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The death penalty in Council of Europe member and observer states: a violation of human rights
By Council of Europe / Ms Renate WOHLWEND, on 1 January 2011
2011
International law - Regional body
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The Parliamentary Assembly is opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances. The European experience has shown conclusively that the death penalty is not needed to check violent crime. The United States of America and Japan, as observer states, and Belarus, which aspires to membership of the Council of Europe are invited to join the growing consensus among democratic countries that protect human rights and human dignity by abolishing the death penalty. The report addresses a series of specific recommendations to the United States, Japan and Belarus aimed at promoting a moratorium on executions followed by definitive abolition of the death penalty.
- Document type International law - Regional body
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
- Available languages La peine de mort dans les Etats membres et observateurs du Conseil de l'Europe – une violation des droits de l'homme
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Towards a Universal Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty
By Caroline Sculier / World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2010
2010
NGO report
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This report analyses the various ways in which moratoria is/can be used by a number of countries throughout the world. The countries are placed into one of three groups 1: One step away from Statutory Abolition? 2. Countries which are Abolitionist in Practice but Resist Making their Position Official; and, 3. Countries with an Ambiguous Stance.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Moratorium , World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Vers un moratoire universel sur l'application de la peine de mort
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THE DEATH PENALTY, EXTRADITION, AND THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM: U.S. RESPONSES TO EUROPEAN OPINION ABOUT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
By Kathryn F. King / Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, on 1 January 2003
2003
Article
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This article gives insight into the different opinions held by the US and Europe in terms of the death penalty. The interplay between terrorism, the death penalty and extradition is also examined.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Extradition, Terrorism,
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Leaflet World Day 2011 on the inhumanity of the death penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2011
2011
Campaigning
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The International Jurisprudence Factsheet is divided in four topics: 1. The Right to Be Free from Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 2. Methods of Executions 3. Death Row Conditions 4. Families of the Persons Sentenced to Death. The relevant international entities have been investigated regarding these topics and their conclusions are presented in this factsheet.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Fiche jurisprudence internationale : "La peine de mort est inhumaine"
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The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia
By David T. Johnson / Franklin E. Zimring / Oxford University Press, on 1 January 2009
2009
Book
China
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Authors David Johnson, an expert on law and society in Asia, and Franklin Zimring, a senior authority on capital punishment, utilize their research to identify the critical factors affecting the future of the death penalty in Asia. They found that when an authoritarian state experienced democratic reform, such as in Taiwan and South Korea, the rate of executions dropped sharply. Johnson and Zimring also found that politics, instead of culture or tradition, is the major obstacle to the end of capital punishment in Asia.
- Document type Book
- Countries list China
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Facts Law Enforcement Should Know About the Death Penalty
By Death Penalty Focus, on 8 September 2020
2020
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A leaflet detailing the facts that law enforcement should be aware of; how the system prolongs suffering of the victim’s family, mistakes that have been made, the uneven application of the death penalty – these amongst other topics are explored to inform law enforcement about the facts of the death penalty.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
The Hidden Death Tax: The Secret Cost of Seeking Execution in California
By Natasha Minsker / American Civil Liberties Union, on 1 January 2008
2008
NGO report
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California taxpayers pay at least $117 million each year at the post-conviction level seeking execution of the people currently on death row, or $175,000 per inmate per year. The largest single expense is the extra cost of simply housing people on death row, $90,000 per year per inmate more than housing in the general prison population. Executing all of the people currently on death row or waiting for them to die naturally – which will happen first – will cost California an estimated $4 billion more than if all the people on death row were sentenced to die of disease, injury or old age.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Networks, Financial cost,
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Safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty
By United Nations, on 1 January 1984
1984
United Nations report
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Approved by Economic and Social Council resolution 1984/50 of 25 May 19841. In countries which have not abolished the death penalty, capital punishment may be imposed only for the most serious crimes, it being understood that their scope should not go beyond intentional crimes with lethal or other extremely grave consequences.
- Document type United Nations report
- Themes list Fair Trial, International law, Most Serious Crimes,
- Available languages الضمانات التي تكفل حماية حقوق الذين يواجهون عقوبة الإعدامМеры, гарантирующие защиту прав тех, кому грозит смертная казньGaranties pour la protection des droits des personnes passibles de la peine de mort关于保护面对死刑的人的 权利的保障措施Salvaguardias para garantizar la protección de los derechos de los condenados a la pena de muerte
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The death penalty worldwide developments in 2007
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2008
2008
NGO report
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In 2007 the world continued to move closer to the universal abolition of the capital punishment. A historical landmark is the resolution on a moratorium on executions endorsed by the United Nations. By the end of the 2007, 91 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes. The death penalty has now been abolished in law or practice by 135 countries. Other subjects covered in this report include commutations, judicial reviews, use against child offenders; and extradition.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages La peine de mort dans le monde : évolution en 2007LA PENA DE MUERTE EN EL MUNDO: NOTICIAS DEL AÑO 2007تطورات عقوبة العدام على النطاق العالمي في 2007
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The death penalty wordwide: developments in 2004
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2005
2005
NGO report
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This document covers significant events concerning the death penalty during the year 2004. Five countries abolished the death penalty for all crimes, bringing to 84 the number of totally abolitionist countries at year end. Scores of death sentences were commuted in Malawi and Zambia, and moratoria or suspensions of executions were being observed in several other countries. Other subjects covered in this document include significant judicial decisions; the use of the death penalty against the innocent; resumptions of executions; and campaigning activities to promote abolition.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages La peine de mort dans le monde: évolution en 2004La pena de muerte en el mundo: noticias del año 2004
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The Last Holdouts: Ending the Juvenile Death Penalty in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yeman
By Human Rights Watch, on 1 January 2008
2008
NGO report
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In this 20-page report, Human Rights Watch documents failures in law and practice that since January 2005 have resulted in 32 executions of juvenile offenders in five countries: Iran (26), Saudi Arabia (2), Sudan (2), Pakistan (1), and Yemen (1). The report also highlights cases of individuals recently executed or facing execution in the five countries, where well over 100 juvenile offenders are currently on death row, awaiting the outcome of a judicial appeal, or in some murder cases, the outcome of negotiations for pardons in exchange for financial compensation
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Juveniles,
- Available languages آخر المعاقلالقضاء على عقوبة إعدام الأحداث في إيران والمملكة العربيةالسعودية والسودان وباآستان واليمن
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Smart on Crime: Reconsidering the Death Penalty in a Time of Economic Crisis
By Death Penalty Information Center / Richard C. Dieter, on 1 January 2009
2009
NGO report
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The death penalty in the U.S. is an enormously expensive and wasteful program with no clear benefits. All of the studies on the cost of capital punishment conclude it is much more expensive than a system with life sentences as the maximum penalty. In a time of painful budget cutbacks, states are pouring money into a system that results in a declining number of death sentences and executions that are almost exclusively carried out in just one area of the country. As many states face further deficits, it is an appropriate time to consider whether maintaining the costly death penalty system is being smart on crime.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Financial cost,
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Japan: Hanging by a thread: Mental health and the death penalty in Japan
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2009
NGO report
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The use of the death penalty is in decline globally. Japan is one of the few industrialized countries to continue to use it, hanging a small number of prisoners each year. This report discusses the legal basis for exempting mentally ill prisoners from the death penalty and documents the situation faced by such prisoners on death row in Japan. It calls on the authorities to ensure that mentally ill prisoners are not executed and to implement a moratorium on the death penalty.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Mental Illness,
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The Bahamas: Death Penalty Joint Stakeholder Report for the United Nations Universal Periodic Review
By The Advocates for Human Rights, on 1 January 2017
2017
NGO report
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- Document type NGO report
- Themes list International law, Member organizations, Death Penalty,
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Report of the General Secretary of the United Nations 2013
By United Nations, on 1 January 2013
2013
International law - United Nations
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The report contains information on the question of the death penalty, and reports that the international community as a whole is moving towards the abolition of the death penalty in law or in practice. Nevertheless, a small number of States have continued to use the death penalty and in many instances, int ernational standards guaranteeing the protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty were not fully respected. Thereport also discusses the continued difficulties in gaining access to reliable information regarding executions, and issues related to the hum an rights of children of parents sentenced to the death penalty or executed.
