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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

Document(s)

Promises Unfulfilled: An Assessment of China’s National Human Rights Action Plan

By Human Rights Watch, on 1 January 2011


2011

NGO report


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In August 2010, the Chinese government announced a draft amendment to China’s criminal law which would eliminate the death penalty for a total of 13 “economy-related nonviolent offenses,” including the smuggling of precious metals and cultural relics out of the country. However, the government has provided no indication regarding if or when the draft amendment might be approved, and, in September 2010, Chen Sixi, member of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee and vice chairman of the NPC’s Committee for Internal and Judicial Affairs, announced that the government would not in fact pursue these reforms.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Networks,

Document(s)

Sentencing in Capital Cases

By Death Penalty Project, on 1 January 2018


2018

Book


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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)

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,

Document(s)

Inadequete Legal Representation

By Death Penalty Focus, on 8 September 2020


Arguments against the death penalty


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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)

China’s deadly secret

By Amnesty International, on 8 September 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


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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,

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)

Circumstances of Offense: Robert “Saint” Bailey on Death Row

By Chris Dahl / CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, on 8 September 2020


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)

Death isn’t Justice

By Poster for Tomorrow, on 8 September 2020


Academic report


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Poster for tomorrow is an independent, non-profit international project whose goal is to encourage people, both in and outside the design community, to make posters to stimulate debate on issues that affect us all.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Networks,

Document(s)

Reflections on the guillotine: An essay on capital punishment

By Albert Camus, on 1 January 1957


1957

Book

enfrzh-hant
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Document(s)

On Trial: The Implementation of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws

By International Commission of Jurists , on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

Pakistan


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  • Document type NGO report
  • Countries list Pakistan
  • Themes list Legal Representation, Networks, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

Document(s)

Capital Punishment, 2016 – Statistical Brief

By Bureau of Justice Statistics / Elizabeth Davis, on 8 September 2020


NGO report

United States


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Presents statistics on persons under sentence of death at year-end 2016, including summary trends in the population, admissions to and releases from death row, the number of persons executed, and an advance count of executions in 2017. Data are from BJS’s National Prisoner Statistics(NPS-8 series.Highlights:- At year-end 2016, a total of 32 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) held 2,814 prisoners under sentence of death, which was 58 (2%) fewer than at year-end 2015.- California (26%), Florida (14%), and Texas (9%) held nearly half (49%) of the nation’s prisoners under sentence of death at year-end 2016; in 2016, Texas executed seven prisoners, Florida executed one, and California did not execute any prisoners.- In 2016, the number of prisoners under sentence of death decreased for the sixteenth consecutive year.- Twelve states received a total of 32 prisoners under sentence of death in 2016.- Five states executed a total of 20 prisoners in 2016, with Georgia (9) and Texas (7) accounting for 80% of executions.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Countries list United States

Document(s)

Freedom of Thought 2012: A Global Report on Discrimination Against Humanists, and the Nonreligious International Humanist and Ethical Union Atheists

By International Humanist and Ethical Union, on 1 January 2012


2012

NGO report


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This report shows that atheists, humanists and other nonreligious people are discriminated against by governments across the world, sometimes facing death.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Minorities, Religion ,

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)

Ross, Colin Campbell Eadie (1892 – 1922)

By Australian Dictionary of Biography , on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

Australia


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The raped, strangled and naked body of 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke was found in a right-of-way off nearby Gun Alley. The press, notably the Herald under (Sir) Keith Murdoch, fanned public outrage, pressured police for an arrest and matched the government’s initial reward, which was quickly raised from £250 to £1000. Ross, one of many people routinely interviewed, was arrested and remanded. The police, relying on the information of dubious characters, including the fortune-teller ‘Madame Ghurka’, claimed that Ross had confessed to violating and choking the girl. The Herald prejudiced his trial by publishing his photograph and printing the names and addresses of the jury. George Maxwell, appearing for Ross with T. C. Brennan, described the Crown witnesses as ‘disreputables’, mercenaries whose evidence was contradictory and untrustworthy.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Countries list Australia
  • Themes list Networks,

Document(s)

The State of Criminal Justice 2012

By American Bar Association / Ronald Tabak, on 1 January 2012


2012

NGO report


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The American Bar Association recently published The State of Criminal Justice 2012, an annual report that examines major issues, trends and significant changes in America’s criminal justice system.

