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MADP released its annual report which highlights some of the major problems with Missouri’s broken death penalty system. Here is a snapshot of the death penalty in Missouri in 2015: 6 executions in 2015 but no new death sentences in Missouri in 2015.

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

This important book is sure to foster informed public discussion about the death penalty by deepening readers’ understanding of how religious beliefs and perspectives shape this contentious issue. Featuring a fair, balanced appraisal of its topic, Religion and the Death Penalty brings thoughtful religious reflection to bear on current challenges facing the capital justice system.

• Document type Book
• Themes list Religion ,

We examine sources of variation in possession and use of the death penalty using data drawn from 193 nations in order to test theories of punishment. We find the death penalty to be rooted in a country’s legal and political systems, and to be influenced by its religious traditions. A country’s level of economic development, its educational attainment, and its religious composition shape its political institutions and practices, indirectly affecting its use of the death penalty. The article concludes by discussing likely future trends.

• Document type Article
• Themes list Networks,

Harm Reduction International has monitored use of the death penalty for drug offences worldwide since its first ground-breaking publication on this issue in 2007. This eighth report on the subject, continues its work of providing regular updates on legislative and practical developments related to the use of capital punishment for drug offences, a practice which is a clear violation of international human rights law.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Drug Offences, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,

The sixth annual report of Iran Human Rights (IHR) on the death penalty gives an assessment of how the death penalty was implemented in 2013 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Juveniles, Women, Minorities, Religion , Fair Trial, International law, Transparency, Drug Offences, Torture, Discrimination, Foreign Nationals, Hanging, Stoning, Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
• Available languages گزارش سالانه اعدام در ايران – سال ٢٠١٣ میلادیRapport annuel sur la peine de mort en iran 2013

Poster of the 16th World Day against the Death Penalty dedicated to living conditions on death row. Dignity For All.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,

This report details the administration of the death penalty in Taiwan. It discusses Taiwans obligations under international law, how executions are carried out, the profile of the condemned, discrimination in the sysem and discusses placing a moratorium on executions in Taiwan.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Networks,
• Available languages 重啓死刑執行 廢死之路大倒退- 2010台灣死刑報告

In this new fourth edition of HRI’s ‘Global Overview’ series, HRI updates its previous research on the death penalty for drugs worldwide, and it considers critical developments on the issue. While the report notes that there still are a troubling number of governments with capital drug laws, in practice very few states execute people for drugs. The number of people killed for drug-related offences is high because China, Iran and Saudi Arabia are aggressive executioners. Those governments that kill for drugs are an extreme fringe of the international community.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Drug Offences,

Drawing from televised debates over capital punishment on CNN’s Crossfire from February 2000 to June 2002, I argue that Teles’s (1998) theory of “dissensus politics” is useful in understanding the U.S.’s preservation of capital punishment as well as current divisions in death penalty sentiment within the U.S. I pose the retention of capital punishment as the product of rival elites who are unwilling to forsake capital punishment’s moral character (and often the political benefits it offers), and who consequently ignore an American public that appears to have reached a measured consensus of doubt about the death penalty.

• Document type Article
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Public opinion, Public debate,

The annual report of the death penalty in 2010 shows a dramatic increase in the number of executions compared to the previous years. The number of annual executions in 2010 in Iran is probably the highest since the mass executions of political prisoners in the summer of 1988.

• Document type NGO report
• Available languages سازمان حقوق بشر ایران: گزارش سالانه اعدام در سال میلادی ۲۰۱۰

The report calls for an end to the use of the death penalty for drug offences around the world, and concludes that the on-going execution of drug offenders is a violation of international human rights law. The report emphasises how the harms faced by people who use drugs do not only include health harms such as HIV and hepatitis C infections, but also the effects of repressive law enforcement activities.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Drug Offences,

The report describes the federal forensic oversight program; outlines the problems that have plagued the program since its inception (with specific examples): Explains the consequences of the federal government’s inadequate administration of the program; shows how forensic negligence and misconduct lead to wrongful convictions; and gives specific recommendations for what the federal government, states and individuals can do to strengthen forensic oversight.

