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Poster – 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
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17th World Day Against the Death Penalty Poster
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- Themes list Juveniles, Public debate, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
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Fact Sheet – Death Penalty in the Caribbean
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
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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
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ENHANCING EU ACTION ON THE DEATH PENALTY IN ASIA
By Roger Hood / European Parliament / DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR EXTERNAL POLICIES OF THE UNION, on 1 January 2012
2012
Article
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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,
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Preventing the Execution of the Innocent: Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee.
By Peter Neufeld / Hofstra Law Review, on 1 January 2001
2001
Article
United States
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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,
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I Spent A Day With Death Row Survivors
By Anthony Padilla, on 1 January 2020
2020
Multimedia content
United States
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Anthony Padilla interviewed 4 death row survivors to shed light on sentencing innocent people to death for a crime they did not commit. Derrick Jamison, Nick Yarris, Peter Pringle and Sunny Jacobs spent between 15 and 23 years awaiting executions, before being finally released from death row.
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- Countries list United States
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Failed Justice: Innocent on Death Row
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2018
2018
Multimedia content
United States
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This video tells the story of one prisoner, Anthony Ray Hinton, who spent 30 years on death row in Alabama for a crime he did not commit.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Innocence, Death Row Conditions,
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Voices and video from death row- Ghezelhesar mass-executions
By Iran Human Rights (IHR), on 1 January 2015
2015
Multimedia content
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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This video was made by IHR after the start of the executions of 77 prisoners in Ghezehesar prison. Two of the prisoners speak about the interrogations, torture, – You also see the last farewell of a prisoner before the execution.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Torture, Death Row Conditions,
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The Innocence Files
By Netflix, on 1 January 2020
2020
Multimedia content
United States
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This mini-series sheds light on 8 true stories of wrongful convictions overturned thanks to the work of the Innocence Project and several organizations from the Innocence Network. One of its episode feature the case of Texas death-row exoneree Alfred Dewayne Brown.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence, Legal Representation, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Preuves d'innocence
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Detailed factsheet on living conditions on death row
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018
2018
Multimedia content
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Detailed factsheet on living conditions on death row
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon, Death Penalty,
- Available languages ورقة معلومات مفصلة2018Fiche détaillée sur les conditions de vie dans les couloirs de la mort
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A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE INDIAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM AND COURT HIERARCHY
By MARY KOZLOVSKI / Asian Law Centre, on 1 January 2019
2019
Multimedia content
India
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This paper provides an introduction to the Indian judicial system and court hierarchy, outlining the jurisdiction of constitutional and statutory courts and tribunals and the appointment, tenure and removal of judges. It describes forms of alternative dispute resolution that have emerged in recent decades, partly to combat delays in the court system, and informal dispute resolution bodies that mediate family disputes, such as Sharia courts. The paper concludes by discussing the contentious issues of delay in the court system, public interest litigation, and appointments to the Supreme and High Courts of India.
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- Countries list India
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The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
By Helen Prejean / Vintage , on 1 January 2005
2005
Book
United States
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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.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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The Darkest Hour: Shedding Light on the Impact of Isolation and Death Row
By Dr. Betty Gilmore and Nanon M. Williams / Goodmedia press, on 1 January 2012
2012
Book
United States
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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,
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Coordination Eveil et cause pour l’Unité nationale et la lutte contre l’esclavage
on 30 April 2020
The Coordination Eveil et cause pour l’Unité nationale et la lutte contre l’eclavage is a non-governmental organization focused on the fight against slavery and its aftereffects. Created on 22 February 2012, it promotes a culture of Human rights and strenghten the national unity and and the bonds of love and brotherhood between every part of […]
2020
Mauritania
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Executing The Innocent and Support for Capital Punishment: Implications for Public Policy
By Francis T. Cullen / James D. Unnver / Criminology and Public Policy, on 1 January 2005
2005
Article
United States
