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Faith in Action

By Amnesty International - USA, on 1 January 2006


2006

Campaigning


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Using faith to combat the death penalty: This document has sermons, prayers and services, essays, views on the death penalty, resources for discussion and action, resources for next steps.

  • Document type Campaigning
  • Themes list Networks,

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Article: “Viedo Darryll Stallworth, Former Prosecutor supports SAFE California”

By SAFE California, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

United States


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Short video of Darryl Stallworth, a former California Deputy DA who once sought the death penalty as a prosecutor — and now wants to replace the death penalty with life without parole. Darryl believes Prop. 34 is right step for California, and I wanted to share his story with you, too

  • Document type Academic report
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Public debate, Trend Towards Abolition,

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FREE MEN

By Anne-Frédérique Widmann / International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, on 1 January 2018


2018

Multimedia content

United States


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How can a human being stand up, under conditions of unjust imprisonment on death row, alone and without hope of being released? In this documentary film, Anne-Frédérique Widmann draws the portrait of Kenneth Reams, who wakes up every day with an unwavering desire to live, and succeeds in writing, testifying, painting and loving a woman. A film about the art, resistance and dignity of every human life.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Innocence, Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty,

Document(s)

Judy Kerr: Murder Victim Family Member

By California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty / YouTube, on 1 January 2009


2009

Working with...


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Judy Kerr talks about her experience as a murder victim family member and her opposition against the death. Responding to violence with violence is not the answer.

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

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Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides

By Who Decides, Inc., on 1 January 2012


2012

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The objective of this initiative was to use “the product of art” as a vehicle to educate common people about the history and practice of capital punishment in America and to lift societies consciousness around the idea of endowing a National Death Penalty Museum to preserve its deep history.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Public debate,

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Ratification Kit – Samoa

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


2022

Academic report

Samoa

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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol 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.

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Ratification Kit – Morocco

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


2020

Academic report

Morocco

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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol 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.

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Ratification Kit – Sierra Leone

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


Academic report

Sierra Leone

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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol 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.

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Ratification Kit – Madagascar

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


Academic report

Madagascar

fr
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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol 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.

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Ratification Kit – Dominican Republic

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


Academic report

Dominican Republic

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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol 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)

Last Woman Hanged

By Caroline Overington / Harper Collins, on 1 January 2018


2018

Book


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In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Louisa Collins was hanged at a time when women were in no sense equal under the law — except when it came to the gallows. They could not vote or stand for parliament — or sit on juries.

  • Document type Book
  • Themes list International law, Death Penalty,

Document(s)

Execution by lethal injection – a quarter century of state poisoning

By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2007


2007

NGO report

es
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Any potential increase in executions or lobbying for the death penalty as a result of the use of lethal injection is of serious concern. The increased pressure on medical professionals to participate in executions also raises serious ethical and human rights issues. This paper reviews developments with respect to lethal injection executions over the past decade.

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Ratificationt Kit Angola

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


2017

Lobbying

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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol 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.

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Ratificationt Kit – Cambodia

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


2020

Academic report

Cambodia

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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol 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)

Capital Punishment Briefing Paper

By Peter Hodgkinson / Lina Gyllensten / Diana Peel / Center for Capital Punishment Studies, on 1 January 2011


2011

NGO report


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This briefing paper is offered as a critique of the received wisdom of abolition strategies against the background of an evidence based analysis of the literature. A point of interest to begin with is to try to tease out the motivation of individuals and groups that consider themselves death penalty abolitionists.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Networks,

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Togo

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


2020

Academic report

Togo

fr
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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol 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)

Capital Punishment, 2009 – Statistics Tables

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


NGO report

United States


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

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

Document(s)

