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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,
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,
AHR The Maldives DP CEDAW
on 21 April 2022
2022
Page(s)
Resources
on 22 June 2020
2020
Document(s)
Poster World Day 2008
By World Coalition against the death penalty , on 10 October 2008
2008
Campaigning
Trend Towards Abolition
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Poster World day against the death penalty 2009
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition
- Available languages Affiche Journée mondiale 2008
Document(s)
Gambia has decided
By Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH), on 1 January 2017
2017
Multimedia content
Gambia
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Movie about the challenges faced by the abolitionnists and the hopes raised by the recent abolition of the death penalty in Gambia
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Gambia
- Themes list Public debate, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Earl Washington’s Ordeal
By Eric M. Freedman / Hofstra Law Review, on 1 January 2001
2001
Article
United States
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I offer an account of the ordeal of Earl Washington, who—having come within days of execution—was released from prison on February 12, 2001, after DNA evidence of his innocence finally proved conclusive to the Virginia authorities. I do so for two reasons. First, I believe, both as a member of his legal team and a scholar, that history deserves an accurate account of the events. Second, more broadly, I believe that the case exemplifies many of the phenomena that contribute to the injustice of the death penalty in America today.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Go With God
By Frank Harriman / Filmbay Ltd., on 1 January 2012
2012
Multimedia content
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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David Taylor has just half an hour to live. He is alone in his cell, in a foreign country, facing execution for something that isn’t even a crime back home in Britain.David has committed the crime of adultery in Iran, a fundamentalist Islamic nation. In the last minutes of his life he tries to come to terms with terrifying finality of his seemingly insignificant actions.Written to be shot in real-time, we follow every second of every minute of the last half hour of David’s life. As he chain smokes his way through to his upcoming oblivion, David is a mess of emotions. From tears and rage to laughter and even calm, he is trying to wrench everything… anything… from his dwindling life.As he interacts with different people, each having a different agenda – the prison governor, the Swedish consul, the guards and his best friend – we see a mirror being held up to reflect the wider world we live in.And finally, it is a simple study of raw human emotion, of friendship and of love.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Themes list Foreign Nationals, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Facts and Figures – 2020 World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
World Coalition
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Facts and figures from several human rights organizations on death sentences and executions in 2019, as well progress towards the abolition of capital punishment worldwide.
- Document type World Coalition
- Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Faits et chiffres - Journée mondiale 2020
Document(s)
Facts and Figures 2015
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2015
2015
World Coalition
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Up-to-date information on the application of death penalty around the world in 2014 and 2015
- Document type World Coalition
- Themes list Drug Offences, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages HECHOS Y DATOS 13° Día Mundial contra la pena de muerteFaits Et Chiffres 2015
Document(s)
: Factsheet for Lawyers – 2020 World Day
on 8 September 2020
2020
Article
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On the occasion of the 2020 World Day, focusing on the right to access to counsel, Reprieve and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty released a facthsheet for defense lawyers.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Fair Trial, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Fiche d'information pour les avocat·e·s de la défense - Journée mondiale 2020
Document(s)
Capital Punishment: A Global Perspective
By Roger Hood / Punishment and Society, on 1 January 2001
2001
Article
More details See the document
This article reviews the extent to which the movement to abolish capital punishment has been successful and discusses some of the influences which have produced a remarkable increase in the number of abolitionist countries in the past two decades. It asks whether this trend has now come to an end as many countries which retain the death penalty continue to defy, for a variety of reasons, international pressure to change their laws and practices. Finally, it discusses some actions that might prove effective in overcoming these obstacles.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Mobilisation Kit
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018
2018
Campaigning
frMore details Download [ pdf - 680 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 type Campaigning
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,
- Available languages Kit de mobilisation
TESTIMONIALS FROM WOMEN SENTENCED TO DEATH
on 1 July 2021
2021
Debunking the deterrence theory
on 9 July 2024
Debunking the deterrence theory
2024
Page(s)
Contact us
on 22 June 2020
You can write to the World Coalition by filling in the form below in English or in French.
2020
Program of the 18 June 2021 General Assembly
on 15 June 2021
2021
Document(s)
Terms of Reference – Gender-sensitive evaluation of the 2021 World Day Against
on 7 October 2022
2022
More details Download [ pdf - 91 Ko ]
- Document type Array
ISSUES AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO RAISE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF MALAWI
on 27 May 2021
2021
Document(s)
Factsheet for Prison Staff
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018
2018
Working with...
