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Filling The Void

By CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform / Bill Leonard / Maggie Smart, on 1 January 2014


2014

Book

United States


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‘Filling The Void’ is a brutal record of Bill Leonard’s troubled childhood and youth.The memoir provides a shocking insight into the neglect and abuse that he suffered as a child at the hands of his parents and stepfather and gives a frank account of the murders that led to his incarceration. It reveals the horrendous conditions in which Bill is held in Ely State Prison, Nevada and gives a graphic description of the barbarous treatment that he has received at the hands of his prison guards. It also details and examines the flawed process that earned him the death penalty and describes his struggle for self-rehabilitation through a process called neuroplasticity. This is the life story of a man who has suffered a great deal, who has passions that aren’t always under control. A man who loves order and truth but hasn’t always been able to engage in them. Someone who is hugely motivated to learn and develop his abilities. Someone who ought to be alive for a long time. This is Bill Leonard – and this is his story.

  • Document type Book
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty,

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The Darkest Hour: Shedding Light on the Impact of Isolation and Death Row

By Dr. Betty Gilmore and Nanon M. Williams / Goodmedia press, on 1 January 2012


2012

Book

United States


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

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

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Society for Human Rights and Development Organisation (SHRDO)

on 30 April 2020

The Society for Human Rights and Development Organisation (SHRDO) – Formally MRU youth parliament – purpose is for peace &  development and its activities are base on Sub Regional Peace Consolidations, Peace Promotion & Peace Maintenance across Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea & Ivory Coast by the Youngsters/ Youth Leaders themselves that agitates for regional reintegration, […]

2020

Sierra Leone

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Mercy By the Numbers: An Empirical Analysis of Clemency and Its Structure

By Michael Heise / Virginia Law Review, on 1 January 2003


2003

Article

United States


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Clemency is an extrajudicial measure intended both to enhance fairness in the administration of justice, and allow for the correction of mistakes. Perhaps nowhere are these goals more important than in the death penalty context. The recent increased use of the death penalty and concurrent decline in the number of defendants removed from death row through clemency call for a better and deeper understanding of clemency authority and its application. Questions about whether clemency decisions are consistently and fairly distributed are particularly apt. This study uses 27 years of death penalty and clemency data to explore the influence of defendant characteristics, political factors, and clemency’s structure on clemency decisions. The results suggest that although a defendant’s race and ethnicity did not influence clemency, gender did play a role, as women were far more likely than their male counterparts to receive clemency. Analyses of political and structural factors point in different directions. Political factors such as the timing of gubernatorial and presidential elections and a governor’s lame-duck status did not systematically influence clemency. However, how states structure clemency authority did make a difference. Clemency grants were more likely in states that vest authority in administrative boards than in states that vest authority in the governor. Regionality and time were also important as clemency grants were less likely in southern states and declined after 1984. Overall, these mixed results contribute to a critique that clemency decisions are arbitrary and inconsistent. Thus, important questions regarding fairness that plague earlier aspects of the death penalty process persist to its final stage.

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

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The Pros and Cons of Life Without Parole

By Bent Grover / Catherine Appleton / British Journal of Criminology, on 1 January 2007


2007

Article

United States


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The question of how societies should respond to their most serious crimes if not with the death penalty is ‘perhaps the oldest of all the issues raised by the two-century struggle in western civilization to end the death penalty’ ( Bedau, 1990: 481 ). In this article we draw attention to the rapid and extraordinary increase in the use of ‘life imprisonment without parole’ in the United States. We aim to critically assess the main arguments put forward by supporters of whole life imprisonment as a punishment provided by law to replace the death penalty and argue against life-long detention as the ultimate sanction.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Sentencing Alternatives,

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South Korea’s changing capital punishment policy: The road from de facto to formal abolition

By Byung-Sun Cho / Punishment and Society, on 8 September 2020


2020

Article

Republic of Korea


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The most recent executions in South Korea took place in December 1997, when 23 people were executed at short notice on the same day. Similarly, nineteen executions occurred in 1995 and 15 in 1994, in each instance occurring all on the same day. These group executions seem to reflect cultural factors that monthly statistics alone do not capture. No executions have occurred since 1998, but this de facto suspension has not been reinforced by law. Since 1999, lawmakers have thrice endorsed a bill favoring life imprisonment without parole in place of the death penalty, but each time the proposal has stalled and failed to move forward. The need remains to develop a culturally appropriate pro-abolition argument that could persuade the Korean public that the death penalty is unworkable and wrong. On 21 January 2007, in the Inhyeokdang case, the Korean Court acquitted 8 persons who had been executed 32 years earlier. The hope is that, in light of strong arguments based on the risk to innocent persons and the irreversibility of capital punishment, Korea will effectively transition from de facto to formal abolition.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list Republic of Korea
  • Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,

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Abortion, Capital Punishment, and the Politics of “God’s” Will

By Kimberly J. Cook / William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, on 8 September 2020


