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Identifying and (Re)formulating Prophylactic Rules, Safe Harbors, and Incidental Rights in Constitutional Criminal Procedure

By Susan R. Klein / Michigan Law Review, on 1 January 2001


2001

Article

United States


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The Miranda conundrum runs something like this: If the Miranda decision represents true constitutional interpretation, and all unwarned statements taken during custodial interrogation are compelled” within the meaning of the self-incrimination clause, the impeachment and “”fruits”” exceptions to Miranda should fall. If it is not true constitutional interpretation, than the Court has no business reversing state criminal convictions for its violation. I offer here what I hope is a satisfying answer to this conundrum, on both descriptive and normative levels, that justifies not only Miranda but a host of similar Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist Court decisions as well. In Part I, I introduce and define the terms “”constitutional prophylactic rule,”” “”constitutional safe harbor rule,”” and “”constitutional incidental right,”” and attempt to legitimate their use. I further demonstrate that constitutional criminal procedure is so flush with such prophylactic and safe harbor rules and incidental rights that trying to eliminate them now, by either reversing a large number of criminal procedure cases or “”constitutionalizing”” all of those holdings, would do more harm than good. I propose that we accept the fact that these rules and rights are a fixed part of our constitutional landscape, and focus instead on minimizing their risks and maximizing their benefits”

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Fair Trial,

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African Court on Human and Peoples Rights Quick Facts

By African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, on 1 January 2006


2006

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The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights was established by the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Court’s Protocol). The Court’s mission is to complement and reinforce the functions of the Commission in promoting and protecting human and peoples’ rights, freedoms and duties in African Union Member States.

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Appointed but (Nearly) Prevented From Serving: My Experiences as a Grand Jury Foreperson

By Phyllis L. Crocker / Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, on 1 January 2004


2004

Article

United States


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I begin this essay with basic information about grand juries, then tell what happened to our grand jury, and conclude by reflecting on what I learned from this experience. My theme is the tension between the grand jury’s independence and the prosecutor’s desire to control it. The lesson I learned, intellectually and emotionally, is the depth and tenacity of the prosecutor’s assumption that he does control, and has the right to control, the grand jury process. I also learned some lessons about being a client, and believing in oneself and one’s principles.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Networks,

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Peter Jackson talks about his innocence project: ‘West of Memphis’

By Chris Nashawaty / Entertainment Weekly, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

United States


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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,

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: Résolution des barreaux sur la peine de mort

By Paris Bar / International Association of Lawyers, on 8 September 2020


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Résolution des avocats sur la peine de mort et les conditions de détention et de traitement des condamnés à mort Resolution of lawyers on the death penalty and conditions of detention and treatment of persons sentenced to deathResolución sobre la pena de muerte y cas condiciones de detención y el trato a las personas condenadas a muerte

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Conditions, Legal Representation, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,

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Factsheet – Lawyers

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

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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.

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Factsheet for Parliamentarians

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2016


2016

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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”.

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Facts and Figures 2019

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2019


2019

World Coalition

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

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

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Leaflet – 16th World Day

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Multimedia content

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The 2018 World Day leaflet provides information about living conditions on death row.

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Stories of Victims of Terrorism

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2016


2016

Multimedia content

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Together with AfVT, the World Coalition has developed this two-page note explaining why some victims of terrorism are against the death penalty.

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Capital Punishment Curriculum

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2009


2009

Campaigning

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This course is intended to introduce a comparative study of the death penalty in abolitionist versus retentionist countries, based on the prohibition of this punishment in International conventions. It is designed primarily for use in US law schools, with emphasis on US law, but should prove instructive in other locations.

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Cost

By National Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2014


2014

Arguments against the death penalty


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This document provides information on the cost of death penalty cases in the United States.

  • Document type Arguments against the death penalty
  • Themes list Networks, Financial cost,

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FAQ Open Call FSTP

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 19 October 2024


2024

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FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for the Open Call for proposals for Financial Support to Third Parties of the Global Consortium for Death Penalty Abolition

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Poster – 12th World Day

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

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

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Leaflet – World Coalition Presentation

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Multimedia content

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Presentation of the World Coalition’s activities

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Facts and Figures 2017

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2017


2017

World Coalition

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Up-to-date information on the application of death penalty around the world in 2016 and 2017.