- Document type International law - United Nations
- Themes list Death Penalty,
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Concluding Talking Ponts on behalf of Parliamentarians and PGA, Attending the 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) / Parliamentarians for Global Action, on 1 January 2019
2019
Multimedia content
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Concluding Talking Ponts on behalf of Parliamentarians and PGA, Atteding the 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Public debate, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Déclaration finale au nom des parlementaires et de l'Action mondiale des parlementaires présents au 7ème Congrès mondial contre la peine de mort
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Socialist Republic of Viet Nam: The death penalty – inhumane and Ineffective
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
Viet Nam
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Amnesty International is alarmed by the recent dramatic rise in the reported imposition of the death penalty in Viet Nam, particularly for drugs-related offences and other economic crimes. It believes that the continuing use of the death penalty in Viet Nam is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment and a breach of the right to life and that the conditions surrounding its imposition in Viet Nam are in contravention of international human rights standards. In this report Amnesty is calling on the Vietnamese Government to immediately establish a moratorium on all executions, while taking steps towards total abolition of the death penalty in accordance with international standards and United Nations recommendations.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Viet Nam
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages République Socialiste Du Viêt-Nam : La peine de port - inhumaine et inefficaceRepública Socialista de Vietnam: La pena de muerte - inhumana e ineficaz
Document(s)
Respect for Minimum Standards? Report on the Death Penalty in China
on 1 January 2020
2020
NGO report
China
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- Document type NGO report
- Countries list China
Document(s)
Towards the abolition of the death penalty in Lebanon
By LACR / National Campaign for the Abolition of Death Penalty in Lebanon, on 1 January 2009
2009
Campaigning
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Educational booklet compiling testimonies, arguments, legal and historical facts about the path towards abolition in Lebanon.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate, Trend Towards Abolition,
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A Matter of Life and Death: films, an assembly, lessons and information on the death penalty to inspire students aged 14+
By Amnesty International UK, on 8 September 2020
2020
Campaigning
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Through A Matter of Life and Death lessons, assembly and films, students aged 14+ can explore the issues surrounding the use of the death penalty, one of Amnesty’s oldest and most established campaigns.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Public opinion,
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The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
By Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), on 1 January 2014
2014
International law - Regional body
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This publication covers the period 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 and offers a concise update that highlights only those changes in the status of the death penalty made since the last Background Paper.
- Document type International law - Regional body
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Resolution 75/183 – Moratorium on the use of the death penalty
By United Nations General Assembly, on 12 January 2021
2021
International law - United Nations
Moratorium
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United Nations General Assembly Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2020 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/478/Add.2, para. 89) 75/183. Moratorium on the use of the death penalty.
- Document type International law - United Nations
- Themes list Moratorium
- Available languages قرار اتخذته الجمعية العامة في 16 كانون الأول/ديسمبر 2020Resolución 75/183 - Moratoria del uso de la pena de muerteRésolution 75/183 - Moratoire sur l'application de la peine de mortРезолюция 75/183 - Мораторий на применение смертной казни大会决议75/183 - 暂停使用死刑
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Death to the Death Penalty/ La peine de mort est condamnée à disparaître/Muerte a la Pena de Muerte.
By Amnesty International / YouTube, on 1 January 2010
2010
Working with...
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This video is part of the campaign run by Amnesty International titled “Death to the Death Penalty”, in the video wax figures ressembling forms of execution melt away leaving only the Amnesty International candle burning/Ce video, réalisé par Amnesty International pour la campagne intitulé “La peine de mort est condamnée à disparaître”/Muerte a la Pena de Muerte.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
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Seven Winters in Teheran
By Steffi Niederzoll, on 24 March 2023
2023
Multimedia content
Gender
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Women
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In the summer of 2007, an older man approaches Reyhaneh Jabbari and asks the architecture student who has a side job as an interior decorator for her help in the design of offices. During the site inspection, he tries to rape her. Reyhaneh stabs him in self-defence. She is arrested for murder and sentenced to death. Reyhaneh was to spend the next seven years in prison while her family hired lawyers and made the public aware of the case. However, in spite of the efforts of national and international politicians and human rights organisations, the Iranian judiciary continued to cite the “right of blood-revenge”. This meant that, as long as Reyhaneh did not withdraw her accusations against the man, his family could demand her death. Reyhaneh stuck to her testimony and was hanged at the age of 26.