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While the death penalty remains, persons with mental disabilities are at risk of being sentenced to death and executed in breach of international standards. This briefing paper aims to help prison staff act ethically and professionally when dealing with people on death row.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability,
- Available languages Fiche pour le personnel pénitentiaire
Document(s)
Entrenchment and/or Destabilization? Reflections on (Another) Two Decades of Constitutional Regulation of Capital Punishment
By Death Penalty Information Center / Carol S. Steiker / Jordan M. Steiker, on 1 January 2012
2012
Article
United States
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A recent law review article by Professors Carol and Jordan Steiker examines two decades of attempts to regulate capital punishment and concludes that this process may have paved the way to a finding that the death penalty is unconstitutional
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Trial by fire
By Edward Zwick, on 1 January 2019
2019
Multimedia content
United States
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Trial by Fire is the true-life Texas story of the unlikely bond between an imprisoned death row inmate (Jack O’Connell) and a mother of two from Houston (Laura Dern) who, though facing staggering odds, fights mightily for his freedom. Cameron Todd Willingham, a poor, uneducated heavy metal devotee with a violent streak and a criminal record, is convicted of arson-related triple homicide in 1992. During his 12 years on death row, Elizabeth Gilbert, an improbable ally, uncovers questionable methods and illogical conclusions in his case, and battles with the state to expose suppressed evidence that could save him.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Facts and Figures 2014
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2014
2014
World Coalition
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Up-to-date information on the application of death penalty around the world in 2013 and 2014
- Document type World Coalition
- Themes list Death Penalty, Statistics,
- Available languages Faits et chiffres 2014Hechos y datos 2014
Document(s)
Facts and Figures 2018
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018
2018
World Coalition
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Up-to-date information on the application of death penalty around the world in 2017 and 2018.
- Document type World Coalition
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,
- Available languages Datos y Cifras 2018Faits Et Chiffres 2018
Document(s)
Ratification Kit – Bolivia
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 14 October 2020
2020
Lobbying
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
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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 American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the American Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.
- Document type Lobbying
- Countries list Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
- Available languages Kit de Ratificación - BoliviaKit de ratification - Bolivie
Document(s)
Advocacy Strategy
By Fulgence Massawe, on 1 January 2017
2017
Multimedia content
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Presentation of Fulgence Massawe, Legal and Human Rights Centre for the Advocating for the abolition of the death penalty in sub-Saharan Africa workshop, which took place during the 2017 General Assembly of the World CoalitionLegal and Human Rights Centre
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Ratification Kit – El Salvador
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 14 October 2020
2020
Lobbying
El Salvador
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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 American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the American Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.
- Document type Lobbying
- Countries list El Salvador
- Available languages Kit de Ratificación - El SalvadorKit de ratification - El Salvador
Document(s)
Ratification Kit – Colombia
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 14 October 2020
Lobbying
Colombia
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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 American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the American Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.
- Document type Lobbying
- Countries list Colombia
- Available languages Kit de Ratificación - ColombiaKit de ratification - Colombie
Document(s)
Capital punishment and American culture
By David Garland / Punishment & Society 7, 347-376, on 1 January 2005
2005
Article
United States
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This is an essay about capital punishment and American culture. Its point of departure is the recent publication of several books and articles suggesting that the USA’s retention of the death penalty is an expansion of an underlying cultural tradition that creats an elective affinity between American society and the execution of criminal offenders. The implicit – and sometimes explicit claim – of this new literature is that today’s capital punishment system is an insurance of ‘American exceptionalism’, an expression of a deep and abiding condition that has shaped the American nation from its formative years to the present.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Human Rights Council March 2016 Iran letter
By Impact Iran , on 1 January 2016
2016
Multimedia content
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Some Human Rights and civil society groups wrote to the member states of the Human Rights Council to get them to support the resolution to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran at the 31st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Themes list International law, Most Serious Crimes, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
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 article addresses the problem of “influence,” which occurs when a very small and atypical fraction of the data dominate the statistical results. The number of executions by state and year is the key explanatory variable, and most states in most years execute no one. A very few states in particular years execute more than five individuals. Such values represent about 1 percent of the available observations. Reanalyses of the existing data are presented showing that claims of deterrence are a statistical artifact of this anomalous 1 percent.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Deterrence , Statistics,
Document(s)
Executions, Deterrence and Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities
By David T. Johnson / Jeffrey Fagan / Franklin Zimring / Columbia School of Law, on 1 January 2009
2009
Article
China
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We compare homicide rates in two quite similar cities with vastly different execution risks. Singapore had an execution rate close to 1 per million per year until an explosive twentyfold increase in 1994-95 and 1996-97 to a level that we show was probably the highest in the world. Hong Kong,has no executions all during the last generation and abolished capital punishment in 1993. Homicide levels and trends are remarkably similar in these two cities over the 35 years after 1973. By comparing two closely matched places with huge contrasts in actual execution but no differences in homicide trends, we have generated a unique test of the exuberant claims of deterrence that have been produced over the past decade in the U.S.
