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World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°125
on 2 July 2021
2021
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°118
on 20 November 2020
2020
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – German
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2024
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World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°119
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2020
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World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°108
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2021
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2020
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World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°110
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2020
World Coalition Against the Death Penalty_ How to insert gender issues in abolitionist advocacy
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World Coalition Against the Death Penalty_ How to insert gender issues in abolitionist advocacy
2023
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°106
on 20 November 2020
2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°112
on 20 November 2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°113
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – Urdu
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – Tagalog
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World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°114
on 20 November 2020
2020
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Poster DE – 2021 World Day Against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 June 2021
2021
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Frauen in der Todeszelle: Ungesehene Realität
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- Themes list Women
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°117
on 20 November 2020
2020
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World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°105
on 20 November 2020
2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°116
on 20 November 2020
World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°115
on 20 November 2020
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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
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World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°117
on 20 November 2020
2020
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – Indonesian
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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°123
on 23 March 2021
2021
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Poster IT – 2021 World Day Against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 June 2021
2021
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Donne condannate a morte: una realta’ invisibile
- Document type Campaigning
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World coalition against the death penalty – Newsletter n°109
on 20 November 2020
2020
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Poster JPN – 2021 World Day Against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 June 2021
2021
Campaigning
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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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35179-Beating-the-death-penalty-in-Illinois-1.html
on 8 September 2020
35179-Beating-the-death-penalty-in-Illinois-1.html
2020
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on 8 September 2020
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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
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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The Failure of Mitigation?
By Robert J. Smith / Hastings Law Journal, on 1 January 2014
2014
Article
United States
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A vast literature details the crimes that condemned inmates commit, but very little is known about the social histories of these capital offenders. For example, how many offenders possessed mitigating characteristics that demonstrate intellectual or psychological deficits comparable to those shared by classes of offenders categorically excluded from capital punishment? Did these executed offenders suffer from intellectual disability, youthfulness, mental illness, or childhood trauma? The problem with this state of affairs is that the personal characteristics of the defendant can render the death penalty an excessive punishment regardless of the characteristics of the crime. This Article begins to fill the mitigation knowledge gap by describing the social histories of the last hundred offenders executed in America. Scouring state and federal court records, this Article documents the presence of significant mitigation evidence for eighty-seven percent of executed offenders. Though only a first step, our findings suggest the failure of the Supreme Court’s mitigation project to ensure the only offenders subjected to a death sentence are those with “a consciousness materially more depraved” than that of the typical murderer. Indeed, the inverse appears to be true: the vast majority of executed offenders possess significant functional deficits that rival — and perhaps outpace — those associated with intellectual impairment and juvenile status; defendants that the Court has categorically excluded from death eligibility.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Mental Illness, Arbitrariness, Intellectual Disability,
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Korean : 연례사형현황 보고서 2011 사형선고와 사형집행
By Amnesty International / 국제앰네스티는, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
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2011년 세계 사형현황은 전세계적인 사형폐지 움직임을 잘 나타내주고 있다. 사형을 적용하는 국가의 수는 예년에 비해 더 줄어들었으며 세계 모든 지역에서 사형폐지를 향한 움직임이 있었다.미국은 G8 국가들 중 유일하게 사형을 집행했지만 일리노이 주(州)가 16번째 사형폐지주가 되었고 오레곤 주지사가 사형집행모라토리엄을 선포하는 등 일정 부분에서 발전이 있었다.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Statistics,
- Available languages Thai : สถานการณ์โทษประหาร และการประหารชีวิต ในปี 2554Death sentences and executions in 2011اعدام و صدور حکم اعدام در سال2011Condamnations à mort et executions 2011國際特赦組織 全球死刑報告 2011Condenas a muerte y ejecuciones 2011
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Italian : I FATTI PIÙ IMPORTANTI DEL 2011 (E DEI PRIMI SEI MESI DEL 2012)
By HANDS OFF CAIN, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
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L’evoluzione positiva verso l’abolizione della pena di morte in atto nel mondo da oltre dieci anni, si è confermata nel 2011 e anche nei primi sei mesi del 2012.I Paesi o i territori che hanno deciso di abolirla per legge o in pratica sono oggi 155. Di questi, i Paesi totalmente abolizionisti sono 99; gli abolizionisti per crimini ordinari sono 7; quelli che attuano una moratoria delle esecuzioni sono 5; i Paesi abolizionisti di fatto, che non eseguono sentenze capitali da oltre dieci anni o che si sono impegnati internazionalmente ad abolire la pena di morte, sono 44.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTS OF 2011 (and the first six months of 2012)
Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – Indonesian
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025 – Indonesian
2024
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Kurdpa Human Rights Organization
on 29 November 2023
KURDPA is a human rights organization and independent news agency, and is a leading source for the latest information on Kurdistan in Iran, with daily coverage in three languages. Founded in 2011, KURDPA’s on-the-ground reporting highlights human rights concerns affecting the Iranian Kurdish community. Kurdpa Organization intends to compensate the existing shortcomings in identifying and […]
2023
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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There Will Be No Stay
By Patty Ann Dillon, on 1 January 2015
2015
Working with...