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The issue of whether innocent people have been executed is now at the center of the debate concerning the legitimacy of capital punishment. The purpose of this research was to use data collected by the Gallup Organization in 2003 to investigate whether Americans who believed that an innocent person had been executed were less likely to support capital punishment. We also explored whether the association varied by race, given that African Americans are disproportionately affected by the death penalty. Our results indicated that three-quarters of Americans believed that an innocent person had been executed for a crime they did not commit within the last five years and that this belief was associated with lower levels of support for capital punishment, especially among those who thought this sanction was applied unfairly. In addition, our analyses revealed that believing an innocent person had been executed had a stronger association with altering African American than white support for the death penalty.A key claim of death penalty advocates is that a high proportion of the public supports capital punishment. In this context, scholars opposing this sanction have understood the importance of showing that the public’s support for executing offenders is contingent and shallower than portrayed by typical opinion polls. The current research joins this effort by arguing that the prospect of executing innocents potentially impacts public support for the death penalty and, in the least, creates ideological space for a reconsideration of the legitimacy of capital punishment.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
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Unstacking the Deck – A Handbook for Capital Defense Attorneys on Challenging the State’s Case in Aggravation
By John H. Blume / Death Penalty Resource & Defense Center, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
United States
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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.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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People’s Republic of China: Executed “according to law”? The death penalty in China
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
China
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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
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Human Rights and the Death Penalty
By The Advocates for Human Rights, on 1 January 2012
2012
Campaigning
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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,
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Views on the death penalty among college students in India
By Eric G. Lambert / Sudershan Pasupuleti / Punishment and Society / Shanhe Jiang / K. Jaishankar / Jagadis V. Bhimarasetty, on 1 January 2008
2008
Article
India
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While research abounds on attitudes toward capital punishment in the United States, such work has been lacking in non-western nations — particularly in India, the world’s largest democracy. Data recently collected have revealed variance in levels of support for the death penalty among Indian college students: 44 percent express some degree of opposition, 13 percent are uncertain, and 43 percent express some degree of support. Reasons for support or opposition also exhibited variance. According to a multivariate analysis, statistically significant reasons for support included retribution, instrumentalist goals, and incapacitation; while significant reasons for opposition included morality and the belief that deterrence could be achieved by imposing sentences of life without parole.
- Document type Article
- Countries list India
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate,
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International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) Review 2013
By International Commission Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2013
2013
NGO report
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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,
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The Death Penalty: America’s Experience with Capital Punishment
By Ray Paternoster / Robert Brame / Oxford University Press / Sarah Bacon, on 8 September 2020
2020
Book
United States
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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,
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America has abandoned the death penalty
By The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice / Harvard Law School, on 1 January 2015
2015
Academic report
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In 2015, America had the lowest number of executions in 25 years. Of the 28 people executed, 68% suffered from severe mental disabilities or experienced extreme childhood trauma and abuse according to a new report released by Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice. A significant number of the executed individuals had multiple mental impairments. Two individuals were executed despite doubts about their guilt.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
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Killing as Punishment: Reflections on the Death Penalty in America
By Hugo Adam Bedau / Northeastern, on 1 January 2004
2004
Book
United States
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Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the field, Bedau addresses topics such as strong public suppport for the death penalty, wrongful convictions, the disappearance of executive clemency, constitutional arguments surronding the Eight Amendment, and procedural reforms under consideration that move toward abolition.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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Discrimination, Torture, and Execution: A Human Rights Analysis of the Death Penalty in California and Louisiana
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) / Jessica Lee and Susan Hu, on 1 January 2013
2013
NGO report
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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,
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Death Penalty in the US Quiz
By The Advocates for Human Rights, on 1 January 2009
2009
Campaigning
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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,
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Position Paper: Death Penalty under the Palestinian National Authority
By Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, on 1 January 2010
2010
NGO report
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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,
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Zambia: Time to abolish the death penalty
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2001
2001
NGO report
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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,
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The Execution of Cameron Todd Willingham: Junk Science, an Innocent Man, and the Politics of Death
By Paul C. Giannelli / Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-18 , on 1 January 2011
2011
Article
United States
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The case of Cameron Todd Willingham has become infamous and was enmeshed in the death penalty debate and the reelection of Texas Governor Rick Perry, who refused to grant a stay of execution. The governor has since attempted to derail an investigation by the Texas Forensic Science Commission.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
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The Death Penalty Resource Guide
By Amnesty International - USA, on 1 January 2011
Campaigning
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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.