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World Report 2010

By Human Rights Watch, on 1 January 2010


2010

NGO report


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This report is does not specificly concern the death penalty but examines the use of the death penalty on juveniles and those with mental illness in many retentionist countries. It contains information gathered in 2009.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Juveniles, Mental Illness,

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Factsheet for Parliamentarians

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2016


2016

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Together with PGA the World Coalition has developed this Factsheet that will help parliamentarians face political pressure during discussions surrounding the death penalty for terrorism. It will also help civil society better collaborate with parliamentarians.

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World Report 2011

By Human Rights Watch, on 1 January 2011


2011

NGO report


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This report is does not specificly concern the death penalty but examines the use of the death penalty on juveniles and those with mental illness in many retentionist countries. It contains information gathered in 2009.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Juveniles, Mental Illness,

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Annual Report – 2019 World Day

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

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Report of the 2019 World Day

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Facts and Figures 2016

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2016


2016

World Coalition

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Up-to-date information on the application of death penalty around the world in 2015 and 2016.

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Annexes 2014 World Day Report

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2015


2015

Multimedia content

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Annexes of the 2014 World Day Report

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End Crime, not Life is not about protecting criminals, but about protecting vulnerable innocents

By Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA), on 8 September 2020


2020

Multimedia content

Malaysia


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Cheong Chun Yin, a Malaysian boy, was about 23 years old when he was arrested for drug trafficking. A trusting boy he was asked to bring some ‘gold’ to Singapore. Merri was a victim of domestic abuse, whose son had a heart defect. She took a job abroad to help pay his hospital bills. A loving man bought her a suitcase for her home journey. The tragedy of such stories is what keeps human rights activists and lawyers from ASEAN unrelenting in their opposition to the death penalty, for reasons they spell out in this video.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list Malaysia
  • Themes list Arbitrariness, Networks, Country/Regional profiles,

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Executing Those Who Do Not Kill

By Tracy Casadio / Joseph Trigilio / American Criminal Law Review, on 1 January 2011


2011

Article

United States


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This article explores the constitutionality of the death penalty for those convicted of felony murder, i.e., those who participated in a serious crime in which a death occurred, but were not directly responsible for the death.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Innocence,

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Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong

By Raymond Bonner / Stated First Edition, on 1 January 2012


2012

Book

United States


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The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row. In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim’s body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.

  • Document type Book
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Conditions,

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Why an Independent Appointed Authority Is Necessary to Choose Counsel for Indigent People in Capital Punishment Cases

By Ronald J. Tabak / Hofstra Law Review, on 1 January 2003


2003

Article

United States


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The revised ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases require that an agency “independent of the judiciary” be responsible for “ensuring that each capital defendant in the jurisdiction receives high quality legal representation.” This independent agency “and not the judiciary or elected officials should select lawyers for specific cases.” These mandates reflect two realities that have become overwhelmingly clear: (1) judges—whether initially elected, subject to retention elections, or appointed—are subject to political pressures in connection with capital punishment cases; and (2) lawyers whom judges have appointed in capital punishment cases have frequently been of far lower quality than could have been selected.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Legal Representation,

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Lethal Injustice in Asia: End unfair trials, stop executions

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 1 January 2011


2011

NGO report

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More people are executed in the Asia-Pacific region than in the rest of the world combined. Add to this the probability that they were executed following an unfair trial, and the gross injustice of this punishment becomes all too clear.

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One Iranian lawyer’s fight to save juveniles from execution

By Amnesty International / The Guardian, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

Iran (Islamic Republic of)


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As part of Amnesty International’s 2012 death penalty campaign the Guardian and animators from Sherbet tell in this short animation fim the extraordinary story of Mohammad Mostafaei, a lawyer who has saved 20 of the 40 juveniles he has defended from execution in Iran. Actor Paul Bettany speaks the lawyer’s words.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • Themes list Innocence,

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Global Prison Trends 2018

By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2018


2018

NGO report


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  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Sentencing Alternatives, Death Penalty, Statistics,

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Ratification Kit for Parliamentarians

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2017


2017

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Parliamentarians are essential to the process of abolition in several ways. They are central to law-making in their own countries and in most countries, the ultimate decision on ratification rests with parliament, which must approve ratification. This new tool will help them understand the importance and the process of ratification and it will help civil society engage with them.