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There Will Be No Stay is not a documentary about the death penalty. Not in any way you’ve ever seen before, at least. It is a film about the actual men who are tasked by society with carrying out the death penalty. This is a first-hand look at executioners, the pressures they’re put under, and the unbearable toll the act of taking another’s life has on their own.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Methods of Execution,
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: Waiting for capital punishment
By Sadegh Souri, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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According to Iranian law, the age when girls are held accountable for criminal punishment is nine years old, while international conventions have banned the death penalty for persons under 18. In Iran, the death penalty for children is used for crimes such as murder, drug trafficking, and armed robbery.Pursuant to the passing of new laws in recent years, the Iranian Judiciary System detains children in Juvenile Delinquents Correction Centers after their death sentence verdict, and a large number of them are hanged upon reaching age 18.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Themes list Juveniles, Women, Death Row Conditions,
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Middle East and North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia
By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2012
2012
NGO report
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The aim of this research paper is to provide upto-date information about the laws and practices relating to the application of the death penalty. It includes an analysis of the alternative anctions to the death penalty (life and long-term imprisonment) and whether they reflect international human rights standards and norms.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Phenomenon, Country/Regional profiles,
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Mpagi Edward Edmary
By Amnesty International / YouTube, on 1 January 2008
2008
Legal Representation
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Mpagi Edward Edmary from Uganda spent over 18 years on death row, accused of killing a man who was later found to be alive.Mr. Mpagi’s family successfully campaigned for his release, providing evidence that the alleged victim was still alive. Sentenced to death for murder in 1982, the Attorney General proved that the man Mr Mpagi was accused of murdering was still alive in 1989. However it was not until 2000 when a nine member presidential committee released Mr Mpagi, deciding he was innocent.Held for many years in the Luzira Upper Prison, Mr. Mpagi taught his fellow inmates to read and write. He became one of the longest serving inmates and a prison elder. Mr. Mpagi is now an advocate for the abolition of the death penalty and is a committed religious leader. A graduate from a Catholic Diocese he regularly tours prisons providing inspiration and hope to prisoners.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Networks,
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Leaflet 2019 World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2019
2019
Arguments against the death penalty
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Leaflet for the 2019 World Day Against the Death Penalty.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Leaflet arabic 2019النشرة 2019 اليوم العالميBrochure Journée mondiale 2019
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Mobilization Kit 2019 (Black and White)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2019
Arguments against the death penalty
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Mobilization Kit for the 2019 World Day Against the Death Penalty, in black and white (to be printed).
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Kit de mobilisation 2019 (noir et blanc)
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Mobilization Kit 2019
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2019
Arguments against the death penalty
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Mobilization Kit for the 2019 World Day Against the Death Penalty.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Kit de mobilisation 2019
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Mobilization Kit – 2020 World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
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Mobilization Kit for the 2020 World Day Against the Death Penalty.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Due Process , Fair Trial, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Kit de mobilisation - Journée mondiale 2020 (arabe)Kit de mobilisation - Journée mondiale 2020
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Prosecutorial Discretion and Sentencing in Singapore
By Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal / Kumaralingam Amirthalingam, on 1 January 2018
2018
Academic report
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Singapore recently amended its laws to replace the mandatory death penalty regime for murder and drug trafficking with a discretionary sentencing regime under certain conditions. One of the conditions with respect to drug trafficking was that the convicted trafficker had to be granted a certificate by the Public Prosecutor stating that the trafficker had provided substantive assistance that led to the disruption of drug trafficking activities. That decision is not subject to judicial review except under very narrow circumstances, protected in the same way as the constitutionally protected prosecutorial discretion.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Due Process , Fair Trial, Death Penalty,
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Bloodsworth an Innocent Man
By Gregory Bayne, on 1 January 2015
2015
Working with...