Article

United States


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In her paper, Professor Kimberly J. Cook uses statistics to illustrate the role the Christian Right plays in the public discourse over two issues permeated with religious overtones: abortion and the death penalty. She shows how the Christian Right’s approach to these issues is based on an ideological notion of ‘Justice ” that is primarily focused on vengeance and punishment, to the exclusion of forgiveness. Professor Cook’s exploration of the modern roots of this ideology leads to a movement dating from the 1960s known as Christian Reconstructionism, which advocates using state action to enforce its unique interpretation of “God’s Will.” This interpretation not only advocates an expansive view of the death penalty, but also patriarchal gender roles backed by force of law, religious intolerance, and the manifest goal of establishing a global Christian theocracy. Though it has been publicly disavowed by mainstream Christian Fundamentalists, Professor Cook argues that Reconstructionism has become the cornerstone of the Christian Right. To support this assertion, she compares current Christian Right socio-political goals with Reconstructionist theology. Professor Cook concludes with a warning that the Christian Right’s political power, coupled with its Reconstructionist influenced ideology, places our constitutional protections at risk.

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

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When the Wall has Fallen: Decades of Failure in the Supervision of Capital Juries

By Jose Felipe Anderson / Ohio Northern University Law Review, on 1 January 2000


2000

Article

United States


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Although there is no constitutional requirement that a jury participate in the death penalty process, most states do provide, through their capital punishment statutes, that a jury will participate in the decision. The preference for jury sentencing in these circumstances reflects a reluctance to leave power over life solely in the hands of one judge. Still, some scholars have long criticized juries for administering punishment.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Fair Trial,

Article(s)

Call for interns

By Project 39A, on 14 June 2018

Project 39A offers a minimum of four-week long internships to students of law and related fields.

2018

India

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

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Instructions: Form for Filing Petitions alleging Human Rights Violations

By Organization of American States, on 8 September 2020


2020

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The following form, prepared by the Commission’s Executive Secretariat, is intended to make it easier for victims of violations, their family members, organizations of civil society or other persons to file complaints alleging human rights violations by OAS member States.

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Resource Guide for Managing Capital Cases Volume II: Habeas Corpus Review of State Capital Convictions

By Asifa Quraishi, Esq. / Federal Judicial Center, on 1 January 2010


2010

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This guide was created to assist judges and court staff in managing capital habeas corpus cases by providing a summary of relevant law and case-management procedures. Section II, “Management of Individual Capital Habeas Cases,” summarizes the substantive law of federal habeas corpus that has an impact on case management and procedure (such as jurisdiction to appoint counsel, statutes of limitations, and evidentiary hearings) and describes various techniques judges have used to manage individual cases. Section III, “District-Wide and Circuit-Wide Approaches to Capital Habeas Corpus Case Management,” describes several practices used in the federal courts to monitor and streamline capital case management at a district- or circuit-wide level.

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Hindi : एशिया में घातक अन्याय: समाप्ति अनुचित परीक्षण, सज़ाएँ बंद करो

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

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संयुक्त दुनिया के बाकी की तुलना में एशिया – प्रशांत क्षेत्र में और अधिक लोगों को क्रियान्वित कर रहे हैं. इस संभावना है कि वे एक अनुचित परीक्षण के बाद मार डाला गया जोड़ें, और इस सज़ा के सकल अन्याय सब भी स्पष्ट हो जाता है.

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Japanese : 不当に奪われる生命 ~アジアにおける不公正な裁判を止め、 死刑執行の停止を~

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 8 September 2020


NGO report

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アジア太平洋地域における死刑の執行数は、世界の他の地域の合計数よりも多い。その上、不公正な裁判で処刑された可能性や、死刑の著しい不正義が明らかに なっている。誤判で死刑判決が言い渡されると、取り返しがつかない。アジア 太平洋地域の人口の95パーセントが、 死刑を存置

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Korean : 아시아에서의 치명적 불의 불공정 재판을 멈춰라, 사형집행을 중단하라.

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 8 September 2020


NGO report

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아시아∙태평양 지역에서는 세계 나머지 모든 곳을 다 합친 것보다 더 많은 사람이 사형을 당한다. 게다가 불공정한 재판을 받고 사형당할 가능성까지 감안하면 사형이 얼마나 부당한 제도인지 명백히 드러난다. 공정한 재판을 받지 못한 채 사형이 집행된 후에는 이를 되돌이킬 방법이 전혀 없다.

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Mongolian : АЗИ ТИВ ДЭХ ЭНЭРЭЛГҮЙ ШУДАРГА БУС ЯВДАЛ Шударга бусaap шүүх явдлыг зогсоож, цаазын ялыг халъя

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 8 September 2020


NGO report

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Ази, Номхон далайн бүсэд дэлхийн бусад орнуудыг нийлүүлж тооцсоноос ч илүү олон хүнийг цаазалж байна. Үүнээс гадна тэр хүмүүсийг шударга бус шүүхээр шүүсэн байх магадлалтай бөгөөд энэхүү шийтгэл нь асар ичгүүргүй, шударга бус болох нь улам ойлгомжтой болсоор байна.