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

Document(s)

Quest for Justice: Defending the Damned

By Richard Jaffe / New Horizon Press, on 1 January 2012


Book

United States


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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)

The Night I Forgave My Daughter’s Killer

By Marietta Jaeger-Lane / Yes! Magazine / Lynsi Burton, on 1 January 2011


2011

Legal Representation


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How a grieving mother put compassion before vengeance, and found closure along the way.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Murder Victims' Families,

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)

Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme A Handbook for Civil Society

By United Nations / Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, on 1 January 2008


2008

United Nations report

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Document(s)

Petition – Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago

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


2020

Academic report

Barbados

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For the 2013 World Day, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is asking Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago to abolish the mandatory death penalty for all crimes.

Document(s)

Poster – 11th World Day

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


Academic report

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Poster of the 11th World Day against the Death Penalty dedicated to the Caribbean:Stop Crime, not Live. Abolish the Death Penalty now

Document(s)

Model letter to governments

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2017


2017

Multimedia content

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With this letter, you will be able to call upon the government officials of retentionist countries to request that thesocio-economic status of the defendants facing the death penalty is taken into account as a mitigating factor.

Document(s)

Mobilisation Kit

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


2018

Campaigning

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Produced to guide organisers, the kit suggests action and provides information about World Day and the theme chosen. For example, the section called “10 things you can to do on 10.10” suggests 10 activities to carry out within the framework of World Day such as participation in an art project, organisation of an event, or writing to those sentenced to death. It also suggests 10 tips for successful action.

  • Document type Campaigning
  • Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
  • Available languages Kit de mobilisation

Document(s)

2014 World Day Report

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2015


2015

Multimedia content

fr
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This report presents the theme of 2014 World Day, facts on the death penalty and all the actions and media coverage for the 12th World Day on the progress made and challenges ahead.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Themes list Mental Illness, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
  • Available languages Rapport Journée Mondiale 2014

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


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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)

Gray Rules Guillory May Ask for Mercy

By Vincent Lupo / American Press, on 1 January 2003


2003

Working with...


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This article focuses on Lorilei Guillory, the mother of a 6-year-old Iowa boy murdered 11 years ago. Guillory wantsto be allowed to ask jurors for mercy for the man who allegedly molested and killed her child. Judge Al Gray said he will allow Guillory “to testify and ask for mercy if she wishes” during any penalty phase, but prosecutors are appealing the decision ot the Louisiana Supreme Court. Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation filed an amicus curiae brief in the Louisiana Supreme Court in support of Lorilei Guillory’s effort to testify in the penalty phase of the trial of the man who murdered her 6 year old son Jeremy and to express her opposition to the execution of her son’s murderer

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

Document(s)

Kit Cities for Life – 2018

By Community of Saint Egidio, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report


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The International Day Cities for Life – Cities against the Death Penalty, is the largest international mobilization of the abolitionist movement. Its objective is to establish a dialogue within the civil society on the topic and involve local administrators, aiming at abolishing the death penalty and making the rejection of violence the true identity of a city and its citizens.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Public opinion, Public debate, Trend Towards Abolition, Networks,

Document(s)

On Mother’s Day

By Saaramaria Kuittinen / The Cockpit, on 8 September 2020


Multimedia content


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A challenging, poetic and relatable piece of physical theatre in the round. On Mother’s Day is the story of Ramón, an endearing and friendly inmate, who spends his life running from violence only to find it within himself. It is a visually arresting ensemble performance about childhood, identity, and lost time. The script is based on seven years of letters between the writer Saaramaria Kuitinen and convicts on death row. Now, Ekata Theatre’s newest piece takes this material and uses a unique style of engaging visual storytelling, humour, and ensemble work to present a hard-hitting critique of the dehumanisation of the victims in the capital punishment system.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon, Death Penalty,

Document(s)

257 Executions in the Past One Year in Iran

By Prisoners' Rights League in Iran (PRLI), on 1 January 2018


2018

NGO report


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Statistical Report of Implemented Death Penalties in Iran from 10 October 2017 – 10 October 2018.