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

Capital punishment has once again become the focus of intense national debate in the United States. There is increasingly widespread public concern over the propriety of state-sanctioned executions and the legal processes by which they are accomplished. Even in political arenas, where little more than a decade ago commentators could quip that “the electric chair has replaced the American flag as your all-purpose campaign symbol,” many elected officials are voicing second thoughts about capital punishment. The American Bar Association (ABA), among other prestigious groups, has called for a moratorium on executions until, at least, the procedural flaws in the legal process through which death sentencing takes place — what the ABA analysts characterized as a “haphazard maze of unfair practices” — have been identified and remedied. Recent assessments of the scope and seriousness of the problems that plague this process suggest that the task of reforming the system of capital punishment will prove to be a daunting one. For example, James Liebman and his colleagues have presented a sobering picture of what they termed a “broken system” in which the outcomes of capital trials — if judged by their fates in the appellate courts — are legally wrong more often than they are right. And at least one judge declared the federal death penalty unconstitutional because it failed to provide sufficient procedural protections to capital defendants.

• Document type Article
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Public opinion, Public debate,

Melissa Lucio was the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death in Texas. For ten years she has been awaiting her fate, and she now faces her last appeal.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Fair Trial

The stories of parents, siblings, children, and cousins chronicled in this book-vividly illustrate the precarious position family members of capital offenders occupy in the criminal justice system. They live in the shadow of death, crushed by trauma, grief, and helplessness. In this penetrating account of guilt and innocence, shame and triumph, devastating loss and ultimate redemption, the voices of these family members add a new dimension to debates about capital punishment and how communities can prevent and address crime.

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

This book examines the death penalty within the changing socio-political context of China. The authors’ treatment of China’s death penalty is legal, historical, and comparative. In particular, they examine; the substantive and procedures laws surrounding capital punishment in different historical periods the purposes and functions of capital punishment in China in various dynasties changes in the method of imposition and relative prevalence of capital punishment over time the socio-demographic profile of the executed and their crimes over the last two decades and comparative practices in other countries. Their analyses of the death penalty in contemporary China focus on both its theory – how it should be done in law – and actual practice – based on available secondary reports/sources.

• Document type Book
• Countries list China
• Themes list Networks,

Lawyers are generally familiar with the ethical rule forbidding frivolous arguments, principally because of sanctions imposed under rules of civil procedure for making such arguments. Not all lawyers are aware, however, of two ways in which the prohibitions of frivolous arguments are restricted in both the rules themselves and in their enforcement. First, the ethical rules have express limitations with respect to arguments made on behalf of criminal defendants, and courts are generally loath to sanction criminal defense lawyers. Second, the term “frivolous” is narrowed, even in civil cases, by the way it is defined and explained in the ethical rules and in court decisions.

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

In the past thirty years, American attitudes towards those convicted of crimes have followed a devastating progression toward the dehumanization of criminal defendants. The evolution of law and policy has mirrored these changing attitudes. The philosophies behind incarceration have shifted from “facilitat[ing inmates’] productive re-entry back into the free world” to “using imprisonment merely to punish criminal offenders by … “containing’ them behind bars … for as long as possible.” 4 Rather than preventing crime or rehabilitating offenders, incarceration has become a means to satisfy society’s desire for vengeance and retribution. Responding to this push to punish, prosecutors in their haste to obtain a conviction are more likely to stress the heinousness of crimes rather than questioning the circumstances surrounding …

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

Two-page guide with tips and contacts for individuals interested in getting started in anti-death penalty activism in the US.

• Document type Campaigning
• Themes list Public opinion,

The tide is turning in the United States from death sentences to permanent imprisonment. A growing number of states are choosing permanent imprisonment over the death penalty, fueled by growing concerns about the wrongful conviction of innocent people and the high costs of the death penalty in comparison to permanent imprisonment. In 2009, the number of new death sentences nationwide reached the lowest level since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. California lags behind in this national trend. The Golden State sent more people to death row last year than in the seven preceding years. By the close of 2009, California’s death row was the largest and most costly in the United States.

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

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Public opinion, Death Penalty,

The US death penalty usage remains near record lows in 2019.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Due Process , Innocence, Statistics,

Public support for the death penalty, which reached a four-decade low in 2016, has increased somewhat since then. Today, 54% of Americans favor the death penalty for people convicted of murder, while 39% are opposed, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in April and May.