- Document type Article
- Countries list China
- Themes list Deterrence ,
Document(s)
Stories of Victims of Terrorism
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2016
2016
Multimedia content
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Together with AfVT, the World Coalition has developed this two-page note explaining why some victims of terrorism are against the death penalty.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families, Terrorism,
- Available languages Témoignages de victimes du terrorisme
Document(s)
Facts and Figures 2019
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2019
2019
World Coalition
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Facts and figures from Amnesty International’s 2019 report on death sentences and executions in 2018
- Document type World Coalition
- Themes list Juveniles, Methods of Execution, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Statistics,
- Available languages Faits et chiffres 2019
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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
Document(s)
End Crime, not Life is not about protecting criminals, but about protecting vulnerable innocents
By Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA), on 8 September 2020
2020
Multimedia content
Malaysia
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Cheong Chun Yin, a Malaysian boy, was about 23 years old when he was arrested for drug trafficking. A trusting boy he was asked to bring some ‘gold’ to Singapore. Merri was a victim of domestic abuse, whose son had a heart defect. She took a job abroad to help pay his hospital bills. A loving man bought her a suitcase for her home journey. The tragedy of such stories is what keeps human rights activists and lawyers from ASEAN unrelenting in their opposition to the death penalty, for reasons they spell out in this video.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Malaysia
- Themes list Arbitrariness, Networks, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Executing Those Who Do Not Kill
By Tracy Casadio / Joseph Trigilio / American Criminal Law Review, on 1 January 2011
2011
Article
United States
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This article explores the constitutionality of the death penalty for those convicted of felony murder, i.e., those who participated in a serious crime in which a death occurred, but were not directly responsible for the death.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
There Is No Evil
By YouTube / Mohammad Rasoulof, on 1 January 2020
2020
Multimedia content
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
frMore details See the document
There Is No Evil (Persian: شیطان وجود ندارد, lit. ‘Satan doesn’t exist’) is a 2020 Iranian drama film directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. It won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival. The film relates four stories concerning the death penalty in Iran. Rasoulof explained that the film is about “people taking responsibility” for their actions, and that each story “is based on my own experience.”
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Themes list Public debate,
- Available languages Le Diable n'existe pas
Document(s)
Why an Independent Appointed Authority Is Necessary to Choose Counsel for Indigent People in Capital Punishment Cases
By Ronald J. Tabak / Hofstra Law Review, on 1 January 2003
2003
Article
United States
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The revised ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases require that an agency “independent of the judiciary” be responsible for “ensuring that each capital defendant in the jurisdiction receives high quality legal representation.” This independent agency “and not the judiciary or elected officials should select lawyers for specific cases.” These mandates reflect two realities that have become overwhelmingly clear: (1) judges—whether initially elected, subject to retention elections, or appointed—are subject to political pressures in connection with capital punishment cases; and (2) lawyers whom judges have appointed in capital punishment cases have frequently been of far lower quality than could have been selected.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Legal Representation,
Document(s)
Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong
By Raymond Bonner / Stated First Edition, on 1 January 2012
2012
Book
United States
More details See the document
The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row. In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim’s body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Conditions,
Document(s)
PROBING “LIFE QUALIFICATION” THROUGH EXPANDED VOIR DIRE
By John H. Blume / Sheri Lynn Johnson / Brian Threlkeld / Hofstra Law Review, on 1 January 2001
2001
Article
United States
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It turns out that voir dire in capital cases is woefully ineffective at the most elementary task—weeding out unqualified jurors.Empirical evidence reveals that many capital jurors are in fact unqualified to serve. Moreover, the ineffectiveness of the process is far from even-handed. A juror is not “death-qualified” if she would always vote against a death sentence, regardless of the circumstances, and a handful of the jurors who actually serve in capital cases are in fact unqualified for this reason.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Change of Heart: Justice, Mercy, and Making Peace with My Sister’s Killer
By Jeanne Bishop / Westminster John Knox Press, on 1 January 2015
2015
Book
United States
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Jeanne Bishop has written a new book about her life and spiritual journey after her sister was murdered in Illinois in 1990. Change of Heart: Justice, Mercy, and Making Peace with My Sister’s Killer tells Bishop’s personal story of grief, loss, and of her eventual efforts to confront and reconcile with her sister’s killer. She also addresses larger issues of capital punishment, life sentences for juvenile offenders, and restorative justice. Former Illinois Governor George Ryan said of the book, “When I commuted the death sentences of everyone on Illinois’s death row, I expressed the hope that we could open our hearts and provide something for victims’ families other than the hope of revenge. I quoted Abraham Lincoln: ‘I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.’ Jeanne Bishop’s compelling book tells the story of how devotion to her faith took her face-to-face with her sister’s killer …. She reminds us of a core truth: that our criminal justice system cannot be just without mercy.”