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

Document(s)

Fair Trial Standards in the Maldives in Dhivehi

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Maldivian Democracy Network , on 10 August 2021


2021

Campaigning

Fair Trial

Legal Representation

Maldives


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އް ތަ ޑު ނގަ ން މި ގެ ތު ޢަ ރީ ޝަ ރި ވެ ފު ސާ ން އި ގެ ޭޖއް ރާ ހި ވެ ދި
2020ސް ވަ ދު ރާ ކު ގަ ހަ ފާ އި ގަ ރު ވަ ން ފެ ގެ ޔޭ ނި ދު ށް ޅަ ކޮ ދެ ބާ ދަ އަ ގެ ރު މ

  • Document type Campaigning
  • Countries list Maldives
  • Themes list Fair Trial / Legal Representation

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)

Italian : I FATTI PIÙ IMPORTANTI DEL 2011 (E DEI PRIMI SEI MESI DEL 2012)

By HANDS OFF CAIN, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

en
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L’evoluzione positiva verso l’abolizione della pena di morte in atto nel mondo da oltre dieci anni, si è confermata nel 2011 e anche nei primi sei mesi del 2012.I Paesi o i territori che hanno deciso di abolirla per legge o in pratica sono oggi 155. Di questi, i Paesi totalmente abolizionisti sono 99; gli abolizionisti per crimini ordinari sono 7; quelli che attuano una moratoria delle esecuzioni sono 5; i Paesi abolizionisti di fatto, che non eseguono sentenze capitali da oltre dieci anni o che si sono impegnati internazionalmente ad abolire la pena di morte, sono 44.

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)

Working with Victims: A Guide for Activist

By Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights, on 1 January 2009


2009

Working with...


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The common assumption is that all victims’ family members support the death penalty. We cannot expect to abolish the death penalty without presenting an alternative view. Victims’ voices have a powerful effect – lawmakers have voted against the death penalty as a result of hearing victims’ testify for abolition. Including victims’ stories when working for abolition is strategically wise and is essential to bringing new people into the abolition movement. Here are a few suggestions. We encourage activists to consult with MVFHR for further guidance.

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

Document(s)

Human Rights Activists in Iran Annual Report on Executions in Iran 2019-2020

on 1 January 2020


2020

NGO report


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  • Document type NGO report

Document(s)

Documentary: An eye for an eye

By Ilan Ziv, on 1 January 2016


2016

Multimedia content

United States


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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)

Middle East and North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia

By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2012


2012

NGO report


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The aim of this research paper is to provide upto-date information about the laws and practices relating to the application of the death penalty. It includes an analysis of the alternative anctions to the death penalty (life and long-term imprisonment) and whether they reflect international human rights standards and norms.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Phenomenon, Country/Regional profiles,

Document(s)

Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition

By William A. Schabas / Peter Hodgkinson / Cambridge University Press, on 1 January 2004


2004

Book

Georgia


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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


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Mpagi Edward Edmary from Uganda spent over 18 years on death row, accused of killing a man who was later found to be alive.Mr. Mpagi’s family successfully campaigned for his release, providing evidence that the alleged victim was still alive. Sentenced to death for murder in 1982, the Attorney General proved that the man Mr Mpagi was accused of murdering was still alive in 1989. However it was not until 2000 when a nine member presidential committee released Mr Mpagi, deciding he was innocent.Held for many years in the Luzira Upper Prison, Mr. Mpagi taught his fellow inmates to read and write. He became one of the longest serving inmates and a prison elder. Mr. Mpagi is now an advocate for the abolition of the death penalty and is a committed religious leader. A graduate from a Catholic Diocese he regularly tours prisons providing inspiration and hope to prisoners.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Networks,

Member(s)

The Sunny Center Foundation

on 30 April 2020

2020

Ireland

Document(s)

Leaflet 2019 World Day

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2019


2019

Arguments against the death penalty

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Leaflet for the 2019 World Day Against the Death Penalty.

Document(s)

Mobilization Kit 2019 (Black and White)

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2019


Arguments against the death penalty

fr
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Mobilization Kit for the 2019 World Day Against the Death Penalty, in black and white (to be printed).

Document(s)

Mobilization Kit 2019

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2019


Arguments against the death penalty

fr
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Mobilization Kit for the 2019 World Day Against the Death Penalty.