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BLOODSWORTH – An Innocent Man is a documentary memoir recounting Kirk Noble Bloodsworth’s remarkable journey through the criminal justice system. An innocent man convicted and sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, Kirk became the first death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence in the United States.Set against the backdrop of his 2013 battle to repeal the death penalty in the State that sentenced him to death, BLOODSWORTH – An Innocent Man offers an intimate glimpse into what it is to wake to a living nightmare; an innocent man caught in the perfect storm of injustice.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Innocence,
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Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
By Council of Europe, on 1 January 1950
1950
Regional body report
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Article 2 – Right to life1. Everyone’s right to life shall be protected by law. No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law.
- Document type Regional body report
- Themes list International law, Right to life,
- Available languages German : Konvention zum Schutze der Menschenrechte und GrundfreiheitenItalian : Convenzione per la salvaguardia dei Diritti dell'Uomo e delle Libertà fondamentaliКонвенция о защите прав человека и основных свободConvention de sauvegarde des Droits de l'Homme et des Libertés fondamentales
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Making your Voice Heard in the EU: A Guide for NGOs
By Civil Society Contact Group, on 1 January 2006
2006
Working with...
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This training handbook was specifically designed for those “newcomer” NGOs and activists that are in the process of establishing a European strategy. It does so by providing tailored-made information on EU institutions, the way European NGOs work, as well as lobbying “tips”, illustrated by examples of EU level campaigns.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Bulgarian : Как гласът ни да бъде чут в ЕС:Наръчник за НПОRomanian : Cum s v face i vocea auzit în cadrul Uniunii Europene: Îndreptar pentru Organiza iile Non-GuvernamentaleEstonian : Enda kuuldavaks tegemine Euroopa Liidus: juhend vabaühendusteleItalian : Far sentire la propria voce nell’UE Guida per le ONGGerman : Einfluss nehmen in der EU: Ein Handbuch für NROsHungarian : Hallassuk hangunkat az EU-ban: útmutató civil szervezeteknekLatvian : Tava balss Eiropas Savieniba: Rokasgramata NVOPortuguese : Faça ouvir A sua voz na União Europeia!Slovene : Naj se slisi vas glas v EU: Prirocnik za nevladne organizacijeFaire Entendre votre voix dans l'UE: Un Guide à l'Usage des ONGHaciéndose oír en la UE: Una Guía para ONG
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RESOLUTION 1044 (1994) on the abolition of capital punishment
By Council of Europe / Parlamentary Assembly, on 8 September 1994
1994
United Nations report
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The Parliamentary Assembly welcomes the abolition of capital punishment for offences committed both in war- and in peacetime in Greece on 16 December 1993, which provides an excellent example for other countries to follow.
- Document type United Nations report
- Themes list International law,
maping-women-death-penalty-fr
on 8 September 2023
2023
maping-women-death-penalty
on 8 September 2023
death-penalty-in-china-2022
on 15 February 2022
2022
logo-Abolition-Death-Penalty-of-Iraq
on 30 June 2023
2023
gender-and-death-penalty-glossary
on 15 August 2023
2023
Global-Consortium-for-Death-Penalty-Abolition
on 12 July 2024
2024
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Emerging Issues in Juvenile Death Penalty Law
By Victor L. Streib / Ohio Northern University Law Review, on 1 January 2000
2000
Article
United States
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As our society’s enduring marriage to the death penalty prepares to enter yet another century, it is a marriage that places the children in danger. Why is it that we continue to impose the death penalty for crimes committed by juvenile offenders? As questionable as the death penalty is in general, might we not at least place an “adults only” label on it? The rest of the world has already done so. Only in America need children fear execution by their own government.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Juveniles,
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Europe – A Death Penalty Free Zone: Commentary and Critique of Abolitionist Strategies
By Peter Hodgkinson / Ohio Northern University Law Review, on 8 September 2020
2020
Article
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The purpose of this paper is to offer a critique and commentary on the European agenda on the abolition of the death penalty, and in so doing the author has relied heavily on the contributions made by a number of commentators to the recent Council of Europe publication, “The Death Penalty: Abolition in Europe”.