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Tagalog : NAKAMAMATAY NA KAWALAN NG KATARUNGAN SA ASYA Itigil ang Di Makatarungang paglilitis, Itigil ang Pagbitay

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 8 September 2020


NGO report

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Mas maraming tao ang pinarusahan ng kamatayan sa Rehiyong Asya-Pasipikokung ikukumpara sa pinagsamang iba pang bahagi ng mundo. Idagdag pa rito ang probabilidad na sila ay binitay pagkatapos ng di-makatarungang paglilitis, at lalong lilinaw ang garapal na inhustisya ng parusang ito.

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Urdu : یفاصناان کلہم ںیم ایشیا ںیرک متخ توم ےازس ،دنب تامدقم ہنافصنمریغ

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 8 September 2020


NGO report

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ںیم سا ۔ےہ یتاج ید توم ےازس وک دارفا ہدایز ےس ایند یقاب ںیم ےطخ کفسیپ ایشیا ںیم ےجیتن ےک تعامس ہنافصنمریغ ںیہنا ہک ےئاج ایل رک لماش یھب وک ناکما سا رگا ۔ےہ یتاجوہ حضاو یفاصناان یعومجم یک ازس سا وت یئگ ید ازس

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Thai : การประหารชีวิตที่อยุติธรรม ในภูมิภาคเอเชีย ยุติการพิจารณาคดีที่ไม่เป็นธรรม ยกเลิกการประหารชีวิต

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 8 September 2020


NGO report

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Randall Adams, 61, Dies; Freed With Help of Film

By Douglas Martin / New York Times, on 1 January 2011


2011

Legal Representation


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Randall Dale Adams, who spent 12 years in prison before his conviction in the murder of a Dallas police officer was thrown out largely on the basis of evidence uncovered by a filmmaker, died in obscurity in October in Washington Court House, Ohio. He was 61.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Innocence,

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Facilitation manual: A guide to using participatory methodologies for human rights education

By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2014


2014

NGO report


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This guide is part of Amnesty International’s Education for Human Dignity project and is intended to be used with the project’s substantive modules on poverty and human rights issues. This facilitation manual has been developed, however, with the necessary flexibility to be used alone as a general resource in a diversity of settings.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Public opinion, Public debate,

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Wrongful Convicitions in Californian Capital Cases

By Death Penalty Focus, on 1 January 2008


2008

Legal Representation


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This report details the cases of thirteen men and one woman who were convicted of first degree murder in California and later freed after a court concluded that they had been wrongfully convicted.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Networks,

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Counting executions: data analysis by justice project pakistan

By Justice Project Pakistan, on 1 January 2017


2017

Academic report


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Facts and figures of the executions in Pakistan from december 2014 to May 2017

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

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Death sentences and executions in 2008

By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2009


2009

NGO report

arrufres
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This document summarises Amnesty International’s global research on the death penalty. Information was gathered from various sources including official statistics (where available), non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations, human rights defenders, the media and interviews with survivors of human rights violations.

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Myth #8 – Executions help victims’ families to heal

By Reprieve / Emmanuelle Purdon , on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report


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MYTH: Executions help victims’ families to heal. FACT: Whilst we cannot speak for all victims’ families, it is clear that not all families are healed after the execution. Rather, the death penalty creates more victims and more brutality.

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

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Oleg Alkaev, former head of Belarus’s death row

By Amnesty International / Daily Motion, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

Belarus

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Colonel Oleg Alkaev, who was Director of remand prison (SIZO)6 No. 1 in Minsk and ordered a number of executions. He gave this testimony to Amnesty International, a member of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty.

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Step by Step : Journey of Hope

By Journey of Hope / YouTube, on 1 January 2007


2007

Arguments against the death penalty


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This is a video following the Journey of Hope in Texas, a group lobbying for abolition in Texas.They tour Texas giving talks on the death penalty and they promote a message of love and not retribution. This video includes testimonies from murder victim families and exonerees.

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

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Mike Farrell: Paul House and Death Row

By Air America Media / YouTube, on 1 January 2009


2009

Arguments against the death penalty


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Mike Farrell talks about the death penalty in the United States. Amongst many things he speaks about innocence, deterrence and retribution.

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

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USA: Death in Florida

By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2017


2017

Academic report


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In March 2017, Rick Scott, Governor of Florida, responded to a State Attorney’s decision not to pursue the death penalty because of its demonstrable flaws by ordering her replacement with a prosecutor willing to engage in this lethal pursuit. Since then the governor has transferred 27 capital murder cases to his preferred prosecutor. Two of these cases have already resulted in juries voting for death sentences.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Fair Trial, Legal Representation, Country/Regional profiles,

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Getting It Right Project

By Brandon Garret / The Innocence Project, on 1 January 2011


2011

Legal Representation


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Getting it right is a project to learn more about the central causes of wrongful convictions and suggested reforms to prevent future injustice. It analyses the role of eyewitness, forensics, confessions, informants, representation and law enforcement.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Innocence,

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Human Rights and Vulnerable Prisoners (pages 121-132)

By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2003


2003

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This manual is a resource for those who deliver training and workshops on human rights in prisons. It explores the fundamentals of good prison management, focusing specifically on international standards for the treatment of prisoners and the special needs of vulnerable categories of prisoner.