In her moving and shockingly topical documentary debut, director Steffi Niederzoll uses among other things original audio and visual material that was smuggled out of Iran. This film, in which Holy Spider actor Zar Amir Ebrahimi lends Reyhaneh her voice, makes visible the injustice in Iranian society and portrays an involuntary heroine who gave her life in the fight for women’s rights.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Themes list Gender / Women
- Available languages Sept hivers à Téhéran
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Murdering Myths: The Story Behind the Death Penalty
By Judith W. Kay / Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., on 1 January 2005
2005
Book
United States
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In Murdering Myths: The Story Behind the Death Penalty, Judith Kay goes beyond the hype and statistics to examine Americans’ deep-seated beliefs about crime and punishment. She argues that Americans share a counter-productive idea of justice–that punishment corrects bad behavior, suffering pays for wrong deeds, and victims’ desire for revenge is natural and inevitable. Drawing on interviews with both victims and inmates, Kay shows how this belief harms perpetrators, victims, and society and calls for a new narrative that recognizes the humanity in all of us.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
19 world day against the death penalty -events’ map
on 10 September 2021
2021
instrumentalisation-of-the-death-penalty-8th-world-congress
on 27 January 2023
2023
Document(s)
Cruel and Unusual: The American Death Penalty and the Founders’ Eighth Amendment
By John D. Bessler / Northeastern, on 1 January 2012
2012
Book
United States
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While shedding important new light on the U.S. Constitution’s “cruel and unusual punishments” clause, Bessler explores the influence of Cesare Beccaria’s essay, on Crimes and Punishments, on the Founders’ views, and the transformative properties of the Fourteenth Amendment, which made the Bill of Rights applicable to the states.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
Document(s)
Documentary: “In The Executioner’s Shadow; a Story of Justice, Injustice and the Death Penalty”
By Maggie Burnette Stogner / Rick Stack / In The Executioner's Shadow, on 8 September 2020
2020
Multimedia content
United States
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Video “It is the potential of this documentary to move us toward a more enlightened society that excites me about this work.” Benjamin Jealous, former NAACP PresidentAs wrongful convictions, botched executions, and a broken justice system inch further into the spotlight, we must consider: What is justice? What part should the death penalty play?
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Mental Illness, Innocence, Death Penalty,
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Equality of the Damned: The Execution of Women on the Cusp of the 21st Century
By Elizabeth Rapaport / Ohio Northern Law Review 26(3), 581-600, on 1 January 2000
2000
Article
United States
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This article explores why women are rarely executed and examines the execution of four women in the Post-Furman Era, focusing on the execution of Karla Faye Tucker. The execution of Karla Faye Tucker in 1998, the second of the four women to be executed, occured in hte midst of relentless publicity. The Tucker execution revived interest in gender equity in the administration of capital punishment.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Women,
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IHR: Papers and Discussions on Death Penalty
By Institute of Human Rights (IHR), on 1 January 2018
2018
Book
Philippines
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Collection of articles and speeches on the death penalty presented in two UP IHR organized academic fora by academics, government officials and civil society.
- Document type Book
- Countries list Philippines
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate, Death Penalty,
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Writing Wrongs: How to Shift Public Opinion on the Death Penalty with Letters to the Editor
By Nancy Oliviera, on 1 January 2009
2009
Working with...
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This booklet explains why it is important to write letters to the editor as a platform for distributing information to the public. It provides a guide to good letter writing.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
The Death Penalty in Botswana: Hasty and Secretive Hangings – International Fact Finding Mission
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
Botswana
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This report determined that the death penalty remains a sensitive and secretive issue in Botswana. The authorities are reluctant to encourage public debate about the death penalty and its possible abolition. There is a total lack of transparency in the actual execution process of the death sentence. The hasty way in which most recent hangings have been carried out, further cast doubt upon the willingness of the Government of Botswana to seriously address this issue.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Botswana
- Themes list Transparency, Country/Regional profiles,
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Uganda: Challenging the Death Penalty
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) / Thomas Lemaire / Eric Mirguet / Mary Okosun, on 1 January 2005
2005
NGO report
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The general feeling of NGOs and abolitionists in Uganda is that the most pressing issue is the situation of ordinary prisoners, while the death penalty as administered by the military should be addressed at a second stage. The questions relating to the military are sensitive issues in Uganda, which might also explain that position. The focus of the present report is consequently mainly on the death sentences pronounced by ordinary criminal courts.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
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How States Abolish the Death Penalty
By International Commission Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2013
2013
International law - Regional body
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This document reviews the processes towards abolition of capital punishment through studying the experiences of 13 States. Drawing on these lessons and experiences, the document provides guidance to States on how to abolish the Death penalty.
- Document type International law - Regional body
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Как госуда́рствa отменяют смертная казньComment les Etats abolissent la peine de mortLa abolicion de la pena de meurte en los estados
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The Death Penalty Worldwide – Developments in 2003
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
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This document covers significant events concerning the death penalty during the year 2003. Subjects covered in this document include significant judicial decisions; the use of the death penalty against the innocent; reductions and expansions in the scope of the death penalty; moratoria on executions and commutations of death sentences
- Document type NGO report
- Available languages La peine de mort dans le monde : évolution en 2003La pena de muerte en el mundo: noticias del año 2003
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: No return to execution – The US death penalty as a barrier to extradition
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
United States
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This document examines the issue of extradition and the death penalty in the United States. It looks at the emergence of death penalty clauses in extradition treaties and laws and gives examples of specific cases in the US where extradition has either prevented the application of the death penalty or been circumvented to allow individuals to be sentenced to death.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Extradition,
- Available languages الولاية المتحدة الأمركية : لا عودة الى الاعدام - العقوبة الاعدام في امريكة كحاجز لالتسليمESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA : Que no se envíe a nadie a la ejecución: La pena de muerte en Estados Unidos como barrera frente a la extradición
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A Crisis of Confidence: Americans’ Doubts About the Death Penalty
By Death Penalty Information Center / Richard C. Dieter, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
United States
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According to a national public opinion poll conducted in 2007, the public is losing confidence in the death penalty. People are deeply concerned about the risk of executing the innocent, about the fairness of the process, and about the inability of capital punishment to accomplish its basic purposes. Most Americans believe that innocent people have already been executed, that the death penalty is not a deterrent to crime, and that a moratorium should be placed on all executions.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public opinion,
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STOP CHILD EXECUTIONS! Ending the death penalty for child offenders
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2004
2004
NGO report
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International law prohibits the use of the death penalty for crimes committed by people younger than 18, yet some countries continue to execute child offenders or sentence them to death. Although executions of child offenders are few compared to the total number of executions in the world, they represent a complete disregard by the executing states of their commitments under international law, and an affront to all notions of morality and decency when it comes to the protection of children – one of the most vulnerable groups in society. This document describes the use of the death penalty against child offenders worldwide and its prohibition under international law.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Juveniles,
- Available languages HALTE À L'EXECUTION DE MINEURS DELINQUANTS!Eliminar la pena de muerte para delincuentes juveniles
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Singapore: The death penalty – A hidden toll of executions
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
Singapore
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More than 400 prisoners have been hanged in Singapore since 1991, giving the small city-state possibly the highest execution rate in the world relative to its population of just over four million people. This report examines the use of the death penalty for drug offences, murder and firearms offences. It emphasizes the cruel and arbitrary nature of the death penalty and shows how it has been imposed on the most marginalized or vulnerable members of society including drug addicts, the poorly educated, the impoverished or unemployed, and migrant workers.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Singapore
- Themes list Transparency, Foreign Nationals,
- Available languages Singapore: Taux d'exécutions : un secret bien gardé
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Uzbekistan: Unfair trials and secret executions: Summary of the report “‘Justice only in heaven’ – the death penalty in Uzbekistan”
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
Uzbekistan
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This document provides a summary of the report “Uzbekistan: “Justice only in heaven” – the death penalty in Uzbekistan” (EUR 62/011/2003).