Zhao Zuohai: Beaten, Framed and Jailed for a Murder that Never Happened

By Clifford Coonan / The Independent, on 1 January 2010


2010

Legal Representation


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The first act took place in 1999, when the dirt-poor farmer from Henan province had a violent argument with a fellow peasant, Zhao Zhenshang. His opponent, no relation despite a shared surname, disappeared into thin air. Later a headless, decomposed corpse was found in a well, and produced as evidence of Zhao Zuohai’s murderous deed. He was tortured, forced to confess and received the inevitable death sentence, before eventually winning a reprieve from the firing squad and having his sentence commuted to a 29-year jail term.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Networks,

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Eyewitness Evidence: A guide for law enforcement

By US Department of Justice, on 1 January 1999


1999

Working with...


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This Guide combines research and practical perspectives. The growth of social science research into the eyewitness process coincided with parallel efforts of law enforcement agencies to improve their own procedures. This Guide benefits from the inclusion of the diverse perspectives of TWGEYEE members; the group included not only researchers but also prosecutors, defense lawyers, and working police investigators from departments of all sizes and from all regions. This Guide represents a combination of the best current, workable police practices and psychological research.

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

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Beyond Unreliable: How Snitches Contribute to Wrongful Convictions

By Alexandra Natapoff / Golden Gate University Law Review, on 1 January 2006


2006

Article

United States


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This Comment briefly surveys in Part I some of the data on snitch-generated wrongful convictions. In Part II, it describes in more detail the institutional relationships among snitches, police, and prosecutors that make snitch falsehoods so pervasive and difficult to discern using the traditional tools of the adversarial process. Part III concludes with a litigation suggestion for a judicial check on the use of informant witnesses, namely, a Daubert-style12 pre-trial reliability hearing.The Appendix in Part IV contains a sample motion requesting and justifying such a hearing.

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

Article(s)

Director (Research)

By Project 39A, on 14 June 2018

The National Law University, Delhi (“University”) is seeking to engage on a contractual basis, one Director (Research) for Project 39A.

2018

India

Document(s)

Akmal Shaikh

By Reprieve, on 1 January 2009


2009

Legal Representation


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It was during this time Akmal met a man who claimed to be in the music industry; he told Akmal he could help him realise his dream of becoming a pop, When Akmal landed in China on 12 September 2007 the police stopped him, searched his bag, where they alleged they found around 4 kg of heroin, and arrested him on drug charges sensation and sent him to Kyrgyzstan to meet with his “colleagues”. In Kyrgyzstan Akmal was asked to accompany one of the men to China. The man claimed to own a nightclub there and said he wanted Akmal to sing in his club. Excited at the prospect, Akmal agreed to travel to China with him; Before boarding the plane Akmal was asked to carry this mans suitcase, he did so without knowing that there were drugs in it.

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Networks,

Document(s)

No Human Way to Kill

By Robert Priseman / Artfractures, on 1 January 2009


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‘No Human Way to Kill’ comprises an exhibition of twelve etchings produced by the Goldmark Atelier in 2007 and a 102 page book published by Seabrook Press in association with the Human Rights Centre at the Universtiy of Essex in 2009. The etchings were first displayed at the University of San Francisco in 2008 and the European Commission Gallery in 2009.

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

Document(s)

Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution

By Austin Sarat / Princeton University Press, on 1 January 2005


2005

Book

United States


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In this compelling and timely work, Austin Sarat provides the first book-length work on executive clemency. He turns our focus from questions of guilt and innocence to the very meaning of mercy. Starting from Ryan’s controversial decision, Mercy on Trial uses the lens of executive clemency in capital cases to discuss the fraught condition of mercy in American political life. Most pointedly, Sarat argues that mercy itself is on trial. Although it has always had a problematic position as a form of “lawful lawlessness,” it has come under much more intense popular pressure and criticism in recent decades. This has yielded a radical decline in the use of the power of chief executives to stop executions.