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17 Indians Tortured, Sentenced to Death

By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2010


2010

Legal Representation

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Seventeen Indian migrant workers have been sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), after an unfair trial, for the murder of a Pakistani national.Some of the 17 are said to have been tortured to make them “confess.” They may be at risk of further torture.

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Screening questionnaire for DNA Grant Cases

By Arizona Justice Project, on 8 September 2020


2020

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The Arizona Justice Project will use this questionnaire to decide whether your case qualifies for assistance under the DNA testing grant, provided by the National Institute of Justice.

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False Confessions and Recording of Custodial Interrogations

By The Innocence Project, on 8 September 2020


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Many of the nation’s 249 wrongful convictions overturned by DNA evidence involved some form of a false confession. Yet it’s virtually impossible to fathom wh a person would wrongly confess to a crime he or she did not commit. The causes behind false confessions is explored in this text.

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Model League of Arab States: Delegates’ Handbook and Rules of Procedure

By Youngstown State University, on 8 September 2020


Academic report


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This document provides an introduction to the League explaining the idea of the Arab League, how it was formed, its objectives and its structure.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Networks,

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Resource Guide for Managing Capital Cases

By Molly Treadway Johnson / Federal Judicial Center / Laural L. Hooper, on 1 January 2004


2004

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The purpose of this resource guide is to provide judges who are assigned capital cases with information about how other judges have handled these cases and an idea of what to expect as the case proceeds. The guide does not prescribe how such cases should be handled, and any examples of case-management approaches discussed should be considered illustrative.

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

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Fundraising from Institutions

By Angela James / Bond - For International Development, on 1 January 2010


2010

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Donor funds are under intense pressure and receive applications from many more civil society organisations than they are able to fund. When you have identified your project and are ready to look for funding, you will want to present it to the most appropriate donor in the most effective way. This guide gives you the essential information about institutional donors who operate a two stage application process.

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  • Themes list Networks,

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Factsheet for Parliamentarians

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2016


2016

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While the death penalty remains, persons with mental disabilities are at risk of being sentenced to death and executed in breach of international standards. This briefing paper provides concrete examples of what can be done to address this risk, including by ensuring that all states have laws that embed international protections in their domestic legislation and by extending protection to those with [serious] mental illness not covered by existing proscriptions against executing persons affected by “insanity”.

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Factsheet for Lawyers

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018


2018

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Factsheet for lawyers – World Day Against the Death Penalty 2018

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  • Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,
  • Available languages Fiche pratique pour les avocats

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Factsheet – Lawyers

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

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While the death penalty remains, persons with mental disabilities are at risk of being sentenced to death and executed in breach of international standards. This briefing paper provides concrete examples of what can be done to address this risk, including by ensuring that adequate mental health expertise is available for defendants in capital cases in which mental or intellectual disabilities are claimed as a factor.

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True Conviction

By Death Penalty Information Center / Jamie Meltzer, on 1 January 2017


2017

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True Conviction is a documentary which follows the detective agency started by Christopher Scott, the late Johnnie Lindsey, and Steven Phill—three wrongly convicted Dallas men who were exonerated after spending a combined 60 years in prison—as they work to attempt to free death-sentenced Max Soffar and other wrongly convicted prisoners.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Innocence, Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty,

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Who Are We Hanging?

on 1 January 2019


2019

NGO report


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The index, created by Justic Project Pakistan, gives statistical information on the use of the death penalty in Pakistan.

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

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Practical Guide to Contract procedures for EU external actions

By European Commission, on 1 January 2014


2014

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This Practical Guide explains the contracting procedures applying to all EU external actions financed from the EU general budget (the EU budget) and the European Development Fund (EDF).

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Capital Punishment, 2009 – Statistics Tables

By Bureau of Justice Statistics / US Department of Justice, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

United States


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At yearend 2009, 36 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons held 3,173 inmates under sentence of death, which was 37 fewer inmates than at yearend 2008. This represents the ninth consecutive year that the population has decreased. California, Florida, Texas, and Pennsylvania held half of all inmates on death row as of December 31, 2009. The Federal Bureau of Prisons held 55 inmates.

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

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A Deadly Case of Mistaken Identity

By Sam Olukoya / IPS, on 1 January 2011


2011

Legal Representation


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The worst day of Olaniyi Emiola’s life was Mar. 17, 1998. At least it was for Olaniyi Emiola, 22, the spare motor parts trader. For Olaniyi Emiola, the armed robber, it was a lucky escape as another man with the same name had been wrongly sentenced to death for a crime he committed.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Innocence,

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The Prevalence and Potential Causes of Wrongful Conviction by Fingerprint Evidence.

