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2010 World Day Report on the USA
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2010
2010
Campaigning
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It presents all the actions that were taken for the 2010 World Day on the USA.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Rapport Journée mondiale 2010: Etats-Unis
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List of signatories to the Second Optional Protocol by region
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2014
2014
Lobbying
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List of states that have signed and/or ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Classifyied by region of the world as of 1st July 2011.
- Document type Lobbying
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Liste des Etats signataires du deuxième Protocole facultatif par région
Document(s)
Killing the Willing: “Volunteers,” Suicide and Competency
By John H. Blume / Michigan Law Review, on 8 September 2020
2020
Article
United States
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Every death-row volunteer inevitably presents us with the following question: Should a death-row inmate who wishes to waive his appeals be viewed as a client making a legal decision to accept the justness of his punishment, or as a person seeking the aid of the state in committing suicide?
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
75th-Ordinary-Session-of-the-African-Commission-of-Human-and-Peoples-Rights
on 15 August 2023
2023
Document(s)
Bringing Reliability Back In: False Confessions and Legal Safeguards in the 21st Century
By Steven A. Drizen / Bradley R. Hall / Peter J. Neufeld / Richard A. Leo / Wisconsin Law Review / Amy Vatner, on 1 January 2006
2006
Article
United States
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In this Article, we point out the failures of the legal tests governing admissibility of confessions, tracing the historical development of these flawed standards. We propose a new standard that we believe reinvigorates the largely forgotten purpose of the rules—reliability of confession evidence—in part by requiring the electronic recording of custodial interrogations.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Innocence Lost … and Found: An Introduction to The Faces of Wrongful Conviction Symposium Issue
By Daniel S. Medwed / Golden Gate University Law Review, on 1 January 2006
Article
United States
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Each wrongful conviction signifies an acute failure of the criminal justice system, a loss of innocence for those of us who want to believe in its merits, each exoneration constitutes an affirmation of the system’s potential value – not so much in the sense that the post-conviction system “works” (given that it often does not) but that learning about the uniquely human details of individual exonerations serves as a powerful motivating force to revamp the process through which guilt or innocence is adjudicated. Our criminal justice system is changeable, its flaws possibly remediable, and it is this prospect of a revised, superior method of charging and trying those accused of crimes.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Due Process , Innocence,
International-Symposium-on-the-Right-to-Life-in-Taiwan
on 12 January 2024
2024
Document(s)
Anatomy of a Miscarriage of Justice: The Wrongful Conviction of Peter J. Rose
By Susan Rutberg / Golden Gate University Law Review, on 1 January 2006
2006
Article
United States
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This Article examines one case in which students and lawyers from Golden Gate University’s Innocence Project won the exoneration of Peter J. Rose, a man who served nearly ten years of a twenty-seven year State Prison sentence for the rape and kidnap of a child before DNA proved his innocence. The analysis of this case focuses on how the conduct of two police detectives, the prosecutor and the defense attorney contributed to this miscarriage of justice.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement
By New York University (NYU) / Robert J. Norris, on 1 January 2017
2017
Book
United States
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In response to recent exonerations, federal and state governments have passed laws to prevent such injustices; lawyers and police have changed their practices; and advocacy organizations have multiplied across the country. Together, these activities are often referred to as the “innocence movement.” Exonerated provides the first in-depth look at the history of this movement through interviews with key leaders such as Barry Scheck and Rob Warden as well as archival and field research into the major cases that brought awareness to wrongful convictions in the United States.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
Member(s)
The Sunny Center Foundation
on 30 April 2020
2020
Ireland
Document(s)
Death Row Doctors
By New York Times, on 1 January 2017
2017
Multimedia content
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Dr. Carlo Musso took an oath to do no harm. So why does he take part in executions?
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Public debate, Methods of Execution, Death Penalty,
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)
Victim’s son objects as Texas sets execution in hate crime death
By Karen Brooks / Reuters, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
United States
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As Texas prepares to execute one of his father’s killers, Ross Byrd hopes the state shows the man the mercy his father, James Byrd Jr., never got when he was dragged behind a truck to his
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families,
Document(s)
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
By UK Film Council, on 1 January 2005
2005
Multimedia content
United Kingdom
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Motion picture on the life and times of Albert Pierrepoint – Britain’s most prolific hangman.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United Kingdom
- Themes list Public debate, Trend Towards Abolition, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
State-sponsored Homophobia: A world survey of laws prohibiting same sex activity between consenting adults
By Daniel Ottosson / International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), on 1 January 2010
2010
NGO report
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The purpose of this annual report on State-sponsored Homophobia, as stated since its first edition in 2007, is to name and shame the states which in the 21st century deny the most fundamental human rights to LGBTI people, i.e. the right to life and freedom, in the hope that with every year more and more countries decide to abandon the ‘community’ of homophobic states.Compared to last year’s report, where we listed the 77 countries prosecuting people on ground of their sexual orientation, this year you will find ―only‖ 76 in the same list, including the infamous 5 which put people to death for their sexual orientation: Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen (plus some parts of Nigeria and Somalia). One country less compared to the 2009 list may seem little progress, until one realizes that it hosts one sixth of the human population.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Homosexuality,
- Available languages Portuguese : Homofobia do Estado: Uma pesquisa mundial sobre legislações que proíbem relações sexuais consensuais entre adultos do mesmo sexoHomophobie d'État: Une enquête mondiale sur les lois qui interdisent la sexualité entre adultes consentants de même sexeHomofobia de Estado: Un informe mundial sobre las leyes que prohiben la actividad homosexual con consentimiento entre personas adultas
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The Last Meals Project
By The Last Meals Project, on 8 September 2020
2020
Working with...