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There Is No Evil

By YouTube / Mohammad Rasoulof, on 1 January 2020


2020

Multimedia content

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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There Is No Evil (Persian: شیطان وجود ندارد‎, lit. ‘Satan doesn’t exist’) is a 2020 Iranian drama film directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. It won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival. The film relates four stories concerning the death penalty in Iran. Rasoulof explained that the film is about “people taking responsibility” for their actions, and that each story “is based on my own experience.”

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • Themes list Public debate,
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World Coalition Statutory Auditor’s Report 2022

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 22 August 2023


2023

World Coalition

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Change of Heart: Justice, Mercy, and Making Peace with My Sister’s Killer

By Jeanne Bishop / Westminster John Knox Press, on 1 January 2015


2015

Book

United States


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Jeanne Bishop has written a new book about her life and spiritual journey after her sister was murdered in Illinois in 1990. Change of Heart: Justice, Mercy, and Making Peace with My Sister’s Killer tells Bishop’s personal story of grief, loss, and of her eventual efforts to confront and reconcile with her sister’s killer. She also addresses larger issues of capital punishment, life sentences for juvenile offenders, and restorative justice. Former Illinois Governor George Ryan said of the book, “When I commuted the death sentences of everyone on Illinois’s death row, I expressed the hope that we could open our hearts and provide something for victims’ families other than the hope of revenge. I quoted Abraham Lincoln: ‘I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.’ Jeanne Bishop’s compelling book tells the story of how devotion to her faith took her face-to-face with her sister’s killer …. She reminds us of a core truth: that our criminal justice system cannot be just without mercy.”

  • Document type Book
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Murder Victims' Families,

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PROBING “LIFE QUALIFICATION” THROUGH EXPANDED VOIR DIRE

By John H. Blume / Sheri Lynn Johnson / Brian Threlkeld / Hofstra Law Review, on 1 January 2001


2001

Article

United States


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It turns out that voir dire in capital cases is woefully ineffective at the most elementary task—weeding out unqualified jurors.Empirical evidence reveals that many capital jurors are in fact unqualified to serve. Moreover, the ineffectiveness of the process is far from even-handed. A juror is not “death-qualified” if she would always vote against a death sentence, regardless of the circumstances, and a handful of the jurors who actually serve in capital cases are in fact unqualified for this reason.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Networks,

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Guidelines for Submitting Communications

By African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, on 8 September 2020


2020

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This document outlines the functions of the Commission, how to make presentations in front of the Commission, the procedures of examining the communication and the recommendations of the Commission.

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From Cradle to Coffin: A Report on Child Executions in Iran

By Stop Child Executions / Foreign Policy Center, on 1 January 2009


2009

NGO report


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This report aims to briefly highlight the past and present challenges and choices in Iran’s human rights record on juvenile offenders. It considers legal and theological perspectives on key issues as well as presenting case studies on selected individuals whose mistreatment raises serious questions about the injustices faced by young people in the Iranian judicial system. The report offers practical recommendations to the international community as it takes a closer look at the Islamic Republic and its human rights record through the 2010 Universal Periodic Review.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Juveniles,

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State Secrets: China’s Legal Labyrinth

By Andrew Nathan / ChristineLoh / Liu Baopu / Fu Hualing / Jerome A. Cohen / Human Rights In China, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

China


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This report describes and examines the PRC state secrets system and shows how itallows and even promotes human rights violations by undermining the rights tofreedom of expression and information. The PRC state secrets system, implementedthrough a CPC-controlled hierarchy of government bodies, is comprised of statesecrets laws and regulations that work in tandem with the PRC’s state security,criminal procedure and criminal laws, to create a complex, opaque system that controlsthe classification of—and criminalizes the disclosure or possession of—statesecrets. By guarding too much information and sweeping a vast universe of informationinto the state secrets net, the complex and opaque state secrets system perpetuatesa culture of secrecy that is not only harmful but deadly to Chinese society

  • Document type NGO report
  • Countries list China
  • Themes list Transparency,

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Individual Statement of Commissioner Renny Cushing

By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2010


2010

Working with...