• Document type Article
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Public opinion,

The wrongful execution of an innocent person is an injustice that can never be rectified. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty, 139 men and women have been released from death row nationally.

• Document type Arguments against the death penalty
• Themes list Innocence,

This document looks back at the death penalty in 2007 beginning with the New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission releasing its final report recommending abolition and concluding with the UN General Assembly passing a landmark resolution calling for a global moratorium. It includes death by electrocution; abolition; execution, commutation and stay of execution; mental illness; child rape as well as geographical and colour bias.

• Document type NGO report
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Networks, Statistics,
• Available languages Estados Unidos: Rompiendo con un hábito letal - Un repaso a la pena de muerte en 2007

PRI information kit on the alternative sanctions to the death penalty: ; a review of current practices; the increasing use of ‘life’ and long-term sentences and their contribution to growing prison numbers; 12 steps toward alternative sanctions to the death penalty that respect international human rights standards and norms.

• Document type Arguments against the death penalty
• Themes list Sentencing Alternatives,

A new book by Professor Robert Bohm of the University of Central Florida looks at death-penalty decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court prior to the modern era of capital punishment that began in 1968. In The Past As Prologue, Bohm examines 39 Court decisions, covering issues such as clemency, jury selection, coerced confessions, and effective representation.

• Document type Book
• Countries list United States
• Themes list International law, Trend Towards Abolition,

This report analyses the use of the death penalty in China and examines sentencing patterns and the legislation behind the death penalty.

• Document type NGO report
• Countries list China
• Themes list Networks, Statistics,
• Available languages République Populaire de Chine: La peine de mort en 1999

This document focuses on the significant developments and events – both negative and positive – in the struggle against the death penalty in 2006. It includes steps towards abolition; horrific state killings; executions after unfair trials, including that of Saddam Hussein; the growing global campaign for abolition, and the political courage needed to rid the world of judicial state killing.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Networks, Statistics,
• Available languages Halte aux hommicides commis par l'étatPena de muerte: Poner fin al homicidio estatal

This article explores the roots of white support for capital punishment in the United States. Our analysis addresses individual-level and contextual factors, paying particular attention to how racial attitudes and racial composition influence white support for capital punishment. Our findings suggest that white support hinges on a range of attitudes wider than prior research has indicated, including social and governmental trust and individualist and authoritarian values. Extending individual-level analyses, we also find that white responses to capital punishment are sensitive to local context. Perhaps most important, our results clarify the impact of race in two ways. First, racial prejudice emerges here as a comparatively strong predictor of white support for the death penalty. Second, black residential proximity functions to polarize white opinion along lines of racial attitude. As the black percentage of county residents rises, so too does the impact of racial prejudice on white support for capital punishment.

• Document type Article
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Public opinion,

17th World Day Against the Death Penalty Poster in black and white

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list Juveniles, Public debate, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages Affiche - 17ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mort (noir et blanc)

Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Japanese)

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages Indonesian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Cebuano)Tagalog : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Tagalog)Italian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Italian)Divehi : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Dhivehi)German : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Farsi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 18ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Spanish)Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (English)

Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (English)

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages Indonesian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Cebuano)Tagalog : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Tagalog)Japanese : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Japanese)Italian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Italian)Divehi : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Dhivehi)German : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Farsi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 18ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Spanish)

Detailed information on the death penalty in the Greater Caribbean

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

Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Tagalog)

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages Indonesian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Cebuano)Japanese : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Japanese)Italian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Italian)Divehi : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Dhivehi)German : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Farsi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 18ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Spanish)Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (English)

Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Cebuano)

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages Tagalog : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Tagalog)Japanese : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Japanese)Italian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Italian)Divehi : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Dhivehi)German : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Farsi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 18ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Spanish)Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (English)

17th World Day Against the Death Penalty Poster in Malay

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

17th World Day Against the Death Penalty Poster in German

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

17th World Day Against the Death Penalty Poster

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

Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages Indonesian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Cebuano)Tagalog : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Tagalog)Japanese : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Japanese)Italian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Italian)Divehi : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Dhivehi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Farsi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 18ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Spanish)Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (English)

Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Italian)

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages Indonesian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Cebuano)Tagalog : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Tagalog)Japanese : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Japanese)Divehi : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Dhivehi)German : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Farsi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 18ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Spanish)Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (English)

Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Dhivehi)

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages Indonesian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Cebuano)Tagalog : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Tagalog)Japanese : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Japanese)Italian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Italian)German : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Farsi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 18ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Spanish)Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (English)

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

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list International law,

This paper has three objectives. First, it provides an analysis of the state-of-play regarding the death penalty in Asia. Second it reports on EU human rights dialogues. Third, it suggests policies that might help to support initiatives in Asian countries aimed both at restraining the use of the death penalty and securing its complete abolition.