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- Themes list Networks,
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China: The death penalty in China: breaking records, breaking rules
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 1997
1997
NGO report
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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
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Unequal, Unfair and Irreversible: The Death Penalty in Virginia
By Laura LaFay / American Civil Liberties Union / Virgina, on 1 January 2000
2000
NGO report
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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
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Advocacy Toolkit: Abolition Of The Death Penalty In Africa
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2019
2019
Lobbying
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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
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Battle Scars: Military Veterans and the Death Penalty
By Death Penalty Information Center / Richard C. Dieter, on 1 January 2015
2015
NGO report
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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,
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Mental Illness and the Death Penalty
By American Civil Liberties Union, on 1 January 2009
2009
NGO report
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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,
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The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2019
By Harm Reduction International / Giada Girelli, on 1 January 2020
2020
NGO report
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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,
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A Perverse and Ominous Enterprise: The Death Penalty and Illegal Executions in Saudi Arabia
By Helena Kennedy, on 1 January 2019
2019
International law - Regional body
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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
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Deterrence and the Death Penalty
By The National Academies Press / John V. Pepper, on 1 January 2012
2012
Book
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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 ,
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
By Human Rights Council, on 1 January 2012
Working with...
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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,
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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE ULTIMATE PENAL SANCTION ON HOMICIDE SURVIVORS: A TWO STATE COMPARISON
By Marilyn Peterson Armour / Marquette Law Review, on 1 January 2012
Academic report
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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,
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ICCPR Case Law on Detention, the Prohibition of Cruel Treatment and Some Issues Pertaining to the Death Row Phenomenon
By Eva Rieter / Journal of the Institute of Justice and International Studies, on 1 January 2002
2002
Article
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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,
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Call Tender Evaluation 2021
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 June 2021
2021
World Coalition
Maldives
Philippines
Turkey
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External Evaluation of the project “Preventing the risk of resurgence of the death penalty in three abolitionist countries” of 36 months in the Maldives, Philippines and Turkey
- Document type World Coalition
- Countries list Maldives / Philippines / Turkey
- Available languages Appel d'Offre Evaluation 2021
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Death by hanging
By Nagisa Oshima, on 1 January 1968
1968
Multimedia content
Japan
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- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Japan
- Themes list Hanging, Death Penalty,
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GUILTY. THE FINAL 72 HOURS OF BALI-9’S MYURAN SUKUMARAN
By Madman Films / Matthew Sleeth / Maggie Miles / Matthew Bate, on 8 September 2020
2020
Multimedia content
Indonesia
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The final 72-hours in the life of Myuran Sukumaran, the Bali-9 convicted criminal who became an accomplished artist while in Kerobokan prison under the tutorship of artist Ben Quilty. Myuran was executed by Indonesian firing squad on Nusakambangan Island, 29 April 2015 alongside fellow Australian Andrew Chan and six others. Dramatic and archival material takes us into the final three days of Myuran Sukumaran’s life, as he farewells his family and creates his final paintings.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Indonesia
- Themes list Foreign Nationals, Firing Squad,
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Application form – Call for Actions in the Maldives and Turkey (18th World Day)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
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Call for actions on the World Day in the Maldives and Turkey
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Death Penalty,
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Annual Statistics Report 2022
By Project 39A, on 22 February 2023
2023
NGO report
India
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This is the seventh edition of the Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics Report published by Project 39A at National Law University, Delhi. 2022 represents a significant shift in death penalty adjudication, with the Supreme Court recognising the need to reconsider the capital sentencing framework for the first time since it was laid down in Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab in 1980. In a momentous order, the Supreme Court noted the gaps in the death penalty sentencing framework and has sought to address these concerns through a Constitution Bench towards establishing the components of a real, meaningful and effective capital sentencing hearing. In another decision, the Court laid down guidelines for the collection of mitigating material by trial courts. However, in the same year that the Supreme Court cast grave doubts on the death penalty sentencing framework and its implementation by trial courts, it is of concern that 165 death sentences were imposed by Sessions Courts, the highest in a single year since 2000.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list India
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Strengthening death penalty standards
By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2015
2015
NGO report
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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,
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Deciding Death
By Corinna Barrett Lain / Duke Law Journal, on 1 January 2007
2007
Article
United States
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When the Supreme Court is deciding death, how much does law matter? Scholars long have lamented the majoritarian nature of the Court’s Eighth Amendment “evolving standards of decency” doctrine, but their criticism misses the mark. Majoritarian doctrine does not drive the Court’s decisions in this area; majoritarian forces elsewhere do. To make my point, I first examine three sets of “evolving standards” death penalty decisions in which the Court implicitly or explicitly reversed itself, attacking the legal justification for the Court’s change of position and offering an extralegal explanation for why those cases came out the way they did. I then use political science models of Supreme Court decisionmaking to explain how broader social and political forces push the Court toward majoritarian death penalty rulings for reasons wholly independent of majoritarian death penalty doctrine. Finally, I bring the analysis full [*pg 2] circle, showing how broader sociopolitical forces even led to the development of the “evolving standards” doctrine. In the realm of death penalty decisionmaking, problematic doctrine is not to blame for majoritarian influences; rather, majoritarian influences are to blame for problematic doctrine. The real obstacle to countermajoritarian decisionmaking is not doctrine, but the inherently majoritarian tendencies of the Supreme Court itself.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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Death Penalty and Deterrence
By Amnesty International - USA, on 8 September 2020
2020
Arguments against the death penalty
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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 ,
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Stolen Youth. Juvenils, mass trials and the death penalty in Egypt
By Reprieve, on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
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- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Juveniles, Fair Trial, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Reporting on the death penalty: training resource for journalists
By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2011
2011
NGO report
More details See the document
The aim of this resource is to build and strengthen the knowledge and raise awareness of journalists on how to report on the death penalty and alternative sanctions. This training resource has been developed in conjunction with PRI’s partner, Inter Press Services (IPS).