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Individual Statement of Commissioner Renny Cushing

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Murder Victims' Families, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

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Declaration on Malaysia

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / International Association of Lawyers, on 1 January 2019


2019

Multimedia content

Malaysia


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Declaration on Malaysia adopted by acclamation in Brussels on 1st March 2019

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list Malaysia
  • Themes list Moratorium , Trend Towards Abolition, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

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Call for tenders for printing, design and layout services – Annex

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Multimedia content

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Article: “Viedo Darryll Stallworth, Former Prosecutor supports SAFE California”

By SAFE California, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

United States


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Short video of Darryl Stallworth, a former California Deputy DA who once sought the death penalty as a prosecutor — and now wants to replace the death penalty with life without parole. Darryl believes Prop. 34 is right step for California, and I wanted to share his story with you, too

  • Document type Academic report
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Public debate, Trend Towards Abolition,

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MADP 2015 Annual Report: Infographics

By Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2015


2015

Multimedia content

United States


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Missouri has had a surge in executions since 2008. The following data shows just how arbitrary and discriminatory Missouri’s death penalty system is. Such disparities in race, geography, and gender, are causes for concern that this system is broken and applied capriciously.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Discrimination, Country/Regional profiles,

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Faith in Action

By Amnesty International - USA, on 1 January 2006


2006

Campaigning


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Using faith to combat the death penalty: This document has sermons, prayers and services, essays, views on the death penalty, resources for discussion and action, resources for next steps.

  • Document type Campaigning
  • Themes list Networks,

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Eight case sheets (covering China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan)

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 1 January 2011


2011

Academic report


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In compiling this report, a number of cases have been reviewed which clearly demonstrate the very real dangers of applying the death penalty. Eight case sheets: Leng Guoquan (China), Devender P. Singh (India), Humphrey Eleweke (Indonesia), Hakamada Iwao (Japan), Reza Shah (Malaysia), Aftab Bahadur (Pakistan), Yong Vui Kong (Singapore), Chiou Ho-shun (Taiwan)

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Networks,

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FREE MEN

By Anne-Frédérique Widmann / International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, on 1 January 2018


2018

Multimedia content

United States


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How can a human being stand up, under conditions of unjust imprisonment on death row, alone and without hope of being released? In this documentary film, Anne-Frédérique Widmann draws the portrait of Kenneth Reams, who wakes up every day with an unwavering desire to live, and succeeds in writing, testifying, painting and loving a woman. A film about the art, resistance and dignity of every human life.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Innocence, Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty,

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Judy Kerr: Murder Victim Family Member

By California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty / YouTube, on 1 January 2009


2009

Working with...


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Judy Kerr talks about her experience as a murder victim family member and her opposition against the death. Responding to violence with violence is not the answer.

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

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Execution by lethal injection – a quarter century of state poisoning

By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2007


2007

NGO report

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Any potential increase in executions or lobbying for the death penalty as a result of the use of lethal injection is of serious concern. The increased pressure on medical professionals to participate in executions also raises serious ethical and human rights issues. This paper reviews developments with respect to lethal injection executions over the past decade.

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Ratification Kit – Togo

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

Togo

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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.

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Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides

By Who Decides, Inc., on 1 January 2012


2012

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The objective of this initiative was to use “the product of art” as a vehicle to educate common people about the history and practice of capital punishment in America and to lift societies consciousness around the idea of endowing a National Death Penalty Museum to preserve its deep history.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Public debate,

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Capital Punishment Briefing Paper

By Peter Hodgkinson / Lina Gyllensten / Diana Peel / Center for Capital Punishment Studies, on 1 January 2011


2011

NGO report


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This briefing paper is offered as a critique of the received wisdom of abolition strategies against the background of an evidence based analysis of the literature. A point of interest to begin with is to try to tease out the motivation of individuals and groups that consider themselves death penalty abolitionists.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Networks,

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Ratification Kit – Morocco

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

Morocco

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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.

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Ratification Kit – Madagascar

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

Madagascar

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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.

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Last Woman Hanged

By Caroline Overington / Harper Collins, on 1 January 2018


2018

Book


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In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Louisa Collins was hanged at a time when women were in no sense equal under the law — except when it came to the gallows. They could not vote or stand for parliament — or sit on juries.

  • Document type Book
  • Themes list International law, Death Penalty,

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Ratification Kit – Samoa

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 July 2022


2022

Academic report

Samoa

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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.

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Ratificationt Kit – Cambodia

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

Cambodia

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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.

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Ratification Kit – Sierra Leone

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

Sierra Leone

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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.

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Ratificationt Kit Angola

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2017


2017

Lobbying

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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.

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Ratification Kit – Dominican Republic

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

Dominican Republic

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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.