• Document type Article
• Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Country/Regional profiles,

In this book Beth Berkowitz tells the story of modern scholarship on the ancient rabbinic death penalty and continues the story by offering a fresh perspective using the approaches of ritual studies, cultural criticism, and talmudic source criticism. Against the scholarly consensus, Berkowitz argues that the rabbinic laws of the death penalty were used by the early Rabbis in their efforts to establish themselves in the wake of the destruction of the Temple. The purpose of the laws, she contends, was to create a complex ritual of execution that was controlled by the Rabbis, thus bolstering their claims to authority in the context of Roman imperial domination.

• Document type Book
• Themes list Religion ,

While most western democracies have renounced the death penalty, capital punishment enjoys vast and growing support in the United States. A significant and vocal minority, however, continues to oppose it. Against Capital Punishment is the first full account of anti-death penalty activism in America during the years since the ten-year moratorium on executions ended.

• Document type Book
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,

The Flynn Effect is a well documented phenomenon demonstrating score increases on IQ measures over time that average about 0.3 points per year. Normative adjustments to scores derived from IQ measures normed more than a year or so prior to the time of testing an individual have become controversial in several settings but especially so in matters of death penalty litigation. Here we make the argument that if the Flynn Effect is real, then a Flynn Correction should be applied to obtained IQs in order to obtain the most accurate estimate of IQ possible. To fail to provide the most accurate estimate possible in matters that are truly life and death decisions seems wholly indefensible.

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

The study results indicate that when test subjects, many of whom are likely retributivists, are presented with information about the problem of innocence, the drop in support for capital punishment spans all points on the Likert scale. Our study suggests that more rigorous testing may demonstrate that an individual’s knowledge of the “innocence problem” can generate more profond changes in attitudes toward the death penalty than indicted by previous studies of the marshall Hypotheses.

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

There have been at least sixty-seven postconviction DNA exonerations in the United States. Our Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law has either assisted or been the attorney of record in thirty-nine of those cases, including eight men who served time on death row. For all of these men, existing appellate remedies failed to catch the mistakes and correct the injustice. In one third of the exonerations, bad lawyering contributed to their convictions yet in only one case was ineffective assistance of counsel recognized by an appellate court. Mistaken eyewitness identification was a critical factor in almost 90% of the unjust convictions yet not a single trial or appellate court found the eyewitness testimony to be unreliable.

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

This document describes the process that someone suspected of committing a capital crime goes through under the Chinese criminal justice system, from detention through to execution. This process will be described using examples of cases researched by Amnesty International, and others monitored in the official press in China. As shown, there is potential for the violation of human rights at every stage of the criminal justice process leading to execution.

• Document type NGO report
• Countries list China
• Themes list Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
• Available languages République Populaire de Chine: Des exécutions << conformes au droit >> ? La peine de mort en Chine

Four-page introduction to the status of the death penalty in international human rights law and the global trend abolition.

• Document type Campaigning
• Themes list International law, Trend Towards Abolition,

This survey polled public opinion in Kazakhstan towards the use of the death penalty for terrorist offences resulting in death, and also for especially grave crimes committed inwartime.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Public opinion,

This report focuses itsanalysis on discrimination and torture, cruel inhuman and degrading treatment and foundnumerous human rights violations, including the most basic right – the right to life – in theuse of the death penalty in California and Louisiana.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Discrimination,

Test your knowledge of human rights and the death penalty in the U.S. with our downloadable quiz.

• Document type Campaigning
• Themes list Country/Regional profiles,

This report aims at focusing attention on the country’s use of the death penalty, particularly as Zambia does not apply international standards for fair trials in its use of the death penalty.

