johnson / The Asia-Pacific Journal / Matthew Carney, on 1 January 2015
2015
Article
Japan
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This article is a written explanation of the 12-minute Australian Broadcasting Corporation video of the same name.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Japan
- Themes list Fair Trial, Trend Towards Abolition, Innocence,
Document(s)
China’s deadly secret
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
China
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The Chinese government continues to conceal the extent to which capital punishment is being used in China, despite more than four decades of requests from UN bodies and the international community and despite the Chinese authorities’ own pledges to bring about increased openness in the country’s criminal justice system. This report focuses on the extent to which the authorities maintain near absolute secrecy over the death penalty system, while using partial and generally unverifiable disclosures to claim progress and reject demands for greater transparency.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list China
- Themes list Drug Offences, Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages 中国的致命秘密
Document(s)
How Families of Murder Victims Feel Following the Execution of Their Loved One’s Murderer: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Reports of Executions from 2006-2011
By Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology, on 1 January 2013
2013
Working with...
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By Corey Burton and Richard Tewksbury
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Public debate, Murder Victims' Families, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Inside Death Row with Trevor McDonald Part 1
By YouTube, on 1 January 2014
2014
Multimedia content
United States
More details See the document
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Inside Death Row with Trevor McDonald Part 2
By YouTube, on 1 January 2014
Multimedia content
United States
More details See the document
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
DEATH ROW USA – Spring 2018
By NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
United States
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This report provides death row statistics and an update on executions in the US as of April 2018.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Penalty, Statistics,
Document(s)
Oleg Alkaev, former head of Belarus’s death row
By Amnesty International / Daily Motion, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
Belarus
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Colonel Oleg Alkaev, who was Director of remand prison (SIZO)6 No. 1 in Minsk and ordered a number of executions. He gave this testimony to Amnesty International, a member of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list Belarus
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Oleg Alkaev, ex-directeur du couloir de la mort biélorusse
Document(s)
Mike Farrell: Paul House and Death Row
By Air America Media / YouTube, on 1 January 2009
2009
Arguments against the death penalty
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Mike Farrell talks about the death penalty in the United States. Amongst many things he speaks about innocence, deterrence and retribution.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Killer Art: Florida’s Death Row Artists
By Chris Dahl / CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, on 8 September 2020
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,
Document(s)
Death Watch Diary
By Robert Towery / Amazon Digital Services, on 1 January 2012
2012
Book
United States
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Robert Towery was denied clemency by the state of Arizona on Friday March 2, 2012 and was executed on Thursday March 8th in Florence, Arizona. He was 47 years old. The last 35 days of his life, Robert was placed on “Death Watch” where his every move was recorded and chronicled by prison officials. Robert kept a diary and he sent his writings to his attorneys. Robert authorized his lawyers to release his diary after his execution.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Conditions,
Document(s)
Children of parents sentenced to death
By Helen F. Kearney / Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2012
NGO report
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This paper will raise awareness of some of the issues facing the child. It will consider and elaborate on each of these issues in as much detail as the current literature permits.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Leaflet – 15th World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Multimedia content
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The 2017 World Day leaflet provides information about poverty and the death penalty and presents 10 reasons why the death penalty is used discriminatorily, and often against the poor as well as arguments against the death penalty.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Discrimination,
- Available languages Brochure Journée Mondiale 2017
Document(s)
Leaflet – 14th World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
arfrMore details Download [ pdf - 2116 Ko ]
The 2016 World Day leaflet provides information about the countries that have the death penalty for terrorism and presents 10 things you should know about the death penalty for terrorism as well as arguments against the death penalty.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Terrorism,
- Available languages Leaflet arabic 2016Brochure Journée Mondiale 2016
Document(s)
Leaflet – 13th World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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The 2015 World Day leaflet provides information on the issues surrounding drug crimes and the death penalty. It also gives arguments against the death penalty.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Drug Offences, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Leaflet arabic 2015листовка - Всемирный день 2015r单张 - 2015 年世界反死刑日Folleto - Día Mundial 2015بسته حاوی اطلاعت : 2015 روز جهانی علیه مجازات اعدامBrochure Journée Mondiale 2015
Document(s)
Leaflet – 11th World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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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
Document(s)
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)
Pakistani Christian Woman Sentenced to Death
By Amnesty International / British Pakistani Christian Association, on 1 January 2010
2010
Legal Representation
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On 8 November, the 45-year-old mother of five children was found guilty of blasphemy and sentenced to death under Section 295B and 295C of Pakistan’s Penal Code, for insulting the Prophet Muhammad, by a court in Nankana, around 75km (45 miles) west of the city of Lahore in Punjab province.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Report on Taiwan and Art.6 ICCPR
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2013
2013
NGO report
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In view of Taiwan’s Human Rights Review in the framework of the ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty submitted a report regarding the situation of the death penalty in Taiwan.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Right to life, Clemency, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Gray Rules Guillory May Ask for Mercy
By Vincent Lupo / American Press, on 1 January 2003
2003
Working with...
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This article focuses on Lorilei Guillory, the mother of a 6-year-old Iowa boy murdered 11 years ago. Guillory wantsto be allowed to ask jurors for mercy for the man who allegedly molested and killed her child. Judge Al Gray said he will allow Guillory “to testify and ask for mercy if she wishes” during any penalty phase, but prosecutors are appealing the decision ot the Louisiana Supreme Court. Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation filed an amicus curiae brief in the Louisiana Supreme Court in support of Lorilei Guillory’s effort to testify in the penalty phase of the trial of the man who murdered her 6 year old son Jeremy and to express her opposition to the execution of her son’s murderer
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Public debate, Murder Victims' Families, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
2020 World Day report
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 June 2021
2021
Campaigning
Legal Representation
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The 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty explored the theme “Access to Counsel: A Matter of Life or Death” in light of the continued execution of individuals who struggle to have adequate support from the State (in having access to a trained, experienced attorney, to have adequate time to mount a defense, etc), who consequently also face their challenges in the judicial system.
Having access to qualified and effective representation at all stages of a trial is important to ensure due process and can spell the difference between life and death for people facing capital punishment.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Legal Representation
- Available languages Rapport de la Journée mondiale 2020
Document(s)
On Mother’s Day
By Saaramaria Kuittinen / The Cockpit, on 8 September 2020
2020
Multimedia content
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A challenging, poetic and relatable piece of physical theatre in the round. On Mother’s Day is the story of Ramón, an endearing and friendly inmate, who spends his life running from violence only to find it within himself. It is a visually arresting ensemble performance about childhood, identity, and lost time. The script is based on seven years of letters between the writer Saaramaria Kuitinen and convicts on death row. Now, Ekata Theatre’s newest piece takes this material and uses a unique style of engaging visual storytelling, humour, and ensemble work to present a hard-hitting critique of the dehumanisation of the victims in the capital punishment system.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Leaflet – 10th World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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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
Document(s)
Ratification Kit – Burkina Faso
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 July 2022
2022
Lobbying
Burkina Faso
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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, 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 Lobbying
- Countries list Burkina Faso
- Available languages Kit de Ratificación - Burkina FasoKit de ratification - Burkina Faso
Document(s)
Into the Abyss
By Werner Herzog / Skellig Rock (Werner Herzog Film) / Channel 4 (Spring Films), on 1 January 2011
2011
Legal Representation
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We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes. There are interviews (video).
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Death Row Conditions,