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Capital Punishment, 2009 – Statistics Tables

By Bureau of Justice Statistics / US Department of Justice, on 8 September 2020


NGO report

United States


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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,

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Zhao Zuohai: Beaten, Framed and Jailed for a Murder that Never Happened

By Clifford Coonan / The Independent, on 1 January 2010


2010

Legal Representation


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The first act took place in 1999, when the dirt-poor farmer from Henan province had a violent argument with a fellow peasant, Zhao Zhenshang. His opponent, no relation despite a shared surname, disappeared into thin air. Later a headless, decomposed corpse was found in a well, and produced as evidence of Zhao Zuohai’s murderous deed. He was tortured, forced to confess and received the inevitable death sentence, before eventually winning a reprieve from the firing squad and having his sentence commuted to a 29-year jail term.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Networks,

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Akmal Shaikh

By Reprieve, on 1 January 2009


2009

Legal Representation


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It was during this time Akmal met a man who claimed to be in the music industry; he told Akmal he could help him realise his dream of becoming a pop, When Akmal landed in China on 12 September 2007 the police stopped him, searched his bag, where they alleged they found around 4 kg of heroin, and arrested him on drug charges sensation and sent him to Kyrgyzstan to meet with his “colleagues”. In Kyrgyzstan Akmal was asked to accompany one of the men to China. The man claimed to own a nightclub there and said he wanted Akmal to sing in his club. Excited at the prospect, Akmal agreed to travel to China with him; Before boarding the plane Akmal was asked to carry this mans suitcase, he did so without knowing that there were drugs in it.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Networks,

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Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution

By Austin Sarat / Princeton University Press, on 1 January 2005


2005

Book

United States


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In this compelling and timely work, Austin Sarat provides the first book-length work on executive clemency. He turns our focus from questions of guilt and innocence to the very meaning of mercy. Starting from Ryan’s controversial decision, Mercy on Trial uses the lens of executive clemency in capital cases to discuss the fraught condition of mercy in American political life. Most pointedly, Sarat argues that mercy itself is on trial. Although it has always had a problematic position as a form of “lawful lawlessness,” it has come under much more intense popular pressure and criticism in recent decades. This has yielded a radical decline in the use of the power of chief executives to stop executions.

  • Document type Book
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Clemency,

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Last Day of Freedom

By Dee Hibbert-Jones / Nomi Talisman, on 1 January 2015


2015

Working with...


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When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision: should he call the police? Last Day of Freedom, a richly animated personal narrative, tells the story of Bill’s decision to stand by his brother in the face of war, crime and capital punishment. The film is a portrait of a man at the nexus of the most pressing social issues of our day – veterans’ care, mental health access and criminal justice.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Murder Victims' Families,

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Eyewitness Evidence: A guide for law enforcement

By US Department of Justice, on 1 January 1999


1999

Working with...


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This Guide combines research and practical perspectives. The growth of social science research into the eyewitness process coincided with parallel efforts of law enforcement agencies to improve their own procedures. This Guide benefits from the inclusion of the diverse perspectives of TWGEYEE members; the group included not only researchers but also prosecutors, defense lawyers, and working police investigators from departments of all sizes and from all regions. This Guide represents a combination of the best current, workable police practices and psychological research.

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  • Themes list Networks,

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Beyond Unreliable: How Snitches Contribute to Wrongful Convictions

By Alexandra Natapoff / Golden Gate University Law Review, on 1 January 2006


2006

Article

United States


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This Comment briefly surveys in Part I some of the data on snitch-generated wrongful convictions. In Part II, it describes in more detail the institutional relationships among snitches, police, and prosecutors that make snitch falsehoods so pervasive and difficult to discern using the traditional tools of the adversarial process. Part III concludes with a litigation suggestion for a judicial check on the use of informant witnesses, namely, a Daubert-style12 pre-trial reliability hearing.The Appendix in Part IV contains a sample motion requesting and justifying such a hearing.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Innocence,

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Kit Cities for Life – 2016

By Community of Saint Egidio, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

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The International DayCities for Life – Cities against the DeathPenalty, is the largest international mobilization ofthe abolitionist movement.Its objective is to establish a dialogue within thecivil society on the topic and involve localadministrators, aiming at abolishing the deathpenalty and making the rejection of violence thetrue identity of a city and its citizens.