  • Document type Book
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Clemency,
Hope Behind Bars Africa

Member(s)

Hope Behind Bars Africa

on 5 September 2023

Hope Behind Bars Africa provides free legal services and direct support to indigent individuals in contact with the justice system while promoting criminal justice reforms through research, evidence-based advocacy, and technology.

2023

Nigeria

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Last Day of Freedom

By Dee Hibbert-Jones / Nomi Talisman, on 1 January 2015


2015

Working with...


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When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision: should he call the police? Last Day of Freedom, a richly animated personal narrative, tells the story of Bill’s decision to stand by his brother in the face of war, crime and capital punishment. The film is a portrait of a man at the nexus of the most pressing social issues of our day – veterans’ care, mental health access and criminal justice.

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

Document(s)

Kit Cities for Life – 2016

By Community of Saint Egidio, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

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The International DayCities for Life – Cities against the DeathPenalty, is the largest international mobilization ofthe abolitionist movement.Its objective is to establish a dialogue within thecivil society on the topic and involve localadministrators, aiming at abolishing the deathpenalty and making the rejection of violence thetrue identity of a city and its citizens.

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Monitoring and Evaluation

By Louisa Gosling / Bond - For International Development, on 1 January 2010


2010

Campaigning


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Monitoring is the routine tracking of the key elements of programme/project performance, usually inputs and outputs and some of the outcomes, through record-keeping, regular reporting and surveillance systems as well as observation and studiesyour. Evaluation attempts to link a particular output or outcome directly to an intervention after a period of time has passed. An evaluation is usually carried out at some significant stage in the project’s development, e.g. at the end of a planning period, as the project moves to a new phase, or in response to a particular critical issue. This guide explains how to conduct monitoring and evaluation of your projects.

  • Document type Campaigning
  • Themes list Networks,

Document(s)

Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Media

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


2019

Working with...

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QUNO’s tool for media.

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Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Legislators

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


Working with...

fr
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QUNO’s tool for parliamentarians.

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Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Defense Lawyers

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


Working with...

fr
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QUNO’s tool for defense lawyers.

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Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Activists

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


Working with...

fr
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QUNO’s tool for activists.

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Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Prison Staff

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


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fr
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QUNO’s tool for prison staff.

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Juan Melendez-6446

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


2014

Working with...


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This educational guide accompany the documentary Juan Melendez 6446.

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

Document(s)

Application form – Call for actions in Sub-Saharan Africa (18th World Day)

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


2020

Multimedia content

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Call for actions on 2020 World Day in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Provisional Budget – 18th World Day

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


Multimedia content

fr
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Small Grants 2020 provisional budget

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Japanese : 誤判の必然性 死刑事件における司法

By Death Penalty Project, on 8 September 2020


NGO report

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

Document(s)

Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Sentencers

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


2019

Working with...

fr
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QUNO’s tool for judges.

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Database Center for North Korean Human Rights – Briefings on public execution

By Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, on 8 September 2020


2020

Article

Republic of Korea


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NKDB hosts a monthly English language briefing and discussion on North Korean human rights every month with embassy officials, NGO staff, and NKDB staff as guests

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list Republic of Korea
  • Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

Document(s)

Counting executions: data analysis by justice project pakistan

By Justice Project Pakistan, on 1 January 2017


2017

Academic report


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

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

EN_WDPoster2022-BD-website

on 10 June 2022

2022

Document(s)

Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Educators

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019


2019

Working with...

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QUNO’s tool for educators.

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Italian : Poster – 16° Giornata mondiale contro la Pena di morte

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


2020

Multimedia content

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Datos y Cifras 2018

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


2018

Multimedia content

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Documento de antecedentes sobre el uso de la pena de muerte en todo el mundo para 2017 y principios de 2018.

Document(s)

Factsheet on how to conduct a prison visit

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


Working with...

