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Death Penalty Information Pack
By Penal Reform International , on 1 January 2014
2014
NGO report
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PRI information pack on the state of the death penalty in 2014: international trends toward abolition; moratorium; the death penalty for the “most serious crimes”; right to a fair trial; mandatory death penalty; conditions of imprisonment; clemency; execution; transparency; deterrence; public opinion; victims’ rights.
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Ghana: Briefing on death penalty
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2000
2000
NGO report
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As the Presidential elections approach in Ghana, Amnesty International is renewing its call for steps towards abolishing the death penalty, after seven years without any executions. This document describes the current use of the death penalty, giving details of those currently under sentence of death and describing the death penalty under Ghanaian law and international law
- Document type NGO report
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- Available languages GHANA : Rapport sur la peine de mortGHANA : Informe sobre la pena de muerte
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Gall, Gallantry, and the Gallows: Capital Punishment and the Social Construction of Gender, 1840-1920
By Gender and Society / Alana van Gundy-Yoder, on 1 January 2008
2008
Article
United States
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In this article, the authors examine how the debate over women’s executions during the nineteenth and early twentieth century funneled and in various ways processed the contrary demands of gender and capital justice. They show how encounters with capital punishment both reflected and reinforced dominant interpretations of womanhood and as such contributed to the intricate web of normative strictures that affected all women at the time. At the same time, however, the often heated debates that accompanied such cases pried open some of the contradictions inherent in the dominant interpretations and, as a result, came to challenge the boundaries that separated not only women from men but also women from each other. Rather than viewing gender as a unidirectional influence on capital punishment, the authors argue that gender is best approached as an evolving social category that gets reconstructed, modified, and transformed whenever it is implicated in social practices and public debates.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Women,
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Drugs and the Death Penalty
By Patrick Gallahue / Open Society Foundations, on 1 January 2015
2015
NGO report
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Experience has proved that for certain governments it is not easy to balance international drug laws with human rights, public health, alternatives to incarceration, and experimentation with regulation.This Report intends to provide a primer on why governments must not turn a blind eye to pressing human rights and public health impacts of current drug policies.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Drug Offences,
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Halting the Death Penalty in Divine Hodud Punishments from a Practical Expediency Perspective
By Human Rights & Democracy for Iran, on 1 January 2017
2017
NGO report
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Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation and Various Iranian Religious AuthoritiesAbdorrahman Boroumand FoundationNovember 16, 2017Report
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Press article: reporting the death penalty
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), on 1 January 2017
NGO report
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- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Public debate, Member organizations, Death Penalty,
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on 10 June 2022
2022
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on 2 May 2023
2023
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on 8 November 2023
2023
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on 3 June 2022
2022
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on 5 May 2021
2021
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Briefing Paper on the death penalty in Middle East & North Africa
By Penal Reform International, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
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NGO coalition report submitted to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak – MISSION TO CHINA
By United Nations / Manfred Nowak, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
China
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The Special Rapporteur also observes positive developments at the legislative level, including the planned reform of several laws relevant to the criminal procedure, which he hopes will bring Chinese legislation into greater conformity with international norms, particularly the fair trial standards contained in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which China signed in 1998 and is preparing to ratify. He also welcomes the resumption by the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) of its authority to review all death penalty cases,59 particularly given the fact that the quality of the judiciary increases as one ascends the hierarchy. The Special Rapporteur suggests that China might use the opportunity of this important event to increase transparency regarding the number of death sentences in the country, as well as to consider legislation that would allow direct petitioning to the SPC in cases where individuals do not feel that they were provided with adequate relief by lower courts in cases involving the useof torture, access to counsel, etc.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list China
- Available languages Rapport de Manfred Nowak, Rapporteur spécial sur la torture et autres peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants - MISSION EN CHINE酷刑和其他残忍、不人道或有辱人格的待遇或处罚问题 特别报告员曼弗雷德·诺瓦克的报告 - 对中国的访问Informe del Relator Especial sobre la tortura y otros tratos o penas crueles, inhumanos o degradantes, Manfred Nowak - MISIÓN CHINAالمعاملة ضروب من وغيره التعذيب بمسألة المعني الخاص المقرر تقرير نوفاك مانفريد السيد المهينة، أو اللاإنسانية أو القاسية العقوبة أو - الصين إلى ﺑﻬا قام التي البعثةДоклад Специального докладчика по вопросу о пытках и других жестоких, бесчеловечных или унижающих достоинство видах обращения и наказания Манфреда Новака
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Too Broken to Fix: Part I – An In-depth Look at America’s Outlier Death Penalty Counties