By Simon A. Cole / Golden Gate University Law Review, on 1 January 2006


2006

Article

United States


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As the number of post-conviction DNA exonerations mounted and the Innocence Project undertook to treat these exonerations as a data set indicating the principal causes of wrongful conviction, the absence of fingerprint cases in that data set could have been interpreted as soft evidence that latent print evidence was unlikely to contribute to wrongful convictions. That situation changed in 2004 when Stephan Cowans became the first – and thus far the only – person to be exonerated by DNA evidence for a wrongful conviction in which fingerprint evidence was a contributing factor. Cowans’s wrongful conviction in Boston in 1997 for the attempted murder of a police officer was based almost solely on eyewitness identification and latent print evidence. The Cowans case not only provided dramatic additional support for the already established proposition that wrongful conviction by fingerprint was possible, it also demonstrated why the exposure of such cases, when they do occur, is exceedingly unlikely. These points have already been made in a comprehensive 2005 study of exposed cases of latent print misattributions. In this article, I discuss some additional things that we have learned about the prevalence and potential causes of wrongful conviction by fingerprint in the short time since the publication of that study.

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

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Sources of Variation in Pro-Death Penalty Attitudes in China: An Exploratory Study of Chinese Students at Home and Abroad

By Lening Zhang / Terance D. Miethe / Hong Lu / Bin Liang / British Journal of Criminology, on 1 January 2006


Article

China


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This paper examines Chinese students’ attitudes about the death penalty in contemporary China. Drawing upon Western public opinion research on the death penalty, samples of Chinese college students at home and abroad are used to explore the magnitude of their pro-death penalty attitudes and sources of variation in these opinions. Both groups of Chinese students are found to support the death penalty across different measures of this concept. Several individual and contextual factors are correlated with pro-death penalty attitudes, but the belief in the specific deterrent effect of punishments was the only variable that had a significant net effect on these attitudes in our multivariate analysis. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of this study for future research on public opinion about crime and punishment in China.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list China
  • Themes list Public opinion, Public debate,

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Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty

By Oxford University Press / Frank Baumgartner, on 1 January 2017


2017

Book


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Provides a comprehensive statistical assessment of how the death penalty has been applied over the entire modern period, 1976 to present

  • Document type Book
  • Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Penalty, Statistics,

Document(s)

Religious Neutrality and the Death Penalty

By Arnold H. Loewy / William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 9(1), 191-200, on 1 January 2000


2000

Article

United States


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Cases involving the Establishment of Religion Clause predominantly emphasize religious neutrality. Believing this to be normatively correct, Professor Loewy argues for religious neutrality in capital punishment cases. In accordance therewith, he would uphold religious peremptory challenges where a juror’s religious belief is related to her death penalty perspective. Professor Loewy agrees with the courts’general willingness to disallow religion as an aggravating factor while allowing it as a mitigating factor. This dichotomy comports with the neutralityp rinciple because aggravatingfa ctors, in general,a re limited whereas mitigating factors are unlimited.

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

Document(s)

Pictures at an execution: The condemned in art

By BBC / Jason Farago, on 1 January 2014


2014

Article

United States


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This article discusses a new art exhibition in Los Angeles which aims to humanise condemned prisoners. It continues to situate the exhibition in the greater context of the depiction of the death penalty in art history. The conversation this article raises is the link the death penalty in art history has with creating a public discussion. From the sword to the electric chair, the death penalty has inspired challenging art, writes Jason Farago.

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

Document(s)

A Life in the Balance: The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story, A Journey from Murder to Redemption Inside America’s Worst Prison System

By Jodie Sinclair / Billy Wayne Sinclair / Arcade Publishing, on 8 September 2020


2020

Book

United States


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Life in the Balance: a book on the Billy Wayne Sinclair Story, A Journey from Murder to Redemption Inside America’s Worst Prison System. The New York Times Book Review called it a “numbing tale of crime, punishment, and redemption.”

  • Document type Book
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Innocence, Country/Regional profiles,

Document(s)

The Peculiar Forms of American Capital Punishment

By David Garland / Social Research: An International Quarterly, on 1 January 2007


2007

Article

United States


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There are two puzzles that confront observers of American capital punishment at the start of the 21st century. One concerns the legal and administrative arrangements through which it is enacted, which strike many commentators as irrational, or at least poorly adapted to the traditional ends of criminal justice. The other concerns the persistence of capital punishment in the USA in a period when comparable nations have decisively abandoned its use. In this essay, I will address both of these two questions, beginning with the first and offering conclusions that bear upon the second.The historical struggles around issues of capital punishment, structured as they have been by the American polity with its distinctive mix of federalism, sectionalism, and democratic populism, form the necessary basis for understanding the American present and for comparing America’s current practices with those of other western nations. Any explanation of American capital punishment ought to begin by focusing attention on these structures and these struggles.