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

This paper describes the international law surrounding the trend towards abolition. It then discusses this in relation to the death penalty in Palestine which has come under criticism from Human Rights NGO’s to provide prisoners with international standards regarding their detention and providing a fair trial.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,

Since 1976, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that executions could resume after a four year moratorium, more than 1,050 people have been executed in the United States. Approximately 3,370 men and women remain on death row throughoutthe United States. This is a teaching guide on the death penalty in the United States after 1976.

• Document type Campaigning
• Themes list Networks,

In China last year, approximately 17 people were sentenced to death each day, every day of the year. This report examines the record versus the rhetoric in 1996. It examines the death penalty in practice during this year’s “Strike Hard Anti-Crime Campaign” which highlights legal inadequacies and institutionalized abuses long discussed by domestic critics.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
• Available languages RÉPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DE CHINE: La peine capitale en Chine : nouveaux records et nouvelles transgressions de la loiREPÚBLICA POPULAR CHINA: La pena de muerte en China: Batir récords abatiendo vidas

This advocacy toolkit is for the use of activists working on the abolition of the death penalty in Africa. It is intended to equip them with some key advocacy tools to effectively influence the institutions and individuals who can make abolition a reality in the region.

• Document type Lobbying

This report examines four key aspects of the administration of capital punishment in Virginia: prosecutorial discretion in the charging of capital crimes, quality of legal representation for the accused at trial, appellate review of trials resulting in the death penalty and race. During its preparation, another issue became apparent: the state’s record keeping.

• Document type NGO report

Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) who have committed heinous crimes present hard cases for the American system of justice. The violence that occasionally erupts into murder can easily overcome the special respect that is afforded most veterans. However, looking away and ignoring this issue serves neither veterans nor victims. PTSD has affected an enormous number of veterans returning from combat zones. Over 800,000 Vietnam veterans suffered from PTSD. At least 175,000 veterans of Operation Desert Storm were affected by “Gulf War Illness,” which has been linked to brain cancer and other mental deficits. Over 300,000 veterans from the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts have PTSD. In one study, only about half had received treatment in the prior year.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Mental Illness,

This overview discusses the intersection of the law and the challenges faced by mentally ill capital defendants at every stage from trial through appeals and execution. It provides examples of some of the more famous cases of the execution of the mentally ill. Lastly, it describes current legislative efforts to exempt those who suffer from a serious mental illness from execution and the importance of such efforts.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Mental Illness,

DPIC’s 2016 Year-End Report: another record decline in death penalty use in the US. A video summary of the report.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,

This submission addresses the Central African Republic’s compliance with its humanrights obligations with regard to its use of the death penalty. This submission concludesthat although the Central African Republic (CAR) should be given great credit for takingimportant steps towards abolition of the death penalty, including supporting the 2012U.N. General Assembly resolution calling for a moratorium on the death penalty, manyhurdles remain in terms of ensuring that the citizens of CAR are afforded adequatedomestic and international guarantees against the arbitrary deprivation of life.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Countries list Central African Republic
• Themes list Due Process , Trend Towards Abolition, Arbitrariness,

Harm Reduction International (HRI) has monitored the use of the death penalty for drug offences worldwide since our first ground-breaking publication on this issue in 2007. This report, our ninth on the subject, continues our work of providing regular updates on legislative, policy and practical developments related to the use of capital punishment for drug offences, a practice which is a clear violation of international law.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Drug Offences,

Poster of the 14th Wold Day against the death penalty dedicated to terrorism: Execution is a terrorist’s tool. Stop the cycle of violence

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list Terrorism,
• Available languages German : Poster - 14. Welttag gegen die TodesstrafeItalian : Poster - 14° Giornata mondiale contro la Pena di morteپوستر - رد روز جهانی علیه مجازات اعدام 2016плакат - Всемирный день 2016海報 - 世界反对死刑日 2016 繁體海報 - 世界反对死刑日2016 简化字Cartel - Día Mundial 2016Affiche Journée Mondiale 2016

This article deals with one of the main arguments of defenders of the capital sentence: is the death penalty a source of relief for the victims?

• Document type Article
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Public debate, Death Penalty,

The evidence reviewed demonstrates frequent and heavy-handed recourse to the death penalty by Saudi Arabia in recent months. At least 149 people were executed in 2018, with at minimum 46 remaining on death row at the end of the year. A significant proportion of those executed were political dissidents, and a number were children at the time of their alleged offending. Each of these features connotes a grave violation of international human rights norms.