  • Document type Arguments against the death penalty
  • Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
  • Available languages Kit de mobilisation 2019

Document(s)

Mobilization Kit – 2020 World Day

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


2020

Academic report

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Mobilization Kit for the 2020 World Day Against the Death Penalty.

Document(s)

2013 World Day Report

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2014


2014

Campaigning


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This report presents the theme of 2013 World Day, facts on the death penalty and all the actions and media coverage for the 11th World Day on the progress made and challenges ahead.

  • Document type Campaigning
  • Themes list Public opinion, Mandatory Death Penalty,

Article(s)

7th World Congress LIVE on Twitter!

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 26 February 2019

Follow the 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty taking place in Brussels from 26 February to 1st March 2019 on Twitter: #7congressECPM

2019

Public Opinion 

Document(s)

Prosecutorial Discretion and Sentencing in Singapore

By Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal / Kumaralingam Amirthalingam, on 1 January 2018


2018

Academic report


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Singapore recently amended its laws to replace the mandatory death penalty regime for murder and drug trafficking with a discretionary sentencing regime under certain conditions. One of the conditions with respect to drug trafficking was that the convicted trafficker had to be granted a certificate by the Public Prosecutor stating that the trafficker had provided substantive assistance that led to the disruption of drug trafficking activities. That decision is not subject to judicial review except under very narrow circumstances, protected in the same way as the constitutionally protected prosecutorial discretion.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Due Process , Fair Trial, Death Penalty,

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)

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

By Council of Europe, on 1 January 1950


1950

Regional body report

enenrufr
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Article 2 – Right to life1. Everyone’s right to life shall be protected by law. No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law.

Document(s)

RESOLUTION 1044 (1994) on the abolition of capital punishment

By Council of Europe / Parlamentary Assembly, on 8 September 1994


1994

United Nations report


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The Parliamentary Assembly welcomes the abolition of capital punishment for offences committed both in war- and in peacetime in Greece on 16 December 1993, which provides an excellent example for other countries to follow.

  • Document type United Nations report
  • Themes list International law,

PHIL_2_page_handout_EN

on 10 August 2021

2021

Document(s)

Tanzania Human Rights Reports 2009: Incorporating Specific Part on Zanzibar

By Clarence Kipobota / Legal and Human Rights Centre, on 1 January 2010


2010

NGO report


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The statistical information suggests that despite the executions that were done between 1961 and 1995, incidents of offences punishable by the death penalty were increasing and are still on the rise, from 46 convicts in 1961 to 2,562 in 2007. This report briefly describes the death penalty system in Tanzania.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Statistics,

prison-conditions-in-jamaica-2011

on 19 April 2022

2022

Document(s)

Korean : 연례사형현황 보고서 2011 사형선고와 사형집행

By Amnesty International / 국제앰네스티는, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

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2011년 세계 사형현황은 전세계적인 사형폐지 움직임을 잘 나타내주고 있다. 사형을 적용하는 국가의 수는 예년에 비해 더 줄어들었으며 세계 모든 지역에서 사형폐지를 향한 움직임이 있었다.미국은 G8 국가들 중 유일하게 사형을 집행했지만 일리노이 주(州)가 16번째 사형폐지주가 되었고 오레곤 주지사가 사형집행모라토리엄을 선포하는 등 일정 부분에서 발전이 있었다.

Document(s)

Forgotten

By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2012


2012

Arguments against the death penalty


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This 2011 film ‘Forgotten’ was produced under the EU funded project ‘Progressive Abolition of the Death Penalty and Alternatives that Respect International Human Rights Standards’. The film reflects the conditions for those sentenced to life imprisonment in the countries of Central Asia.

  • Document type Arguments against the death penalty
  • Themes list Death Row Conditions, Country/Regional profiles,

Document(s)

Dolores Story of Hope and Redemption

By Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA), on 1 January 2016


2016

Multimedia content


More details See the document

Dolores’ world was turned upside down when her husband was arrested. Then the news came that he would be executed. But the abolition of the death penalty has given his whole family a second chance, turning this story, at least until now into one of redemption.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Themes list Public debate, Networks, Death Penalty,

Document(s)

Behind Bars

By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2012


2012

Multimedia content


More details See the document

This 2012 documentary film ‘Behind Bars’ was produced under the EU funded project ‘Progressive Abolition of the Death Penalty and Alternatives that Respect International Human Rights Standards’.The film reflects the application of life sentence, conditions of lifers and long sentenced prisoners and the State’s attitude towards these offenders in the countries of the South Caucasus.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Themes list Death Row Conditions,

Member(s)

Ville de Dijon

on 30 April 2020

The City of Dijon, France, is a member of the World Coalition.