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

Document(s)

The Phantom

By Patrick Forbes, on 10 August 2021


2021

Multimedia content

Innocence

Public Opinion 

United States


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THE PHANTOM tells the story of one of the darkest episodes in the long history of American justice. A story of how the State of Texas knowingly sent an innocent man to his death and left a serial killer at large. A case in which – for the first time – it can be conclusively proven that the US courts executed a blameless man.

This film uncovers the shocking truth behind a tale of murder, corruption and lies that unfolded in the dusty, desperate streets of a Texas oil town nearly thirty years ago.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Innocence / Public Opinion 

Article(s)

Video: watch and think

on 7 January 2008

As the debate about lethal injections and the presidential election campaign are raging in the United States, a short film by two young directors establishes a link between the two.

2008

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

United States

Document(s)

Lapan lembaran kes (meliputi China, India, Indonesia, Jepun, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapura, Taiwan)

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 1 January 2011


2011

Academic report

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Indonesian : Delapan kasus lembar (meliputi Cina, India, Indonesia, Jepang, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapura, Taiwan)

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

enenenenenenzh-hant
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Japanese : 八ケースシート(カバー中国、インド、インドネシア、日本、マレーシア、パキスタン、シンガポール、台湾)

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 8 September 2020


NGO report

enenenenenenzh-hant
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Urdu : آٹھ کیس شیٹ (ڈھکنے کا چین، بھارت، انڈونیشیا، جاپان، ملائیشیا، پاکستان، سنگاپور ، تائیوان)

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 8 September 2020


NGO report

enenenenenenzh-hant
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اس رپورٹ کو ترتیب دیتے ہوئے کئی مقدمات کا دوبارہ جائزہ لیا گیا جس سے سزائے موت پر عمل درآمد سے پیدا ہونے والے اصل خطرات ظاہر ہوئے ہیں۔ آٹھ کیس شیٹ (ڈھکنے کا چین، بھارت، انڈونیشیا، جاپان، ملائیشیا، پاکستان، سنگاپور ، تائیوان)

Document(s)

Tagalog : Eight kaso sheet (sumasakop sa China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan)

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 8 September 2020


NGO report

enenenenenenzh-hant
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Thai : แปดแผ่นกรณี (ครอบคลุมถึงจีน, อินเดีย, อินโดนีเซีย, ญี่ปุ่น, มาเลเซีย, ปากีสถาน, สิงคโปร์, ไต้หวัน)

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 8 September 2020


NGO report

enenenenenenzh-hant
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ในรายงานฉบับนี้ มีการทบทวนคดีต่างๆ ที่เกิดขึ้นซึ่งสะท้อนให้เห็นอย่างชัดเจนถึงอันตรายร้ายแรงของการใช้โทษประหารชีวิต การตัดสินว่าใครจะถูกประหารและใครที่จะรอด มักไม่ แปดแผ่นกรณี (ครอบคลุมถึงจีน, อินเดีย, อินโดนีเซีย, ญี่ปุ่น, มาเลเซีย, ปากีสถาน, สิงคโปร์, ไต้หวัน)

Document(s)

Hindi : आठ मामले शीट (कवर चीन, भारत, इंडोनेशिया, जापान, मलेशिया, पाकिस्तान, सिंगापुर, ताइवान)

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 8 September 2020


NGO report

enenenenenenzh-hant
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इस रिपोर्ट संकलन में मामलों की संख्या की समीक्षा की गई है जो स्पष्ट रूप से मौत की सजा को लागू करने के बहुत असली खतरों का प्रदर्शन. आठ मामले शीट (कवर चीन, भारत, इंडोनेशिया, जापान, मलेशिया, पाकिस्तान, सिंगापुर, ताइवान)

Document(s)

By Amnesty International / Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, on 1 January 2020


2020

NGO report


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Энэхүү илтгэлийг боловсруулахдаа хэд хэдэн хэргийг тоймлон бичсэн ба тэдгээр нь цаазын ялыг хэрэгжүүлэхийн бодит аюулыг ил тодорхой харуулж байна.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Networks,

Document(s)

أحكام الإعدام وما نُفذ منها في عام 2012

By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2013


2013

NGO report

en
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يغطي التقرير الحالي اللجوء إلى فرض عقوبة الإعدام على الصعيد القضائي خلال الفترة من يناير/كانون الثانيإلى ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2012 . وتدوّن منظمة العفو الدولية الأرقام المتعلقة بفرض عقوبة الإعدام بناء علىأفضل المعلومات المتوافرة لديها. وكما جرى في سابق السنوات، تُجمع المعلومات من طائفة من المصادر المتنوعة،بما في ذلك الأرقام والإحصاءات الرسمية، والمعلومات المستقاة من الأفراد المحكومين بالإعدام، وعائلاتهم وممثليهم،وتقارير الإبلاغ الواردة من منظمات المجتمع المدني، والتقارير الإعلامية. ولا تبلغ منظمة العفو الدولية إلا عنالأرقام التي يمكن استنباطها على أسس سليمة مستقاة من البحوث التي تقوم بها.