• Document type International law - Regional body

Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached widely varying, even contradictory, conclusions. Some studies have concluded that the threat of capital punishment deters murders, saving large numbers of lives; other studies have concluded that executions actually increase homicides; still others, that executions have no effect on murder rates. Commentary among researchers, advocates, and policymakers on the scientific validity of the findings has sometimes been acrimonious.

• Document type Book
• Themes list Deterrence ,

The present report, the first to be submitted to the Human Rights Council, is submitted pursuant to Council resolution 16/9 and covers the human rights developments since the commencement of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on 1 August 2011.

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Country/Regional profiles,

In this joint letter many Iranian and international human rights organizations, urge the governments they called to support the renewal of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, during the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
• Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Discrimination,

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

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

The authors gathered information on 1665 death-eligible cases nationwide for three years at decade intervals: 1994, 2004, and 2014. In 517 cases death sentences were imposed; in 311 cases sentences spared the defendants from death sentences, and in 837 cases prosecutors spared defendants from death sentences.

• Document type Article
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,

This paper discusses some case law on detention issues by the Human Rights Committee (HRC) that supervises the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), as well as HRC case law on the so-called “death row phenomenon,” which involves forcing a person to live under conditions that spawn intense fear, distress, and the virtual destruction of the personality while awaiting execution.

• Document type Article
• Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Phenomenon,

She tells the story of two inmates she came to know as a spiritual adviser. Dobie Williams, a poor black man with an IQ of 65 from rural Louisiana, was executed after being represented by incompetent counsel and found guilty by an all-white jury based mostly on conjecture and speculation. Joseph O’Dell was convicted of murder after the court heard from an inmate who later admitted to giving false testimony for his own benefit. O’Dell received neither an evidentiary hearing nor potentially exculpatory DNA testing and was executed, insisting on his innocence the whole while. Besides exploring the shaky cases against them, Prejean describes in vivid detail the thoughts and feelings of Williams and O’Dell as their bids for clemency fail and they are put to death. The second part of the book details “the machinery of death,” the legal process that Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, dismayed at the inequities of the death penalty, cited as his reason for resigning and that current justice Antonin Scalia has boasted of being a part of.

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

The Darkest Hour: Stories and Interviews from Death Row by Nanon M. Williams emerged from a deep and dark despair in a place where the thought of suicide often holds more appeal than the thought of living

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

Where the death penalty is applied, international law, jurisprudence and practice require that certain minimum standards are applied. The standards include international and regional treaties that are legally binding on states that have ratified them, customary international law that is binding on all states without exception, and non-binding standards and resolutions that nonetheless command the support of the majority of states. International understanding of these minimum standards has continued to evolve in the years since they were drafted, but the documents themselves do not always keep pace. This paper brings together international, regional and national standards, the most recent understandings of relevant experts and appropriate insights from other connected disciplines. It explores possible ways in which international minimum standards could be further strengthened at this time, whether through ECOSOC, the UN Human Rights Council, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, regional bodies or national amendments to laws and policies. In each section, the issue and current practice is described, followed by examples of good practice or suggestions for improvement, finishing with a short list of recommendations for strengthening existing standards. These issues and recommendations are not final, but are intended to provide a point from which discussion can begin.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list International law, Legal Representation,

An argument against deterrence is made by looking at a survey which found that during the last 20 years, the homicide rate in states with the death penalty has been 48 to 101 percent higher than in states without the death penalty.

• Document type Arguments against the death penalty
• Themes list Deterrence ,

Written in the spirit of “Dead Man Walking,” this book by Antoinette Bosco conveys both the powerful personal experience of a mother whose son was murdered and a wealth of information about the criminal justice system in America. (Orbis Books, 2001)

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Public opinion, Murder Victims' Families, Death Penalty,

This book addresses one of the most controversial issues in the criminal justice system today—the death penalty. Paternoster et al. present a balanced perspective that focuses on both the arguments for and against capital punishment. Coverage draws on legal, historical, philosophical, economic, sociological, and religious points of view.