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This series visually documents the face and last meal of a convicted killer and is without question honest and true. This will be an ongoing project as executions continue to take place in the United States.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
The last executioner
By Tom waller , on 1 January 2014
2014
Multimedia content
Thailand
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Inspired by true event, The last executioner is the story of Chavoret Jaruboon, the last person in Thailand whose job was to execute by gun.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Thailand
- Themes list Firing Squad,
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The Executioner’s Song
By Norman Mailer / Vintage , on 8 September 2020
2020
Book
United States
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Norman Mailer tells Gary Gilmore’s story, and those of the men and women caught up in his procession toward the firing squad, with implacable authority, steely compassion, and a restraint that evokes the parched landscapes and stern theology of Gilmore’s Utah.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong
By Brandon L. Garrett / Harvard University Press, on 1 January 2011
2011
Book
United States
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Very few crimes committed in the United States involve biological evidence that can be tested using DNA. Convicting the Innocent makes a powerful case for systemic reforms to improve the accuracy of all criminal cases.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
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Contradictions in Judicial Support for Capital Punishment in India and Bangladesh: Utilitarian Rationales
By Saul Lehrfreund / Carolyn Hoyle / Asian Journal of Criminology, on 1 January 2019
2019
Article
Bangladesh
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This article draws on two original empirical research projects that explored judges’ opinions on the retention and administration of capital punishment in India and Bangladesh. The data expose justice systems marred by corruption, incompetence, abuses of due process, and arbitrary and inconsistent treatment of defendants from arrest through to conviction and sentencing. It shows that those with the power to sentence to death have little faith in the integrity of the criminal process. Yet, a startling paradox emerges from these studies; despite personal knowledge of its flaws, judges have trust in the death penalty to deter crime and to realise other sentencing aims and feel retention benefits society. This is explained by reference to utilitarian values. Not only did our judges express strongly utilitarian justifications for sentencing people to death, in terms of their erroneous belief in its deterrent effect, but some also articulated utilitarian justifications for misconduct in pre-trial processes, suggesting that it was necessary to break the rules to secure convictions when the system was dysfunctional and ineffective.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Bangladesh
- Themes list Arbitrariness, Death Penalty,
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Pakistani Christian Woman Sentenced to Death
By Amnesty International / British Pakistani Christian Association, on 1 January 2010
2010
Legal Representation
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On 8 November, the 45-year-old mother of five children was found guilty of blasphemy and sentenced to death under Section 295B and 295C of Pakistan’s Penal Code, for insulting the Prophet Muhammad, by a court in Nankana, around 75km (45 miles) west of the city of Lahore in Punjab province.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Law, society, and capital punishment in Asia
By David T. Johnson / Franklin E. Zimring / Punishment and Society, on 1 January 2008
2008
Article
Japan
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Students of capital punishment need to study Asia, the site of at least 85 percent and as many as 95 percent of the world’s executions. This article explores the varieties of Asian capital punishment in two complementary ways. Cross-sectionally, the impression of uniformity that comes from classifying 95 percent of the population of Asia as living in executing states breaks down when closer attention is paid to the character of capital punishment policy within retentionist nations. Temporally, the general trajectory of capital punishment in the Asian region seems downward (though generalizations about patterns in this part of the world are undermined by significant data problems). Asia is also a useful territory for testing the generality of theories of capital punishment based on European experience. Looking forward, Japan and South Korea, two developed nations in Asia that still retain the death penalty, may indicate what other Asian nations are likely to do as they develop. Ultimately, Asia either will become a major staging area for world-wide abolition or the campaign against capital punishment will fail to achieve global status.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Japan
Document(s)
Psychological Assessments in Legal Contexts: Are Courts Keeping “Junk Science” Out of the Courtroom?