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Public opinion, Networks,
Document(s)
Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty
By Antoinette Bosco, on 1 January 2001
2001
Working with...
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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,
Document(s)
The Pakistan Capital Punishment Study. A Study of the Capital Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
By Reprieve / Fundation for Fundamental Rights, on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
More details See the document
The Pakistan Capital Punishment Study is the result of a two-year long research and analysis project undertaken by lawyers and academics at the Foundation for Fundamental Rights (‘FFR’) in Pakistan and international legal non-profit organization, Reprieve.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Member(s)
Planète Réfugiés – Droits de l’homme
on 30 April 2020
Planète Réfugiés-Droits de l’Homme (PRDH) aims, through research, training and advocacy activities in France and internationally, at the effective realization of inherent human rights, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, treaties and conventions protecting individual and collective freedoms, international standards and guidelines. In terms of research, PRDH focuses part of its action […]
2020
France
Document(s)
Public Opinion On The Death Penalty In Singapore: Survey Findings
By National University of Singapore / Chan Wing Cheong / Tan Ern Ser / Jack Lee / Braema Mathi, on 1 January 2018
2018
Academic report
More details See the document
Informations and survey findings about the public opinion on the death penalty in Singapore
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Public opinion, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty
By Oxford University Press / Frank Baumgartner, on 1 January 2017
2017
Book
More details See the document
Provides a comprehensive statistical assessment of how the death penalty has been applied over the entire modern period, 1976 to present
- Document type Book
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Penalty, Statistics,
Document(s)
Training on death penalty advocacy for the Universal Periodic Review of human rights
By The Advocates for Human Rights / Amy Bergquist / Rosalyn Park / Jennifer Prestholdt, on 1 January 2015
2015
Working with...
More details See the document
Video recording of a training session by The Advocates for Human Rights on death penalty advocacy for the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review of human rights. Download the PowerPoint presentation here.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list International law,
Document(s)
Ten myths and facts about the death penalty
By Reprieve / Clive Stafford Smith , on 1 January 2011
2011
Campaigning
More details See the document
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,
Document(s)
Stop the Death Penalty: Worldwide Abolition Now
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2007
2007
Arguments against the death penalty
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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
Document(s)
International Views on the Death Penalty
By Death Penalty Focus, on 1 January 2011
2011
Arguments against the death penalty
More details See the document
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,
Document(s)
Myth #2 – The death penalty reduces crime
By Reprieve / Clive Stafford Smith , on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
More details See the document
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 ,
Document(s)
Myth #10 – The death penalty is not political
By Reprieve / Emmanuelle Purdon , on 8 September 2020
Academic report
More details See the document
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,
Document(s)
Capital and punishment: Resource scarcity increases endorsement of the death penalty
By Arizona State University (ASU), on 1 January 2018
2018
Academic report
More details See the document
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,
Document(s)
Myth #3 – The death penalty saves money
By Reprieve / Clive Stafford Smith , on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
More details See the document
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,
Document(s)
A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America
By Evan J. Mandery / W. W. Norton & Company, on 1 January 2013
2013
Book
United States
More details See the document
For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic. But in 1962, Justice Arthur Goldberg and his clerk Alan Dershowitz dared to suggest otherwise, launching an underfunded band of civil rights attorneys on a quixotic crusade. In 1972, in a most unlikely victory, the Supreme Court struck down Georgia’s death penalty law in Furman v. Georgia. Though the decision had sharply divided the justices, nearly everyone, including the justices themselves, believed Furman would mean the end of executions in America.Instead, states responded with a swift and decisive showing of support for capital punishment. As anxiety about crime rose and public approval of the Supreme Court declined, the stage was set in 1976 for Gregg v. Georgia, in which the Court dramatically reversed direction.A Wild Justice is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the Court, the justices, and the political complexities of one of the most racially charged and morally vexing issues of our time.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Due Process , Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