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Uzbekistan
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages OUZBÉKISTAN : Procès iniques et exécutions tenues secrètesUzbekistán: Juicios sin garantías y ejecuciones secretas : Este documento es un resumen del informe de Amnistía Internacional titulado “Justice only in heaven” - the death penalty in Uzbekistan
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AEDPA Repeal
By Brandon L. Garrett & Kaitlin Phillips, on 1 September 2022
2022
Academic report
Terrorism
United States
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Given how pressing the problem has become, and the real interest in reforms to promote access to justice, this article takes a different tack than prior habeas reform work: to restore habeas corpus to its pre-AEDPA and pre-Rehnquist court state, in which a federal court can review claims and reach their merits. The approach would preserve flexibility at the district court level and remove the many layers of procedural complexity that the Supreme Court and then Congress have erected. We believe that deep changes are needed, and in that, we agree with judges and scholars that have for some time proposed such changes in the writ. As we describe, AEDPA was enacted as a culmination of more than two decades of complex Supreme Court law that had already limited access to federal habeas corpus. While AEDPA incorporated some of those procedural rulings, the concern would be that should AEDPA be repealed, even in part, those court-made restrictions could be interpreted to supplant AEDPA restrictions. Clear statutory language will be needed to ensure that the Court does not frustrate Congress, as it has in the past, by supplementing statutory text in order to limit constitutional remedies. We do not mean to suggest that the various proposals set out here are exhaustive. Our goal is to promote careful considerations of alternatives to the present-day set of federal habeas corpus statutes and accompanying judicial interpretation.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Terrorism
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Moving away from the death penalty
By Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) , on 1 January 2015
2015
International law - United Nations
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The present publication provides an extensive review of global trends in death penalty matters, a summary of the applicable international legal standards, and the current status of legislative reform related to the death penalty in South-East Asia. As a product of the OHCHR Regional Office for South-East Asia, this publication is intended to be a resource for further discussions in the region toward the abolition of the death penalty.
- Document type International law - United Nations
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
Document(s)
ON REDUCING WHITE SUPPORT FOR THE DEATH PENALTY: A PESSIMISTIC APPRAISAL
By Steven F. Cohn / Steven E. Barkan / Criminology and Public Policy, on 1 January 2005
2005
Article
United States
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As Soss et al. (2003) point out, whites are the most influential racial groupand support the death penalty much more than blacks do. In the 2002GSS, 69.8% of whites favored the death penalty, compared with only42.1% of blacks. If white support for the death penalty was as low as blacksupport, it would be much more difficult for the Supreme Court to believethat “evolving standards of decency” had not evolved against capitalpunishment.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate,
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The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2010
By Rick Lines / Patrick Gallahue / Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2010
2010
NGO report
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The report is the first detailed country by country overview of the death penalty for drugs, monitoring both national legislation and state practice of enforcement. Of the states worldwide that retain the death penalty, 32 jurisdictions maintain laws that prescribe the death penalty for drug offences. The study also found that in some states, drug offenders make up a significant portion – if not the outright majority – of those sentenced to death and/or executed each year.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Drug Offences,
Document(s)
SHAMS Center issues a report on the status of death penalty in the Palestinian territories: in 2017
By Human Rights & Democracy Media Center (SHAMS), on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
State of Palestine
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In this report, SHAMS emphasizes that in Palestine they apply inconsistent legal combination of laws that punish with death penalty, which are not Palestinian laws basically.The problem is that capital punishment violates against an essential human right, and it is irreversible once executed. It doesn’t represent a public deterrent so; it is nothing but a form of violence not a solution for it.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list State of Palestine
- Themes list Death Penalty,
- Available languages مركز “شمس” يصدر تقريراً حول واقع عقوبة الإعدام في الأراضي الفلسطينية في العام 2017
Document(s)
The Forgotten Population: A Look at Death Row in the United States Through the Experiences of Women
By American Civil Liberties Union, on 1 January 2004
2004
NGO report
More details See the document
This report — the first-ever national survey of women currently on Death Row — found that women who have been sentenced to death are often subjected to harsh living conditions, including being forced to live in virtual isolation, and many are sentenced for crimes that don’t result in a death sentence for men.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Women,
Document(s)
Gendering the Death Penalty: Countering Sex Bias in a Masculine Sanctuary
By Victor L. Streib / Ohio State Law Journal, on 1 January 2002
2002
Article
United States
More details See the document
American death penalty laws and procedures persistently minimize cases involving female capital offenders. Recognizing some benign explanations for this disparate impact, Professor Streib nonetheless sees the dearth of female death penalty trials, death sentences, and actual executions as signaling sex bias throughout the death penalty system. In this article, he provides data concerning death sentencing and execution patterns and then suggests both substantive and procedural means to address the apparent sex bias. Much more significant, however, is the unique lens for examining the death penalty that is provided by a sex bias analysis. Professor Streib concludes that this perspective unmasks the system’s crime-fighting rhetoric to reveal a macho refuge that masculinizes all who enter therein.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Women,
Member(s)
California People of Faith
on 30 April 2020
The California People of Faith (CPF) is a nonprofit organization 501, based in Los Angeles in the United States. CPF is an interfaith organization which advocates for alternatives to the death penalty in California and throughout the United States. CPF coordinates grassroots affords via chapters located throughout California, organizing Faith-based communities to resist corrosive temptation […]
2020
United States
Document(s)
Annual report on the death penalty in Iran 2015
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) / Iran Human Rights (IHR), on 1 January 2016
2016
NGO report
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The 8th annual report of Iran Human Rights (IHR) on the death penalty provides an in-depth assessment of how the capital punishment was implemented in 2015 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.In addition to providing the number of executions that were conducted, the report also looks at the trends compared to previous years, the methods of execution, geographical distribution, the charges that were used by authorities to justify the executions and the articles in the penal law that were used to issue the death sentences.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages بخش اول از گزارش سالانه اعدام - دستکم ۷۵۳ اعدام در سال ۲۰۱۴
Document(s)
The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law
By William A. Schabas / Cambridge University Press, on 1 January 2002
2002
Book
More details See the document
This extensively revised third edition covers developments since publication of the second edition in 1997. It includes consideration of the UN human rights system, international humanitarian law, European human rights law and Inter-American human rights law. New chapters address capital punishment in African human rights law and international criminal law. An extensive list of appendices contains many of the essential documents for the study of capital punishment in international law.