By Tess M. S. Neal / Psychological Science in the Public Interest, on 1 January 2020
2020
Article
United States
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This article reports the results of a two-part investigation of psychological assessments proposed as expert evidence in legal context.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Mental Illness, Death Penalty,
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent: An Analysis of Post-Furman Capital Errors
By Talia Roitberg Harmon / Criminal Justice Policy Review, on 1 January 2001
2001
Article
United States
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The issue of erroneous convictions in capital cases has recently gained considerable nationwide media attention. This article builds on prior research by examining 76 cases of inmates who were released from death rows between 1970 and 1998 because of doubts about their guilt. By using sources, or persons who have extensive insider knowledge about these cases, as well as published court opinions, it was possible to identify the causes of the wrongful convictions as well as the significant events that led to the discovery of the miscarriages of justice. The data indicate that prosecutorial misconduct, perjury of witnesses, police misconduct, and racial discrimination were influential factors that led to the wrongful convictions. In addition, continued investigation by the defense attorney, new witnesses coming forward, and/or a confession from another person were the factors most often leading to the discovery of errors. These findings suggest that there have not been any significant changes in causes of erroneous convictions since the implementation of contemporary safeguards. As a result, policy changes are suggested to decrease the chances of erroneous executions.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
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Cross-National Variability in Capital Punishment: Exploring the Sociopolitical Sources of Its Differential Legal Status
By Terance D. Miethe / Hong Lu / Gini R. Deibert / International Criminal Justice Review, on 1 January 2005
2005
Article
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Guided by existing macrolevel theories on punishment and society, the present study explores the independent and conjunctive effects of measures of sociopolitical conditions on the legal retention of capital punishment in 185 nations in the 21st century. Significant correlations are found between a nation’s retention of legal executions for ordinary crimes and its level of economic development, primary religious orientation, citizens’ voice in governance, political stability, and recent history of extrajudicial executions. Subsequent multivariate analyses through qualitative comparative methods reveal substantial context-specific effects and wide variability in legal retention even within countries with similar sociopolitical structures. These results are then discussed in terms of their theoretical implications for future cross-national research on punishment and society.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Networks,
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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)
Death sentences and executions in 2008
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2009
2009
NGO report
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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.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages أحكام الإعدام الصادرة وما نُفِّذ من أحكام في عام 2008СМЕРТНЫЕ ПРИГОВОРЫ И КАЗНИ В 2008 ГОДУCONDAMNATIONS À MORT ET EXÉCUTIONS RECENSÉES EN 2008CONDENAS A MUERTE Y EJECUCIONES EN 2008
Document(s)
Racial Disparities
By Death Penalty Focus, on 1 January 2009
Arguments against the death penalty
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The race of the victim and the race of the defendant in capital cases are major factors in determining who is sentenced to die in this country. In 1990 a report from the General Accounting Office concluded that “in 82 percent of the studies [reviewed], race of the victim was found to influence the likelihood of being charged with capital murder or receiving the death penalty, i.e. those who murdered whites were more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Discrimination,
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European Aid for Executions : How European Counternarcotics Aid Enables Death Sentences & Executions in Iran and Pakistan
By Reprieve, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
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Information gathered by Reprieve andpublished for the first time in this reportexposes how counter-narcotics aidprovided to Iran and Pakistan by Europeangovernments has ended up enabling andencouraging death sentences and executionsfor drug offences in those countries. Thereport’s findings are the product of two yearsof research, synthesising unpublished deathrow data obtained from Iranian and Pakistaniprisons with data on European counter-narcotics aid delivered through the UnitedNations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Drug Offences, Networks, Statistics,
Document(s)
Coping with Innocence after Death Row
By Kimberly J Cook / Saundra D Westervelt / Contexts, on 1 January 2008
2008
Working with...
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The enduring images of exonerees are of vindicated individuals reunited with family and friends in a moment of happiness and relief, tearful men embraced by supporters who have long fought for their release.We think of these moments as conclusions, but really they’re the start of a new story, one that social science is beginning to tell about how exonerees are greeted by their communities, their homes, and their families, and how they cope with the injustice of their confinement and rebuild their lives on the outside.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Overview of the Capital Trial Process
By Capital Punishment in Context, on 8 September 2020
2020
Working with...
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This document briefly goes through the steps involved in a death penalty case, from the point of arrest to judge sentences.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Facing their last moments with a smile: The Chinese women about to be executed for drug smuggling
By Rick Dewsbury / Mail Online, on 1 January 2011
2011
Campaigning
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The moving images could show any group of young women as they go about their daily lives in prison. But just hours – and in some cases minutes – after the pictures were taken, each of the four women were led into a concrete yard and executed.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Death Row Conditions,
Document(s)
The Right to a Fair Trial
By Council of Europe, on 1 January 2006
2006
Working with...
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This handbook is designed to provide readers with an understanding of how legal proceedings at national level must be conducted in order to conform with the obligations under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. It is divided into chapters, each of which treats a different aspect of the guarantees contained in the article.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Le droit à un Procès équitable
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Making up for Lost Time : What the Wrongfully Convicted endure and how to Provide Fair Compensation
By The Innocence Project, on 1 January 2010
2010
Working with...
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It’s an accepted principle of fairness in our society to compensate citizens who, through no fault of their own, have suffered losses. When a person’s land has been seized for public use, they receive adequate repayment. Crime victims and their families receive financial compensation in all 50 states. Yet, strangely, the wrongfully imprisoned, who lose property, jobs, freedom, reputation, family, friends and more do not receive compensation in 23 states of the nation. These recommendations for state compensation laws have been developed by the Innocence Project after years of working with exonerees and their families, legislators, social workers and psychologists.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
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Child Rights and the League of Arab States
By Childrens Rights Information Network, on 1 January 2011
2011
Working with...