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Monitoring and Evaluation

By Louisa Gosling / Bond - For International Development, on 1 January 2010


2010

Campaigning


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Monitoring is the routine tracking of the key elements of programme/project performance, usually inputs and outputs and some of the outcomes, through record-keeping, regular reporting and surveillance systems as well as observation and studiesyour. Evaluation attempts to link a particular output or outcome directly to an intervention after a period of time has passed. An evaluation is usually carried out at some significant stage in the project’s development, e.g. at the end of a planning period, as the project moves to a new phase, or in response to a particular critical issue. This guide explains how to conduct monitoring and evaluation of your projects.

  • Document type Campaigning
  • Themes list Networks,

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No Human Way to Kill

By Robert Priseman / Artfractures, on 1 January 2009


2009

Working with...


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‘No Human Way to Kill’ comprises an exhibition of twelve etchings produced by the Goldmark Atelier in 2007 and a 102 page book published by Seabrook Press in association with the Human Rights Centre at the Universtiy of Essex in 2009. The etchings were first displayed at the University of San Francisco in 2008 and the European Commission Gallery in 2009.

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  • Themes list Networks,

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Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Legislators

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


2019

Working with...

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QUNO’s tool for parliamentarians.

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Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Media

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


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fr
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QUNO’s tool for media.

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Japanese : 誤判の必然性 死刑事件における司法

By Death Penalty Project, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

en
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本報告書は日本、アメリカ、台湾、カリブ海諸国、シエラレオネ共和国及びイギリスにおける実例と調査結果から、世界的な動向を紹介するものである。国際人権法は、不当な有罪判決及び無実あるいは公正な裁判を受けていない人間への死刑執行の可能性を認めている。その結果、国際基準は死刑事件に厳格な基準を課すこと及びより高度な適正手続きを適用することを目指している。各国に対して死刑の適用において厳密な手続的規則の尊重を求める自由権規約及びその他の国際基準については、付録に記載した。

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Application form – Call for actions in Sub-Saharan Africa (18th World Day)

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Multimedia content

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Call for actions on 2020 World Day in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Juan Melendez-6446

By Comision de Derechos Civiles / Luis Rosario Albert, on 1 January 2014


2014

Working with...


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This educational guide accompany the documentary Juan Melendez 6446.

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  • Themes list Innocence, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

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Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Prison Staff

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


2019

Working with...

fr
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QUNO’s tool for prison staff.

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Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Sentencers

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


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fr
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QUNO’s tool for judges.

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Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Educators

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


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QUNO’s tool for educators.

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Counting executions: data analysis by justice project pakistan

By Justice Project Pakistan, on 1 January 2017


2017

Academic report


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Facts and figures of the executions in Pakistan from december 2014 to May 2017

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

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Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Activists

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


2019

Working with...

fr
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QUNO’s tool for activists.

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Provisional Budget – 18th World Day

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Multimedia content

fr
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Small Grants 2020 provisional budget

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Database Center for North Korean Human Rights – Briefings on public execution

By Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, on 8 September 2020


Article

Republic of Korea


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NKDB hosts a monthly English language briefing and discussion on North Korean human rights every month with embassy officials, NGO staff, and NKDB staff as guests

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list Republic of Korea
  • Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

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Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Defense Lawyers

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


2019

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Datos y Cifras 2018

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018


2018

Multimedia content

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Documento de antecedentes sobre el uso de la pena de muerte en todo el mundo para 2017 y principios de 2018.

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Factsheet on how to conduct a prison visit

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / FIACAT, on 1 January 2018


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Factsheet on how to conduct a prison visit – World day 2018

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Italian : Poster – 16° Giornata mondiale contro la Pena di morte

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Multimedia content

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: Madam Eswari’s story

By Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA), on 8 September 2020


Multimedia content


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CADPA invited filmmaker Dawn Mikkelsen to make 8 short videos for a series called ‘Say Yes to Life’. Dawn spoke with many of those intimately linked with people on death row to bring you their stories. “Madam Eswari’s story’ is the first of these.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Themes list Arbitrariness, Networks, Country/Regional profiles,

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Social Media Toolkit

By Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2015


2015

Campaigning

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This document has been developed to support you in getting behind and amplifying the World Day and launch of the report ‘The Death Penalty for Drug Offences Report – Global Overview 2015’ via social media on 8 October 2015.

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Who Are We Hanging?

on 1 January 2019


2019

NGO report


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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,

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Searchable Execution Database

By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2011


2011

NGO report


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This new database search includes the county of conviction, as well as gender of victim. All results will display in chronological order by default. To sort by other criteria, click on the headings for those fields in the search results.

