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Death Row – The Final Minutes
By Blink Publishing / Michelle Lyons, on 8 September 2020
2020
Book
United States
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First as a reporter and then as a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Michelle was a frequent visitor to Huntsville’s Walls Unit, where she recorded and relayed the final moments of death row inmates’ lives before they were put to death by the state.Michelle was in the death chamber as some of the United States’ most notorious criminals, including serial killers, child murderers and rapists, spoke their last words on earth, while a cocktail of lethal drugs surged through their veins.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Right to life, Death Penalty,
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GUILTY. THE FINAL 72 HOURS OF BALI-9’S MYURAN SUKUMARAN
By Madman Films / Matthew Sleeth / Maggie Miles / Matthew Bate, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
Indonesia
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The final 72-hours in the life of Myuran Sukumaran, the Bali-9 convicted criminal who became an accomplished artist while in Kerobokan prison under the tutorship of artist Ben Quilty. Myuran was executed by Indonesian firing squad on Nusakambangan Island, 29 April 2015 alongside fellow Australian Andrew Chan and six others. Dramatic and archival material takes us into the final three days of Myuran Sukumaran’s life, as he farewells his family and creates his final paintings.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Indonesia
- Themes list Foreign Nationals, Firing Squad,
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
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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Mom of murdered son finds ‘only pain’ from death penalty
By Florida Today, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
United States
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Politicians champion the death penalty while they campaign and are in office, and then they retire and move on, never having to deal with the reality of it.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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: Madam Eswari’s story
By Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA), on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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CADPA invited filmmaker Dawn Mikkelsen to make 8 short videos for a series called ‘Say Yes to Life’. Dawn spoke with many of those intimately linked with people on death row to bring you their stories. “Madam Eswari’s story’ is the first of these.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Arbitrariness, Networks, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Indonesian : Kejaksaan Agung Kembali Akan Laksanakan Hukuman Mati
By Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA), on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
Indonesia
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Mengemukanya rencana kejagung untuk melaksanakan hukuman mati jilid ketiga mau tak mau memunculkan pro kontranya kembali.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Indonesia
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
: Waiting for capital punishment
By Sadegh Souri, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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According to Iranian law, the age when girls are held accountable for criminal punishment is nine years old, while international conventions have banned the death penalty for persons under 18. In Iran, the death penalty for children is used for crimes such as murder, drug trafficking, and armed robbery.Pursuant to the passing of new laws in recent years, the Iranian Judiciary System detains children in Juvenile Delinquents Correction Centers after their death sentence verdict, and a large number of them are hanged upon reaching age 18.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Themes list Juveniles, Women, Death Row Conditions,
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The Death Penalty Project’s Annual Lecture 2014
By William A. Schabas / Death Penalty Project, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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On 28th January 2014, DPP’s 3rd lecture was held at the Inner Temple, London. Professor William Schabas delivered a lecture entitled “Universal Abolition: Only a Decade Away“. This video recording of the lecture includes the Q&A session.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
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Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain. Audience, Justice, Memory
By Lizzie Seal / Solon, on 8 September 2020
Book
United Kingdom
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Drawing on primary research, this book explores the cultural life of the death penalty in Britain in the twentieth century, including an exploration of the role of the popular press and a discussion of portrayals of the death penalty in plays, novels and films. Popular protest against capital punishment and public responses to and understandings of capital cases are also discussed, particularly in relation to conceptualisations of justice.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United Kingdom
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Let the Lord Sort Them. The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
By Maurice Chammah, on 27 January 2021
2021
Book
Public Opinion
United States
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Maurice Chammah (The Marshall Project) explores the rise and fall of capital punishment in Texas where it appears to durably decline in spite of the state’s long use of the death penalty.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public Opinion
Document(s)
The Phantom
By Patrick Forbes, on 10 August 2021
2021
Multimedia content
Innocence
Public Opinion
United States
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THE PHANTOM tells the story of one of the darkest episodes in the long history of American justice. A story of how the State of Texas knowingly sent an innocent man to his death and left a serial killer at large. A case in which – for the first time – it can be conclusively proven that the US courts executed a blameless man.
This film uncovers the shocking truth behind a tale of murder, corruption and lies that unfolded in the dusty, desperate streets of a Texas oil town nearly thirty years ago.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence / Public Opinion
Document(s)
Film: “Execution”
By Steven Scaffidi / Ghost Rider Pictures, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
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Amnesty International Presents a Groundbreaking Film Event That Takes the Audience to the Front Row of an Execution–Regal Cinemas opens its doors in eight major cities across America for this first-of-a-kind motion picture less than 1 week after California’s attempt to repeal the death penalty fails.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Innocence,
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Death Penalty and the Indian Supreme Court (2007-2021)
By Project 39A, on 8 December 2022
2022
NGO report
India
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Death Penalty and the Indian Supreme Court (2007-2021) maps the important trends and developments in the Supreme Court’s death penalty jurisprudence. These past 15 years have witnessed significant developments in the law on capital sentencing, post-mercy jurisprudence, and other procedural developments pertaining to the administration of the death penalty. Imagined as an intellectual successor of PUCL and Amnesty International’s doctrinal study of the Supreme Court’s death penalty cases between 1950 to 2006, in ‘Lethal Lottery: The Death Penalty in India’, this report highlights the sustained inconsistency and judge-centric reasoning in capital cases, with particular emphasis on the problem of arbitrariness in approaches to capital sentencing at the Supreme Court.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list India
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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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Documentaire: femmes dans la couloir de la mort
By Investigations et Enquêtes , on 17 January 2024
2024
Multimedia content
Death Row Conditions
Gender
United States
Women
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Un regard déchirant sur la vie des femmes condamnées et les failles du système judiciaire américain. Aux Etats-Unis, 54 femmes « attendent » l’exécution de leur peine. Linda Carty et Melissa Lucio sont emprisonnées au Texas, Shawna Forde en Arizona. Elles se livrent. Parmi les prisonnières, certaines espèrent la révision de leur procès.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions / Gender / Women
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Annual Statistics Report 2022
By Project 39A, on 22 February 2023
2023
NGO report
India
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This is the seventh edition of the Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics Report published by Project 39A at National Law University, Delhi. 2022 represents a significant shift in death penalty adjudication, with the Supreme Court recognising the need to reconsider the capital sentencing framework for the first time since it was laid down in Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab in 1980. In a momentous order, the Supreme Court noted the gaps in the death penalty sentencing framework and has sought to address these concerns through a Constitution Bench towards establishing the components of a real, meaningful and effective capital sentencing hearing. In another decision, the Court laid down guidelines for the collection of mitigating material by trial courts. However, in the same year that the Supreme Court cast grave doubts on the death penalty sentencing framework and its implementation by trial courts, it is of concern that 165 death sentences were imposed by Sessions Courts, the highest in a single year since 2000.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list India
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Capital Punishment & Social Rights Research Initiative – Texas
By Barbara Laubenthal, on 12 February 2023
2023
Multimedia content
Death Row Conditions
United States
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The Capital Punishment and Social Rights Research Initiative assesses and analyzes the access of men and women on U.S. death rows to social rights such as health care, social contacts, visitation, communication, recreation and spiritual support. CPSR’s info series on living conditions on death row, state by state. Part 1: Texas
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions
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Geometrical Justice: The Death Penalty in America
By Scott Phillips and Mark Cooney, on 12 October 2022
2022
Book
United States
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In their new book, released in the Summer of 2022, University of Denver criminology and sociology professor Scott Phillips and University of Georgia sociologist Mark Cooney apply the concept of “social geometry,” developed in the 1970s by sociologist Donald Black, to analyze outcomes of capital cases. After reviewing extensive data collected in connection with the landmark Baldus Study of capital sentencing in Georgia and from the national Capital Jury Project, they conclude that the sentencing outcomes in the cases in those databases support key principles of Black’s theory: the higher the social status of the victim and the lower the social status of the defendant, the more likely a death sentence will be imposed.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
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The war on drugs, forensic science and the death penalty in the Philippines
By Maria Corazon A.De Ungria and Jose M.Jose, on 10 August 2021
2021
Academic report
Drug Offenses
Philippines
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The effectiveness of the death penalty to deter heinous crimes remains a contentious issue even though it has been abolished in many countries. Three years into President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration, the push to re-impose the death penalty is being taken seriously.