- Document type Article
- Themes list International law, Trend Towards Abolition,
Article(s)
Guatemala: abolish the death penalty
on 18 September 2013
2013
Guatemala
Document(s)
Minority Practice, Majority’s Burden: The Death Penalty Today
By James S. Liebman / Peter Clarke / Columbia School of Law, on 1 January 2011
2011
Article
United States
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This article explores how, capital punishment in the United States is a minority practice. This feature of American capital punishment has become more pronounced recently, and is especially clear when death sentences, which are merely infrequent, are distinguished from executions, which are exceedingly rare.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Minorities,
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The Deprived: Innocent On Death Row
By Steffen Hou / BookBaby, on 1 January 2019
2019
Book
United States
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The book describes how thousands of Americans are convicted of crimes they never committed. Many of them end up on death row where inmates have been executed despite their innocence. ‘The Deprived’ is based on interviews with 10 Americans who have all been affected by wrongful convictions and the death penalty. The book also describes what leads to wrongful convictions in America and who’s most likely to be convicted of a crime they never committed.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
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Death Row – The Final Minutes
By Blink Publishing / Michelle Lyons, on 8 September 2020
2020
Book
United States
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First as a reporter and then as a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Michelle was a frequent visitor to Huntsville’s Walls Unit, where she recorded and relayed the final moments of death row inmates’ lives before they were put to death by the state.Michelle was in the death chamber as some of the United States’ most notorious criminals, including serial killers, child murderers and rapists, spoke their last words on earth, while a cocktail of lethal drugs surged through their veins.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Right to life, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
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.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Women,
Member(s)
Leaders Organization
on 30 April 2020
Leaders Organization is a Palestinian youth led non-governmental organization that was established in 2002.The Organization prides itself in its principles and unique approach to development in the Palestinian territories. At the time, it was established to allow youths to participate in serving their society. Since then, Leaders have established a reputation for working with, serving, […]
2020
State of Palestine
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The Defense Team in Capital Cases
By Jill Miller / Hofstra Law Review, on 1 January 2003
2003
Article
United States
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Fairness for those defendants facing the ultimate punishment of death requires that they be afforded zealous advocacy by competent counsel, and that counsel be provided with the resources necessary to effectively represent their clients. Stating that “[o]ur capital system is haunted by the demon of error, error in determining guilt, and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die,” Governor Ryan cited many deficiencies in the justice system in Illinois, including poor lawyering and inadequate resources for defense counsel, in arriving at his decision to commute all death sentences. Over the years the imposition of the death penalty has too often been a function of unqualified counsel or counsel who lacked the resources, including time, funding, and provision of investigative, expert and supportive services, to competently represent their clients, rather than a reasoned decision based on the circumstances of the crime and the background and character of the defendant.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Legal Representation,
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Forgotten
By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2012
2012
Arguments against the death penalty
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This 2011 film ‘Forgotten’ was produced under the EU funded project ‘Progressive Abolition of the Death Penalty and Alternatives that Respect International Human Rights Standards’. The film reflects the conditions for those sentenced to life imprisonment in the countries of Central Asia.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Country/Regional profiles,
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Pathways to abolition
By Death Penalty Worldwide / Cornell Law School, on 1 January 2016
2016
Academic report
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This report documents the processes by which 14 jurisdictions abolished the death penalty in law. The conclusions attempt to identify patterns and draw conclusions in the hope that they will provide ideas, insights and inspiration to countries that either already are on their path to abolition or yet have to embark on it.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Country/Regional profiles,
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State Secrets: China’s Legal Labyrinth
By Andrew Nathan / ChristineLoh / Liu Baopu / Fu Hualing / Jerome A. Cohen / Human Rights In China, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
China
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This report describes and examines the PRC state secrets system and shows how itallows and even promotes human rights violations by undermining the rights tofreedom of expression and information. The PRC state secrets system, implementedthrough a CPC-controlled hierarchy of government bodies, is comprised of statesecrets laws and regulations that work in tandem with the PRC’s state security,criminal procedure and criminal laws, to create a complex, opaque system that controlsthe classification of—and criminalizes the disclosure or possession of—statesecrets. By guarding too much information and sweeping a vast universe of informationinto the state secrets net, the complex and opaque state secrets system perpetuatesa culture of secrecy that is not only harmful but deadly to Chinese society