America’s Experiment With Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction
By Carol S. Steiker / James R. Acker / Jordan M. Steiker / Richard J. Wilson / Robert Blecker / Stephen B. Bright / Charles S. Lanier / Robert M. Bohm / Carolina Academic Press / Ernest van den Haag / Ruth D. Peterson / William C. Bailey / Jon Sorensen / James Marquart / Victor L., on 8 September 2020
2020
Book
United States
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The second edition of America’s Experiment with Capital Punishment is an updated and expanded version of the comprehensive first edition. Chapters, authored by the country’s leading legal and social science scholars, have been revised to include a host of important developments since the 1998 edition. Thus, new evidence and information is presented concerning racial disparities in the administration of the death penalty, wrongful convictions, deterrence, the prediction of future dangerousness, jury decision-making, public opinion about the death penalty, the effects of the capital punishment process on murder victims’ and offenders’ relatives, death row incarceration, the costs of capital punishment, execution methods, and many other issues.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
Document(s)
Advocacy Toolkit on Abolition of the Death Penalty in West Africa
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2016
2016
Lobbying
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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
Document(s)
Myth #6 – The death penalty applies to everyone equally
By Reprieve / Emmanuelle Purdon , on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
More details See the document
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,
Document(s)
Broken Justice: The death penalty in Alabama
By Rachel King / American Civil Liberties Union / Alabama, on 1 January 2005
2005
NGO report
More details See the document
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,
Document(s)
Death Penalty Debate
By Council of Europe, on 1 January 2009
2009
Arguments against the death penalty
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During a televised panel discussion on the death penalty on 9th October, Slovenian law professor Dragan Petrovec said victims should play no role in the sentencing of offenders. ”The victim is never objective,” he said. ”Victims can’t be judges.” The discussion, organised by the Council of Europe to mark the European day against the death penalty, also featured Sweden’s Human Rights Ambassador Jan Axel Nordlander. Council of Europe’s Head of Department Jeroen Schokkenbroek said the organisation was critical of the United States and Japan over their use of the death penalty . He added that ”dialogue was continuing” with both countries towards ending the practice.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
Document(s)
Poster EN – 2021 World Day Against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 June 2021
2021
Campaigning
Women
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Women sentenced to death: an invisible reality.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Women
- Available languages 2021اليوم العالمي ضدّ عقوبة الاعدامPoster ES - 2021 Día Mundial contra la Pena de Muerte2021روز جهانی علیه مجازات مرگAffiche FR - 2021 Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster RU- 2021 Всемирный день против смертной казниPoster ZH 2021- 世界反死刑日
Document(s)
Beating the Death Penalty in Illinois
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / Aurélie Plaçais, on 1 January 2011
2011
Lobbying
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In a video interview at the NCADP conference in Chicago, leading Illinois abolitionist Jeremy Schroeder explains how grassroots activism and political lobbying was an important factor in abolishing the death penalty in Illinois.
- Document type Lobbying
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Illinois : abolition, mode d'emploi
Document(s)
Japan’s Secretive Death Penalty Policy: Contours, Origins, Justifications, and Meanings
By David T. Johnson / Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, on 1 January 2006
2006
Article
Japan
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The secrecy that surrounds capital punishment in Japan is taken to extremes not seen in other nations. This article describes the Japanese state’s policy of secrecy and explains how it developed in three historical stages: the “birth of secrecy” during the Meiji period (1867 – 1912); the creation and spread of “censored democracy” during the postwar Occupation (1945 – 1952); and the “acceleration of secrecy” during the decades that followed. The article then analyzes several justifications for secrecy that Japanese prosecutors provide. None seems cogent. The final section explores four meanings of the secrecy policy that relate to the sources of death penalty legitimacy, the salience of capital punishment, the nature of Japan’s democracy, and the role and rule of law in Japanese society.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Japan
- Themes list Transparency,
Document(s)
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2011. Shared responsibility and shared consequences.