There is urgency in providing options to the drug problem other than killing drug suspects in the streets or sentencing them to death. The drug problem is a complex issue and exposes the human vulnerability of its users for criminal exploitation.
We propose here that addressing these vulnerabilities in a balanced and comprehensive manner through health-focused, rights-based criminal justice responses, conducting forensic science-based drug investigations and determining the social causes of drug abuse is an alternative solution that demands cooperation across different sectors of society as well as underscores the fundamental value of human life.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list Philippines
- Themes list Drug Offenses
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Estimating the effect of death penalty moratoriums on homicide rates using the synthetic control method
By Stephen N. Oliphant, on 18 September 2022
2022
Academic report
Moratorium
United States
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Research examining death penalty deterrence has been characterized as inconclusive and uninformative. The present analysis heeds a recommendation from prior research to examine single-state changes in death penalty policy using the synthetic control method. Data from the years 1979–2019 were used to construct synthetic controls and estimate the effects of death penalty moratoriums on homicide rates in Illinois, New Jersey, Washington, and Pennsylvania. Moratoriums on capital punishment resulted in nonsignificant homicide reductions in all four states.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Moratorium
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Little Furmans Everywhere: State Court Intervention and the Decline of the American Death Penalty
By Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, on 1 September 2022
2022
Academic report
Trend Towards Abolition
United States
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This article retraces the evolution and recent decline of death peanlty in the United States, notablt through state court interventions. These dynamics between judicial and political action illuminate the importance of state court intervention in the story of the American death penalty’s precipitous decline, which has tended to foreground other institutional actors and to neglect the complex interactions among branches of government. State judicial rulings, though often highly technical and, therefore, less visible and accessible to the public, have been a pervasive and powerful force in the two-decade-long diminution of the practice of capital punishment across the United States.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition
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2021 OHCHR Report on Deterrence: High-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty
By Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), on 14 January 2022
2022
United Nations report
Public Opinion
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The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 26/2 and 42/24. It provides a summary of the high-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty held on 23 February 2021 at the forty-sixth session of the Council. The panel discussion addressed the human rights violations related to the use of the death penalty, in particular with respect to whether the use of the death penalty has a deterrent effect on crime rates.
- Document type United Nations report
- Themes list Public Opinion
- Available languages حلقة نقاش رف عة المستوى بشأن مسألة عقوبة الإعدامInforme de la OACDH 2021 sobre el efecto disuasorio : Mesa redonda de alto nivel sobre la cuestión de la pena de muerteRapport HCDH 2021 sur l'effet dissuasif : Réunion-débat de haut niveau sur la question de la peine de mortОбсуждение в рамках дискуссионной группы высокого уровня вопроса о смертной казни,способствует ли ее применение сдерживанию преступности2021年联合国威慑效应报告 - 关于死刑问题的高级别专题小组讨论会
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Chinese Netizens’ Opinions on Death Sentences
By Bin Liang and Jianhong Liu, The University of Michigan Press, on 4 November 2021
2021
Academic report
China
Public Opinion
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The People’s Republic of China no doubt leads the world in both numbers of death sentences and executions. Despite being the largest user of the death penalty, China has never conducted a national poll on citizens’ opinions toward capital punishment, while claiming “overwhelming public support” as a major justification for its retention and use. Based on a content analysis of 38,512 comments collected from 63 cases in 2015, this study examines the diversity and rationales of netizens’ opinions of and interactions with China’s criminal justice system. In addition, the book discusses China’s social, systemic, and structural problems and critically examines the rationality of netizens’ opinions based on Habermas’s communicative rationality framework. Readers will be able to contextualize Chinese netizens’ discussions and draw conclusions about commonalities and uniqueness of China’s death penalty practice.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list China
- Themes list Public Opinion
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Film “Kill Troy Killing Me”
By Garry A. Boast / Cerebral Motion Productions, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
United States
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A death penalty abolitionist (Martina Correia) must sound the alarms of our criminal justice system in time to save her brother from lethal injection.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
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Death penalty in Iran: A State terror policy – Special Update for 11th World Day against the Death Penalty
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), on 8 September 2020
NGO report
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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The change of administration in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and taking of office by a new president on 3 August 2013 has not brought any change as far as the death penalty is concerned. Between the 14 June presidential election and 1st October, more than 200 people have been reportedly executed, including possibly three people who may have been younger than 18 at the time of the commission of the alleged crimes.Against this backdrop, FIDH and its member organisation, LDDHI, have decided topublish the present report to analyse the new penal laws in force in Iran that are invoked consistently to violate the right to life in general and to execute child offenders. Coinciding with 10 October 2013, World Day against the Death Penalty, this report aimsto serve as an update on the current state of application of the death penalty in the IRI.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Themes list Juveniles, Drug Offences, Hanging, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages مجازﺯاﺍتﺕ اﺍعداﺍمﻡ دﺩرﺭ اﺍﯾﻳراﺍنﻥ - سﯿﻴاست دﺩوﻭلتﯽﻲ اﺍﯾﻳجادﺩ وﻭحشت - وﻭﯾﻳژهﻩ ﯾﻳازﺯدﺩهمﯿﻴن رﺭوﻭزﺯ جهانﯽﻲ ضد مجازﺯاﺍتﺕ اﺍعداﺍمﻡ
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Darlie Lynn (song)
By YouTube / Indie Pirate Shop, on 1 January 2019
2019
Multimedia content
United States
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Darlie was convicted and sentenced to death for a crime she did not commit. Ever since that conviction, new attorneys have been working to obtain a new trial and establish her innocence.This story is a tragic one, but it is not finished yet.Song performed and recorded by Indie Pirate Shop.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Women,
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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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America’s Experiment With Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction
By Carol S. Steiker / James R. Acker / Jordan M. Steiker / Richard J. Wilson / Robert Blecker / Stephen B. Bright / Charles S. Lanier / Robert M. Bohm / Carolina Academic Press / Ernest van den Haag / Ruth D. Peterson / William C. Bailey / Jon Sorensen / James Marquart / Victor L., on 8 September 2020
2020
Book
United States
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The second edition of America’s Experiment with Capital Punishment is an updated and expanded version of the comprehensive first edition. Chapters, authored by the country’s leading legal and social science scholars, have been revised to include a host of important developments since the 1998 edition. Thus, new evidence and information is presented concerning racial disparities in the administration of the death penalty, wrongful convictions, deterrence, the prediction of future dangerousness, jury decision-making, public opinion about the death penalty, the effects of the capital punishment process on murder victims’ and offenders’ relatives, death row incarceration, the costs of capital punishment, execution methods, and many other issues.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