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families,
StatementSingapore
on 28 August 2024
2024
Document(s)
Factsheet for Prison Staff
By Penal Reform International / World Coalition Against the Death Penalty , on 1 January 2018
2018
Working with...
frMore details Download [ pdf - 339 Ko ]
Factsheet for prison staff – World Day Against the Death Penalty 2018.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,
- Available languages Fiche pratique pour le personnel pénitentiaire
Document(s)
Call for actions in Barbados and Eastern Caribbean
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / Greater Caribbean For Life, on 1 January 2018
Multimedia content
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The Greater Caribbean For Life (GCL) and the World Coalition are part of a joint project which aims to create a platform for death penalty reform in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, leading to eventual abolition.
- Document type Multimedia content
Document(s)
Explaining Spatial Variation in Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis
By Steven F. Messner / Eric P. Baumer / American Sociological Review / Richard Rosenfeld, on 1 January 2003
2003
Article
United States
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This research examines the effects of social context on support for the death penalty using individual-level data from the 1974-98 General Social Survey (GSS) which have been linked with aggregate level data on homicide rates and sociodemographic, political and economic characteristics. This study finds that residents of areas with higher homicide rates, a larger proportion of blacks, and a more conservative political climate are significantly more likely to support the death penalty, net of compositional differences.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public opinion,
Document(s)
Mobilisation Kit 2014
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Campaigning
frMore details Download [ pdf - 1568 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 type Campaigning
- Available languages Kit de mobilisation 2014
20231019_Armenia-ratification
on 22 March 2024
2024
Document(s)
Appointed but (Nearly) Prevented From Serving: My Experiences as a Grand Jury Foreperson
By Phyllis L. Crocker / Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, on 1 January 2004
2004
Article
United States
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I begin this essay with basic information about grand juries, then tell what happened to our grand jury, and conclude by reflecting on what I learned from this experience. My theme is the tension between the grand jury’s independence and the prosecutor’s desire to control it. The lesson I learned, intellectually and emotionally, is the depth and tenacity of the prosecutor’s assumption that he does control, and has the right to control, the grand jury process. I also learned some lessons about being a client, and believing in oneself and one’s principles.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Judging Innocence
By Brandon Garrett / Columbia School of Law, on 1 January 2008
2008
Article
United States
More details See the document
This empirical study examines for the first time how the criminal system in the United States handled the cases of people who were subsequently found innocent through postconviction DNA testing. The data collected tell the story of this unique group of exonerees, starting with their criminal trials, moving through levels of direct appeals and habeas corpus review, and ending with their eventual exonerations. Beginning with the trials of these exonerees, this study examines the leading types of evidence supporting their wrongful convictions, which were erroneous eyewitness identifications, forensic evidence, informant testimony, and false confessions. Yet our system of criminal appeals and postconviction review poorly addressed factual deficiencies in these trials. Few exonerees brought claims regarding those facts or claims alleging their innocence. For those who did, hardly any claims were granted by courts. Far from recognizing innocence, courts often denied relief by finding errors to be harmless.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
Identifying and (Re)formulating Prophylactic Rules, Safe Harbors, and Incidental Rights in Constitutional Criminal Procedure
By Susan R. Klein / Michigan Law Review, on 1 January 2001
2001
Article
United States
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The Miranda conundrum runs something like this: If the Miranda decision represents true constitutional interpretation, and all unwarned statements taken during custodial interrogation are compelled” within the meaning of the self-incrimination clause, the impeachment and “”fruits”” exceptions to Miranda should fall. If it is not true constitutional interpretation, than the Court has no business reversing state criminal convictions for its violation. I offer here what I hope is a satisfying answer to this conundrum, on both descriptive and normative levels, that justifies not only Miranda but a host of similar Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist Court decisions as well. In Part I, I introduce and define the terms “”constitutional prophylactic rule,”” “”constitutional safe harbor rule,”” and “”constitutional incidental right,”” and attempt to legitimate their use. I further demonstrate that constitutional criminal procedure is so flush with such prophylactic and safe harbor rules and incidental rights that trying to eliminate them now, by either reversing a large number of criminal procedure cases or “”constitutionalizing”” all of those holdings, would do more harm than good. I propose that we accept the fact that these rules and rights are a fixed part of our constitutional landscape, and focus instead on minimizing their risks and maximizing their benefits”
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Fair Trial,
Document(s)
Italian Poster 2005
By World coalition against the death penalty , on 10 October 2005
2005
Campaigning
Trend Towards Abolition
More details See the document
Italian Poster 2005
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition
Document(s)
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
More details See the document
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,
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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)
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)
Last Woman Hanged
By Caroline Overington / Harper Collins, on 1 January 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)