By Patrick Gallahue / Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2011
2011
NGO report
More details See the document
The Global Overview 2011. It provides a country-by-country analysis of the death penalty for drugs, and is intended to inform policy-makers of the potential for change as well as to shed some light on the environments in which the international fight against illicit drugs is pursued.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Drug Offences,
Document(s)
Not “Waiving” But Drowning: The Anatomy of Death Row Syndrome and Volunteering for Execution
By Amy Smith / Boston University Public Interest Law Journal, on 8 September 2020
2020
Article
United States
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Within the international community, other countries have recognized the potential for harm caused by our current system, and as a result have refused to extradite back to the United States individuals who might face the death penalty. These countries cite not only the possibility of execution as reason for refusal, but the waiting process which attends that death as a separate, independent violation of human rights. If we remain unpersuaded by the international community, the behavioral trends of those individuals awaiting execution are telling as well. Within one week in 2008, two individuals awaiting death in Texas committed suicide, reflecting the heightened suicide rates on death row, estimated at ten times greater than those in society at large and several times greater than those in a general prison population. In addition, the widely-recognized practice of “volunteering” for execution permits condemned inmates to waive their state and federally mandated rights to appeal in order to speed up the execution process, in essence “volunteering” to be executed.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Phenomenon, Extradition,
Document(s)
Capital Punishment in Pennsylvania: The Report of the Task Force and Advisory Committee
By Joint State Government Commission, on 1 January 2018
2018
Government body report
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Senate Resolution No.6 in 2011 called for a study of the contemporary capital punishment system in the Commonwealth. Pennsylvania is among the 31 states and the federal government that authorize capital punishment. During the last four decades in Pennsylvania, hundreds of murderers have been convicted and condemned to death; however, there have been only three executions.This study follows others on the same or related topics, including those conducted by the American Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice System. The SR6 report is the culmination of work done by the Justice Center for Research at The Pennsylvania State University, the Interbranch Commission on Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness, and an advisory committee comprised of judges, public defenders, district attorneys, victim advocates, inmate advocates, clergy, law enforcement officials, and other expert stakeholders.
- Document type Government body report
- Themes list Death Penalty, Statistics,
Document(s)
David R. Dow: Lessons from death row inmates
By David R. Dow / TED, on 1 January 2012
2012
Multimedia content
United States
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What happens before a murder? In looking for ways to reduce death penalty cases, David R. Dow realized that a surprising number of death row inmates had similar biographies. In this talk he proposes a bold plan, one that prevents murders in the first place.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Due Process ,
Document(s)
Justice Advocates Project
By Death Penalty Focus, on 1 January 2012
Multimedia content
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The Death Penalty Focus Justice Advocates Project empowers people with firsthand experience of the death penalty system to become advocates for fairness and justice by telling their personal stories to the public. Justice Advocates include the wrongfully convicted and law enforcement professionals, who bring their varied experiences of the flaws and dangers of the death penalty system to the public discourse
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
Death Penalty and Mental Illness
By Amnesty International - USA, on 1 January 2013
2013
Arguments against the death penalty
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The execution of those with mental illness or “the insane” is clearly prohibited by international law. Virtually every country in the world prohibits the execution of people with mental illness. This webpage explores international law and the death penalty in relation to the USA.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Mental Illness,
- Available languages La Pena de Muerte ignora las Enfermedades Mentales
Document(s)
Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics Report 2019
By NLU Delhi , on 1 January 2020
2020
Academic report
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The ‘Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics’ attempts to create a comprehensive year-by-year documentation of movements in the death row population in India. The publication tracks important political and legal developments in the administration of the death penalty and the criminal justice system in the year 2019.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Death Penalty, Statistics,
Document(s)
Too Broken to Fix: Part II – An In-depth Look at America’s Outlier Death Penalty Counties
By Fair Punishment Project, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
United States