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Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
By Scott Turow / Picador, on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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Turow bases his opinions on his experiences as a prosecutor and, in his post-prosecutorial years, working on behalf of death-row inmates, as well as his two years on Illinois’s Commission on Capital Punishment, charged by the former Gov. George Ryan.Turow presents both sides of the death penalty debate and seems himself to flip sides depending on the argument.Turow’s reflections include: * Thoughts on victims’ rights vs. community rights * Whether execution is a deterrent * The possible execution of an innocent person * If not the death penalty, what to do with the worst offenders
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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The Last Meals Project
By The Last Meals Project, on 8 September 2020
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This series visually documents the face and last meal of a convicted killer and is without question honest and true. This will be an ongoing project as executions continue to take place in the United States.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
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The State of Texas vs. Melissa
By Sabrina Van Tassel, on 25 March 2020
2020
Multimedia content
Fair Trial
United States
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Melissa Lucio was the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death in Texas. For ten years she has been awaiting her fate, and she now faces her last appeal.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Fair Trial
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I Spent A Day With Death Row Survivors
By Anthony Padilla, on 1 January 2020
2020
Multimedia content
United States
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Anthony Padilla interviewed 4 death row survivors to shed light on sentencing innocent people to death for a crime they did not commit. Derrick Jamison, Nick Yarris, Peter Pringle and Sunny Jacobs spent between 15 and 23 years awaiting executions, before being finally released from death row.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
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My Life As a Death Row Executioner
By YouTube / Real Stories, on 1 January 2020
Multimedia content
United States
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Published on Real Stories YouTube channel, this documentary casts a penetrating look at the consequences of the death penalty through three powerful stories – the rare perspective of a former state executioner who comes within days of executing an innocent person; a Boston Marathon bombing victim who struggles to decide what justice really means; and the parents of a murder victim who choose to fight for the life of their daughter’s killer. As the battle to overturn capital punishment comes to a head in the U.S., this provocative film challenges viewers to question their deepest beliefs about justice.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public debate, Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty,
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A Life in the Balance: The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story, A Journey from Murder to Redemption Inside America’s Worst Prison System
By Jodie Sinclair / Billy Wayne Sinclair / Arcade Publishing, on 8 September 2020
2020
Book
United States
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Life in the Balance: a book on the Billy Wayne Sinclair Story, A Journey from Murder to Redemption Inside America’s Worst Prison System. The New York Times Book Review called it a “numbing tale of crime, punishment, and redemption.”
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence, Country/Regional profiles,
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The Innocence Files
By Netflix, on 1 January 2020
2020
Multimedia content
United States
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This mini-series sheds light on 8 true stories of wrongful convictions overturned thanks to the work of the Innocence Project and several organizations from the Innocence Network. One of its episode feature the case of Texas death-row exoneree Alfred Dewayne Brown.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence, Legal Representation, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Preuves d'innocence
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The Deprived: Innocent On Death Row
By Steffen Hou / BookBaby, on 1 January 2019
2019
Book
United States
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The book describes how thousands of Americans are convicted of crimes they never committed. Many of them end up on death row where inmates have been executed despite their innocence. ‘The Deprived’ is based on interviews with 10 Americans who have all been affected by wrongful convictions and the death penalty. The book also describes what leads to wrongful convictions in America and who’s most likely to be convicted of a crime they never committed.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
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Trial by fire
By Edward Zwick, on 1 January 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,
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Does the death penalty give victims closure? Science says no
By Linda Lewis Griffith / San Luis Obispo Tribune, on 1 January 2019
Article
United States
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This article deals with one of the main arguments of defenders of the capital sentence: is the death penalty a source of relief for the victims?
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public debate, Death Penalty,
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River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey
By Helen Prejean / Random House, on 1 January 2019
Book
United States
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River of Fire is a book for anyone interested in journeys of faith and spirituality, doubt and belief, and “catching on fire” to purpose and passion. It is a book, written in accessible, luminous prose, about how to live a spiritual life that is wide awake to the sufferings and creative opportunities of our world.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Penalty,
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A Stolen Life: The Debra Milke Story
By Jana Bommersbach, on 1 January 2019
Book
United States
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Arizona said Debra Milke was a baby killer. Phoenix Homicide Detective Armando Saldate testified she “confessed” to having her four-year-old son murdered when he thought he was going to see Santa. In 1990, she ended up exactly where most thought she deserved–the only woman on Arizona’s death row. This compelling investigative work by one of Arizona’s most acclaimed journalists takes readers inside the case–inside the prison, inside the evidence, inside the breakdown of justice, inside the legal tenacity, inside the heart and mind of Debra Milke.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Women, Death Row Conditions,
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Clemency
By Chinonye Chukwu, on 1 January 2019
Multimedia content
United States
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Bernadine Williams, a prison guard, still has to drive an inmate through Death Row. Little by little, his work becomes unbearable.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions,
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The last executioner: memoirs of Thailand’s last prison executioner
By Chavoret Jaruboon / Nicola Pierce / kindle edition, on 8 September 2020
2020
Book
Thailand
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Chavoret Jaruboon was personally responsible for executing 55 prison inmates in Thailand’s infamous prisons. As a boy, he wanted to be a teacher like his father, but his life changed when he chose one of the hardest jobs in the world. Honest and often disturbing – but told with surprising humour and emotion – ‘The Last Executioner’ is the remarkable story of a man who chose death as his vocation.