By Fair Punishment Project, on 8 September 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 this first report, we dig deep into Caddo, Clark, Duval, Harris, Maricopa, Mobile, Kern, and Riverside counties. Our review reveals that these counties frequently share at least three systemic deficiencies: a history of overzealous prosecutions, inadequate defense lawyering, and a pattern of racial bias and exclusion. These structural failings regularly produce two types of unjust outcomes which disproportionately impact people of color: the wrongful conviction of innocent people, and the excessive punishment of persons who are young or suffer from 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,
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Death Row’s Children: Pakistan’s Unlawful Executions of Juvenile Offenders
By Justice Project Pakistan, on 1 January 2017
2017
NGO report
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On 16 December 2014, the Government of Pakistan lifted a six-year de facto moratorium on the death penalty. Whilst the Government claims that the lifting of the moratorium is designed to curb terrorism, an analysis of the 423 executions that have taken place till February 2017 reveals that the death penalty has disproportionately impacted the most vulnerable of all populations including juvenile offenders. Even though Pakistan’s international obligations and domestic laws prohibit sentencing juvenile offenders to death, at least 6 have been executed in the past two years.Through this report, the Justice Project Pakistan highlights the fundamental weaknesses under Pakistan’s juvenile justice system that lead to the unlawful and arbitrary implementation of the death penalty against juvenile offenders.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Juveniles, Fair Trial, International law, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – Chinese
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 9 July 2024
2024
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World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°118
on 20 November 2020
2020
World Coalition Against the Death Penalty_ How to insert gender issues in abolitionist advocacy
on 1 August 2023
World Coalition Against the Death Penalty_ How to insert gender issues in abolitionist advocacy
2023
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – Urdu
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 9 July 2024
2024
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Poster 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty – Lingala
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 2 October 2023
2023
World Coalition
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – Indonesian
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 24 July 2024
2024
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – Tagalog
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 9 July 2024
2024
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – Lingala
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 15 July 2024
2024
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – Swahili
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 9 July 2024
2024
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – Yoruba
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 11 July 2024
2024
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – Luganda
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 9 July 2024
2024
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on 8 September 2020
Illinois-embraces-a-culture-of-life-and-outlaws-the-death-penalty-1.html
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – Japanese
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 9 July 2024
2024
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – Italian
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 9 July 2024
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – German
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 9 July 2024
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World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°119
on 20 November 2020
2020
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on 8 September 2020
35179-Beating-the-death-penalty-in-Illinois-1.html
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World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°120
on 20 November 2020
2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°125
on 2 July 2021
2021
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°117
on 20 November 2020
2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°108
on 20 November 2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°107
on 20 November 2020
HOW-STATES-ABOLISH-THE-DEATH-PENALTY_A-SUPPLEMENT-OF-CASE-STUDIES
on 16 December 2022
HOW-STATES-ABOLISH-THE-DEATH-PENALTY_A-SUPPLEMENT-OF-CASE-STUDIES
2022
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°125
on 2 July 2021
2021
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°121
on 2 July 2021
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°124
on 2 July 2021
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°110
on 20 November 2020
2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°122
on 2 July 2021
2021
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Poster SWA – 2021 World Day Against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 June 2021
2021
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Wanawake waliohukumiwa kunyongwa: Ukweli uliofichika
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- Themes list Women
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Poster JPN – 2021 World Day Against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 June 2021
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死刑を科された女性:その知られざる現実
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- Themes list Women
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Poster DE – 2021 World Day Against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 June 2021
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Frauen in der Todeszelle: Ungesehene Realität
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Poster IT – 2021 World Day Against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 June 2021
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Donne condannate a morte: una realta’ invisibile
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World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°123
on 23 March 2021
2021
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°106
on 20 November 2020
2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°111
on 20 November 2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°109
on 20 November 2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°112
on 20 November 2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°116
on 20 November 2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°105
on 20 November 2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°113
on 20 November 2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°115
on 20 November 2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°114
on 20 November 2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°117
on 20 November 2020
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Opting for Real Death Penalty Reform
By James S. Liebman / Ohio State Law Journal, on 1 January 2002
2002
Article
United States