• Document type Book
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Due Process , Public opinion, Country/Regional profiles,

When the state decides to seek the death penalty against a criminal defendant, the cards are heavily stacked against him before the trial even starts. First, the defendant must face a jury that already assumes he is guilty simply because he has been charged with a crime. They will assume this all the more given that it is a capital case. Moreover, the jury selection process itself will produce a jury that is predisposed to vote both for guilt and for death.The purpose of this handbook is to provide some suggestions for ways to “unstack the deck” for capital defendants by challenging the state’s case in aggravation.

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

Prior research on the role of race in wrongful capital convictions has focused primarily on the race of the defendant. In contrast, this article begins with two case studies that illustrate the impact of the race of the defendant and also the race of the victim in contributing to erroneous convictions. The second section of this article identifies the race of the defendant and the victim in 82 cases where prisoners were released from death row because of doubts about their guilt and in a matched group of inmates who were executed. Through the use of three logistic regression models, the combination of the race of the defendant and the race of the victim is identified as a significant predictor of case outcome (exoneration vs. execution). The results also indicate that an indirect relationship may exist between the combination of the race of the defendant and the victim, the strength of the evidence, and case outcome.

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

Malaysia is one of only a handful of countries around the world that continues to retain a mandatory death penalty. The newly elected Malaysian government has promised to abolish mandatory death sentences and other “oppressive laws”. This short animation sheds light on what the mandatory death penalty is, what the Malaysian public think about it and why it is time to consign this abhorrent punishment to history.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Countries list Malaysia
• Themes list Public opinion, Drug Offences, Mandatory Death Penalty,

• Document type Multimedia content
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Moratorium , Public debate, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

Every 3 hours someone is put to death by their government. Is this justice? Watch first-hand testimonies by Reprieve lawyers and clients. Read ten hard facts about the death penalty. Decide for yourself.

• Document type Campaigning
• Themes list Public debate, Death Penalty,

A new study by an interdisciplinary team of Arizona State University psychology researchers has found a link between the actual and perceived scarcity of resources and support for capital punishment. The study discovered that countries with greater resource scarcity were more likely to have a death penalty, as were U.S. states with lower per capita income.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Death Penalty, Financial cost,

This video by Amnesty International talks about how the administration of the death penalty is cruel, often sought after unfair trials and how innocent people have been wrongfully convicted. Voice over by Colin Firth.

• Document type Arguments against the death penalty
• Available languages فيديو حول عقوبة الاعدام يسردها الممثل كولن فيرثDiaporama animé sur la peine de mort dans le mondeFotogalería: historias de todo el mundo sobre la pena capital

The vast majority of countries in Western Europe, North America and South America – more than 139 nations worldwide – have abandoned capital punishment in law or in practice. This document goes through the death penalty status of countries world wide.

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

MYTH: The death penalty acts as a deterrent to potential criminals. FACT: The death penalty does not deter crime. It stimulates it.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Deterrence ,

MYTH: The death penalty saves money. It costs less to kill people than to imprison them for life. FACT:The death penalty costs millions more than a sentence of life without parole. Taxpayers’ money could be used more efficiently on crime prevention programs and police.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Sentencing Alternatives, Financial cost,

MYTH: The death penalty is not political. FACT: The death penalty is often driven by politics rather than a desire to repair social problems and bring justice.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Fair Trial,

The International Commission against theDeath Penalty (ICDP) undertook anumber of activities in 2013 to reinforce andconsolidate the global trend toward abolition ofcapital punishment. This is a full report on ICDP’s workin 2013 as well as statistics on global trends on capital punishment.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Statistics,

MYTH: The death penalty applies to everyone equally, regardless of race, wealth or background. FACT: People who are convicted of the same crime receive vastly different penalties, across the world and within the same country or even case.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list Arbitrariness,

This report documents unfairness and unreliability that plague the death penalty system in Alabama and makes several recommendations, including a moratorium on executions. The major areas of focus the report examines are: Inadequate Defence, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Judicial Overrides, Execution of the Mentallly Retarded, Racial Discrimination, and Geographic Disparities.

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

This toolkit is for the use of activists who are working on the abolition of the death penalty in West Africa. It is intended to equip activists with some key advocacy tools to effectively influence the institutions and individuals who can make abolition a reality.

• Document type Lobbying
• Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Country/Regional profiles,
• Available languages Manuel de plaidoyer - Abolition de la peine de mort en Afrique de l'Ouest