- Document type Book
- Countries list Thailand
- Themes list Firing Squad,
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Death Penalty – Mistake (Leonel Herrera)
By Amnesty International / YouTube, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
United States
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This video explores the story of Leonel Herrera who was sentenced to death for the murder of a police man. A statement from his nephew came many years later that shed light on Leonels innocence.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Death Penalty - Mistake (Leonel Herrera)
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Belarusian : відэа: “Палёт”
By Праваабарончы цэнтр "Вясна", on 8 September 2020
Academic report
Belarus
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Анімацыйная стужка, створаная таленавітымі валанцёрамі кампаніі “Праваабаронцы супраць смяротнага пакарання” раскрывае тэму незваротнасці і жорсткасці смяротнага прысуду. Беларусь — апошняя краіна ў Еўропе і на постсавецкай прасторы, якая выкарыстоўвае смяротнае пакаранне.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list Belarus
- Themes list International law, Public opinion,
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A victim of 9/11 hate crime now fights for his attacker’s life
By Kari Huus / MSNBC, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
United States
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Immigrant badly wounded by ‘Arab Slayer’ mounts long-shot bid to halt execution.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Retribution, Murder Victims' Families,
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Circumstances of Offense: Robert “Saint” Bailey on Death Row
By Chris Dahl / CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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This book is a first-hand account of the life of Simon City Royals gangster Robert “Saint” Bailey who is currently on Death Row in Raiford, Florida. He killed a law enforcement officer in 2005.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence, Country/Regional profiles,
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Killer Art: Florida’s Death Row Artists
By Chris Dahl / CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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Art and letters from the men who await death in the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, Florida
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Conditions, Country/Regional profiles,
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Article: “Troy Davis: Why Poster Boys Don’t Matter”
By David R. Dow / Guerinca, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
United States
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Is the Troy Davis case the tipping point on the capital punishment debate? Unfortunately, not until the majority of Americans believes that killing—even an unquestionably guilty murderer—is wrong.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
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BN at 6 – Our Stories, Our Miracles: Sentenced to Death, An Innocent Man Steps Out After 24 Years in Prison – Olatunji Olaide shares his story of Survival, Freedom & Hope
By Adeola Adeyemo / Bellanaija, on 8 September 2020
Article
Nigeria
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Olatunji Olaide was wrongfully arrested and subsequently sentenced to death. He shares the harrowing experience of his time in prison and his survival and freedom with BN and how he kept his head high in the face of the storm.We hope that you are inspired by it.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Nigeria
- Themes list Innocence,
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Elmer ‘Geronimo’ Pratt dies at 63; former Black Panther whose murder conviction was overturned
By Robert J. Lopez / Los Angeles Times, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
United States
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Elmer G. “Geronimo” Pratt, a former Los Angeles Black Panther Party leader whose 1972 murder conviction was overturned after he spent 27 years in prison for a crime he said he did not commit, has died. He was 63.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
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Victim’s son objects as Texas sets execution in hate crime death
By Karen Brooks / Reuters, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
United States
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As Texas prepares to execute one of his father’s killers, Ross Byrd hopes the state shows the man the mercy his father, James Byrd Jr., never got when he was dragged behind a truck to his
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families,
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The Executioner’s Song
By Norman Mailer / Vintage , on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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Norman Mailer tells Gary Gilmore’s story, and those of the men and women caught up in his procession toward the firing squad, with implacable authority, steely compassion, and a restraint that evokes the parched landscapes and stern theology of Gilmore’s Utah.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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MVFHR Asia Speech Tour in Korea & Japan
By Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty / Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights / YouTube, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
Japan
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MVFHR is an organization formed by a group of victim’s family members. They have traveled across the ocean all the way down to Korea, Japan, and Taiwan to share their stories and views on the death penalty with the local victim’s family members, attorneys, and human rights organizations.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list Japan
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families,
- Available languages MVFHR 飄洋過海來看你:看見被害人 20100704 台北信義誠品
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Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
By David Garland / Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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This book offers a fresh perspective on why the death penalty endures in the United States when so many other countries in the Western world have already abolished it. The book seeks to understand the persistence of the death penalty in the U.S. as a social fact, using sociological, historical and legal analyses to explain the unique and peculiar manner in which the death penalty is applied. Garland concludes that the death penalty has survived in the United States because it is deeply connected to the fundamentally American institutions of local autonomy and popular democracy.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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America’s Death Penalty: Between Past and Present
By David Garland / Jonathan Simon / Douglas Hay / Michael Meranze / Randall McGowen / New York University (NYU) / Rebecca Mc Lennan, on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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This volume represents an effort to restore the sense of capital punishment as a question caught up in history. Edited by leading scholars of crime and justice, these original essays pursue different strategies for unsettling the usual terms of the debate. In particular, the authors use comparative and historical investigations of both Europe and America in order to cast fresh light on familiar questions about the meaning of capital punishment.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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Oleg Alkaev, former head of Belarus’s death row
By Amnesty International / Daily Motion, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
Belarus
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Colonel Oleg Alkaev, who was Director of remand prison (SIZO)6 No. 1 in Minsk and ordered a number of executions. He gave this testimony to Amnesty International, a member of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list Belarus
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Oleg Alkaev, ex-directeur du couloir de la mort biélorusse
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Film: “The Execution of Wanda Jean”
By Liz Garbus / New Video Group, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
United States
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In THE EXECUTION OF WANDA JEAN, award-winning filmmaker Liz Garbus continues her investigations into the American criminal justice system with the compelling story of convicted murderess Wanda Jean Allen
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
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Portuguese : PENA DE MORTE: SOLUÇÃO DA VIOLÊNCIA OU VIOLAÇÃO DO DIREITO À VIDA?