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This document provides a list of the members of the Arab League and the origins of the organisation. It also describes its composition and provides contact information.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Pennsylvania capital post-conviction reversals and subsequent dispositions
By Death Penalty Information Center / Robert Brett Dunham, on 1 January 2018
2018
NGO report
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In Pennsylvania, death-row prisoners whose convictions or death sentences are overturned in state or federal post-conviction appeals are almost never resentenced to death, a new Death Penalty Information Center study has revealed. Since Pennsylvania adopted its current death-penalty statute in September 1978, post-conviction courts have reversed prisoners’ capital convictions or death sentences in 170 cases. Defendants have faced capital retrials or resentencings in 137 of those cases, and 133 times—in more than 97% of the cases—they received non-capital dispositions ranging from life without parole to exoneration. Only four prisoners whose death sentences were reversed in post-conviction proceedings remain on death row
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
2018 World Day – Report
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
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Report of the 2018 World Day Against the Death Penalty, on the conditions of detention on death row.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Journée mondiale 2018 - Rapport
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Factsheet for Police Personnel – 2020 World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / Reprieve, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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On the occasion of the 2020 World Day, focusing on the right to access to counsel, Repreive and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty released a facthsheet for police officers.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Due Process , World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Fiche d'information pour la police - Journée mondiale 2020
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Factsheet for Media Representatives – 2020 World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / Reprieve, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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On the occasion of the 2020 World Day, focusing on the right to access to counsel, Reprieve and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty released a facthsheet for media representatives.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Fair Trial, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Fiche d'information pour les journalistes - Journée mondiale 2020
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Call Tender Evaluation 2021
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 June 2021
2021
World Coalition
Maldives
Philippines
Turkey
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External Evaluation of the project “Preventing the risk of resurgence of the death penalty in three abolitionist countries” of 36 months in the Maldives, Philippines and Turkey
- Document type World Coalition
- Countries list Maldives / Philippines / Turkey
- Available languages Appel d'Offre Evaluation 2021
Document(s)
An Ancient Precedent: Reflections on the Tale of Korea’s Abolitionist King
By Damien P. Horigan / Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law, on 8 September 2020
2020
Article
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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This article will first briefly describe the current situation in the two Koreas and the local anti-death penalty movement before turning to an examination of an ancient Korean precedent for abolition based on an understanding of Buddhist teachings.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Themes list Networks,
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An Innocent Man: Hakamada Iwao and the Problem of Wrongful Convictions in Japan
By David T. Johnson / The Asia-Pacific Journal, on 1 January 2015
2015
Article
Japan
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The main aim of this article is to explore the problem of wrongful convictions in Japanese criminal justice by focusing on the case of Hakamada Iwao, who was sentenced to death in 1968 and released in 2014 because of evidence of his innocence.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Japan
- Themes list Fair Trial, Innocence,
257-Executions-in-the-Past-One-Year-in-Iran-1.pdf
on 8 September 2020
2020
Member(s)
Avocats sans frontières Guinée – ASF Guinée
on 30 April 2020
Avocats sans frontières Guinée (Lawyers without Borders Guinea) is an NGO based in Guinea. Their mission is the promotion, the protection and the defense of Human rights. To promote, protect and preserve human rights in Guinea, their main actions are: – Legal assistance for those most vulnerable and those who lack access to resources – […]
2020
Guinea
Member(s)
Droits et paix
on 30 April 2020
Rights and Peace (Droits et Paix) is a Cameroonian organisation working to construct a fairer and more peaceful society which respects human rights. Its main goals are to protect and promote fundamental human rights and individual freedoms, promote peace and non-violence, and humanise and improve conditions of detention in Cameroon. Its main activities encompass referral […]
Cameroon
Document(s)
Dangerousness, Risk Assessment, and Capital Sentencing
By Aletha M. Claussen-Schulza / Psychology, Public Policy and Law / Marc W. Pearceb / Robert F. Schopp, on 1 January 2004
2004
Article
United States
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Judges, jurors, police officers, and others are sometimes asked to make a variety of decisions based on judgments of dangerousness. Reliance on judgments of dangerousness in a variety of legal contexts has led to considerable debate and has been the focus of numerous publications. However, a substantial portion of the debate has centered on the accuracy and improvement of risk assessments rather than the issues concerning the use of dangerousness as a legal criterion. This article focuses on whether dangerousness judgments can play a useful role in capital sentencing decisions within the framework of “guided discretion” and “individualized assessment” set forth by the Supreme Court of the United States. It examines the relationship between these legal doctrines and contemporary approaches to risk assessment, and it discusses the potential tension between these approaches to risk assessment and these legal doctrines. The analysis suggests that expert testimony has the potential to undermine rather than assist the sentencer’s efforts to make capital sentencing decisions in a manner consistent with Supreme Court doctrine. This analysis includes a discussion of the advances and limitations of current approaches to risk assessment in the context of capital sentencing.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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Adieu to Electrocution
By Deborah W. Denno / Ohio Northern University Law Review, on 1 January 2000
2000
Article
United States
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Much has been written about why electrocution has persisted so stubbornly over the course of the twentieth century. This Article focuses briefly on more recent developments concerning why electrocution should be abolished entirely. Part I of this Article describes the facts and circumstances surrounding Bryan as well as Bryan’s unusual world-wide notice due to the gruesome photos of the executed Allen Lee Davis posted on the Internet. Part II focuses on the sociological and legal history of electrocution, most particularly the inappropriate precedential impact of In re Kemmler. In Kemmler, the Court found the Eighth Amendment inapplicable to the states and deferred to the New York legislature’s determination that electrocution was not cruel and unusual. Regardless, Kemmler has been cited repeatedly as Eighth Amendment support for electrocution despite Kemmler’s lack of modern scientific and legal validity.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Electrocution,
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WMA Resolution to Reaffirm the WMA’s Prohibition of Physician Partecipation in Capital Punishment
By World Medical Association, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
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The World Medical Association has strengthened its opposition to capital punishment with a resolution at its recent conference in Bangkok that “physicians will not facilitate the importation or prescription of drugs for execution.”
