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Debunking the deterrence theory

on 9 July 2024

Debunking the deterrence theory

2024

Document(s)

Behind Bars

By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2012


2012

Multimedia content


More details See the document

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

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

Member(s)

Ordine Provinciale dei Medici-Chirurgi e degli Odontoiatri di Firenze

on 30 April 2020

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

2020

Italy

Document(s)

Detailed Factsheet 2019

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


2019

Arguments against the death penalty

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

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

Document(s)

Petition – Guatemala

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


2020

Academic report


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

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

Document(s)

Annual Report

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


2013

NGO report

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

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

Document(s)

Leaflet – 12th World Day

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


2020

Academic report

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

Document(s)

FACTS AND FIGURES 2020/2021

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


2021

Campaigning

Terrorism

Women

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

Document(s)

Mobilisation Kit

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


2018

Campaigning

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More details Download [ pdf - 2885 Ko ]

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

Document(s)

Mobilisation Kit

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


Campaigning

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More details Download [ pdf - 1617 Ko ]

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

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Congo

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


2022

Lobbying

Congo

esfr
More details Download [ pdf - 155 Ko ]

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Guinea

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


Lobbying

Guinea

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More details Download [ pdf - 189 Ko ]

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Côte d’Ivoire

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


Lobbying

Côte d'Ivoire

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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Haiti

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


2020

Lobbying

Haiti

esfr
More details Download [ pdf - 185 Ko ]

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Zambia

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


2023

Lobbying

Zambia

fr
More details Download [ pdf - 84 Ko ]

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Central African Republic

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


Lobbying

Central African Republic

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 to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Marshall Islands

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


2022

Lobbying

Marshall Islands

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More details Download [ pdf - 184 Ko ]

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Suriname

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


Lobbying

Suriname

esfr
More details Download [ pdf - 115 Ko ]

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Fiji

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


Lobbying

Fiji

esfr
More details Download [ pdf - 154 Ko ]

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Papua New Guinea

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


2023

Lobbying

Papua New Guinea

fr
More details Download [ pdf - 82 Ko ]

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Ghana

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


esfr
More details Download [ pdf - 158 Ko ]

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Kazakhstan

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


2020

Lobbying

Kazakhstan

esfr
More details Download [ pdf - 190 Ko ]

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Ratificationt Kit – Armenia

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


Lobbying

Armenia

esfr
More details Download [ pdf - 189 Ko ]

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Guatemala

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


2020

Lobbying

Guatemala

esfr
More details Download [ pdf - 186 Ko ]

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Report 2008. Asia: Its time to end executions

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2008


2008

Campaigning

fr
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The 2008 World Day report presents information on the death penalty in the world with particular attention to India, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Pakistan and Vietnam. The events that took place around the world in 2008 for the world day are noted in this report also.

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Burundi

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


2022

Lobbying

Burundi

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More details Download [ pdf - 162 Ko ]

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

Document(s)

Pegagogical Guide: Teaching Abolition (2nd Edition)

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


2011

Campaigning

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

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

Document(s)

Ratification Kit – Peru

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


2020

Lobbying

Peru

esfr
More details Download [ pdf - 187 Ko ]

This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.

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Resources

on 22 June 2020

2020

Document(s)

Faith in Action

By Amnesty International - USA, on 1 January 2006


2006

Campaigning


More details See the document

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,

Document(s)

Handbook of Forensic Psychiatric Practice in Capital Cases

By The Death Penalty Project / Nick Green / Nigel Eastman / Richard Latham / Marc Lyall, on 1 January 2018


2018

Working with...


More details See the document

This Handbook represents a stand alone, single-volume practionners’ handbook for the use of psychiatrists and psychologists, sollicitors, barristers, prosecuting authorities and the courts, who are required to deal with homicide, and other cases, in jurisdictions and circumstances where the death penalty can apply.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list Mental Illness,

Document(s)

Guidelines for Submitting Communications

By African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, on 8 September 2020


2020

Working with...

frfren
More details See the document

This document outlines the functions of the Commission, how to make presentations in front of the Commission, the procedures of examining the communication and the recommendations of the Commission.