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The capital punishment system in the United States is broken. Studies reveal growing delays nationwide between death sentences and executions and inexcusably high rates of reversals and retrials of capital verdicts. The current system persistently malfunctions because it rewards trial actors, such as police, prosecutors, and trial judges, for imposing death sentences, but it does not force them either to avoid making mistakes or to bear the cost of mistakes that are made during the process. Nor is there any adversarial discipline imposed at the trial level because capital defendants usually receive appointed counsel who either do not have experience trying capital cases or who receive inadequate resources from the State to pay litigation expenses. Instead, the appellate system is forced to deal with large amounts of error, creating backlog and delays. This article proposes a radical trade-off for capital defendants in which they agree to give up existing post-conviction review rights in return for a real assurance of better qualified, higher quality trial counsel. This proposal will avoid the traps of window dressing reforms, save states a good bit of the expense of appellate review, and make the capital punishment system more fair, efficient, and effective.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Legal Representation,
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The Role of International Law in United States Death Penalty Cases
By Sandra Babcock / Leiden Journal of International Law, on 1 January 2002
Article
United States
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The United States has repeatedly failed to notify detained foreign nationals of their rights to consular notification and access under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. In capital cases, US non-compliance with this ratified Treaty has led to litigation by foreign governments and individual lawyers in domestic courts and international tribunals. While these efforts have had mixed results in individual cases, litigation by Mexico, Germany and other actors has led to increased compliance with Article 36, and a growing recognition of the significance of US treaty obligations.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Foreign Nationals,
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Blind Justice: Juries Deciding Life and Death With Only Half the Truth
By Death Penalty Information Center / Richard C. Dieter, on 1 January 2005
2005
NGO report
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Blind Justice is a report which focuses on the problems of the death penalty from the perspective of jurors. While jurors have always occupied an esteemed position in the broader criminal justice system in the United States, in capital cases the responsibility of jurors is even more critical as they decide whether defendants should live or die. Even with this unique authority in capital cases, they are treated less than respectfully. Frequently, they are kept in the dark regarding key information about the case and are often barred from serving based on their beliefs or their race.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Networks,
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Stakeholder Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review on the United States
By The Advocates for Human Rights / Puerto Rican Coalition against the Death Penalty / Greater Caribbean For Life, on 1 January 2014
2014
NGO report
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This submission addresses the United States’ compliance with its human rights obligations with regard to its use of the death penalty. This submission concludes that the United States, in continuing to allow a sentence of death, does not guarantee its citizens adequate protection against cruel and unusual punishment, freedom from discrimination, rights to life, liberty and security of person, due process, and equal protection. It also is failing to provide an adequate remedy for those whose rights are violated.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Due Process , Right to life, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Innocence, Discrimination, Foreign Nationals, Lethal Injection, Country/Regional profiles,
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Dehumanized: The Prison Conditions of People Sentenced to Death in Indonesia
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) / Kontras / Carole Berrih, on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
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Although much research has been carried out into the administration of justice in death penalty cases in Indonesia, there is little research into the conditions of detention of the men and women sentenced to death in that country. This study is one of the first to focus on the conditions of detention of death row prisoners in Indonesia. This report aims to give a voice to the men and women on death row in Indonesia and to their families, while documenting their situation.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages Indonesian : Tidak Manusiawi: Kondisi Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Bagi Terpidana Mati di Indonesia
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The defense has the floor – 2020 World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
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On the occasion of the 2020 World Day, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty has compiled testimonies from those for whom access to counsel is a matter of life or death.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages La parole est à la défense - Journée mondiale 2020
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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
By United Nations, on 1 January 1966
1966
United Nations report
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Article 61. Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life.2. In countries which have not abolished the death penalty, sentence of death may be imposed only for the most serious crimes in accordance with the law in force at the time of the commission of the crime and not contrary to the provisions of the present Covenant and to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. This penalty can only be carried out pursuant to a final judgement rendered by a competent court.3. When deprivation of life constitutes the crime of genocide, it is understood that nothing in this article shall authorize any State Party to the present Covenant to derogate in any way from any obligation assumed under the provisions of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.4. Anyone sentenced to death shall have the right to seek pardon or commutation of the sentence. Amnesty, pardon or commutation of the sentence of death may be granted in all cases.5. Sentence of death shall not be imposed for crimes committed by persons below eighteen years of age and shall not be carried out on pregnant women.6. Nothing in this article shall be invoked to delay or to prevent the abolition of capital punishment by any State Party to the present Covenant.