Document(s)

Tools and Tips for Effective e-Activism

By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2009


2009

Working with...

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This booklet provides hints and tips for effective e-activism. It includes chapters about the use of petitions, widgets, email use, letters, social networking sites, blogs, photos and videos as well as becoming an online volunteer.

Document(s)

Military court exonerates Chiang Kuo-ching

By Rich Chang / Taipei Times, on 1 January 2011


2011

Legal Representation


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A military court yesterday acquitted Chiang Kuo-ching (江國慶), who was executed for the rape and murder of a girl 15 years ago, in a posthumous trial.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Innocence,

Document(s)

Executed Taiwan airman Chiang Kuo-ching innocent

By Cindy Sui / BBC, on 1 January 2011


Legal Representation


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A Taiwanese air force private executed 14 years ago for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl was innocent after all, a military court has ruled.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Innocence,

Document(s)

ایران: مجازات اعدام – سیاست دولتی ایجاد وحشت

By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) / Antoine Bernard, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

en
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در دوراني که حرکت به سوي لغو مجازات اعدام در سراسر جهان رو به گسترش است، تمايز جمهوري اسلامي ايران در تعداد زياد اعدام هايي است که در شرايطي آشکارا ناقض�? موازين بين المللي حقوق بشر انجام مي پذيرد. محاکمه های ناعادلانه، اعدام نوجوانان، هد�? گیری اقلیت های قومی و مذهبی… مجازات اعدام در نقض آشکار تعهدات ایران بر اساس قانون بین المللی حقوق بشر انجام می پذیرد.

Document(s)

DEATH ROW USA. Summer 2019

By NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., on 1 January 2019


2019

NGO report


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This report provides death row statistics and an update on executions in the US as of July 2019.

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

Document(s)

Partners in Crime: International Funding for Drug Control and Gross Violations of Human Rights

By Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2012


2012

NGO report


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In providing specific examples of financial and material support provided by UN and international donors for drug control efforts, and human rights concerns raised by such support, the report compels readers to think critically about government efforts to meet their ‘shared responsibility’ to address drug use and drug-related crime

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Drug Offences,

Document(s)

DEATH ROW USA – Spring 2018

By NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

United States


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This report provides death row statistics and an update on executions in the US as of April 2018.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Death Penalty, Statistics,

Document(s)

Handbook of Forensic Psychiatric Practice in Capital Cases

By Death Penalty Project, on 1 January 2018


2018

Working with...


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  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Mental Illness, Public debate, Death Penalty,

Document(s)

Victims, We Care

By Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty / Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights / YouTube, on 1 January 2011


2011

Working with...


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Victims, We Care

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Murder Victims' Families,

Document(s)

Film “Kill Troy Killing Me”

By Garry A. Boast / Cerebral Motion Productions, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

United States


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A death penalty abolitionist (Martina Correia) must sound the alarms of our criminal justice system in time to save her brother from lethal injection.

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

Document(s)

Father Finds Peace in Forgiveness

By NPR Books , on 1 January 2008


2008

Working with...


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Hector Black’s daughter was murdered after she surprised an intruder in her Atlanta home. In this powerful recording, Black discusses how he found peace in forgiving the man who murdered his child.

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

Document(s)

Premeditated: meditations on capital punishment

By Malaquias Montoya / University of Notre Dame, on 1 January 2004


2004

Working with...


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Meditations on Capital Punishment, Recent Works by Malaquias Montoya features recently created silkscreen images and paintings, and related research dealing with the death penalty and penal institutions.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Death Row Conditions,

Document(s)

Witness to Innocence – from death row to freedom

By Witness to Innocence, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

United States


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Errors have been made repeatedly in death penalty cases because of: poor legal representation, racial prejudice, prosecutorial misconduct, the presentation of erroneous evidence, false confession, junk science, eyewitness error. Once convicted, a death row prisoner faces enormous obstacles in convincing any court that he or she is innocent.

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

Document(s)

Charter of Arab League

By League of Arab States, on 1 January 2006


2006

Working with...


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The League of Arab States is composed of the independent Arab states which have signed this Charter.

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

Document(s)

Execution Facility Tour of North Carolina Death Row

By Scott Langley / YouTube, on 1 January 2010


2010

Arguments against the death penalty


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This video gives a tour of the death row facilities at North Carolina. It also explores the protocol for execution by lethal injection.