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

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)

Trial by fire

By Edward Zwick, on 1 January 2019


2019

Multimedia content

United States


More details See the document

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)

Myuran Sukumaran: Another Day in Paradise

By Myuran Sukumaran / Bendigo Art Gallery, on 1 January 2018


2018

Working with...


More details See the document

Another Day in Paradise is the first major exhibition by Myuran Sukumaran along with a series of newly commissioned artworks by leading Australian artists, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Megan Cope, Jagath Dheerasekara, Taloi Havini, Khaled Sabsabi, Matthew Sleeth.It presents the significant body of work produced while incarcerated in Bali’s Kerobokan Prison, Denpasar and during the final 72 hours of his life spent on Nusa Kambangan Island. For Myuran, painting was a means of communicating with the world and a redemptive practice.

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

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


More details See the document

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)

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


More details See the document

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)

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)

New claims about executions and general deterrence: déjà vu all over again?

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


Article

United States


More details See the document

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)

Unsafe convictions in capital cases in Taiwan

By Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty / The Death Penalty Project, on 1 January 2019


2019

NGO report

zh-hant
More details See the document

Document(s)

Objection Handbook

By John H. Blume / Cornwell Death Penalty Project, on 1 January 2008


2008

Working with...


More details See the document

This handbook is divided into five tabbed sections. The first section provides some general guidelines to assist trial counsel in properly preserving issues for appellate review. Sections 2-4 address the following topics: (2) pre-trial issues; (3) jury selection and juror misconduct issues; (4) the substantive admissibility of evidence; and, (5) the solicitor’s closing argument.

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

Document(s)

Tanzania Human Rights Report 2008: Progress through Human Rights

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


2009

NGO report


More details See the document

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

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Statistics,

Document(s)

How to Lobby

By California People of Faith Working Against the death penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Lobbying


More details See the document

Lobbying your elected officials is one of the most important actions you can take to bring about the end of the death penalty. Here are some tips for communicating effectively with government officials.

  • Document type Lobbying
  • Themes list Networks,

Document(s)

Report No. 211/20. Case 13.570. Report on admissibility and mertis. Lezmond C. Mitchell. United States of America

By Inter-american Commission on Human Rights, on 24 August 2020


2020

Regional body report

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More details See the document

Document(s)

Manual for Civil Society Participation in OAS Activities

By Organization of American States, on 1 January 2009


2009

Working with...

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The purpose of this Manual for Civil Society Participation in OAS Activities, prepared by the Department of International Affairs, is to clarify the mechanisims through which CSOs can participate in OAS activities and contribute to the formulation of hemispheric policies. In addition, the Manual provides a summary of the structure and work areas of the Organization as well as the guiding principles for CSO participation.

Document(s)

Last 100 executed: Who are they?

By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2014


2014

Arguments against the death penalty


More details See the document

Some defendants who commit murder are automatically excluded from the death penalty in the U.S., such as juveniles and the intellectually disabled. Others with similar deficits are regularly executed. A new study by Robert Smith (l.), Sophie Cull, and Zoe Robinson examined the mitigating evidence present in 100 recent cases resulting in execution, testing whether the offenders possessed mitigating qualities similar to those spared from execution. This infographic presents some of their findings.

  • Document type Arguments against the death penalty
  • Themes list Mental Illness, Arbitrariness,

Document(s)

Executions of juveniles since 1990 (as of April 2019)

By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2019


2019

NGO report

ares
More details See the document

The use of the death penalty for crimes committed by people younger than 18 is prohibited under international human rights law, yet some countries still execute child offenders. Since 1990 Amnesty International has documented 145 executions of child offenders in 10 countries: China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Sudan, the USA and Yemen. This is the most up to date version of this document.

Document(s)

Human Rights Council March 2016 Iran letter

By Impact Iran , on 1 January 2016


2016

Multimedia content

Iran (Islamic Republic of)


More details See the document

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)

Innocence Database

By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2011


2011

NGO report


More details See the document

This database can be searched using any combination of the search filters below. All columns are sortable by clicking the title at the top of the column. To find out more about a case in the list, click on the name of the individual.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Innocence,

Document(s)

In Their Own Words (Black and White)

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


2019

NGO report

en
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A tool with testimonies of children with a parent on death row, compiled by the World Coalition thanks to its member organizations (to be printed).