- Document type United Nations report
- Themes list International law,
- Available languages العهد الدولي الخاص بالحقوق المدنية والسياسيةМеждународный пакт о гражданских и политических правахPacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques公民权利和政治权利国际盟约Pacto Internacional de Derechos Civiles y Políticos
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Death Penalty and Innocence
By Amnesty International - USA, on 8 September 2020
2020
Arguments against the death penalty
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This webpage talks about innocence and the death penalty: Examples of innocence in three cases in the United States and factors leading to wrongful conviction.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Innocence,
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Death Penalty Trends
By Amnesty International - USA, on 1 January 2013
2013
Arguments against the death penalty
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This sheet speaks about the trend towards abolition of the death penalty, aswell as declining public support for it.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
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Matters of Judgment
By National Law University, New Delhi Press, on 1 January 2017
2017
Academic report
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The aim of this study was to explore the opinions of former judges of the Supreme Court of India on the death penalty and more generally on the state of India’s criminal justice system as far as it was relevant to the death penalty. The study did not focus on the position that former judges took on the death penalty but was instead interested in understanding the reasons they saw for both abolition and retention. In addition to exploring those reasons, the study also wanted to map the understanding of the ‘rarest of rare’ doctrine among former judges and get insights into the manner in which judicial discretion is exercised in death penalty cases. Finally, we wanted to locate all these discussions on the death penalty in the context of an evaluation of the criminal justice system by the former judges.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Networks, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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REPRODEVH-Niger
on 30 April 2020
Created in 2011 by young people and structures concerned with defending human rights, the Progress and Humanitarian Development Network of Niger is a collective of NGOs/ADs whose aim is to defend democracy and good governance, through the promotion of health, education, human dignity for all, the fight against the death penalty, torture and all related […]
2020
Niger
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In the Executioner’s Shadow
By Maggie Burnette Stogner, on 8 September 2020
2020
Multimedia content
United States
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What would you do if someone you love was raped, tortured, or murdered? How would you seek justice? The very thought evokes horror— we shudder to even consider it. But it is a reality faced by Vicki and Syl Scheiber after their daughter’s rape and murder; faced by Karen Brassard in the traumatic aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing; faced by former Virginia state executioner Jerry Givens after performing 62 executions.As wrongful convictions, botched executions, and a broken justice system inch further into the spotlight, we must consider: What is justice? What part should the death penalty play?In the Executioner’s Shadow allows a glimpse into Jerry’s rarely seen world of death row and execution. It explores Karen’s moral conflict as she attends the accused bomber’s trial, a young man the same age as her son. It defies our perception of justice as Vicki and Syl fight for the life of their daughter’s murderer.In the Executioner’s Shadow illuminates the oft hidden realities entangled in death row, the death penalty, and the U.S. Justice system at large.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public opinion, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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New opinion study shows Zimbabwean public ready to accept death penalty abolition
By Death Penalty Project, on 1 January 2018
2018
NGO report
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Today, The Death Penalty Project, in partnership with Veritas, launches “12 Years Without an Execution: Is Zimbabwe Ready for Abolition?” a national public opinion study, providing for the first time comprehensive and contextualised data on public attitudes towards the death penalty in Zimbabwe – a country that has not carried out any executions in over 12 years.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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2018 Death Penalty report: Saudi Arabia’s False Promise
By European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights, on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
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The European Saudi organisation for Humans Rights published its 2018 report on the use of the death penalty in the Saudi Kingdom. It points an authoriatiran drift within the increase of the political use of the capital sentence against activists, women and clerics.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Arbitrariness, Death Penalty,
Global-Consortium-for-Death-Penalty-Abolition
on 12 July 2024
2024
logo-Abolition-Death-Penalty-of-Iraq
on 30 June 2023
2023
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on 15 February 2022
2022
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on 15 August 2023
2023
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Guatemala: abolish the death penalty
on 18 September 2013
2013
Guatemala
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Educational Curriculum on the Death Penalty Classroom Resource Manual
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2003
2003
Campaigning
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This web site and its accompanying materials are designed to assist both teachers and students in an exploration of capital punishment, presenting arguments for and against its use, as well as issues of ethics and justice that surround it.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Networks,
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THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTS OF 2006 (and the first seven months of 2007)
By HANDS OFF CAIN, on 1 January 2007
2007
NGO report
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The worldwide situation to date: The worldwide trend towards abolition, underway for at least a decade, was again confirmed in 2006 and the first six months of 2007. There are currently 146 countries and territories that to different extents have decided to renounce the death penalty. Of these, 93 are totally abolitionist, 9 are abolitionist for ordinary crimes, 1 (Russia) is committed to abolishing the death penalty as a member of the Council of Europe and currently observes a moratorium on executions, 4 have a moratorium on executions in place and 39 are de facto abolitionist (i.e. – no executions have taken place in the last ten years).