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list China
- Themes list Transparency,
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Detailed Factsheet 2019
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2019
2019
Arguments against the death penalty
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Detailed factsheet for the 2019 World Day, on the rights of children whose a parent has been sentenced to death or executed.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Fiche détaillée 2019
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Leaflet – 12th World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
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The 2013 World Day leaflet provides information on the issues surrounding mental health and the death penalty. It also gives arguments against the death penalty.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability,
- Available languages Brochure Journée mondiale 2014
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Petition – Guatemala
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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For the 2013 World Day, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is asking Guatemala to abolish the death penalty for all crimes in law.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list International law, Country/Regional profiles,
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Pegagogical Guide: Teaching Abolition (2nd Edition)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2011
2011
Campaigning
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This manual offers several activities in anticipation of the celebrations on 10 October. It is aimed particularly at teachers of students aged 14 to 18, wherever they are in the world, but can also be used by anyone willing to organise an event for the World Day.If you are not a teacher, you may use it to make your own documents and inform the public about the reality of the death penalty in a recreational way.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Italian : Guida pedagogica: Giornata Mondiale contro la Pena di Morte 2009Guide pédagogique: Éduquer à l’abolition (2e édition)Руководство по обучению организации мероприятий по случаю Всемирного дня борьбы против смертной казни 20092009年世界反死刑日 教学手册Guia Pedagogica Educar para la Abolición
Document(s)
Making the Media Work for You
By European Journalism Centre, on 1 January 2015
2015
Arguments against the death penalty
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- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Public opinion, Networks, Member organizations,
Document(s)
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 ,
Document(s)
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
Member(s)
Ordre des avocats du Barreau de Liège
on 30 April 2020
The Liège Bar Association (Ordre des avocats du Barreau de Liège) is the representative and disciplinary body for the lawyers registered with the Liège Bar. It promotes their profession and defends the rights of individuals. Some 880 lawyers are registered with the Liège Bar.
2020
Belgium
Document(s)
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,
Country
Philippines
on 30 April 2020
2020
Philippines
Document(s)
Ripoti Ya Kimataifa Ya Amnesty International Hukumu Za Kifo Na Watu Walionyongwa 2022
By Amnesty International, on 16 May 2023
2023
NGO report
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Utafiti wa Amnesty International kuhusu matumizi ya adhabu ya kifo mwaka wa 2022 ulionyesha kwambakulikuwa na ongezeko kubwa la idadi ya watu wanaojulikana kuwa walinyongwa duniani, likiwemo ongezekokubwa la watu walionyongwa kutokana na makosa yanayohusiana na dawa za kulevya
- Document type NGO report
Document(s)
Muzzling critical voices: Politicized trials before Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
Saudi Arabia
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Despite the Saudi Arabian authorities’ rhetoric about reforms, they have unleashed an intense crackdown on citizens promoting change in the last few years. One of the instruments of that repression has been the Specialized Criminal Court (SCC), which was set up in 2008 to try individuals accused of terror-related crimes. Amnesty International has documented the cases of 95 individuals who were tried before the SCC between 2011 and 2019. It has concluded that the SCC’s judges have presided over grossly unfair trials, handing down prison sentences of up to 30 years and numerous death sentences, in an effort to silence dissent.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Saudi Arabia
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles, Terrorism,
- Available languages AR Muzzling critical voicesArabia Saudí: Silenciar las voces críticas: Juicios politizados ante el Tribunal Penal Especializado de Arabia Saudí - Resumen ejecutivo y conclusionesتكميم الأفواه المعارِضة: محاكمات مسيّسة أمام المحكمة الجزائية المتخصصة في السعوديةArabie Saoudite: Reduire les voix critiques au silence: Des proces politises devant le Tribunal penal special en Arabie Saoudite
Document(s)
Unsafe convictions in capital cases in Taiwan
By Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty / The Death Penalty Project, on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
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- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Innocence, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages 鐵證不如山-台灣死刑案件判決分析報告
Document(s)
Leaflet
By California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2007
2007
Working with...