Document(s)

Facts and Figures – 2020 World Day

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


2020

World Coalition

fr
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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(s)

Student Resource Centre

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


Campaigning


More details See the document

A resource centre for students researching the death penalty. It provides student essays as an example on how to write an essay on the death penalty. It also contains a contact list of – death row inmates, activists, jurists, families of inmates, and others that have agreed to make themselves available to answer students’ questions regarding capital punishment.

  • Document type Campaigning
  • Themes list Networks,

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(s)

Poster – 10th World Day

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


2020

Academic report

zh-hantfarufres
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Poster of the 10th World Day against the Death Penalty:Abolish the Death Penalty. It’s a better world without it.

Document(s)

Detailed Factsheet – 2020 World Day

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / The Advocates for Human Rights, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

fr
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Detailed factsheet on international and regional human rights standards on the right to access to effective legal representation.

Document(s)

Activity Report 2015

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


2016

NGO report

fr
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Executions worldwide increased dramatically in number in 2015, dueprincipally to sharp increases in Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia. At thesame time, this Activity Report for 2015 also reflects real progress toward abolition in the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa. Thesteady, consistent work of educating and encouraging accession toregional and international instruments to end the death penalty, is anincremental strategy that continues to bear fruit.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
  • Available languages Rapport D'Activités 2015

Document(s)

: Fiche d’information pour les juges – Journée mondiale 2020

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / The Advocates for Human Rights, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

en
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A l’occasion de la Journée mondiale 2020, portant sur le droit à un·e avocat·e, The Advocates for Human Rights et la Coalition mondiale contre la peine de mort proposent une fiche d’information à destination des juges.

Document(s)

2012 World Day Report

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2013


2013

Campaigning


More details Download [ pdf - 988 Ko ]

It presents the theme of 2012 World Day, facts on the death penalty and all the actions and media coverage for the 10thWorld Day on the progress made and challenges ahead.

  • Document type Campaigning
  • Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,

Document(s)

: Factsheet for Lawyers – 2020 World Day

on 8 September 2020


2020

Article

fr
More details Download [ pdf - 328 Ko ]

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(s)

Mobilisation Kit

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


2018

Campaigning

fr
More 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

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

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Terms of Reference – Gender-sensitive evaluation of the 2021 World Day Against

on 7 October 2022


2022


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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 ,

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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,

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Leaflet – 2020 World Day

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


2020

Academic report

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2020 World Day 8-page leaflet

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Fair Trial, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
  • Available languages Brochure - Journée mondiale 2020

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Ripoti Ya Kimataifa Ya Amnesty International Hukumu Za Kifo Na Watu Walionyongwa 2022

By Amnesty International, on 16 May 2023


2023

NGO report


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Utafiti wa Amnesty International kuhusu matumizi ya adhabu ya kifo mwaka wa 2022 ulionyesha kwambakulikuwa na ongezeko kubwa la idadi ya watu wanaojulikana kuwa walinyongwa duniani, likiwemo ongezekokubwa la watu walionyongwa kutokana na makosa yanayohusiana na dawa za kulevya

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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 […]

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Lethal Injustice in Asia: End unfair trials, stop executions

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


2011

NGO report

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More people are executed in the Asia-Pacific region than in the rest of the world combined. Add to this the probability that they were executed following an unfair trial, and the gross injustice of this punishment becomes all too clear.

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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,

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There Is No Evil

By YouTube / Mohammad Rasoulof, on 1 January 2020


2020

Multimedia content

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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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

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Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong

By Raymond Bonner / Stated First Edition, on 1 January 2012


2012

Book

United States


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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,

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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,

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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,

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Peter Jackson talks about his innocence project: ‘West of Memphis’

By Chris Nashawaty / Entertainment Weekly, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

United States


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For the past seven years, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have quietly financed investigations to help free Jason Baldwin, Jesse Misskelley Jr., and Damien Echols, known as the the West Memphis Three, who were wrongly convicted in 1994 of murdering three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis , Arkansas. This piece provides and in-depth look into Peter and Fran’s involvement with the investigattion, the creation of ‘West of Memphis’ as a way to expose key developments in the infamous murder case and Jackson’s main goal, to exonerate the West Memphis Three and help find the real killer.