By Jean Frederick Silva e Souza / Revista Direito e Liberdade, on 8 September 2020
Article
Brazil
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Visa o presente artigo a destacar a preocupação do homem com a criminalidade, procurando encontrar meios que possam minimizá-la. Objetiva tornar o assunto objeto de discussão. O tema, dividido em subtemas, procura, no contexto da História, demonstrar como foi tratado esse assunto, verificando a constatação do problema, tomando como medida a paz social. Trata, também, dos aspectos constitucionais sobre o direito à vida, e da sua importância para o ser humano. Detém-se este trabalho à inconstitucionalidade da pena de morte em nosso país, através de uma análise da doutrina a mais científica possível, capaz de conduzir à conscientização inalienada sobre o tema em pauta. Este texto jurídico demonstra que a pena capital não é a solução para a violência, mas uma forma de violar o nosso maior direito, a vida.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Brazil
- Themes list Right to life,
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Beyond the Death Penalty: Reflections on Punishment (Maastricht Series in Human Rights)
By Jacques Claessen / Hans Nelen / Intersentia , on 1 January 2012
2012
Book
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This book contains a selection of papers that were presented during the multidisciplinary conference “Beyond the Death Penalty: Reflections on Punishment,” organized by the Maastricht Center for Human Rights. The aim of the conference was to reflect on punishment from a variety of angles and to give some food for thought to the contemporary debate on crime and punishment. After a first cluster of chapters with a strong focus on capital punishment, an intriguing mixture of topics in relation to punishment is presented, including chapters on the populist context of contemporary crime control, reconciliation and rehabilitation, prison life, and efficiency and effectiveness.
- Document type Book
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment,
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Mpagi Edward Edmary
By Amnesty International / YouTube, on 1 January 2008
2008
Legal Representation
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Mpagi Edward Edmary from Uganda spent over 18 years on death row, accused of killing a man who was later found to be alive.Mr. Mpagi’s family successfully campaigned for his release, providing evidence that the alleged victim was still alive. Sentenced to death for murder in 1982, the Attorney General proved that the man Mr Mpagi was accused of murdering was still alive in 1989. However it was not until 2000 when a nine member presidential committee released Mr Mpagi, deciding he was innocent.Held for many years in the Luzira Upper Prison, Mr. Mpagi taught his fellow inmates to read and write. He became one of the longest serving inmates and a prison elder. Mr. Mpagi is now an advocate for the abolition of the death penalty and is a committed religious leader. A graduate from a Catholic Diocese he regularly tours prisons providing inspiration and hope to prisoners.
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- Themes list Networks,
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Death Watch Diary
By Robert Towery / Amazon Digital Services, on 1 January 2012
2012
Book
United States
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Robert Towery was denied clemency by the state of Arizona on Friday March 2, 2012 and was executed on Thursday March 8th in Florence, Arizona. He was 47 years old. The last 35 days of his life, Robert was placed on “Death Watch” where his every move was recorded and chronicled by prison officials. Robert kept a diary and he sent his writings to his attorneys. Robert authorized his lawyers to release his diary after his execution.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Conditions,
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Ray Krone
By Amnesty International / YouTube, on 1 January 2008
2008
Legal Representation
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Ray Krone was on death row in Arizona State Prison for two years (and eight years in prison) before he was freed after DNA tests proved his innocence in 2002.Mr. Krone became the 100th death row inmate to be proven innocent in the United States of America since 1973. Mr. Krone was twice convicted for a murder he did not commit. Mr. Krone tell his story in this video.
- Document type Legal Representation
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Death Penalty: The Political Foundations of the Global Trend Towards Abolition
By Eric Neumayer / Human Rights Review, on 1 January 2008
Article
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The death penalty is like no other punishment. Its continued existence in many countries of the world creates political tensions within these countries and between governments of retentionist and abolitionist countries. After the Second World War, more and more countries have abolished the death penalty. This article argues that the major determinants of this global trend towards abolition are political, a claim which receives support in a quantitative cross-national analysis from 1950 to 2002. Democracy, democratisation, international political pressure on retentionist countries and peer group effects in relatively abolitionist regions all raise the likelihood of abolition. There is also a partisan effect, as abolition becomes more likely if the chief executive’s party is left wing-oriented. Cultural, social and economic determinants receive only limited support. The global trend towards abolition will go on if democracy continues to spread around the world and abolitionist countries stand by their commitment to press for abolition all over the world.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
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Officials’ Estimates of the Incidence of ‘Actual Innocence’ Convictions
By Angie Kiger / Brad Smith / Marvin Zalman / Justice Quarterly, on 1 January 2008
Article
United States
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Evidence indicates that the conviction and imprisonment of factually innocent persons occur with some regularity. Most research focuses on causes, but the incidence of wrongful convictions is an important scientific and policy issue, especially as no official body gathers data on miscarriages of justice. Two methods are available for discovering the incidence of wrongful conviction: (1) enumerating specific cases and (2) having criminal justice experts estimate its incidence. Counts or catalogues of wrongful conviction necessarily undercount its incidence and are subject to accuracy challenges. We surveyed Michigan criminal justice officials, replicating a recent Ohio survey, to obtain an expert estimate of the incidence of wrongful conviction. All groups combined estimated that wrongful convictions occurred at a rate of less than 1/2 percent in their own jurisdiction and at a rate of 1-3 percent in the United States. Defense lawyers estimate higher rates of wrongful conviction than judges, who estimate higher rates than police officials and prosecutors. These differences may be explained by professional socialization. An overall wrongful conviction estimate of 1/2 percent extrapolates to about 5,000 wrongful felony convictions and the imprisonment of more than 2,000 innocent persons in the United States every year.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
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Against the death penalty: international initiatives and implications
By Richard C. Dieter / Sangmin Bae / Seema Kandelia / William A. Schabas / Lilian Chenwi / Peter Hodgkinson / Roger Hood / Lina Gyllensten / Nicola Machean / Jane Marriott / Julian Killingley / Quincy Whitaker / Jon Yorke (ed) / Ashgate Publishing Limited / Rachael Stokes, on 1 January 2008
Book
China
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This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law. It considers the intrinsic elements of both the promotion and demise of the punishment around the world, and provides analysis which contributes to the evolving abolitionist discourse.The contributors consider the current developments within the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the African Commission and the Commonwealth Caribbean, and engage with the emergence of regional norms promoting collective restriction and renunciation of the punishment. They investigate perspectives and questions for retentionist countries, focusing on the United States, China, Korea and Taiwan, and reveal the iniquities of contemporary capital judicial systems. Emphasis is placed on the issues of transparency of municipal jurisdictions, the jurisprudence on the ‘death row phenomenon’ and the changing nature of public opinion. The volume surveys and critiques the arguments used to scrutinize the death penalty to then offer a detailed analysis of possible replacement sanctions.