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages Italian : SINTESI DEI FATTI PIU' IMPORTANTI DEL 2006 (e dei primi sette mesi del 2007)
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The Decline of the Judicial Override
By Ben Cohen / Michael L. Radelet / Annual Review of Law and Social Science, on 1 January 2019
2019
Academic report
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This article discusses the role of judges in death determinations, identifying jurisdictions that initially (post-1972) allowed judge sentencing and naming the individuals who today remain under judge-imposed death sentences. The decisions guaranteeing a jury determination have so far been applied only to cases that have not undergone initial review in state courts. Key questions remain unresolved, including whether the evolving standards of decency permit the execution of more than 100 individuals who were condemned to death by judges without a jury’s death verdict before implementation of the rules that now require unanimous jury votes.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Due Process , Fair Trial,
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Penal Reform International (PRI)
on 30 April 2020
Penal Reform International (PRI) is an independent international non-governmental organisation that structures its work through a policy programme, regional programmes, and a governance and strategy programme that ensures learning and impact. Registered in The Netherlands (registration no 40025979), PRI operates globally with offices in multiple locations. We work to promote criminal justice systems that uphold […]
2020
United Kingdom
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White Female Victims and Death Penalty Disparity Research
By Stephen Demuth / Marian R. Williams / Jefferson E. Holocomb / Justice Quarterly, on 1 January 2004
2004
Article
United States
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Empirical studies of the death penalty continue to find that the race and gender of homicide victims are associated with the severity of legal responses in homicide cases even after controlling for legally relevant factors. A limitation of this research, however, is that victim race and gender are examined as distinct and independent factors in statistical models. In this study, we explore whether the independent examination of victim race and gender masks important differences in legal responses to homicides. In particular, we empirically test the hypothesis that defendants convicted of killing white females are significantly more likely to receive death sentences than killers of victims with other race-gender characteristics. Findings indicate that homicides with white female victims were more likely to result in death sentences than other victim race-gender dyads. We posit that this response may be unique and result in differential sentencing outcomes.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Discrimination,
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Forensic Mental Health: Assessments in Death Penalty Cases
By Oxford University Press / David DeMatteo / Daniel C. Murrie / Natalie M. Anumba / Michael E. Keesler, on 1 January 2011
2011
Book
United States
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Forensic mental health assessments in death penalty cases are on the rise due in part to the continuing growth of forensic psychology and psychiatry as professions, combined with several recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Forensic mental health professionals are now conducting assessments at every stage of death penalty proceedings, ranging from pre-trial evaluations to determine eligibility for the death penalty to evaluations conducted post-sentencing and closer to the date of execution.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability,
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Racial Differences in Death Penalty Support and Opposition: A Preliminary Study of White and Black College Students
By Morris Jenkins / Eric G. Lambert / David N. Baker / Journal of Black Studies, on 1 January 2005
2005
Article
United States
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Although the death penalty has a long history, it is not without debate and differing views. There appears to be a gap between Whites and Blacks in terms of their support of capital punishment. Students at a Midwestern university were surveyed to determine whether there were differences between the two groups of students in reasons to support or oppose the death penalty. In bivariate tests, there were significant differences between White and Black students on 15 of 16 measures for reasons for supporting or opposing capital punishment. These differences continued for 10 of the 16 measures even after multivariate analysis controlled for the effects of gender, age, and academic level. The results are discussed.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate,
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
By Amazon Digital Services / Lara Love Hardin / Anthony Ray Hinton, on 1 January 2018
2018
Book
United States
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Autobiography of Anthony Ray Hinton, the 152nd death row exoneree in the USA. In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama.With no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution.With the help of civil rights attorney and bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Electrocution, Death Penalty,
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Black is the Day, Black is the Night
By Amy Elkins, on 1 January 2014
2014
Working with...