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

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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,

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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,

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Global Prison Trends 2018

By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2018


2018

NGO report


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  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Sentencing Alternatives, Death Penalty, Statistics,

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State Secrets: China’s Legal Labyrinth

By Andrew Nathan / ChristineLoh / Liu Baopu / Fu Hualing / Jerome A. Cohen / Human Rights In China, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

China


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This report describes and examines the PRC state secrets system and shows how itallows and even promotes human rights violations by undermining the rights tofreedom of expression and information. The PRC state secrets system, implementedthrough a CPC-controlled hierarchy of government bodies, is comprised of statesecrets laws and regulations that work in tandem with the PRC’s state security,criminal procedure and criminal laws, to create a complex, opaque system that controlsthe classification of—and criminalizes the disclosure or possession of—statesecrets. By guarding too much information and sweeping a vast universe of informationinto the state secrets net, the complex and opaque state secrets system perpetuatesa culture of secrecy that is not only harmful but deadly to Chinese society

  • Document type NGO report
  • Countries list China
  • Themes list Transparency,

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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,

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Tanzania Human Rights Report – 2017 ‘Unknown Assailants’: A Threat to Human Rights

By Legal and Human Rights Centre, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

United Republic of Tanzania


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“Unknown Assailants: A Threat to Human Rights”So is named The Tanzania Human Rights Report of 2017 released by the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC).This report was published on April, 25th 2018 and it enlights for the fifteenth time the major human rights violation in Tanzania. This report, while it deals with human rights violation in Tanzania concerning civil and politial rights, freedom of violence, freedom of expression, etc, also presents some issues due to these violations such as the right to participate in governance, particularly the right to participate in political life, which are deny.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Countries list United Republic of Tanzania
  • Themes list Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,

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Racial Bias

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


2014

Arguments against the death penalty


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This webpage provides information on the link between racism and the death penalty in the United States.

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

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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,

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Forgotten

By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2012


2012

Arguments against the death penalty


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

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

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Muzzling critical voices: Politicized trials before Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court

By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020


2020

NGO report

Saudi Arabia

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Despite the Saudi Arabian authorities’ rhetoric about reforms, they have unleashed an intense crackdown on citizens promoting change in the last few years. One of the instruments of that repression has been the Specialized Criminal Court (SCC), which was set up in 2008 to try individuals accused of terror-related crimes. Amnesty International has documented the cases of 95 individuals who were tried before the SCC between 2011 and 2019. It has concluded that the SCC’s judges have presided over grossly unfair trials, handing down prison sentences of up to 30 years and numerous death sentences, in an effort to silence dissent.

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African Court on Human and Peoples Rights Quick Facts

By African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, on 1 January 2006


2006

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The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights was established by the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Court’s Protocol). The Court’s mission is to complement and reinforce the functions of the Commission in promoting and protecting human and peoples’ rights, freedoms and duties in African Union Member States.

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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

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Factsheet for Parlementarians 2017

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


2017

Working with...

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Parlementarians Factsheet for the World Day Against the Death Penalty.

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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

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Fact Sheet – Judges

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


2020

Academic report


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While the death penalty remains, persons with mental disabilities are at risk of being sentenced to death and executed in breach of international standards. This briefing paper provides concrete examples of what can be done to address this risk, including by implementing existing standards barring the imposition of death sentences or executions on those with intellectual disabilities and those who are seriously mentally ill.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Themes list Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability,

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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.

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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,

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Ratification Kit – Colombia

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


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.

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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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The petition calls on retentionist states to establish a moratorium on the use of the death penalty with a view to abolish it on the ground that it is inhumane.

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2009 World Day Report: Teaching Abolition 2009

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2009


2009

Campaigning

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It presents the theme of 2009 World Day, facts on the death penalty and all the actions and media coveragefor the 2009 World Day on Teaching Abolition.

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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.

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Ratification Kit – Bolivia

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

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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,

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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

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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.