- Document type Book
- Themes list Networks,
Member(s)
Fédération Syndicale Unitaire (FSU)
on 30 April 2020
The United Trade-Union Federation (FSU) brings together 22 national trade unions in the fields of education, teaching, research, culture, training and social integration. They represent the majority or a large proportion of workers in their professional fields. FSU unites these national trade unions by combining diversity, pluralism and unity. Its characteristic organisational innovation is to […]
2020
France
Document(s)
How to Work with National Human Rights Institutions to Abolish the Death Penalty – A Practical Guide
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 17 November 2022
2022
Working with...
World Coalition
Trend Towards Abolition
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National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) role as influential human rights actors is paramount, and as such their contributions to abolition of the death penalty should not be underestimated when developing an anti-death penalty strategy. Expertly written by the President of the of the Beninese Commission on Human Rights, this guide’s content has been bolstered by examples and advice coming from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the field. Working with NHRIs can seem like a daunting task, especially for civil society organizations that do not have previous experience working with them. As such, this guide has been specifically designed for abolitionist civil society groups around the world, both beginners and advanced activists, with a focus on the African continent.
- Document type Working with... / World Coalition
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition
- Available languages Comment travailler avec les institutions nationales des droits de l’homme pour abolir la peine de mort ?
Document(s)
Islam and the Death Penalty
By William A. Schabas / William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 9(1), 223-236, on 1 January 2000
2000
Article
Bangladesh
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Capital punishment is not practiced by a majority of the world’s states. Anti-capital punishment domestic policies have led to an international law of human rights that emphatically prohibits cruel and inhuman punishment. International concern for the abolition of capital punishment has prompted Islamic states that still endorse and practice the death penalty to respond with equally compelling concerns based on the tenets of Islamic law. Professor William A. Schabas suggests that Islamic states view capital punishment according to the principles embodied in the Koran. Islamic law functions on the belief that all people have a right to life unless the administration of Islamic law determines otherwise. Professor Schabas emphasizes that capital punishment exists in the domestic law of all Islamic states, but the ways by which these states employ capital punishment are varied and inconsistent. Although Professor Schabas acknowledges that Islamic states correctly argue that capital punishment is an element of Islamic law, he maintains that Islamic states do not recognize the more limited role of the death penalty articulated by the Islamic religion.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Bangladesh
- Themes list Religion ,
Document(s)
A ‘Commonsense’ Theory of Deterrence and the ‘Ideology’ of Science: The New York State Death Penalty Debate
By John F. Galliher / James M. Galliher / Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, on 1 January 2001
2001
Article
United States
More details See the document
This research will consider the principal claims and counterclaims made by death penalty supporters and opponents, as well as document the manner in which these claims were advanced or refuted. The nineteen-year debate provides a natural laboratory that can assist our understanding of why the United States is the only Western industrialized democracy to retain capital punishment.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Member(s)
Prisoner’s Future Foundation
on 28 March 2023
Prisoners’ Future Foundation (PFF) is a local non-governmental Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS) following government enforcing the NGO Act of 2009 of the laws of Zambia. PFF has in the past handled both advocacy and service delivery, in responding to the needs of currently and formally incarcerated people and citizens who have […]
2023
Zambia
Document(s)
Life, Death and the Crime of Crimes: Supreme Penalties and the ICC Statute
By William A. Schabas / Punishment and Society, on 1 January 2000
2000
Article
More details See the document
The attitude of international law and practice to supreme penalties has evolved enormously over the past half-century. At Nuremberg, in 1946, capital punishment was imposed upon Nazi war criminals. But at the Rome Conference in 1998, when the international community provided for the establishment of the International Criminal Court, not only was capital punishment excluded, the text also limited the scope of life imprisonment. These changes were driven principally by evolving norms of international human rights law. The first changes became apparent in the early work of the International Law Commission on the Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind, during the 1950s. When criminal prosecution returned to the international agenda, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was widespread agreement to exclude capital punishment. But at the Rome Conference, a relatively small and geographically isolated group of States made an aggressive attempt to defend capital punishment. Ultimately unsuccessful, their efforts only drew attention to a growing rejection of both capital punishment and life imprisonment in international and national legal systems
- Document type Article
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Capital Punishment in the Philippines
By Arlie Tagayuna / Southeast Asian Studies, on 1 January 2004
2004
Article
Philippines
More details See the document
While an examination of the social and political currents of each country would perhaps be the best way to answer the question “Why is there strong support for capital punishment in Southeast Asia?”, this paper will begin this effort by looking specifically at the Philippines, a society that has received more exposure to democratic tenets and human rights advocacy than other Southeast Asian countries (Blitz, 2000).
- Document type Article
- Countries list Philippines
- Themes list Public opinion,
Document(s)
Going backwards The death penalty in Southeast Asia
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), on 1 January 2016
2016
NGO report
More details See the document
Over the past year, Southeast Asia has witnessed significant setbacks with regard to the abolitionof the death penalty. Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore have all carried out executions. It isunknown whether any executions were carried out in Vietnam, where statistics on the deathpenalty continue to be classified as ‘state secrets.’ In the name of combating drug trafficking,Indonesian President Joko Widodo is rapidly becoming Southeast Asia’s top executioner. ThePhilippines, which effectively abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 2006, is consideringreinstating capital punishment as part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s ill-conceived and disastrous‘war on drugs.’
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Alternatives to the Death Penalty
By Death Penalty Focus / Alternatives to the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2008
2008
Arguments against the death penalty
More details See the document
In every state that retains the death penalty, jurors have the option of sentencing convicted capital murderers to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The sentence is cheaper to tax-payers and keeps violent offenders off the streets for good. The information is California specific.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Sentencing Alternatives,
Document(s)
Indonesian – Laporan Global Amnesty International : hukuman mati dan eksekusi 2023
on 29 May 2024
2024
NGO report
Trend Towards Abolition
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Pemantauan yang dilakukan oleh Amnesty Internasional terhadap hukuman mati secara global
mencatat terdapat 1.153 eksekusi hukuman mati pada tahun 2023. Angka tersebut menunjukkan
adanya peningkatan sebanyak 31% dari 883 eksekusi pada tahun 2022. Namun, ada penurunan
yang signifikan pada angka negara yang menerapkan hukuman mati. Dari 20 negara pada 2022
menjadi hanya 16 negara di 2023
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition
Document(s)
How States abolish the death penalty 2nd Edition
By International Commission Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018
2018
International law - United Nations
More details See the document
This publication briefly describes the experiences of 26 countries and 3 USA states as they moved towards abolition of the death penalty. These Case Studies are drawn from 27 countries from all regions of the world. This publication is an updated and enlarged version of ICDP’s 2013 publication How States Abolish the Death Penalty.