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
Document(s)
Caught in a Web Treatment of Pakistanis in the Saudi Criminal Justice System
By Human Rights Watch / Justice Project Pakistan, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
Pakistan
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Report about the treatment of Pakistanis in the Saudi criminal justice system
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Pakistan
- Themes list Discrimination, Foreign Nationals,
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Retribution and Redemption in the Operation of Executive Clemency
By Elizabeth Rapaport / Chicago Kent Law Review, on 1 January 2000
2000
Article
United States
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In this Article, my goal is to raise doubts about the adequacy of the neo-retributive theory of clemency and stimulate reappraisal and development of what I will call the “redemptive” perspective. To this end I will present an exposition and critique of neo-retributive theory of clemency.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Retribution, Clemency,
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Swahili – Ripoti ya kimataifa ya amnesty international: hukumu za kifo na watu walioadhibiwa kifo 2023
on 29 May 2024
2024
NGO report
Trend Towards Abolition
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Ufuatiliaji wa Amnesty International wa matumizi ya adhabu ya kifo duniani ulibaini watu
1,153 wanaofahamika kuwa walinyongwa mwaka 2023, ambalo ni ongezeko la asilimia
31 kutoka 883 mwaka 2022. Hata hivyo nchi zinazowanyonga watu zilipungua kwa
kiwango kikubwa kutoka 20 mwaka 2022 hadi 16 mwaka 2023
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition
Member(s)
Center for Constitutional Rights
on 30 April 2020
Center for Constitutional Rights is an American NGO based in New York. The Center for Constitutional Rights is committed to fighting injustice on many fronts, as demonstrated by the breadth of our cases as well as our organizing work. CCR works on a wide range of issues: illegal surveillance and attacks on dissent, Criminal Justice […]
2020
United States
Document(s)
Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain. Audience, Justice, Memory
By Lizzie Seal / Solon, on 8 September 2020
2020
Book
United Kingdom
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Drawing on primary research, this book explores the cultural life of the death penalty in Britain in the twentieth century, including an exploration of the role of the popular press and a discussion of portrayals of the death penalty in plays, novels and films. Popular protest against capital punishment and public responses to and understandings of capital cases are also discussed, particularly in relation to conceptualisations of justice.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United Kingdom
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Circumstances of Offense: Robert “Saint” Bailey on Death Row
By Chris Dahl / CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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This book is a first-hand account of the life of Simon City Royals gangster Robert “Saint” Bailey who is currently on Death Row in Raiford, Florida. He killed a law enforcement officer in 2005.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Reflections on the guillotine: An essay on capital punishment
By Albert Camus, on 1 January 1957
1957
Book
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- Document type Book
- Themes list Beheading, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Italian : Riflessioni sulla pena di morteRéflexions sur la guillotine思索斷頭台
Document(s)
Barbara Bechnel: Witness to the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams
By YouTube, on 1 January 2009
2009
Legal Representation
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A witness to the lethal injection execution of Stanley Tookie Williams describes what she saw at his execution. Stanley Tookie Williams execution was botched and he experienced 35 minutes of pain because part of the lethal injection 3 drug procedure did not work effectively.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Incendiary: the Willingham case
By Steve Mims / Joe Bailey Jr. / Yokel, on 1 January 2011
2011
Legal Representation
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This film, by Steve Mims and Joe Bailey Jr., is just what its title implies: a match being lit to a tinderpile of flimsy evidence that led to the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham in Texas in 2004 after his 1992 conviction for setting the fire that killed his three babies.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
Quest for Justice: Defending the Damned
By Richard Jaffe / New Horizon Press, on 1 January 2012
2012
Book
United States
More details See the document
In Quest For Justice, the author takes readers into the Bo Cochran and Eric Rudolph cases, along with those of Randall Padgett and Judge Jack Montgomery, in a conversational, story-driven narrative that offers personal insights and intimate views into these complex individuals and cases.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Due Process ,
Document(s)
Living with murder, the video documentary: Meet those touched by Detroit homicide
By Suzette Hackney / Kathy Kieliszewski / Romain Blanquart / Detroit Free Press, on 1 January 2011
2011
Legal Representation
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More than 3,300 people have been murdered in the City of Detroit since 2003. In this Detroit Free Press documentary, meet some of the families who have lost loved ones to homicide, are searching for justice and trying to come to terms with their losses.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list FRONTPAGE
Document(s)
Still Unfair, Still Arbitrary — But Do We Care?
By Samuel L. Gross / Ohio Northern University Law Review, on 8 September 2020
2020
Article
United States
More details See the document
My assignment is to try to give an overview of the status of the death penalty in America at the beginning of the twenty-first century. I will try to put that in the context of how the death penalty was viewed thirty years ago, or more, and maybe that will tell us something about how the death penalty will be viewed thirty or forty years from now.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate,
Document(s)
Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics and Public Opinion
By Roger Hood / Oxford University Press / Surya Deva, on 1 January 2013
2013
Book
More details See the document
This book shows that the majority of Asian countries have been particularly resistant to the abolitionist movement and tardy in accepting their responsibility to uphold the safeguards. The essays contained in this volume provide an in-depth analysis of changes in the scope and application of the death penalty in Asia with a focus on China, India, Japan, and Singapore. They explain the extent to which these nations still fail to accept capital punishment as a human rights issue, identify impediments to reform, and explore the prospects that Asian countries will eventually embrace the goal of worldwide abolition of capital punishment.