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,
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: Résolution des barreaux sur la peine de mort
By Paris Bar / International Association of Lawyers, on 8 September 2020
2020
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Résolution des avocats sur la peine de mort et les conditions de détention et de traitement des condamnés à mort Resolution of lawyers on the death penalty and conditions of detention and treatment of persons sentenced to deathResolución sobre la pena de muerte y cas condiciones de detención y el trato a las personas condenadas a muerte
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Conditions, Legal Representation, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
visual-article-21st-world-day
on 17 November 2023
2023
Document(s)
Facts and Figures 2016
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2016
2016
World Coalition
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Up-to-date information on the application of death penalty around the world in 2015 and 2016.
- Document type World Coalition
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages Faits Et Chiffres 2016Datos y Cifras 2016
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Factsheet for Parliamentarians
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2016
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Together with PGA the World Coalition has developed this Factsheet that will help parliamentarians face political pressure during discussions surrounding the death penalty for terrorism. It will also help civil society better collaborate with parliamentarians.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Terrorism,
- Available languages Fiche d'information pour parlementaires
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Facts and Figures 2017
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2017
2017
World Coalition
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Up-to-date information on the application of death penalty around the world in 2016 and 2017.
- Document type World Coalition
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages Faits Et Chiffres 2017
Document(s)
Leaflet – World Coalition Presentation
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Multimedia content
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Presentation of the World Coalition’s activities
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Brochure - Présentation de la Coalition mondiale
Document(s)
Leaflet – 16th World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
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The 2018 World Day leaflet provides information about living conditions on death row.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,
- Available languages ورقة الإعلان2018Brochure Journée Mondiale 2018
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: Madam Eswari’s story
By Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA), on 8 September 2020
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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)
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)
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,
Document(s)
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)
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,
Document(s)
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 ,
Document(s)
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,
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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.
2020
Singapore
Document(s)
Call for tenders for printing, design and layout services – Annex
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Multimedia content
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- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Appel d'offres Services design & maquettage et articles de promotion - Annexe
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Declaration on Malaysia
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / International Association of Lawyers, on 1 January 2019
2019
Multimedia content
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Declaration on Malaysia adopted by acclamation in Brussels on 1st March 2019
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Malaysia
- Themes list Moratorium , Trend Towards Abolition, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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
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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,
Document(s)
Examining Public Opinion about Crime and Justice: A Statewide Study
By Eric Johnston / Barbara Sims / Criminal Justice Policy Review, on 1 January 2004
2004
Article
United States
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As noted by Flanagan (1996), public opinion polls about crime and justice can act as a social barometer providing important data to policy makers regarding what the public is willing, or is not willing, to accept when it comes to proposed legislation and/or intervention programming. This paper reports findings from the 2001 Penn State Poll, a random telephone survey of Pennsylvanians, 18 years of age or older, in which citizens were asked about their attitudes toward and perceptions of such issues as fear of crime, capital punishment, the most important goal of prison, and where they would most like to see their tax dollars spent (building more prisons vs. early intervention programs with troubled youth). Significant differences were found within certain demographic groups across these sets of questions, and in a predictive model, gender, race/ethnicity, and education had a greater impact on citizens’ support for capital punishment than did their fear of crime. Overall, findings suggest that the public is not as punitive as it is sometimes believed to be by legislators and policy makers.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public opinion,
Document(s)
China Executed 2,400 People in 2013, Dui Hua
By Dui Hua Human Rights Journal, on 1 January 2014
2014
Article
China
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The Dui Hua Foundation estimates that China executed approximately 2,400 people in 2013 and will execute roughly the same number of people in 2014. Annual declines in executions recorded in recent years are likely to be offset in 2014 by the use of capital punishment in anti-terrorism campaigns in Xinjiang and the anti-corruption campaign nationwide.