- Document type International law - United Nations
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Sentencing Alternatives, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam: The death penalty – recent developments
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
Viet Nam
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This document contains information about the recent developments in Vietm Nam regarding the death penalty. Amnesty International welcomes the reduction in the number of offenses punishable by the death penalty. However, the organization remains concerned that there is still a broad range of offenses which are punishable by the death penalty.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Viet Nam
Document(s)
The death penalty worldwide: developments in 2002
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2003
2003
NGO report
fresMore details See the document
This paper covers significant events concerning the death penalty during the year 2002. Other subjects covered in this paper include significant judicial decisions; important studies; the use of the death penalty against the innocent; reductions in the scope of the death penalty; moratoria and commutations; and moves to restrict appeals in capital cases.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages La peine de mort dans le monde : Evolution en 2002La pena de muerte en el mundo: noticias del 2002
Document(s)
Indonesia: A briefing on the death penalty
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2004
2004
NGO report
enMore details See the document
This briefing follows the first executions in Indonesia in more than three years. Ayodhya Prasad Chaubey, an Indian national convicted of drug-trafficking in 1994, was executed by firing squad. Two Thai nationals, Saelow Prasert (m) and Namsong Sirilak (f), who had been sentenced to death in the same case, were executed on 1 October 2004. A total of at least 54 people are currently believed to be under sentence of death in Indonesia, 30 of them for drug-related offences. Amnesty International is concerned that these recent developments reflect an increasing willingness by the authorities to use the death penalty to address crime, in particular drug-trafficking. The organization is also concerned about calls to expand the number of crimes for which the death penalty may be imposed.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Networks, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages Indonesian : Indonesia: Urusan tentang pidana mati
Document(s)
Unjust and unfair: The death penalty in Iraq
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2007
2007
NGO report
arfresMore details See the document
Since the reintroduction of the death penalty in August 2004 more than 270 people have been sentenced to death in Iraq. Iraq now figures among the countries with the highest numbers of executions reported in 2006. Amnesty International is concerned that many of those sentenced to death by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq did not receive a fair trial. Amnesty International calls on the Iraqi government to immediately establish a moratorium on executions with a view to total abolition of the death penalty.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages ل عدل فيها ول إنصاف: عقوبة العدام في العراقLa peine de mort en Irak: un châtiment injuste et iniquePena de muerte en Irak: arbitraria e injusta
Document(s)
2016 World day against the death penalty
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2016
2016
NGO report
More details See the document
On 10 October 2016 Amnesty International joins the global abolitionist movement in marking the 14th World Day Against the Death Penalty, whose focus on the use of the death penalty for terrorism-related offences is timely. While armed and other violent attacks are not a new phenomenon, recent years have seen repeated high-profile violent attacks – in many cases against a backdrop of political instability and conflict – that have sent shockwaves throughout the world.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list International law, Deterrence , World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
Document(s)
PROCEEDINGS – 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), on 8 September 2020
2020
Multimedia content
More details See the document
Six months after the 7th World Congress against the Death Penalty, ECPM is proud to announce the publication of the Proceedings of the Brussels Congress. This unpublished, documented and illustrated book reports on the rich debates held during the Congress and discusses the new associative and political dynamics promoted in this context.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Member organizations, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Bahrain The Death Penalty Joint Stakeholder Report for the United Nations Universal Periodic Review
By The Advocates for Human Rights, on 1 January 2017
2017
NGO report
More details See the document
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list International law, Member organizations, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Indecent and internationally illegal: The death penalty against child offenders
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2002
2002
NGO report
More details See the document
This report gives details of the national picture of the execution of juveniles, looking particularly at how two key decisions of the US Supreme Court have widened the gap between the USA and most other countries on this issue. The report examines the arguments used by those who oppose the execution of juvenile offenders and provides an overview of the international situation on the use of the death penalty against child offenders.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Juveniles,
Document(s)
Poster 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 12 June 2023
2023
Campaigning
World Coalition
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- Document type Campaigning / World Coalition
- Available languages 2023 ملصق اليوم العال مPoster Spanish – 2023 Día Mundial contra la Pena de MuertePoster Farsi 2023 – بیستمین روز جهانی علیهمجازات مرگPoster 21ème Journée Mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster Russian 2023 — 21-Й ВСЕМИРНЫЙ ДЕНЬ БОРЬБЫ ПРОТИВ СМЕРТНОЙ КАЗНИPoster Chinese 2023- 第21个世界反对死刑日
Document(s)
Joint Statement: The death penalty for drug-related offences
By Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2015
2015
Multimedia content
More details See the document
Joint Statement signed by Amnesty International, Anti Death Penalty Asia Network, Harm Reduction International, International Drug Policy Consortium, Penal Reform International and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty to highlight to Member States of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the preparatory Board of the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs the continued use by some countries of the death penalty for drug-related offences despite clear restrictions set out in international law.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Drug Offences,
Document(s)
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: The Impact on Women
By Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
More details See the document
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Women, Drug Offences, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Death Penalty Cases: Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment
By David McCord / Barry Latzer / Butterworth-Heinemann, on 1 January 2010
2010
Book
United States
More details See the document
This brand new edition of Death Penalty Cases makes the most manageable comprehensive resource on the death penalty even better. It includes the most recent cases, including Kennedy v. Louisiana, prohibiting the death penalty for child rapists, and Baze v. Rees, upholding execution by lethal injection. In addition, all of the cases are now topically organized into five sections: * The Foundational Cases * Death-Eligibility: Which persons/crimes are fit for the death penalty? * The Death Penalty Trial * Post-conviction Review * Execution Issues The introductory essays on the history, administration, and controversies surrounding capital punishment have been thoroughly revised. The statistical appendix has been brought up-to-date, and the statutory appendix has been restructured. For clarity, accuracy, complete impartiality and comprehensiveness, there simply is no better resource on capital punishment available.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Fair Trial Rights and Their Relation to the Death Penalty in Africa
By Lilian Chenwi / International and Comparative Law Quarterly, on 1 January 2006
2006
Article
More details See the document
A fair trial is a basic element of the notion of the rule of law, and the principles of ‘due process’ and ‘the rule of law’ are fundamental to the protection of human rights. At the centre of any legal system, therefore, must be a means by which legal rights are asserted and breaches remedied through the process of a fair trial in court, as the law is useless without effective remedies. The fairness of the legal process has a particular significance in criminal cases, as it protects against human rights abuses. Hence, constitutional due process and elementary justice require that the judicial functions of trial and sentencing be conducted with fundamental fairness, especially where the irreversible sanction of the death penalty is involved.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Fair Trial,
Document(s)
Leaflet World Day Against the Death Penalty 2021 – EN
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 June 2021
2021
Campaigning
Women
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On 10 October 2021, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and abolitionist organizations around the world will celebrate the 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty.