- Document type Book
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Commentary on Counsel’s Duty to Seek and Negotiate a Disposition in Capital cases (ABA Guideline 10.9.1)
By Russell Stetler / Hofstra Law Review, on 1 January 2003
2003
Article
United States
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The ABA’s revised Guidelines have squarely addressed the importance of seeking and negotiating dispositions in capital cases as a core component of effective representation in matters of life and death. Pleas have been available in the overwhelming majority of capital cases in the post-Furman era, including the cases of hundreds of prisoners who have been executed. There are no precise empirical data on this question. Plea negotiations are typically confidential, with both parties maintaining a posture of plausible denial if negotiations fail. The prosecutor may find it harder to argue to jurors that justice in a particular case requires a sentence of death if they know that he had offered the defendant a life sentence only weeks before. Defense counsel may not want to advertise her willingness to plead to first-degree murder if the case proceeds to trial and she is arguing to the jurors that the proof supports only second-degree. In addition, there are cases where a plea was acceptable to both sides, but negotiation never began because each side waited for the other to initiate discussions.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Legal Representation,
Document(s)
The Innocents
By Taryn Simon, on 1 January 2002
2002
Working with...
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The Innocents documents the stories of individuals who served time in prison for violent crimes they did not commit. At issue is the question of photography’s function as a credible eyewitness and arbiter of justice.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
Children of parents sentenced to death
By Helen F. Kearney / Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2012
2012
NGO report
More details See the document
This paper will raise awareness of some of the issues facing the child. It will consider and elaborate on each of these issues in as much detail as the current literature permits.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
The sleeping voice
By Benito Zambrano, on 1 January 2011
2011
Multimedia content
Spain
More details See the document
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Spain
- Themes list Women, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Recommendations on the Capital Punishment System
By Japan Federation of Bar Associations, on 1 January 2002
2002
NGO report
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This report details the reasons for the Japan Federation of Bar Associations recommendation that an immediate moratorium on death sentences takes place.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Japanese : 死刑制度問題に関する提言
Document(s)
Freedom Inside The Walls
By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2005
2005
Arguments against the death penalty
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Shot in Benin, Kenya and Malawi ‘Freedom Inside These Walls’ provides disturbing footage of prison conditions inside these countries, which are common to many other prisons in Africa. It highlights the challenges in accessing justice faced by poor people in conflict with the law.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Procedure (Communications Procedure of the African Commission for Human and Peoples rights)
By African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, on 8 September 2020
2020
Working with...
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This document describes the procedures of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights stating who can apply to the court and what measures they may take.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Ligne Directrices pour la Commission Africaine des Droits de l'Hommes et des PeuplesProcedure (de la Communication de la Commission Africaine des Droits de l'Homme et Des Peuples)Guidelines for Submitting Communications
Document(s)
Summary Report for the United Nations Human Rights Council March 2013
By Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran, on 1 January 2013
2013
Article
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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The report depicts the prisonners convicted of ordinary crimes’s treatment in Iran
- Document type Article
- Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Torture,
Document(s)
The Innocence Network Exonerations 2011
By The Innocence Network, on 1 January 2011
2011
Working with...
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21 people were exonerated by the Innocence Network in 2011. Proving their innocence took years of work by dedicated teams of lawyers and staffers. These 21 represent a small fraction of the thousands of people who are behind bard for crimes they didn’t commit.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
By United Nations, on 1 January 2012
2012
International law - United Nations
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In the present report, submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 66/150, the Special Rapporteur addresses issues of special concern and recent developments in the context of his mandate.
- Document type International law - United Nations
- Themes list International law, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment,
- Available languages التقرير المؤقت للمقرر الخاص المعني بالتعذيب وغيره من ضروب المعاملة أو العقوبة القاسية أو اللاإنسانية أو المهينةПромежуточный доклад Специального докладчика по вопросу о пытках и других жестоких, бесчеловечных или унижающих достоинство видах обращения и наказанияRapport intérimaire du Rapporteur spécial sur la torture et autres peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants酷刑和其他残忍、不人道或有辱人格的待遇或处罚问题特别 报告员的临时报告Informe provisional del Relator Especial sobre la tortura y otros tratos o penas crueles, inhumanos o degradantes
Document(s)
What is the OSCE?
By Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), on 1 January 2013
2013
Working with...
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Europe faces new threats and challenges. The OSCE, with its multi-faceted approach to security, offers the region a forum for political dialogue and negotiations and a platform for multilateral partnerships that pursue practical work on the ground.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages German : Was ist die OSZE?Italian : COS’È L’OSCE?Что такое ОБСЕ?Qu’est-ce que l’OSCE ?¿QUÉ ES LA OSCE?