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Factsheet on how to conduct a prison visit – World day 2018

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: Madam Eswari’s story

By Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA), on 8 September 2020


2020

Multimedia content


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CADPA invited filmmaker Dawn Mikkelsen to make 8 short videos for a series called ‘Say Yes to Life’. Dawn spoke with many of those intimately linked with people on death row to bring you their stories. “Madam Eswari’s story’ is the first of these.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Themes list Arbitrariness, Networks, Country/Regional profiles,

Document(s)

Who Are We Hanging?

on 1 January 2019


2019

NGO report


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

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

Document(s)

Film: “Execution”

By Steven Scaffidi / Ghost Rider Pictures, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report


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Amnesty International Presents a Groundbreaking Film Event That Takes the Audience to the Front Row of an Execution–Regal Cinemas opens its doors in eight major cities across America for this first-of-a-kind motion picture less than 1 week after California’s attempt to repeal the death penalty fails.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Innocence,

Document(s)

Crime and punishment: Public perception, judgment and opinion

By Penal Reform International / M. Chernyanskaya / A. Akulenko / SATIO Group, on 1 January 2013


2013

NGO report

ru
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In 2013, PRI commissioned a detailed survey of public opinion about crime, punishment and the death penalty in Belarus.Market researchers, Satio, conducted the survey, interviewing 1,000 participants. The results show that opinions around capital punishment are more varied and nuanced than is often stated, while public attitudes about crime in general are strongly affected by respondents’ social position, background and emotions.

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Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice

By TED / Bryan Stevenson, on 1 January 2012


2012

Multimedia content

United States


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In an engaging and personal talk — with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks — human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America’s unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.Speaker starts talking about the death penalty at the 8 minute mark.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Discrimination,

Document(s)

Social Media Toolkit

By Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2015


2015

Campaigning

fr
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This document has been developed to support you in getting behind and amplifying the World Day and launch of the report ‘The Death Penalty for Drug Offences Report – Global Overview 2015’ via social media on 8 October 2015.

Document(s)

This Mortal Boy

By Fiona Kidman / Penguin, on 1 January 2018


2018

Book

New Zealand


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A revealing novel based on real events and real people.Albert Black, known as the ‘jukebox killer’, was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral panic about teenagers, and he was to hang less than five months later, the second-to-last person to be executed in New Zealand.But what really happened? Was this a love crime, was it a sign of juvenile delinquency? Or was this dark episode in our recent history more about our society’s reaction to outsiders?Black’s final words, as the hangman covered his head, were, ‘I wish you all a merry Christmas, gentlemen, and a prosperous New Year.’ This is his story.

  • Document type Book
  • Countries list New Zealand
  • Themes list Death Penalty,

Document(s)

Anything But Humane

By Amnesty International - USA, on 8 September 2020


2020

Arguments against the death penalty


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A fact sheet on the lethal injection in the United States. This page details the process of lethal injection with statements of US health professional associations on participation in execution.

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

Document(s)

Call Tender Travels

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 June 2021


2021

World Coalition

fr
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The World Coalition requires travel management services, on a non-exclusive basis, for World Coalition staff, members and partners.

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Saudi Arabia: Defying world trends – Saudi Arabia’s extensive use of capital punishment

By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

Saudi Arabia

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This document examines the death penalty in Saudi Arabia and how it is sustained by a mixture of legal, judicial and political factors, whose redress requires a strong political will from the Saudi Arabian government together with a consistent concern and assistance by the international community.

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Lobbying Kit

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


2017

Lobbying

fr
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The kit aims at providing step-by-step advice on how to lobby government decision-makers at all stages of the ratification process. It includes: model letters , model press release, advice on how and when to use information contained in this kit.

  • Document type Lobbying
  • Themes list Networks,
  • Available languages Kit de Lobbying

Document(s)

Searchable Execution Database

By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2011


2011

NGO report


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This new database search includes the county of conviction, as well as gender of victim. All results will display in chronological order by default. To sort by other criteria, click on the headings for those fields in the search results.