- Document type Book
- Countries list China
- Themes list International law,
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Myth of the hanging tree: stories of crime and punishment in territorial New Mexico
By Robert J. Torrez / University of New Mexico Press, on 1 January 2008
Book
United States
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The haunting specter of hanging trees holds a powerful sway on the American imagination, conjuring images of rough-and-tumble frontier towns struggling to impose law and order in a land where violence was endemic. In this thoughtful study, former New Mexico State Historian Robert Torrez examines several fascinating criminal cases that reveal the harsh and often gruesome realities of the role hangings, legal or otherwise, played in the administration of frontier justice. At first glance, the topic may seem downright morbid, and in a sense it is, but these violent attempts at justice are embedded in our perception of America’s western experience. In tracing territorial New Mexico’s efforts to enforce law, Torrez challenges the myths and popular perceptions about hangings and lynching in this corner of the Wild West.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Hanging,
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Stephen Bright v. Death Penalty
By Moblogic TV / YouTube, on 1 January 2008
Arguments against the death penalty
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Renowned capital defense attorney Stephen Bright discusses the death penalty in light of recent Supreme Court decisions.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Networks,
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End the Death Penalty, Mike Farrell on Meet the Bloggers
By Meet the Bloggers / YouTube, on 1 January 2008
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Meet the Bloggers talks about the death penalty with two anti death penalty campaigners. The cases of Troy Davis and Montell Johnson are discussed and issues such as discrimination, retribution, the cost of the death penalty, religion and sentencing alternatives are touched upon. Short clips on the Death Penalty in Mexico, Amnesty Internationals campaign and how you can help fight the death penalty are all discussed here.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Networks,
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Fight for Life on Death Row (Greg Tomson)
By 60 Minutes / CBS News, on 1 January 2008
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This video explores the case of Greg Tomson who killed a 28 year woman. Originally he was seen as competent to stand trial, now his defense who are appealing his case, are trying to show that Tomson was not mentally stable when he committed the crime and also that he does not understand why the state is seeking the death penalty against him.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Networks,
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Europe as an International Actor: Friends Do Not Let Friends Execute: The Council of Europe and the International Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty
By Sangmin Bae / International Politics, on 1 January 2008
Article
Ukraine
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This article investigates the way in which the Council of Europe enforced the norm against capital punishment in Europe. The Council of Europe, through both moral persuasion and centripetal pressure, compelled its member states to adopt the regionally promoted human rights standard. Ukraine, where the very last execution in Europe took place, accepted the norm after a number of years of resistance and in the face of public opposition to abolition. It was possible because of the adamant role of the Council of Europe in attempting to build a death penalty-free zone in Europe and Ukraine’s strategic will to be integrated within the European regional community.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Ukraine
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
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No to the Death Penalty, No to Revenge
By YouTube, on 1 January 2008
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A murder victim’s family member talks out about her opposition to the death penalty.
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The Grass Beneath His Feet: The Charles Victor Thompson Story
By Roger Rodriguez / AuthorHouse, on 1 January 2008
Book
United States
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Nothing produced a glow in his eyes like the wonders of nature provoking his every curiosity. Everything about nature appealed to his meticulous character and his childhood was invested at Medina Lake, chasing down fireflies, and fishing. There was nothing he liked better than fried perch and eggs for breakfast. So how does such an innocent boy end up on death row in what most agree is the most relentless state for executing murders? The Grass Beneath His Feet recounts the life of Charles Victor Thompson, who after falling in love; found himself in a disturbing chain of events that would change his life forever. This re-telling of his story is extracted directly from the journals of Charles Victor Thompson himself where his childhood, his true love, and his ultimate escape from death row are revealed. For this first time, readers can enjoy the intimate details of the escape that shocked the entire nation. America?s Most Wanted, CNN, The World News all wanted to know the same question: How did this man manage to escape from the most notorious death row system in the country? The Grass Beneath His Feet also introduces Charles to the people, not as a murderer, but as a man fighting to prove that there were many flaws in his legal process that kept him from proving that he does not meet criteria for capital punishment. Prepare to embark on a journey into a life at death row through the eyes of Charles Victor Thompson and run next to him as a child and an escapee as he took in the beauty of nature and the South Texas sun with the grass beneath his feet.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages Les pieds nus dans l'herbe: L'histoire de Charles Thompson
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When the State No Longer Kills: International Human Rights Norms and Abolition of Capital Punishment
By Sangmin Bae / State University of New York Press, on 1 January 2007
2007
Book
Republic of Korea
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This book tries to explain what leads a state to abolish capital punishment or impose a moratorium, by offereing in-depth analyses of four countries: Ukraine, South Africa, South Korea and the United States. Focusing on the role of political leadership and domestic political institutions, Bae clarifies the causal mechanisms that lead to state compliance or noncompliance with the norm.
- Document type Book
- Countries list Republic of Korea
- Themes list Moratorium ,
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Chinas Death Penalty: History, Law and Contemporary Practices
By Terance D. Miethe / Hong Lu / Routledge, on 1 January 2007
Book
China
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This book examines the death penalty within the changing socio-political context of China. The authors’ treatment of China’s death penalty is legal, historical, and comparative. In particular, they examine; the substantive and procedures laws surrounding capital punishment in different historical periods the purposes and functions of capital punishment in China in various dynasties changes in the method of imposition and relative prevalence of capital punishment over time the socio-demographic profile of the executed and their crimes over the last two decades and comparative practices in other countries. Their analyses of the death penalty in contemporary China focus on both its theory – how it should be done in law – and actual practice – based on available secondary reports/sources.
- Document type Book
- Countries list China
- Themes list Networks,
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In the Shadow of Death: Restorative Justice and Death Row Families
By Elizabeth Beck / Oxford University Press / Sarah Britto / Arlene Andrews, on 1 January 2007
Article
United States
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The stories of parents, siblings, children, and cousins chronicled in this book-vividly illustrate the precarious position family members of capital offenders occupy in the criminal justice system. They live in the shadow of death, crushed by trauma, grief, and helplessness. In this penetrating account of guilt and innocence, shame and triumph, devastating loss and ultimate redemption, the voices of these family members add a new dimension to debates about capital punishment and how communities can prevent and address crime.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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Death Penalty in Korea: From Unofficial Moratorium to Abolition?
By Kuk Cho / Asian Journal of Comparative Law, on 1 January 2008
2008
Article
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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This article provides an overview of the legal regime governing the death penalty and the on-going debate on the death penalty in Korea. It begins by briefly reviewing international treaties that call for the abolition of the death penalty, contrasting them with the retentionist trend in most Asian countries. It then reviews the major decisions of the Korean Supreme Court and the Korean Constitutional Court. It also discusses recent moves in the National Assembly and the National Human Rights Commission to abolish the death penalty. It suggests that the Korean death penalty debate has potentially significant implications for its retentionist Asian neighbours grappling with similar issues.