- Document type Article
- Countries list China
- Themes list Statistics,
Document(s)
Executions, Imprisonment and Crime in Trinidad and Tobago
By David F. Greenberg / British Journal of Criminology, on 1 January 2012
2012
Article
Trinidad and Tobago
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A study of the impact of capital punishment in the Caribbean republic is of particular interest because of its high level of death-penalty sentencing.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Trinidad and Tobago
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
DPIC_YearEndReport_2020
on 6 January 2021
2021
Document(s)
Poster 2022 German – 20. Welttag gegen die Todesstrafe
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 7 July 2022
2022
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Welttag gegen die Todesstrafe Poster
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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
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Public Executions in Virginia
By Harry M. Ward / McFarland Publishing, on 1 January 2012
2012
Book
United States
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A new book by Professor Harry M. Ward of the University of Richmond examines the death penalty in Virginia at a time when executions were carried out for all to see.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Poster 2022 Turkish – 20.CI ÖLÜM CEZASINA KARŞI DÜNYA GÜNÜ
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 5 August 2022
2022
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World Day 2022 Poster in Turkish – ÖLÜM CEZASI: İŞKENCEYLE DÖŞELI BIR YOLDUR
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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 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 Swahili 2022 – MIAKA 20 YA MAADHIMISHO YA KUPINGA ADHABU YA KIFO DUNIANI
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 July 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
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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 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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Juan Melendez-6446
By YouTube / Comision de Derechos Civiles, on 1 January 2014
2014
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Juan Melendez-6446 portrays the story of a New York born Puerto Rican immigrant who was accused of murder in the state of Florida, a crime he did not commit. Juan Melendez was sentenced to death in a trial that only lasted 5 days. He was on death row for 17 years, 8 months and 1 day, until his exoneration on January 3, 2002.
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Die Free: A True Story of Murder, Betrayal and Miscarried Justice
By K. Cantrell / Amazon Digital Services, on 1 January 2012
2012
Book
United States
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A new electronic book by former journalist Peter Rooney offers an in-depth look at the case of Joseph Burrows, who was exonerated from Illinois’s death row in 1996. In Die Free: A True Story of Murder, Betrayal and Miscarried Justice, Rooney explains how Burrows was sentenced to death for the murder of William Dulin based on snitch testimony.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
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Make Me Believe
By Dax-Devlon Ross / Outside the Box Publishing, on 1 January 2011
2011
Book
United States
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A Crime Novel Based on Real Events, follows the discoveries and dangerous encounters of a fictional author investigating the case of Toronto Patterson, the last juvenile defendant executed in Texas.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Juveniles,
Document(s)
JURY INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING DEADLOCK IN CAPITAL SENTENCING
By Laurie B. Berberich / Hofstra Law Review, on 1 January 2001
2001
Article
United States
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Questions regarding the jury’s inability to reach a unanimous decision are often asked of judges and similar uninformative responses are generally given. Is ignoringjuror concerns the proper method for handling jury inquiries about the result of juror non-unanimity in capital sentencing? Or should courts inform capital juries up-front of the consequences of their failure to reach a unanimous verdict?
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
EN_WDPoster2022-BD-website
on 10 June 2022
2022
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
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Call for actions on 2020 World Day in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Death Penalty,
- Available languages Formulaire de demande - Appel à projets en Afrique subsharienne (18ème Journée mondiale)
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Provisional Budget – 18th World Day
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
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Small Grants 2020 provisional budget
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Death Penalty,
- Available languages Budget prévisionnel - 18ème Journée mondiale
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Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Activists
By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019
2019
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QUNO’s tool for activists.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Outil d'information pour les professionnels : militants
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Briefing Tools for Practictioners: Prison Staff
By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2019
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QUNO’s tool for prison staff.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Juveniles, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Outil d'information pour les professionnels : personnel pénitentiaire