This year the World Day is dedicated to women who risk being sentenced to death, who have received a death sentence, who have been executed, and to those who have had their death sentences commuted, have been exonerated or pardoned.
Their stories are an invisible reality.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Women
- Available languages كتيب باللغة العربية - الدورة التاسعة عشرة للیوم العالمي لمناھضة عقوبة الإعدامBrochure FR - 2021 Journée mondiale contre la peine de mort
Document(s)
Annual report on the death penalty in Iran 2019
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) / Iran Human Rights (IHR), on 1 January 2020
2020
NGO report
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On March 31, 2020, the 12th annual report on the death penalty in Iran 2019 was published by Iran Human Rights (IHR) and ECPM (Together Against the Death Penalty). It provides an assessment and analysis of the death penalty trends in 2019 in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It sets out the number of executions in 2019, the trend compared to previous years, the legislative framework and procedures, charges, geographic distribution and a monthly breakdown of executions. Lists of the female and juvenile offenders executed in 2019 are also included in the tables.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Juveniles, Drug Offences, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages گزارش سالانه مجازات اعدام در ایران 2019Rapport annuel sur la peine de mort en Iran 2019
Document(s)
Oral Statement from Penal Reform International during the Panel on Children of Parents Sentenced to the Death Penalty or Executed (Human Rights Council, 24th Session)
By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2013
2013
Multimedia content
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Oral Statement of Penal Reform International during the Panel on Children of Parents Sentenced to the Death Penalty or Executed, Human Rights Council, 24th Session.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Juveniles, International law, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Not to Decide is to Decide: The U.S. Supreme Courts Thirty-Year Struggle With One Case About Competency to Waive Death Penalty Appeals
By Phyllis L. Crocker / Wayne Law Review 49(4), 885-938, on 1 January 2004
2004
Article
United States
More details See the document
In 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed Rees v. Peyton, Rees was a death penalty case in which the petitioner sought to withdraw his petition for writ of certiorari so that he could be executed. The Court stayed the proceedings after Rees was found incompetent to waive his appeal, but the Court did not dismiss the case until after Rees died of natural causes. Rees pended in the Court during the terms of three Chief Justices. Even though the Court underwent major changes in personnel and philosophy during those years, the Court’s treatment of Rees was essentially the same–to hold the case in abeyance. This article chronicles the extraordinary history of Rees in the U.S. Supreme Court for those thirty years.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Note verbale dated 28 July 2015 from the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
By United Nations, on 8 September 2020
2020
United Nations report
Antigua and Barbuda
Bangladesh
Botswana
Brunei Darussalam
China
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Egypt
Ethiopia
Guyana
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq
Jamaica
Kuwait
Libya
Malaysia
Moratorium
Nigeria
Oman
Pakistan
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Trinidad and Tobago
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
Zimbabwe
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The permanent missions to the United Nations in New York listed below have the honour to refer to General Assembly resolution 69/186, entitled “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty”, which was adopted by the Third Committee on 21 November 2014 and subsequently by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014 by a recorded vote. The permanent missions wish to place on record that they are in persistent objection to any attempt to impose a moratorium on the use of the death penalty or its abolition in contravention of existing stipulations under international law, for the following reasons:
- Document type United Nations report
- Countries list Antigua and Barbuda / Bangladesh / Botswana / Brunei Darussalam / China / Democratic People's Republic of Korea / Egypt / Ethiopia / Guyana / Iran (Islamic Republic of) / Iraq / Jamaica / Kuwait / Libya / Malaysia / Nigeria / Oman / Pakistan / Qatar / Saudi Arabia / Singapore / Sudan / Syrian Arab Republic / Trinidad and Tobago / United Arab Emirates / Yemen / Zimbabwe
- Themes list Moratorium
- Available languages مذكرة شفوية مؤرخة 28 تموز/يوليه ٢٠١٥ موجهة إلى الأمين العام من البعثة الدائمة لمصر لدى الأمم المتحدةNota verbal de fecha 28 de julio de 2015 dirigida al Secretario General por la Misión Permanente de Egipto ante las Naciones UnidasNote verbale datée du 28 juillet 2015, adressée au Secrétaire général par la Mission permanente de l’Égypte auprès de l’Organisation des Nations UniesВербальная нота Постоянного представительства Египта при Организации Объединенных Наций от 28 июля 2015 года на имя Генерального секретаря2015年7月28日埃及常驻联合国代表团给秘书长的普通照会
Document(s)
The Death Penalty in the United States: An International Human Rights Perspective
By Anthony N. Bishop / Texas Law Review, on 1 January 2002
2002
Article
United States
More details See the document
On December 10, 1998, the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, former President William J. Clinton signed Executive Order No. 13107 stating, “It shall be the policy and practice of the Government of the United States, being committed to the protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms, fully to respect and implement its obligations.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
The Grass Beneath His Feet: The Charles Victor Thompson Story
By Roger Rodriguez / AuthorHouse, on 1 January 2008
2008
Book
United States
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Nothing produced a glow in his eyes like the wonders of nature provoking his every curiosity. Everything about nature appealed to his meticulous character and his childhood was invested at Medina Lake, chasing down fireflies, and fishing. There was nothing he liked better than fried perch and eggs for breakfast. So how does such an innocent boy end up on death row in what most agree is the most relentless state for executing murders? The Grass Beneath His Feet recounts the life of Charles Victor Thompson, who after falling in love; found himself in a disturbing chain of events that would change his life forever. This re-telling of his story is extracted directly from the journals of Charles Victor Thompson himself where his childhood, his true love, and his ultimate escape from death row are revealed. For this first time, readers can enjoy the intimate details of the escape that shocked the entire nation. America?s Most Wanted, CNN, The World News all wanted to know the same question: How did this man manage to escape from the most notorious death row system in the country? The Grass Beneath His Feet also introduces Charles to the people, not as a murderer, but as a man fighting to prove that there were many flaws in his legal process that kept him from proving that he does not meet criteria for capital punishment. Prepare to embark on a journey into a life at death row through the eyes of Charles Victor Thompson and run next to him as a child and an escapee as he took in the beauty of nature and the South Texas sun with the grass beneath his feet.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages Les pieds nus dans l'herbe: L'histoire de Charles Thompson
Document(s)
The Court of Life and Death: The Two Tracks of Constitutional Sentencing Law and the Case for Uniformity.