- Document type Article
- Countries list Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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APYN Death Penalty Quizz
By Asia Pacific Youth Network, on 1 January 2009
2009
Campaigning
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Quizz on the death penalty by the Asia Pacific Youth Network
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Networks,
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Step by Step : Journey of Hope
By Journey of Hope / YouTube, on 1 January 2007
2007
Arguments against the death penalty
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This is a video following the Journey of Hope in Texas, a group lobbying for abolition in Texas.They tour Texas giving talks on the death penalty and they promote a message of love and not retribution. This video includes testimonies from murder victim families and exonerees.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
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Fault Lines: Politics of Death Penalty
By Fault Lines / YouTube, on 1 January 2010
2010
Arguments against the death penalty
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FaultLines explores the death penalty in the United States. Interviews with murder victim families, politicans and the exonerated are included.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
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Fact Finding Report of LFHRI of the Sentencing of 17 Indians to Death by the Shariat Court of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
By Lawyers for Human Rights International, on 1 January 2010
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Lawyers For Human Rights International an Organisation of Lawyers having its base in Punjab, India, being part of an International movement against Death Penalty, decided to visit Sharjah jail in UAE to meet the 17 prisoners who have been sentenced to Death for killing a Pakistani youth. Two member team comprising of Navkiran Singh a Human Rights Lawyer & Activist from Panjab, practicing in the High Court at Chandigarh and who is the General Secretary of LFHRI along with another Lawyer Gagan Aggarwal, visited Dubai and Sharjah on 13th and 14th of April 2010 and met the Lawyers who have been hired to defend these 17 Indians by the Indian Consulate of UAE and also visited Sharjah jail and met all the prisoners. This report presents their findings.
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The Codemned: Bali 9
By Dateline / SBS, on 1 January 2010
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Two of the Bali Nine have been speaking publicly for the first time… just days ahead of final hearings on whether their death sentences for drug trafficking will be carried out.Dateline reporter Mark Davis gained exclusive access to Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan in the ‘death tower’ at Indonesia’s Kerobokan Prison.They talk openly about their lives then and now, what they think of their crimes, and the prospect of facing death by firing squad.Mark also hears first-hand of the heartache for their families back in Australia, as they wait to hear if their pleas for clemency will be granted.
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Death to the Death Penalty/ La peine de mort est condamnée à disparaître/Muerte a la Pena de Muerte.
By Amnesty International / YouTube, on 1 January 2010
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This video is part of the campaign run by Amnesty International titled “Death to the Death Penalty”, in the video wax figures ressembling forms of execution melt away leaving only the Amnesty International candle burning/Ce video, réalisé par Amnesty International pour la campagne intitulé “La peine de mort est condamnée à disparaître”/Muerte a la Pena de Muerte.
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Judy Kerr: Murder Victim Family Member
By California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty / YouTube, on 1 January 2009
2009
Working with...
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Judy Kerr talks about her experience as a murder victim family member and her opposition against the death. Responding to violence with violence is not the answer.
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Criminological analysis on deterrent power of death penalty
By Yuanhuang Zhang / Frontiers of law in China, on 1 January 2009
Article
China
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Death penalty is the most effective deterrence to grave crimes, which has been the key basis for the State to retain death penalty. In fact, either in legislation or in execution, death penalty can not produce the special deterrent effect as expected. With respect to this issue, people tend to conduct normative exploration from the perspective of ordinary legal principles or the principle of human rights, which is more speculative than convincing. Correct interpretation based on the existing positive analysis and differentiation based on human nature which sifts the true from the false will not only help end the simple, repetitive and meaningless arguments regarding the basis for the existence of death penalty, but also help understand the rational nature of both the elimination and the preservation of death penalty, so as to define the basic direction towards which the State should make efforts in controlling death penalty in the context of promoting social civilization.
- Document type Article
- Countries list China
- Themes list Deterrence ,
- Available languages 犯罪学分析死刑威慑力量(注:英文名翻译)
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The North Carolina Racial Justice Act
By North Carolina Coalition For A Moratorium / YouTube, on 1 January 2009
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House Bill 472 and Senate Bill 461, known as The North Carolina Racial Justice Act, addresses racial discrimination in capital sentencing. This video featuring death row exonoree Edward Chapman, talks about racial bias and how the Racial Justice Act attempts to assure that race would not play a role in who gets the death penalty.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Discrimination,
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Innocence
By The North Atlantic Innocence Project / The Innocence Project / YouTube, on 1 January 2009
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This event was held by the North Atlantic Innocence Project. The video explores post conviction evidence that can prove innocence after conviction. Testimonials from the exonerated, a victim and from a police officier who works on post conviction cases.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Innocence,
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Mike Farrell: Paul House and Death Row
By Air America Media / YouTube, on 1 January 2009
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Mike Farrell talks about the death penalty in the United States. Amongst many things he speaks about innocence, deterrence and retribution.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
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The ‘Mumia Exception’
By Free Mumia Abul Jamal Coalition (NYC), on 1 January 2009
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In 1981, Mumia worked as a cab driver at night to supplement his income. On December 9th he was driving his cab through the red light district of downtown Philadelphia at around 4 a.m. Mumia testifies that he let off a fare and parked near the corner of 13th and Locust Streets. Upon hearing gunshots, he turned and saw his brother, William Cook, staggering in the street. Mumia exited the cab and ran to the scene, where he was shot by a uniformed police officer and fell to the ground, fading in and out of consciousness. Within minutes, police arrived on the scene to find Officer Faulkner and Mumia shot; Faulkner died. Mumia was arrested, savagely beaten, thrown into a paddy wagon and driven to a hospital a few blocks away (suspiciously, it took over 30 minutes to arrive at the hospital). The trial began in 1982 with Judge Sabo (who sent more people to death row than any other judge) presiding. Mumia wished to represent himself and have John Africa as his legal advisor, but before jury selection had finished, this right was revoked and an attorney was forcibly appointed for him. Throughout the trial, Mumia was accused of disrupting court proceedings and was not allowed to attend most of his own trial.
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Barbara Bechnel: Witness to the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams
By YouTube, on 1 January 2009
Legal Representation
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A witness to the lethal injection execution of Stanley Tookie Williams describes what she saw at his execution. Stanley Tookie Williams execution was botched and he experienced 35 minutes of pain because part of the lethal injection 3 drug procedure did not work effectively.
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Jeremy Irons talks about the death penalty
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2007
2007
Arguments against the death penalty
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This video features Jeremy Irons who speaks about the death penalty and arguements commonly made for it.
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Taking Capital Punishment Seriously
By Franklin E. Zimmering / David T. Johnson / Asian Journal of Criminology, on 1 January 2006
2006
Article
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Although Asia is the most important region of the world when it comes to capital punishment, it is also one of the most understudied. This article identifies four research questions that deserve attention from students and scholars who believe taking capital punishment seriously requires studying Asia seriously too. What are the empirical contours of capital punishment in contemporary Asia? What are the histories of capital punishment in Asia? Can Western theories of capital punishment explain patterns and changes in Asia? And what is the future of capital punishment in Asia? If researchers take the trouble to explore these questions, the death penalty will not only become an interesting window into law and society in Asia, but Asia will prove to be an instructive window into the death penalty—the gravest real-life problem in the law.