  • Document type Arguments against the death penalty
  • Themes list Lethal Injection,

Document(s)

Iran must halt execution of web programmer

By Amnesty International - Canada, on 1 January 2012


2012

Legal Representation


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Saeed Malekpour was sentenced to death in December 2010 following what appears to have been an unfair trial, without access to his lawyer, and amid allegations that he was tortured and forced to confess to crimes which he did not commit. Iran must not execute this web programmer sentenced to death after one of his web programs was used to post pornographic images without his knowledge, Amnesty International said today, as the Iranian authorities continue their crackdown on bloggers and other users of the internet.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Networks,

Document(s)

Ray Krone

By Amnesty International / YouTube, on 1 January 2008


2008

Legal Representation


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Ray Krone was on death row in Arizona State Prison for two years (and eight years in prison) before he was freed after DNA tests proved his innocence in 2002.Mr. Krone became the 100th death row inmate to be proven innocent in the United States of America since 1973. Mr. Krone was twice convicted for a murder he did not commit. Mr. Krone tell his story in this video.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Networks,

Document(s)

Parting Words

By Amy Elkins, on 1 January 2014


2014

Working with...


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Parting Words, a visual photographic archive of the 500+ prisoners to date executed in the state of Texas.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Public debate, Death Row Phenomenon,

Document(s)

Host a Speaking Event

By Witness to Innocence, on 8 September 2020


2020

Working with...


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Are you stressing about finding that perfect speaker for your next event? Worried that the speaker be inspirational, educational, and entertaining all at the same time? Look no further. We are awaiting your call to help you organize an unforgettable and unique experience for your audience.

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

Document(s)

Condemned to Die

By Mark Davis / SBS, on 1 January 2011


2011

Legal Representation


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Presenter Mark Davis travels to Indonesia with the mother of Bali Nine member Myuran Sukumaran, as she visits her son for the first time since his final death sentence appeal was rejected.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Drug Offences,

Document(s)

Facts on Post-Conviction DNA Exonerations

By The Innocence Project, on 8 September 2020


2020

Working with...


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This fact sheet gives facts on post DNA exonerations and provides information on the main causes of wrongful conviction including eyewitness misidentification, false confessions and snitches.

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

Document(s)

Paralegals in Rwanda A Case Study by Penal Reform International

By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2002


2002

Working with...


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Paralegals are becoming an increasingly important part of the criminal justice system in developing countries. By ensuring more people are aware of their rights within the prison system and can therefore represent themselves and follow up on their cases, paralegals contribute towards a reduction in numbers in pre-trial detention.

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

Document(s)

AMERICAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS “PACT OF SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA”

By Organization of American States, on 8 September 1969


1969

United Nations report

es
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Article 4. Right to Life1. Every person has the right to have his life respected. This right shall be protected by law and, in general, from the moment of conception. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life.

Document(s)

Cameron Todd Willingham: Wrongfully Convicted and Executed in Texas

By The Innocence Project, on 1 January 2011


2011

Legal Representation


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Tool containing all the documents on Cameron Todd’s case.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Innocence, Country/Regional profiles,

Document(s)

Guidelines on human rights education, for law enforcement officials

By Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), on 1 January 2011


Working with...


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These guidelines aim to support systemic and effective human rights education for police and other law enforcement personnel. They were prepared on the basis of broad consultations involving police trainers, university lecturers, national human rights institutions and individuals involved in the design and delivery of educational curricula for law enforcement officials.

  • Document type Working with...

Document(s)

Individual Statement of Commissioner Renny Cushing

By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2010


2010

Working with...


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Individual Statement of Commissioner Renny Cushing

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Murder Victims' Families, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

Document(s)

Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Educators

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


2019

Working with...

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QUNO’s tool for educators.

Document(s)

Juan Melendez-6446

By Comision de Derechos Civiles / Luis Rosario Albert, on 1 January 2014


2014

Working with...


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This educational guide accompany the documentary Juan Melendez 6446.

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

Document(s)

Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Legislators

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


2019

Working with...

fr
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QUNO’s tool for parliamentarians.

Document(s)

Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Media

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


Working with...

fr
More details Download [ pdf - 241 Ko ]

QUNO’s tool for media.

Document(s)

Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Sentencers

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


Working with...

fr
More details Download [ pdf - 266 Ko ]

QUNO’s tool for judges.

Document(s)

Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Defense Lawyers

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


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QUNO’s tool for defense lawyers.

Document(s)

Japanese : 誤判の必然性 死刑事件における司法

By Death Penalty Project, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

en
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本報告書は日本、アメリカ、台湾、カリブ海諸国、シエラレオネ共和国及びイギリスにおける実例と調査結果から、世界的な動向を紹介するものである。国際人権法は、不当な有罪判決及び無実あるいは公正な裁判を受けていない人間への死刑執行の可能性を認めている。その結果、国際基準は死刑事件に厳格な基準を課すこと及びより高度な適正手続きを適用することを目指している。各国に対して死刑の適用において厳密な手続的規則の尊重を求める自由権規約及びその他の国際基準については、付録に記載した。

Document(s)

Mobilisation Kit 2012

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2012


2012

Campaigning

fr
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This mobilisation kit for the 2012 World Day suggests activities and gives advice to hold successful World Day events.