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The trends are clear. In 2015, juries returned the fewest number of new death sentences—49—since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.Of the 3,143 county or county equivalents in the United States, only 16—or one half of one percent—imposed five or more death sentences between 2010 and 2015.This report takes a close look at how capital punishment operates on the ground in half of these active death-sentencing counties. In Part II, we highlight Dallas (TX), Jefferson(AL), San Bernardino (CA), Los Angeles (CA), Orange (CA), Miami-Dade (FL),Hillsborough (FL), and Pinellas (FL) counties.Our review of these counties, like the places profiled in Part I, reveals thatthese counties frequently share at least three systemic deficiencies: a history ofoverzealous prosecutions, inadequate defense lawyering, and a pattern of racialbias and exclusion. These structural failings regularly produce two types of unjustoutcomes which disproportionately impact people of color: the wrongful convictionof innocent people, and the excessive punishment of persons who are young or sufferfrom severe mental illnesses, brain damage, trauma, and intellectual disabilities.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Counter terrorism in Kazakhstan: why the death penalty is no solution
By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2013
2013
NGO report
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This report focuses on the death penalty for terrorism related offences, an issue that has exercised many countries. It looks at evolving standards and practice internationally and considers how Kazakhstan can meet its human rights obligations while countering terrorism and maintaining the security of its people.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Terrorism,
- Available languages Терроризм в Казахстане Смертная казнь не решение проблемы
Document(s)
Justice Crucified: The Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia
By Reprieve, on 1 January 2015
2015
NGO report
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The Reprieve’s report analyses data on prisoners currently on death row in Saudi Arabia. It finds that 72 per cent of those prisoners whose alleged offences Reprieve has been able to determine were sentenced to death for non-violent crimes, including attendance at political protests and drug offences. Reprieve has also established that many prisoners estimated to have been executed in Saudi Arabia, since January 2014, had been sentenced to death for non-violent offences.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Drug Offences, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Is Public Opinion a Justifiable Reason Not to Abolish the Death Penalty? A Comparative Analysis of Surveys of Eight Countries
By Roger Hood / Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, on 1 January 2018
2018
Article
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Roger Hood, “Is Public Opinion a Justifiable Reason Not to Abolish the Death Penalty? A Comparative Analysis of Surveys of Eight Countries”, 23 Berkeley J. Crim. L. 218 (2018)
- Document type Article
- Themes list Public opinion, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Making the Last Chance Meaningful: Predecessor Counsel’s Ethical Duty to the Capital Defendant
By Lawrence J. Fox / Hofstra Law Review, on 1 January 2003
2003
Article
United States
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The thesis of this paper is that lawyers who have represented clients in capital murder cases at trial and appeal—not unlike all criminal trial and initial appeal counsel, but more urgently because of the circumstances—continue to owe important obligations to their former clients. These obligations have been just recently included in the latest version of the American Bar Association’s Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death PenaltyCases: In accordance with professional norms, all persons who are or have been members of the defense team have a continuing duty to safeguard the interests of the client and should cooperate fully with successor counsel. This duty includes, but is not limited to: A. maintaining the records of the case in a manner that will inform successor counsel of all significant developments relevant to the litigation; B. providing the client’s files, as well as information regarding all aspects of the representation, to successor counsel; C. sharing potential further areas of legal and factual research with successor counsel; and D. cooperating with such professionally appropriate legal strategies as may be chosen by successor counsel. It is my hope that this article will demonstrate that these Guidelines reflect not just best practice, but actual ethical mandates that trial counsel, like Bryan Saunders, owe their former clients as those clients negotiate the jurisprudential maze known as habeas corpus.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Legal Representation,
Document(s)
The Death Penalty in 2014: video summary
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2014
2014
NGO report
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DPIC’s 2014 Year-End Report. Death sentences were at a 40-year low and executions were at a 20-year low. Texas, Missouri, and Florida accounted for 80% of all the executions in the United States. There were 7 exonerations this year and it took an average of 30 years to discover their innocence.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Innocence, Statistics,
Document(s)
These families lost loved ones to violence. Now they are fighting the death penalty;
By The America Magazine , on 1 January 2017
2017
Working with...