  • Document type NGO report

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Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice

By TED / Bryan Stevenson, on 1 January 2012


2012

Multimedia content

United States


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In an engaging and personal talk — with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks — human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America’s unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.Speaker starts talking about the death penalty at the 8 minute mark.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Discrimination,

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Call Tender Travels

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 June 2021


2021

World Coalition

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The World Coalition requires travel management services, on a non-exclusive basis, for World Coalition staff, members and partners.

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Crime and punishment: Public perception, judgment and opinion

By Penal Reform International / M. Chernyanskaya / A. Akulenko / SATIO Group, on 1 January 2013


2013

NGO report

ru
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In 2013, PRI commissioned a detailed survey of public opinion about crime, punishment and the death penalty in Belarus.Market researchers, Satio, conducted the survey, interviewing 1,000 participants. The results show that opinions around capital punishment are more varied and nuanced than is often stated, while public attitudes about crime in general are strongly affected by respondents’ social position, background and emotions.

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Saudi Arabia: Defying world trends – Saudi Arabia’s extensive use of capital punishment

By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

Saudi Arabia

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This document examines the death penalty in Saudi Arabia and how it is sustained by a mixture of legal, judicial and political factors, whose redress requires a strong political will from the Saudi Arabian government together with a consistent concern and assistance by the international community.

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Anything But Humane

By Amnesty International - USA, on 8 September 2020


Arguments against the death penalty


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A fact sheet on the lethal injection in the United States. This page details the process of lethal injection with statements of US health professional associations on participation in execution.

  • Document type Arguments against the death penalty
  • Themes list Lethal Injection,

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Lobbying Kit

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2017


2017

Lobbying

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The kit aims at providing step-by-step advice on how to lobby government decision-makers at all stages of the ratification process. It includes: model letters , model press release, advice on how and when to use information contained in this kit.

  • Document type Lobbying
  • Themes list Networks,
  • Available languages Kit de Lobbying

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Film: “Execution”

By Steven Scaffidi / Ghost Rider Pictures, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report


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Amnesty International Presents a Groundbreaking Film Event That Takes the Audience to the Front Row of an Execution–Regal Cinemas opens its doors in eight major cities across America for this first-of-a-kind motion picture less than 1 week after California’s attempt to repeal the death penalty fails.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Innocence,

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Just Mercy

By Destin Daniel Cretton / Gil Netter / Asher Goldstein / Michael B. Jordan, on 1 January 2019


2019

Multimedia content

United States


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A powerful and thought-provoking true story, “Just Mercy” follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Jordan) and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley (Larson). Bryan becomes embroiled in a labyrinth of legal and political maneuverings and overt and unabashed racism as he fights for Walter, and others like him, with the odds—and the system—stacked against them.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Death Penalty,

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This Mortal Boy

By Fiona Kidman / Penguin, on 1 January 2018


2018

Book

New Zealand


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A revealing novel based on real events and real people.Albert Black, known as the ‘jukebox killer’, was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral panic about teenagers, and he was to hang less than five months later, the second-to-last person to be executed in New Zealand.But what really happened? Was this a love crime, was it a sign of juvenile delinquency? Or was this dark episode in our recent history more about our society’s reaction to outsiders?Black’s final words, as the hangman covered his head, were, ‘I wish you all a merry Christmas, gentlemen, and a prosperous New Year.’ This is his story.

  • Document type Book
  • Countries list New Zealand
  • Themes list Death Penalty,

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Poster 2011

on 10 October 2011


2011

Campaigning

World Coalition

Trend Towards Abolition

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Poster 2011

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Predictors of Miscarriages of Justice in Capital Cases

By Talia Roitberg Harmon / Justice Quarterly, on 1 January 2001


2001

Article

United States


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Prior research on wrongful convictions in capital cases focused primarily on qualitative methods designed to provide in-depth descriptive analyses of these cases. In contrast, this study is a quantitative comparison between 76 documented cases from 1970 to 1998, in which prisoners were released from death row because of “doubts about their guilt,” and a matched group of inmates who were executed. Through the use of a logistic regression model, significant predictors of cases that result in a release from death row as opposed to an execution, are identified. The final section of this study focuses on policy implications that may decrease the risk of error in capital cases. Additional lines of research are suggested in an effort to increase understanding of miscarriages of justice in such cases.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Innocence,