  • Document type NGO report

Document(s)

Just Mercy

By Destin Daniel Cretton / Gil Netter / Asher Goldstein / Michael B. Jordan, on 1 January 2019


2019

Multimedia content

United States


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A powerful and thought-provoking true story, “Just Mercy” follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Jordan) and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley (Larson). Bryan becomes embroiled in a labyrinth of legal and political maneuverings and overt and unabashed racism as he fights for Walter, and others like him, with the odds—and the system—stacked against them.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Death Penalty,

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Predictors of Miscarriages of Justice in Capital Cases

By Talia Roitberg Harmon / Justice Quarterly, on 1 January 2001


2001

Article

United States


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Prior research on wrongful convictions in capital cases focused primarily on qualitative methods designed to provide in-depth descriptive analyses of these cases. In contrast, this study is a quantitative comparison between 76 documented cases from 1970 to 1998, in which prisoners were released from death row because of “doubts about their guilt,” and a matched group of inmates who were executed. Through the use of a logistic regression model, significant predictors of cases that result in a release from death row as opposed to an execution, are identified. The final section of this study focuses on policy implications that may decrease the risk of error in capital cases. Additional lines of research are suggested in an effort to increase understanding of miscarriages of justice in such cases.

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

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A Deadly Case of Mistaken Identity

By Sam Olukoya / IPS, on 1 January 2011


2011

Legal Representation


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

  • Document type Legal Representation
  • Themes list Innocence,

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Juvenile Offenders Awaiting Execution in Yemen : “Look at Us with a Merciful Eye”

By Human Rights Watch, on 1 January 2013


2013

NGO report

ar
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The 30-page report found that at least 22 individuals have been sentenced to death in Yemen despite evidence that they were under age 18 at the time of their alleged crimes. In the last five years, Yemen has executed at least 15 young men and women who said they were under 18 at the time of their offense.

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Murderers’ Relatives: Managing Stigma, Negotiating Identity

By Hazel May / Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, on 1 January 2000


2000

Article

United States


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Drawing on in-depth interviews with the relatives of convicted murderers, this article interrogates the concept of stigma through an everyday notion of familial toxicity and commonsense understandings of murder. Identifying moments of stigmatizing strain, the article examines moments of opportunity for managing stigma through three metatactics: management of space, information, and self-presentation. However, due to the problems in carrying out sensitive research with a hidden population, there are limits to how far arguments made can be generalized. Therefore, the article concludes by raising questions for future research.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Murder Victims' Families,
Youth Safety Awareness Initiative (Crime Si Poa®) Logo

Member(s)

Youth Safety Awareness Initiative (Crime Si Poa®)

on 27 March 2024

Youth Safety Awareness Initiative mission is to promote social justice and a crime-free society through education, advocacy and social enterprise, targeting children and young people. Youth Safety Awareness Initiative primarily focus on discouraging at-risk and vulnerable youth from engaging in criminal activities and addressing threats to peace through behavioral and attitudinal change, while promoting the […]

2024

Kenya

Document(s)

Innocence

By The North Atlantic Innocence Project / The Innocence Project / YouTube, on 1 January 2009


2009

Arguments against the death penalty


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This event was held by the North Atlantic Innocence Project. The video explores post conviction evidence that can prove innocence after conviction. Testimonials from the exonerated, a victim and from a police officier who works on post conviction cases.

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

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on 18 November 2020

Abolitionist supporters holding posters of the 18th World Day at a gathering in Benin

2020

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Innocence Lost: A Play About Steven Truscott

By Beverley Cooper / Centaur Theater Company, on 1 January 2013


2013

Working with...


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In 1959, the Canadian justice system nearly killed an innocent 14-year-old boy. The fact that Steven Truscott was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper that year, and sentenced to hang, now seems surreal. All the more so since he’s alive and well and living quietly with his family after 10 years of unjust incarceration – and many more years as an obscure factory worker, father and grandfather, after suffering the consequences of a destroyed reputation.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Public opinion, Innocence,

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Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance

By United Nations, on 1 January 2012


2012

International law - United Nations

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In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt, provides an overview of his mandate activities since the submission of the previous report to the General Assembly (A/66/156), including his country visits, communications and other activities.