2020

France

Member(s)

Ordine Provinciale dei Medici-Chirurgi e degli Odontoiatri di Firenze

on 30 April 2020

The Provincial Order of Doctors, Surgeons and Dentists in Florence is a member of the World Coalition.

Italy

Document(s)

Detailed Factsheet 2019

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2019


2019

Arguments against the death penalty

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More details Download [ pdf - 419 Ko ]

Detailed factsheet for the 2019 World Day, on the rights of children whose a parent has been sentenced to death or executed.

  • Document type Arguments against the death penalty
  • Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
  • Available languages Fiche détaillée 2019

Document(s)

FACTS AND FIGURES 2020/2021

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 30 June 2021


2021

Campaigning

Terrorism

Women

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More details Download [ pdf - 196 Ko ]

2020/2021 Facts & Figures Sheet for the World Day Against the Death Penalty

Document(s)

Petition – Guatemala

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


2020

Academic report


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For the 2013 World Day, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is asking Guatemala to abolish the death penalty for all crimes in law.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list International law, Country/Regional profiles,

Document(s)

Leaflet – 12th World Day

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


Academic report

fr
More details Download [ pdf - 717 Ko ]

The 2013 World Day leaflet provides information on the issues surrounding mental health and the death penalty. It also gives arguments against the death penalty.

Document(s)

Annual Report

By Puerto Rican Coalition against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2013


2013

NGO report

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The information presented in this annual report covers the situation about death penalty cases, regarding Puerto Ricans who face death penalty proceedings in the federal jurisdiction, as well as in those states of the U.S. where such punishment is strictly upheld, and a case of petition for extradition.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
  • Available languages Informe Anual 2012

Document(s)

Mobilisation Kit

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


2018

Campaigning

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More details Download [ pdf - 2885 Ko ]

Produced to guide organisers, the kit suggests action and provides information about World Day and the theme chosen. For example, the section called “10 things you can to do on 10.10” suggests 10 activities to carry out within the framework of World Day such as participation in an art project, organisation of an event, or writing to those sentenced to death. It also suggests 10 tips for successful action.

Document(s)

There Will Be No Stay

By Patty Ann Dillon, on 1 January 2015


2015

Working with...


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There Will Be No Stay is not a documentary about the death penalty. Not in any way you’ve ever seen before, at least. It is a film about the actual men who are tasked by society with carrying out the death penalty. This is a first-hand look at executioners, the pressures they’re put under, and the unbearable toll the act of taking another’s life has on their own.

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

Document(s)

Mobilisation Kit

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


2018

Campaigning

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More details Download [ pdf - 1617 Ko ]

Produced to guide organisers, the kit suggests action and provides information about World Day and the theme chosen. For example, the section called “10 things you can to do on 10.10” suggests 10 activities to carry out within the framework of World Day such as participation in an art project, organisation of an event, or writing to those sentenced to death. It also suggests 10 tips for successful action.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Guinea

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 July 2022


2022

Lobbying

Guinea

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More details Download [ pdf - 189 Ko ]

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(s)

Ratification Kit – Kazakhstan

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


2020

Lobbying

Kazakhstan

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More details Download [ pdf - 190 Ko ]

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(s)

Ratification Kit – Guatemala

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 14 October 2020


2020

Lobbying

Guatemala

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More details Download [ pdf - 186 Ko ]

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(s)

Ratification Kit – Fiji

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 July 2022


2022

Lobbying

Fiji

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More details Download [ pdf - 154 Ko ]

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(s)

Ratification Kit – Peru

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 14 October 2020


2020

Lobbying

Peru

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More details Download [ pdf - 187 Ko ]

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(s)

Ratification Kit – Marshall Islands

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 July 2022


2022

Lobbying

Marshall Islands

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More details Download [ pdf - 184 Ko ]

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(s)

Ratification Kit – Central African Republic

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 21 July 2023


2023

Lobbying

Central African Republic

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More details Download [ pdf - 79 Ko ]

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(s)