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Black is the Day, Black is the Night is conceptual exploration into the many facets of human identity using notions of time, accumulation, memory and distance through personal correspondence with men serving life and death row sentences in some of the most maximum security prisons in the U.S., all of which had served between 13-26 years at point of contact.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Death Row Conditions,
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Furman Fundamentals
By Corinna Barrett Lain / Washington Law Review, on 1 January 2007
2007
Article
United States
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For the first time in a long time, the Supreme Court’s most important death penalty decisions all have gone the defendant’s way. Is the Court’s new found willingness to protect capital defendants here to stay? Or is it a passing fancy that will dissipate in less hospitable times? At first glance, history allows for optimism. Furman v. Georgia, the 1972 landmark that invalidated the death penalty, provides a seemingly perfect example of the Court’s ability and inclination to protect capital defendants when no one else will. Furman looks countermajoritarian, scholars have claimed it was countermajoritarian, and even the Justices saw themselves as playing a heroic, countermajoritarian role in the case. But the lessons of Furman are not what they seem. Rather than proving the Supreme Court’s ability to withstand majoritarian influences, Furman teaches the opposite – that even in its more countermajoritarian moments, the Court never strays far from dominant public opinion, tending instead to reflect the social and political movements of its time. This Article examines the historical context of Furman v. Georgia and its 1976 counterpart, Gregg v. Georgia, to highlight a fundamental flaw in the Supreme Court’s role as protector of minority rights: its inherently limited inclination and ability to render countermajoritarian change. In theory, the Court might protect unpopular minorities, but in practice it is unlikely to do so unless a substantial (and growing) segment of society supports that protection. Even then, Furman reminds us that the Court’s “help” may do more harm than good. If the past truly is a prologue, Furman portends that the Court’s current interest in restricting the death penalty will not last forever. Like the fair-weather friend, the Court’s protection will likely be there in good times but gone when needed the most.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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Death and Deterrence Redux: Science, Law and Causal Reasoning on Capital Punishment
By Jeffrey Fagan / Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, on 1 January 2006
2006
Article
United States
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A recent cohort of studies report deterrent effects of capital punishment that substantially exceed almost all previous estimates of lives saved by execution. Some of the new studies go further to claim that pardons, commutations, and exonerations cause murders to increase, as does trial delay. This putative life-life tradeoff is the basis for claims by legal academics and advocates of a moral imperative to aggressively prosecute capital crimes, brushing off evidentiary doubts as unreasonable cautions that place potential beneficiaries at risk of severe harm. Challenges to this “new deterrence” literature find that the evidence is too unstable and unreliable to support policy choices on capital punishment. This article identifies numerous technical and conceptual errors in the “new deterrence” studies that further erode their reliability: inappropriate methods of statistical analysis, failures to consider several factors such as drug epidemics that drive murder rates, missing data on key variables in key states, the tyranny of a few outlier states and years, weak to non-existent tests of concurrent effects of incarceration, inadequate instruments to disentangle statistical confounding of murder rates with death sentences and other punishments, failure to consider the general performance of the criminal justice system as a competing deterrent, artifactual results from truncated time frames, and the absence of any direct test of the components of contemporary theoretical constructions of deterrence. Re-analysis of one of the data sets shows that even simple adjustments to the data produce contradictory results, while alternate statistical methods produce contrary estimates. But the central mistake in this enterprise is one of causal reasoning: the attempt to draw causal inferences from a flawed and limited set of observational data, the absence of direct tests of the moving parts of the deterrence story, and the failure to address important competing influences on murder. There is no reliable, scientifically sound evidence that pits execution against a robust set of competing explanations to identify whether it exerts a deterrent effect that is uniquely and sufficiently powerful to overwhelm the recurring epidemic cycles of murder. This and other rebukes remind us to invoke tough, neutral social science standards and commonsense causal reasoning before expanding the use of execution with its attendant risks and costs.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Deterrence ,
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Staying Alive: Executive Clemency, Equal Protection, and the Politics of Gender in Women’s Capital Cases
By Elizabeth Rapaport / Buffalo Criminal Law Review, on 1 January 2001
2001
Article
United States
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In this Article, I will review the matrix in which executive decisions in women’s capital clemency cases are made, a matrix supplied by modern equal protection law, the nature and scope of the clemency power, gender politics, and contemporary death row. I will then conduct two thought experiments. Each invented case tests the relevance of gender in legally and politically acceptable contemporary clemency decisions. The goal is to understand the politics and law of granting or denying that very rare boon-commutation of sentence – to a female death row prisoner. The exercise offers support for two conclusions. In the age of formal equality, women cannot be granted clemency simply because they are women. The rhetoric of chivalry is untenable for the contemporary executive. A governor who is courageous and rhetorically skillful, however, can sometimes successfully defend the commutation of the death sentence of a woman as a proper use of the power to grant mercy, done for her sake, the class she exemplifies, the conscience of the governor, and the public.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Women, Clemency,