By Rachel E. Barkow / New York University (NYU), on 1 January 2008
Article
United States
More details See the document
This Article argues for the abandonment of the two-track approach to sentencing by the Supreme Court. It finds no support in the Constitution’s text, history, or structure, and the functional arguments given by the Court to support its capital decisions apply with equal force to all other criminal punishments.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Arbitrariness,
Document(s)
The Death Penalty In 2018: Year End Report
By Death Penalty Information Center / Death Penalty Information Centre, on 1 January 2018
2018
NGO report
More details See the document
New death sentences and executions remained near historic lows in 2018 and a twentieth state abolished capital punishment, as public opinion polls, election results, legislative actions, and court decisions all reflected the continuing erosion of the death penalty across the country.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Death Penalty,
EN-Death_Penalty_Manual_-_final_copy_01_16_13-1.pdf
on 8 September 2020
2020
FR_Death_Penalty_Manual-05_06_13-1.pdf
on 8 September 2020
Document(s)
Religion and the Death Penalty
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 8 September 2020
Arguments against the death penalty
More details See the document
In recent years, a growing number of religious organizations have participated in the nation’s death penalty debate. The purpose of this Web page is to provide access to information regarding the efforts of these faith groups and to highlight recent developments related to religion and the death penalty.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Religion ,
Document(s)
The Death Penalty in 2010: Year End Reports
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2010
2010
NGO report
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The death penalty continued to be mired in conflict in 2010, as states grappled with an ongoing controversy over lethal injections, the high cost of capital punishment, and increasing public sentiment in favor of alternative sentences. Executions dropped by 12% compared with 2009, and by more than 50% since 1999. The number of new death sentences was about the same as in 2009, the lowest number in 34 years. —– For other DPIC year end reports (from 1995 – 2009) please visit: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/reports
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
EN_WCADP_TDR_GenderSensitiveEvaluationWorldDay2021_30.09
on 7 October 2022
Terms of Reference – Gender sensitive Evaluation
2022
Article(s)
Program Officer
By PGA, on 22 February 2016
PGA is recruiting a Programme Officer for its Hague office.
2016
Document(s)
No one is spared – The widespread use of the death penalty in Iran
By League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran, on 5 November 2020
2020
Drug Offenses
Fair Trial
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Juveniles
Women
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- Document type Array
- Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Themes list Drug Offenses / Fair Trial / Juveniles / Women
Document(s)
Q&A: The Death Penalty and Drug Offenses
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
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This Q&A was prepared by Harm Reduction International (www.ihra.net), the International Drug PolicyConsortium (www.idpc.net) and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (www.worldcoalition.org) aheadof World Day against the Death Penalty on 10 October 2015.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Drug Offences,
- Available languages Questions-Réponses: peine de mort et trafic de drogue
Document(s)
Death penalty abolition, Death penalty as inhuman and degrading treatment
By European Court of Human Rights, on 1 January 2012
2012
International law - Regional body
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Factsheet regarding cases concerning the Death Penalty
- Document type International law - Regional body
- Themes list International law,
Member(s)
Japan Innocence and Death Penalty Research Center
on 30 April 2020
The JIADEP mission is to assist those who have been wrongfully incarcerated and sentenced to death, and to educate the public on the tragedies of criminal justice in Japan by lecturing, writing, and demonstrating.
2020
Japan
Document(s)
A Thousand People Face the Death Penalty in Iraq
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2009
2009
NGO report
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Iraq now has one of the highest rates of execution in the world. At least 1,000 people are believed to be under sentence of death, 150 of whom have exhausted all legal remedies available to them and are therefore at serious risk of being hanged. This document describes the use of the death penalty in Iraq, including issues of transperancy, crimes punishable by death, unfair trials, the death penalty as used in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and some individual cases are discussed.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages ألف شخص يواجهون عقوبة الإعدام في العراقIrak. Un millier de personnes encourent la peine de mort en IrakIrák: Un millar de personas se enfrentan a la pena de muerte en Irak
Document(s)
Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases
By American Bar Association, on 1 January 2003
2003
Working with...
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The objective of these Guidelines is to set forth a national standard of practice for the defense of capital cases in order to ensure high quality legal representation for all persons facing the possible imposition or execution of a death sentence by any jurisdiction. These Guidelines apply from the moment the client is taken into custody and extend to all stages of every case in which the jurisdiction may be entitled to seek the death penalty, including initial and ongoing investigation, pretrial proceedings, trial, post-conviction review, clemency proceedings and any connected litigation.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
USA: More about politics than child protection: The death penalty for sex crimes against children
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2006
2006
NGO report
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On 8 June, the Governor of South Carolina signed a bill allowing the death penalty for a person convicted for a second time of sex crimes against children under the age of 11 and a day later, the Governor of Oklahoma signed a similar bill. Amnesty International urges all legislative, executive and judicial authorities in the United States to meet their human rights obligations by not permitting any expansion of the death penalty to non-lethal crimes such as sexual assault. The organization renews its call for a total moratorium on executions in the United States.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Most Serious Crimes,
- Available languages ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA : Cuestión de política, más que de protección de menores : La pena de muerte por delitos sexuales cometidos contra menores de edad
Document(s)
Ending Executions in Europe – Towards Abolition of the Death Penalty in Belarus
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
Belarus
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Belarus is the last country in Europe and in the former Soviet Union that is still carrying out executions. Since gaining its independence from the USSR in 1991 Belarus has taken some significant steps towards ending the use of the death penalty. The information in this report has been gathered over more than two decades of work monitoring the practice of the death penalty in Belarus.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Belarus
- Themes list Transparency, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Tanzania: the death sentence institutionnalised
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) / Eric Mirguet / Arnold Tsunga, on 1 January 2005
2005
NGO report
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Individuals are regularly sentenced to death in murder cases, but no statistics are published about the number of condemnations. Under the Tanzanian Penal Code, the death sentence remains a mandatory penalty for murder while it can also be applied for treason. As of April 2003, 370 persons (359 males and 11 females) were awaiting execution in the prisons of mainland Tanzania in conditions that might amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. There are a number of dysfunctions in the Tanzanian legal system, which seems to represent a threat to the rule of law, and an obstacle to reform: the unwillingness of the Executive to have its decisions challenged in judicial proceedings, and; the existence of a Penal System essentially based on retaliation towards the offenders rather than rehabilitation ; e.g. corporal punishments can still be applied for numerous offences, in spite of the fact that they clearly violate international and regional human rights instruments. Furthermore, pervasive corruption in the police and the judiciary represents a serious threat to the due process of law, including in death penalty cases.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Transparency, Mandatory Death Penalty,
- Available languages Swahili : Tanzania: Adhabu ya Kifo Imerasimishwa?Tanzanie: La peine de mort institutionnalisée
Document(s)
Training Resource: Protecting the Rights of Those Facing the Death Penalty and Life and Long-Term Imprisonment
on 1 January 2011
2011
Working with...
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PRI training resource (1/3): Aimed mainly to mid-level prison officers, this resource’s trains these stakeholders on: due process and fair trial standards, international standards on the treatment of prisoners, vulnerable prisoners, building a rehabilitation-oriented penal culture.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Fair Trial, Death Row Conditions,