Document(s)
Hope and Fear: Human Rights in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2009
2009
NGO report
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Amnesty International received information from a number of sentenced prisoners indicating that their trials had not met international fair trial standards. Some had been tried in secret locations, rather than in properly established courts of law. Some trials had been completed within an hour. A number of prisoners complained that they had been convicted on the basis of false “confessions” which they had been forced to make under torture or other illtreatment during pre-trial detention. Detainees commonly were denied access to lawyers in the early stages of their detention, when they were usually held incommunicado, and were interrogated by the Asayish.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Due Process , Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages الأمل والخوف حقوق الإنسان في إقليم كردستان العراق
Document(s)
Leaflet – 14th World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Multimedia content
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The 2016 World Day leaflet provides information about the countries that have the death penalty for terrorism and presents 10 things you should know about the death penalty for terrorism as well as arguments against the death penalty.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Terrorism,
- Available languages Leaflet arabic 2016Brochure Journée Mondiale 2016
Document(s)
Leaflet – 13th World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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The 2015 World Day leaflet provides information on the issues surrounding drug crimes and the death penalty. It also gives arguments against the death penalty.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Drug Offences, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Leaflet arabic 2015листовка - Всемирный день 2015r单张 - 2015 年世界反死刑日Folleto - Día Mundial 2015بسته حاوی اطلاعت : 2015 روز جهانی علیه مجازات اعدامBrochure Journée Mondiale 2015
Document(s)
Leaflet – 11th World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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The leaflet of the 2013 World Day provides information on the death penalty in the Greater Caribbean. It also gives arguments against the death penalty.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Public debate, Deterrence , Mandatory Death Penalty,
- Available languages Brochure Journée mondiale 2013Folleto Día Mundial 2013
Document(s)
Leaflet – 15th World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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The 2017 World Day leaflet provides information about poverty and the death penalty and presents 10 reasons why the death penalty is used discriminatorily, and often against the poor as well as arguments against the death penalty.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Discrimination,
- Available languages Brochure Journée Mondiale 2017
Document(s)
Report on Taiwan and Art.6 ICCPR
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2013
2013
NGO report
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In view of Taiwan’s Human Rights Review in the framework of the ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty submitted a report regarding the situation of the death penalty in Taiwan.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Right to life, Clemency, Country/Regional profiles,
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)
2020 World Day report
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 June 2021
2021
Campaigning
Legal Representation
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The 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty explored the theme “Access to Counsel: A Matter of Life or Death” in light of the continued execution of individuals who struggle to have adequate support from the State (in having access to a trained, experienced attorney, to have adequate time to mount a defense, etc), who consequently also face their challenges in the judicial system.
Having access to qualified and effective representation at all stages of a trial is important to ensure due process and can spell the difference between life and death for people facing capital punishment.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Legal Representation
- Available languages Rapport de la Journée mondiale 2020
Document(s)
Leaflet – 10th World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
esfaruzh-hantzh-hantfarufresMore details Download [ pdf - 1500 Ko ]
The leaflet on the 2012 World Day provides information on the evolution of the abolition of the death penalty in the past ten years and presents the challenges ahead. It also gives arguments against the death penaty.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
- Available languages Leaflet Spanish 2012Leaflet Farsi 2012Leaflet Russian 2012Leaflet chinese 2012单张 - 2012 年世界反死刑日بسته حاوی اطلاعت : 2012 روز جهانی علیه مجازات اعدامлистовкаBrochure Journée mondiale 2012Folleto Día Mundial 2012
Document(s)
Ratification Kit – Burkina Faso
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 July 2022
2022
Lobbying
Burkina Faso
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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.
- Document type Lobbying
- Countries list Burkina Faso
- Available languages Kit de Ratificación - Burkina FasoKit de ratification - Burkina Faso
Document(s)
IHR: Rights-Based Policing – Idealizing Human Rights in Law Enforcement in the Philippines
By Institute of Human Rights (IHR), on 8 September 2020
2020
Book
Philippines
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This book documents the results of an IHR research project appraising the Philippine National Police’s commitment to human rights-based policing.
- Document type Book
- Countries list Philippines
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment,
Document(s)
Reforming Criminal Justice
By Arizona State University (ASU), on 1 January 2017
2017
Academic report
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Reforming Criminal Justice is a four-volume report meant to enlighten reform efforts in the United States with the research and analysis of leading academics. Broken down into individual chapters—each authored by a top scholar in the relevant field—the report covers dozens of topics within the areas of criminalization, policing, pretrial and trial processes, punishment, incarceration, and release. The chapters seek to enhance both professional and public understanding of the subject matter, to facilitate an appreciation of the relevant scholarly literature and the need for reform, and to offer potential solutions. The ultimate goal is to increase the likelihood of success when worthwhile reforms are debated, put to a vote or otherwise considered for action, and implemented in the criminal justice system.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Due Process , Fair Trial, Legal Representation, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
The Role of Race in Washington State Capital Sentencing, 1981-2014
By Katherine Beckett / University of Washington, on 1 January 2014
2014
Academic report
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This report assesses whether race influences the administration of capital punishment in Washington State, and if so, where in the process it matters.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Discrimination, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Article(s)
Picture petition for abolition
on 26 February 2010
Hundreds of participants to Geneva 2010 chose to display their commitment in favour of the abolition of the death penalty by having their photograph taken.
2010
Switzerland
campaign_in_favour_of_the_international_and_regional_protocols_on_abolition
on 19 October 2020
2020
Document(s)
Capital Punishment in the Philippines
By Arlie Tagayuna / Southeast Asian Studies, on 1 January 2004
2004
Article
Philippines
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While an examination of the social and political currents of each country would perhaps be the best way to answer the question “Why is there strong support for capital punishment in Southeast Asia?”, this paper will begin this effort by looking specifically at the Philippines, a society that has received more exposure to democratic tenets and human rights advocacy than other Southeast Asian countries (Blitz, 2000).