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- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Murder Victims' Families, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Barbados: Death Penalty Stakeholder Report for the Universal Periodic Review
By The Advocates for Human Rights, on 1 January 2017
NGO report
More details See the document
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list International law, Member organizations, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Death Penalty Can Prolong the Suffering of a Vicitm’s Family
By Death Penalty Focus, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
United States
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Many family members who have lost loved ones to murder feel that the death penalty will not heal their wounds nor will it end their pain. This webpage provides resources for those looking to connect with murder victims’ families organisations.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Moratorium on the use of death penalty
By United Nations, on 1 January 2018
2018
United Nations report
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Moratorium on the use of death penalty (2018)
- Document type United Nations report
- Themes list Moratorium , Death Penalty,
- Available languages وقف العمح فعقوفة الإعداМораторий на применение смертной казниMoratoire sur l'application de la peine de mort暂停使用死刑Moratoria del uso de la pena de muerte
Document(s)
The Death Penalty in Alabama: Judge Override
By Equal Justice Initiative, on 1 January 2011
2011
NGO report
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In Alabama, elected trial judges can override jury verdicts of life and impose death sentences. Although judges have authority to override life or death verdicts, in 92% of overrides elected judges have overruled jury verdicts of life to impose the death penalty.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Fair Trial, Arbitrariness, Sentencing Alternatives,
Document(s)
The Death Penalty in 2014: infographic
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2014
2014
NGO report
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DPIC’s 2014 Year-End Report. Death sentences were at a 40-year low and executions were at a 20-year low. Texas, Missouri, and Florida accounted for 80% of all the executions in the United States. There were 7 exonerations this year and it took an average of 30 years to discover their innocence.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Innocence, Statistics,
Document(s)
Training Resource: Reporting on the Death Penalty
on 1 January 2011
2011
NGO report
More details See the document
This resource targets journalists. The aim of this resource is to build and strengthen the knowledge and raise awareness of how to report on the death penalty and alternative sanctions. This training resource has been developed in conjunction with PRI’s partner, Inter Press Service (IPS).
- Document type NGO report
Document(s)
The death penalty worldwide: Developments in 1999
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2000
2000
NGO report
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This paper is an attempt to cover developments during 1999 and provide information current at the end of the year concerning the death penalty worldwide, different aspects of its use and attempts to abolish it or reduce its application.
- Document type NGO report
- Available languages La peine de mort dans le monde: évolution en 1999LA PENA DE MUERTE EN EL MUNDO: NOTICIAS DE 1999
Document(s)
Summaries of Key Supreme Court Cases Related to the Death Penalty
By Capital Punishment in Context, on 1 January 2012
2012
Legal Representation
More details See the document
Summary of key supreme court cases in the United States, these cases deal with juror problems, the constitutionality of the death penalty and juveniles amongst key cases discussed.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Beyond Reason: The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation
By Human Rights Watch, on 1 January 2001
2001
NGO report
More details See the document
Twenty-five U.S. states still permit the execution of offenders with mental retardation and should pass laws to ban the practice without delay. The United States appears to be the only democracy whose laws expressly permit the execution of persons with this severe mental disability.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Intellectual Disability,
Document(s)
China: The Olympics Countdown: Repression of activists overshadows death penalty and media reforms
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2007
2007
NGO report
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Amnesty International remains deeply concerned that several senior Chinese officials continue to use ‘strike hard’ policies to constrain the legitimate activities of a range of peaceful activists, including journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders. This report updates concerns in these areas, illustrated by the experiences of several individuals who have been detained or imprisoned in violation of their fundamental human rights. The failure of the Chinese authorities to address the legal and institutional weaknesses that allow such violations to flourish continues to hamper efforts to strengthen rule of law in China.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list International law, Public opinion,
- Available languages Chine: À l'approche des Jeux olympiques, les réformes concernant la peine capitale et les medias sont occultées par la répression contre les militantsRepública Popular de China:La cuenta atrás para los Juegos Olímpicos: La represión de activistas ensombrece las reformas sobre la pena de muerte y los medios de comunicación
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Document(s)
The situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran : note by the Secretary-General
By United Nations, on 1 January 2011
2011
NGO report
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The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 16/9, which establishes the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- Document type NGO report
- Available languages Положение в области прав человека в Исламской Республике Иран: Записка Генерального секретаряLa situation des droits de l’homme en République islamique d’Iran: Note du Secrétaire général伊朗伊斯兰共和国的人权状况 秘书长的说明La situación de los derechos humanos en la República Islámica del Irán: Nota del Secretario General
Document(s)
The Right to Life: A Guide to the Implementation of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights
By Council of Europe, on 1 January 2006
2006
Working with...
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This Handbook deals with the right to life, as guaranteed by Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR or “the Convention”), and with the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (“the Court”) under that article.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Le Droit à la Vie: Un Guide sur la Mise en œuvre de l'article 2 de la Convention Européenne des Droits de l'Hommes
Document(s)
Inside Death Row with Trevor McDonald Part 1
By YouTube, on 1 January 2014
2014
Multimedia content
United States
More details See the document
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Inside Death Row with Trevor McDonald Part 2
By YouTube, on 1 January 2014
Multimedia content
United States
More details See the document
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon, Death Penalty,