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Remedying Wrongful Execution

By Meghan J. Ryan / University of Michigan, on 1 January 2011


2011

Article

United States


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The Article highlights that statutory compensation schemes overlook the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in 2004, of wrongful execution and the greater injustice it entails and urges that the statutes be amended in light of this grievous wrong that has come to the fore of American criminal justice systems.

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

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Capital Punishment and Religious Arguments: An Intermediate Approach

By Samuel J. Levine / William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 9(1), 179-190, on 1 January 2000


2000

Article

United States


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Determining the place and use of capital punishment in the American legal system is a challenging affair and one that is closely associated with and determined by religion’s role in American legal decision-making. Both capital punishment and religion are controversial issues, and tend to challenge legal scholars and practitioners about whether they should function together or alone as valid parts of the legal system in the United States. Professor Levine argues that religious arguments should be employed to interpret and explain American legal thought when the need or proper situation arises. He uses capital punishment as an example of how to properly reconcile a controversial legal issue with religious thought. Professor Levine suggests that religion acts as a comparative law model and provides another valid and instructive way of viewing capital punishment. Religious thought serves to provide explanation and insight into controversial American legal issues, and helps legal scholars and practitioners toward forming permanent solutions.

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

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AFRICAN CHARTER ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS

By African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, on 8 September 1981


1981

United Nations report

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ARTICLE 4Human beings are inviolable. Every human being shall be entitled to respect for his life and the integrity of his person. No one may be arbitrarily deprived of this right.ARTICLE 5Every individual shall have the right to the respect of the dignity inherent in a human being and to the recognition of his legal status. All forms of exploitation and degradation of man, particularly slavery, slave trade, torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment and treatment shall be prohibited.

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New Claims about Executions and General Deterrence: Déjà Vu All Over Again?

By Richard Berk / Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, on 1 January 2005


2005

Article

United States


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A number of papers have recently appeared claiming to show that in the United States executions deter serious crime. There are many statistical problems with the data analyses reported. This paper addresses the problem of “influence,” which occurs when a very small and atypical fraction of the data dominate the statistical results.

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

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Ten Years of Payne: Victim Impact Evidence in Capital Cases

By John H. Blume / Cornell Law Review, on 1 January 2003


2003

Article

United States


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Part I of this Article will discuss the Court’s prior decisions in Booth and Gathers, and Parts II and III will briefly attempt to clarify the parameters of the Payne holding. Part IV of this Article will survey the current legal landscape of state and federal practice regarding the admissibility of VIE and argument. Finally, this Article will offer in conclusion some brief perspectives on several unresolved issues in this particularly thorny (and misguided) area of capital punishment jurisprudence.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Murder Victims' Families,

Member(s)

Ordre des Barreaux Francophones et Germanophones de Belgique – OFBG

on 30 April 2020

The French- and German-speaking bars association (Ordre des barreaux francophones et germanophone, OBFG) brings together 13 French-speaking bar association and one German-speaking one in Belgium. It is regulated by Belgian penal laws.

2020

Belgium

Member(s)

Think Centre

on 30 April 2020

Think Centre aims to critically examine issues related to political development, democracy, rule of law, human rights and civil society. They conduct research, campaigns on public awareness. They issue urgent appeals and work by networking and reporting to the UN Human Rights bodies.

Singapore

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State Information

By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2011


2011

NGO report


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Death penalty information and statistics by state.

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

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Handbook of Forensic Psychiatric Practice in Capital Cases

By Death Penalty Project, on 1 January 2018


2018

Working with...