Ratification Kit – Congo

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 July 2022


2022

Lobbying

Congo

esfr
More details Download [ pdf - 155 Ko ]

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(s)

Ratification Kit – Zambia

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty , on 21 July 2023


2023

Lobbying

Zambia

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More details Download [ pdf - 84 Ko ]

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(s)

Ratification Kit – Papua New Guinea

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 21 July 2023


Lobbying

Papua New Guinea

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More details Download [ pdf - 82 Ko ]

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(s)

Ratification Kit – Suriname

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 July 2022


2022

Lobbying

Suriname

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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(s)

Ratification Kit – Haiti

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


2020

Lobbying

Haiti

esfr
More details Download [ pdf - 185 Ko ]

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(s)

Pegagogical Guide: Teaching Abolition (2nd Edition)

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2011


2011

Campaigning

enfrruzh-hantes
More details Download [ pdf - 623 Ko ]

This manual offers several activities in anticipation of the celebrations on 10 October. It is aimed particularly at teachers of students aged 14 to 18, wherever they are in the world, but can also be used by anyone willing to organise an event for the World Day.If you are not a teacher, you may use it to make your own documents and inform the public about the reality of the death penalty in a recreational way.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Ghana

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 21 July 2023


2023

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More details Download [ pdf - 158 Ko ]

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(s)

Ratification Kit – Burundi

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 July 2022


2022

Lobbying

Burundi

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More details Download [ pdf - 162 Ko ]

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(s)

Ratification Kit – Côte d’Ivoire

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 13 July 2022


Lobbying

Côte d'Ivoire

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More details Download [ pdf - 194 Ko ]

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(s)

Ratificationt Kit – Armenia

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


2020

Lobbying

Armenia

esfr
More details Download [ pdf - 189 Ko ]

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.

ENG_Country Mapping report_Women on Death Row

on 1 August 2023

ENG_Country Mapping report_Women on Death Row

2023

2809872v1_wsdocs_-sentencing-to-death-without-execution-2020

on 15 April 2022

2022

Document(s)

Supreme Court of India ruling in Shatrughan Chauhan & Anr. Versus Union of India & Ors.

By P. Sathasivam / Supreme Court of India / Ranjan Gogoi / Shiva Kirti Singh, on 8 September 2020


2020

Multimedia content

India


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The Court (pictured) ruled in favour of two prisoners who petitioned for a commutation of their death sentences to life imprisonment, claiming “the unconscionably long delay in deciding the mercy petition has caused the onset of chronic psychotic illness”. It acknowledged the “unbearable mental agony after confirmation of death sentence” and added that in some cases “death-row prisoners lost their mental balance on account of prolonged anxiety and suffering experienced on death row”.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list India
  • Themes list Mental Illness, International law, Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,

AHR The Maldives DP CEDAW

on 21 April 2022

2022

logo-the-inclusion-project

on 13 September 2024

2024

Document(s)

Making the Media Work for You

By European Journalism Centre, on 1 January 2015


2015

Arguments against the death penalty


More details See the document
  • Document type Arguments against the death penalty
  • Themes list Public opinion, Networks, Member organizations,

Document(s)

Innocence, Error, and the ‘New Abolitionism’: A Commentary

By Sarat Austin / Criminology & Public Policy, on 1 January 2005


2005

Article

United States


More details See the document

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

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

Page(s)

Resources

on 22 June 2020

2020

Document(s)

Tanzania Human Rights Report 2008: Progress through Human Rights

By Sarah Louw / Clarence Kipobota / Legal and Human Rights Centre, on 1 January 2009


2009

NGO report


More details See the document

Tanzania is one of 25 countries in the world that continues to retain the death penalty in its legislation.56 However, de facto, Tanzania is an abolitionist country, as there have been no executions in Tanzania since 1994. Chapter 2.1.1 describes the position of the death penalty in Tanzania.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Statistics,

Document(s)

Pathways to abolition

By Death Penalty Worldwide / Cornell Law School, on 1 January 2016


2016

Academic report


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This report documents the processes by which 14 jurisdictions abolished the death penalty in law. The conclusions attempt to identify patterns and draw conclusions in the hope that they will provide ideas, insights and inspiration to countries that either already are on their path to abolition or yet have to embark on it.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Country/Regional profiles,