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Death penalty ‘traumatises jail warders’
By Daily Nation, on 1 January 2011
2011
Arguments against the death penalty
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The men who lead death row inmates to the gallows are traumatised on surrendering a prisoner to the hangman. This was told at a meeting of judges, commissioners of prisons and legal practitioners from East Africa on the death penalty in Nairobi.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Retribution, Death Row Conditions, Sentencing Alternatives,
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Death Penalty Trends in Asia Have Possible Implications for China
By Dui Hua Human Rights Journal , on 1 January 2011
Article
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This article analyses the latest controversy over the use of the death penalty that erupted not in mainland China but across the strait in Taiwan. In January, the defense ministry there was forced to issue a public apology for a wrongful execution in 1997, followed in early March by the execution of five prisoners without notifying their families.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Networks,
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Affront to Justice: Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2008
2008
NGO report
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Amnesty International has been documenting the Saudi Arabian authorities’ extensive use of the death penalty for over a quarter of a century. This report is the latest evaluation, made in light of the legal, judicial and human rights changes that have been introduced in recent years in the country. The report details cases of death row prisoners on whose behalf Amnesty International has campaigned. It also includes testimonies of former detainees, some of whom have been under sentence of death.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Beheading,
- Available languages صفعة في وجه العدالة:عقوبة الإعدام في المملكة العربية السعودية
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on 8 September 2023
2023
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Detailed Factsheet on Death Penalty and Poverty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2017
2017
Multimedia content
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Detailed information on the death penalty and poverty.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Fiche détaillée sur la peine de mort et la pauvreté
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Korean : Death Penalty: Another Murder
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
Republic of Korea
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For 15 years there have been no executions in South Korea. The film focuses mainly on South Korea through the stories of those directly affected by the death penalty and others outside the country who argue the case for abolition from the perspective of victims’ families, Renny Cushing, Murder Victims Families for Human Rights. It includes testimony from those sentenced to death, a prison warden, the former President of South Korea, Kim Dae Jung, a former prisoner of conscience who was himself sentenced to death and who introduced a moratorium during his presidency. No executions have taken place in South Korea since former President Kim Dae Jung announced his decision. In September South Korea celebrated 5,000 days with no executions.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list Republic of Korea
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
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The Death Penlty In 2011: Year End Report
By Death Penalty Information Center / Richard C. Dieter, on 1 January 2011
2011
International law - Regional body
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The number of new death sentences dropped dramatically in 2011, falling below 100 for the first time in the modern era of capital punishment. Executions also continued decline, while developments in a variety of states illustrated the growing discomfort that many Americans have with the death penalty.
- Document type International law - Regional body
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
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THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTS OF 2005 (AND THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 2006)
By HANDS OFF CAIN, on 1 January 2006
2006
NGO report
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The worldwide situation to date: The worldwide trend towards abolition, underway for at least a decade, was again confirmed in 2005 and the first half of 2006. There are currently 142 countries that to different extents have decided to renounce the death penalty. Of these: 90 are totally abolitionist; 10 are abolitionist for ordinary crimes; 1 (Russia) is committed to abolishing the death penalty as a member of the Council of Europe and currently observing a moratorium on executions; 5 have a moratorium on executions in place and 37 are de facto abolitionist (i.e. no executions have taken place in those countries for at least ten years).
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages Italian : I FATTI PIù IMPORTANTI DEL 2005 (e dei primi sei mesi del 2006)
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The Advocacy Handbook: A Guide to Implementing Recommendations of the Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project
By Council of State Governments Justice Center, on 1 January 2006
Campaigning
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A how-to guide for advocates who want to improve the response to people with mental illnesses who are in contact with the criminal justice system. The Advocacy Handbook reflects a shared effort among NAMI (the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill), the National Mental Health Association (NMHA), the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD), the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, and the Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Networks,
Country
Philippines
on 30 April 2020
2020
Philippines