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Cut This: The Death Penalty
By ABC7 / YouTube, on 1 January 2010
2010
Arguments against the death penalty
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An anti death penalty video which advocates the abolition of the death penalty. The personalities in the video suggest using the money which is currently used on the death penalty for improving the community.
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND ELITE POLITICS: DISSENSUS AND THE DEATH PENALTY IN AMERICA
By Judith Randle / Studies in Law, Politics and Society, on 1 January 2003
2003
Article
United States
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Drawing from televised debates over capital punishment on CNN’s Crossfire from February 2000 to June 2002, I argue that Teles’s (1998) theory of “dissensus politics” is useful in understanding the U.S.’s preservation of capital punishment as well as current divisions in death penalty sentiment within the U.S. I pose the retention of capital punishment as the product of rival elites who are unwilling to forsake capital punishment’s moral character (and often the political benefits it offers), and who consequently ignore an American public that appears to have reached a measured consensus of doubt about the death penalty.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate,
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The Death Penalty: An American History
By Stuart Banner / Harvard University Press, on 1 January 2003
Book
United States
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Law professor Stuart Banner tells the story of how, over four centuries, dramatic changes have taken place in the ways capital punishment has been administered and experienced. Banner moves beyond the debates, to give us an unprecedented understanding of capital punishment’s many meanings. As nearly four thousand inmates are now on death row, and almost one hundred are currently being executed each year, the furious debate is unlikely to diminish. The Death Penalty is invaluable in understanding the American way of the ultimate punishment.
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NGO Media Outreach: Using the Media as an Advocacy Tool
By Coalition for the International Criminal Court, on 1 January 2003
Working with...
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A guide for NGOs to use media effectively. This guide explains the importance of media, how to create contacts, how to prepare a media outreach campaign, how to deliver a campaign to the media and how to use available resources to support your media campaign.
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The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law
By William A. Schabas / Cambridge University Press, on 1 January 2002
2002
Book
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This extensively revised third edition covers developments since publication of the second edition in 1997. It includes consideration of the UN human rights system, international humanitarian law, European human rights law and Inter-American human rights law. New chapters address capital punishment in African human rights law and international criminal law. An extensive list of appendices contains many of the essential documents for the study of capital punishment in international law.
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America Without the Death Penalty: States Leading the Way
By John F. Galliher / Larry W. Koch / Northeastern / Teresa J. Guess, on 1 January 2002
Book
United States
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Twelve states and the District of Columbia do not impose the death penalty. The authors, all sociology professors at American universities, use the case-study method to examine why this is so. The factors they consider include murder rates, the history of executions, economic circumstances, public opinion, mass media, population diversity, and each state’s abolition of the death penalty. They also examine the role of a state’s social, cultural, and economic leaders in public debate on capital punishment. The states studied are Michigan, Wisconsin, Maine, Minnesota, North Dakota, Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, and West Virginia, though there is also some discussion of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia. Media reports and government documents were reviewed and legislators, civil servants, journalists, death-penalty activists, and others interviewed. Throughout, the authors express an abolitionist point of view, stating “We hope this book will provide practical information to those interested in furthering death penalty abolition in the United States and throughout the world.”
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Predictors of Miscarriages of Justice in Capital Cases
By Talia Roitberg Harmon / Justice Quarterly, on 1 January 2001
2001
Article
United States
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Prior research on wrongful convictions in capital cases focused primarily on qualitative methods designed to provide in-depth descriptive analyses of these cases. In contrast, this study is a quantitative comparison between 76 documented cases from 1970 to 1998, in which prisoners were released from death row because of “doubts about their guilt,” and a matched group of inmates who were executed. Through the use of a logistic regression model, significant predictors of cases that result in a release from death row as opposed to an execution, are identified. The final section of this study focuses on policy implications that may decrease the risk of error in capital cases. Additional lines of research are suggested in an effort to increase understanding of miscarriages of justice in such cases.
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- Themes list Innocence,
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Racial Disparity and Death Sentences in Ohio
By Marian R. Williams / Jefferson E. Holocomb / Journal of Criminal Justice, on 1 January 2001
Article
United States
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The use of the death penalty has resulted in a number of studies attempting to determine if its application is consistent with the guidelines established by the United States Supreme Court. In particular, many studies have assessed whether there are racial disparities in the imposition of death sentences. This study examined the imposition of death sentences in Ohio, a state largely ignored by previous research and that, until 1999, had not executed an inmate since 1963. Drawing from previous studies that have examined the issue in other states, this study assessed the likelihood that a particular homicide would result in a death sentence, controlling for race of defendant and victim and other relevant factors. Results indicated both legal and extralegal factors (including race of victim) were significant predictors of a death sentence, supporting many previous studies that concluded that race plays a role in the imposition of the death penalty.
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When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition
By Austin Sarat / Princeton University Press, on 1 January 2001
Book
United States
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Is capital punishment just? Does it deter people from murder? What is the risk that we will execute innocent people? These are the usual questions at the heart of the increasingly heated debate about capital punishment in America. In this bold and impassioned book, Austin Sarat seeks to change the terms of that debate. Capital punishment must be stopped, Sarat argues, because it undermines our democratic society.Sarat unflinchingly exposes us to the realities of state killing. He examines its foundations in ideas about revenge and retribution. He takes us inside the courtroom of a capital trial, interviews jurors and lawyers who make decisions about life and death, and assesses the arguments swirling around Timothy McVeigh and his trial for the bombing in Oklahoma City. Aided by a series of unsettling color photographs, he traces Americans’ evolving quest for new methods of execution, and explores the place of capital punishment in popular culture by examining such films as Dead Man Walking, The Last Dance, and The Green Mile.Sarat argues that state executions, once used by monarchs as symbolic displays of power, gained acceptance among Americans as a sign of the people’s sovereignty. Yet today when the state kills, it does so in a bureaucratic procedure hidden from view and for which no one in particular takes responsibility. He uncovers the forces that sustain America’s killing culture, including overheated political rhetoric, racial prejudice, and the desire for a world without moral ambiguity. Capital punishment, Sarat shows, ultimately leaves Americans more divided, hostile, indifferent to life’s complexities, and much further from solving the nation’s ills. In short, it leaves us with an impoverished democracy.The book’s powerful and sobering conclusions point to a new abolitionist politics, in which capital punishment should be banned not only on ethical grounds but also for what it does to Americans and what we cherish.
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