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California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (CCV) is made up of families, friends, and loved ones of murder victims who support alternatives to the death penalty.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Executions of juveniles since 1990 (as of April 2019)
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
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The use of the death penalty for crimes committed by people younger than 18 is prohibited under international human rights law, yet some countries still execute child offenders. Since 1990 Amnesty International has documented 145 executions of child offenders in 10 countries: China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Sudan, the USA and Yemen. This is the most up to date version of this document.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Juveniles, Death Penalty, Statistics,
- Available languages عمليات إعدام الأحداث التي تم تنفيذها منذ 1990 وحتى أبريل/نيسان 2019Ejecuciones de personas que eran menores de edad en el momento del delito desde 1990 hasta abril de 2019
Document(s)
Murder Victims Families for Human Rights Brochure
By Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights, on 8 September 2020
2020
Working with...
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Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights was launched on international human rights day, 2004, by a group of victims’ family members who oppose the death penalty and have extensive speaking and organizing experience in the United States and around the world. Through their statements, testimony, and educational materials, MVFHR members let policymakers and the general public know that it is possible to be both pro-victim and anti-death penalty. The response to one human rights violation should not be another human rights violation. We honor victims by preventing violence, not by perpetuating it.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Familias de Víctimas de Homicidio por los Derechos HumanosFamilles de Victimes de Meurtre pour les Droits de l'Homme BrochureJapanese : 人権のための殺人被害者遺族の会Italian : Famiglie Delle Vittime Di Omicidio Per I Diritti Umani
Document(s)
Last 100 executed: Who are they?
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2014
2014
Arguments against the death penalty
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Some defendants who commit murder are automatically excluded from the death penalty in the U.S., such as juveniles and the intellectually disabled. Others with similar deficits are regularly executed. A new study by Robert Smith (l.), Sophie Cull, and Zoe Robinson examined the mitigating evidence present in 100 recent cases resulting in execution, testing whether the offenders possessed mitigating qualities similar to those spared from execution. This infographic presents some of their findings.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Mental Illness, Arbitrariness,
Document(s)
Innocence Database
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2011
2011
NGO report
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This database can be searched using any combination of the search filters below. All columns are sortable by clicking the title at the top of the column. To find out more about a case in the list, click on the name of the individual.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
In Their Own Words (Black and White)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
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A tool with testimonies of children with a parent on death row, compiled by the World Coalition thanks to its member organizations (to be printed).
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Paroles d'enfant (noir et blanc)
Document(s)
Student Resource Centre
By Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Campaigning
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A resource centre for students researching the death penalty. It provides student essays as an example on how to write an essay on the death penalty. It also contains a contact list of – death row inmates, activists, jurists, families of inmates, and others that have agreed to make themselves available to answer students’ questions regarding capital punishment.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Poster – 10th World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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Poster of the 10th World Day against the Death Penalty:Abolish the Death Penalty. It’s a better world without it.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
- Available languages 海報 - 2012 年世界反死刑日پوستر روز جهانی سال 2012плакатAffiche Journée mondiale 2012Cartel Día Mundial 2012
Document(s)
: Fiche d’information pour les juges – Journée mondiale 2020
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / The Advocates for Human Rights, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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A l’occasion de la Journée mondiale 2020, portant sur le droit à un·e avocat·e, The Advocates for Human Rights et la Coalition mondiale contre la peine de mort proposent une fiche d’information à destination des juges.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Fair Trial, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Factsheet for Judges - 2020 World Day
Document(s)
Detailed Factsheet – 2020 World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / The Advocates for Human Rights, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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Detailed factsheet on international and regional human rights standards on the right to access to effective legal representation.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Fair Trial, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Fiche détaillée - Journée mondiale 2020
Document(s)
The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment
By Franklin E. Zimring / Oxford University Press, on 1 January 2003
2003
Book
United States
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Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each year? How can the death penalty conflict be resolved?In The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment, Frank Zimring reveals that the seemingly insoluble turmoil surrounding the death penalty reflects a deep and long-standing division in American values, a division that he predicts will soon bring about the end of capital punishment in our country. On the one hand, execution would seem to violate our nation’s highest legal principles of fairness and due process. It sets us increasingly apart from our allies and indeed is regarded by European nations as a barbaric and particularly egregious form of American exceptionalism. On the other hand, the death penalty represents a deeply held American belief in violent social justice that sees the hangman as an agent of local control and safeguard of community values.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
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,