- Document type Article
- Countries list Philippines
- Themes list Public opinion,
Document(s)
Stress and the Capital Jury: How Male and Female Jurors React to Serving on a Murder Trial
By Michael E. Antonio / National Center for State Courts , on 1 January 2008
2008
Academic report
More details See the document
Previous research findings gathered by the Capital Jury Project showed that many jurors whoserved on capital murder trials experienced significant stress and suffered extreme emotionalsetbacks. The present analysis extends these findings by focusing on gender-specific variationsin responses given by male and female jurors as revealed through extensive in-depth inter-views. Findings from structured questions and juror narrative accounts about psychologicaland physical suffering revealed that more females than males reported generalized fear, feltan overwhelming sense of loneliness or isolation, and experienced a significant loss of appetiteduring the trial. While male and female jurors both mentioned becoming emotionally upsetabout the crime-scene evidence and trial testimony, experienced sleeping problems, and start-ed using prescription drugs or illicit substances, these issues were discussed more often byfemales.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Women, Fair Trial, Arbitrariness,
Document(s)
Documentary: An eye for an eye
By Ilan Ziv, on 1 January 2016
2016
Multimedia content
United States
More details See the document
The powerful documentary AN EYE FOR AN EYE, conveys message of forgiveness and healing. Directed by award winning filmmaker Ilan Ziv, AN EYE FOR AN EYE tells the story of death row inmate Mark Stroman, and the friendship he ultimately forges with one of his surviving victims Rais Bhuiyan, who sets about to save Stroman from death row.With unprecedented access and in-depth interviews, the film charts this riveting drama of revenge, change and forgiveness. A powerful human drama that carries a warning and a message of hope in our troubled times.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Capital offences, Murder Victims' Families, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
: 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,
Document(s)
Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition
By William A. Schabas / Peter Hodgkinson / Cambridge University Press, on 1 January 2004
2004
Book
Georgia
More details See the document
The editors of this study isolate the core issues influencing legislation so that they can be incorporated into strategies that advise governments in changing their policy on capital punishment. What are the critical factors determining whether a country replaces, retains or restores the death penalty? Why do some countries maintain the death penalty in theory, but in reality rarely invoke it? These questions and others are explored in chapters on South Korea, Lithuania, Georgia, Japan and the British Caribbean Commonwealth, as well as the U.S.
- Document type Book
- Countries list Georgia
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Mpagi Edward Edmary
By Amnesty International / YouTube, on 1 January 2008
2008
Legal Representation
More details See the document
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,
Document(s)
Prosecutorial Discretion and Sentencing in Singapore
By Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal / Kumaralingam Amirthalingam, on 1 January 2018
2018
Academic report
More details See the document
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,
Document(s)
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,
Document(s)
Sentencing in Capital Cases
By Death Penalty Project, on 1 January 2018
2018
Book
More details See the document
This book provides practical assistance to members of the judiciary, defence lawyers, prosecutors and others working on capital cases on the sentencing principles and procedures that have been adopted in common law jurisdictions following the abolition of the mandatory death penalty.
- Document type Book
- Themes list International law, Trend Towards Abolition, Mandatory Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Inadequete Legal Representation
By Death Penalty Focus, on 8 September 2020
2020
Arguments against the death penalty
More details See the document
Perhaps the most important factor in determining whether a defendant will receive the death penalty is the quality of the representation he or she is provided. Almost all defendants in capital cases cannot afford their own attorneys. In many cases, the appointed attorneys are overworked, underpaid, or lacking the trial experience required for death penalty cases.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Legal Representation,
Document(s)
Summary of Hands Off Cain 2014 Report
By HANDS OFF CAIN, on 1 January 2014
2014
NGO report
More details See the document
The worldwide trend towards abolition, underway for more than fifteen years, was again confirmed in 2013 and the first six months of 2014.There are currently 161 countries and territories that, to different extents, have decided to renounce the death penalty. Of these: 100 are totally abolitionist; 7 are abolitionist for ordinary crimes; 6 have a moratorium on executions in place and 48 are de facto abolitionist (i.e. Countries that have not carried out any executions for at least 10 years or countries which have binding obligations not to use the death penalty).Countries retaining the death penalty worldwide declined to 37 (as of 30 June 2014), compared to 40 in 2012. Retentionist countries have gradually declined over the last few years: there were 43 in 2011, 42 in 2010, 45 in 2009, 48 in 2008, 49 in 2007, 51 in 2006 and 54 in 2005.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
Document(s)
China’s deadly secret
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
China
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The Chinese government continues to conceal the extent to which capital punishment is being used in China, despite more than four decades of requests from UN bodies and the international community and despite the Chinese authorities’ own pledges to bring about increased openness in the country’s criminal justice system. This report focuses on the extent to which the authorities maintain near absolute secrecy over the death penalty system, while using partial and generally unverifiable disclosures to claim progress and reject demands for greater transparency.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list China
- Themes list Drug Offences, Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages 中国的致命秘密
Document(s)
Awaiting Death
By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2008
2008
Multimedia content
Kyrgyzstan
More details See the document
This film gives an insight into prison life for 174 men convicted and sentenced to death or to life imprisonment in Kyrgyzstan.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Kyrgyzstan
- Themes list Retribution, Country/Regional profiles,