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  • Themes list Mental Illness, Public debate, Death Penalty,

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Pakistan – Joint Submission UPR Review

By Justice Project Pakistan, on 8 September 2020


2020

United Nations report

Pakistan


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Joint submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Pakistan in 2017.

  • Document type United Nations report
  • Countries list Pakistan
  • Themes list Juveniles, Mental Illness, International law, Torture, Death Row Conditions, Legal Representation, Death Penalty,

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World Day 2011 Petition

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


2011

Campaigning

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Premeditated: meditations on capital punishment

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


2004

Working with...


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

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

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on 9 June 2021

2021

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on 28 October 2022

2022

country-at-risk-meeting

on 13 November 2023

2023

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Myth #8 – Executions help victims’ families to heal

By Reprieve / Emmanuelle Purdon , on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report


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

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

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Danthong Breen – Union for Liberty

By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), on 8 September 2020


Academic report

Thailand

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Danthong Breen, from the NGO Union for Liberty, based in Thailande, explains why the death penalty is torture.

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Step by Step : Journey of Hope

By Journey of Hope / YouTube, on 1 January 2007


2007

Arguments against the death penalty


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

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

Document(s)

Crackdown on China’s human rights lawyers deepens

By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2011


2011

NGO report


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This report updates Amnesty International’s Breaking the law: Crackdown on human rights lawyers and legal activists in China (ASA 17/042/2009) published in 2009. It makes little mention of death penalty but it is an excellent source on the situation of human rights lawyers in China.

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DPIC_YearEndReport_2020

on 6 January 2021

2021

Document(s)

Advancing drug policy reform: a new approach to decriminalization

By Global Commission on Drug Policy, on 1 January 2016


2016

NGO report


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The Global Commission produces technical and policy reports to ground evidence-based recommendations in human rights, health and development. Political reports focus on drug policy reform generally and provide recommendations to countries in areas such as decriminalization; health and security; alternatives to incarceration for low-level people involved in the production, transport or selling of drugs; more intelligent measures against violent organizations and policy innovations such as legal, regulated markets.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Drug Offences, Sentencing Alternatives, Death Penalty,

Document(s)

Poster Lingala 2022 – Mokolo ya kobundela etumbu ya liwa na mokili mobimba

By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 7 July 2022


2022

World Coalition


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Poster 2022 German – 20. Welttag gegen die Todesstrafe

By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 7 July 2022



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Welttag gegen die Todesstrafe Poster

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Poster Japanese 2022 – 第20回世界死刑廃止デー

By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 July 2022


2022

World Coalition


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Poster Tamil 2022 – மரண தண்டைனக்ெகதிரான இருபதாவது உலக நாள்

By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 July 2022


World Coalition


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Poster 2022 Houssa – 20TH RANAR YAKI DA HUKUMCIN KISA TA DUNIYA

By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 7 July 2022


2022


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Poster Swahili 2022 – MIAKA 20 YA MAADHIMISHO YA KUPINGA ADHABU YA KIFO DUNIANI

By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 July 2022


2022

World Coalition


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Poster Italian – 20 GIORNATA MONDIALE CONTRO LA PENA DI MORTE

By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 7 July 2022


2022

World Coalition


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Poster Singhala 2022 – 20 වන ජගත් මරණ දඬුවමට එෙරහි දිනය

By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 July 2022


2022

World Coalition


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Poster Urdu 2022 – سزائے موت کے خلاف بیسواں عالمی دن

By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 July 2022



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Poster Traditional Chinese – 第20屆世界反死刑日

By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 July 2022


World Coalition


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I don’t want another kid to die: Families of Victims Murdered by Juveniles Oppose Juvenile Executions

By Robert Renny Cushing / Susannah Sheffer / Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

United States


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“I don’t want another kid to die” is a report about the juvenile death penalty from the perspective of family members of victims killed by juvenile offenders and parents of juvenile offenders who have been executed.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Juveniles, Murder Victims' Families,