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Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador Bianca Jagger on the campaign against the Death Penalty
By Council of Europe, on 1 January 2011
2011
Arguments against the death penalty
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This podcast is interview with the Goodwill Ambassador Bianca Jagger. She talksabout murder victims’ families, deterrence, a moratorium on executions and the trend towards abolition.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
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Litigating in the Shadow of Death
By Lawrence C. Marshall / University of Pittsburgh Law Review, on 1 January 2006
2006
Article
United States
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One gets the strong sense that Professor White believed that the key to changing or abolishing the death penalty in the United States was to educate policymakers and the public about its practical operation. This, of course, was Justice Thurgood Marshall’s hypothesis in Furman v. Georgia: that the widespread support that the death penalty enjoys in the country is a product of mass ignorance about how it is applied. Professor White did not simply posit the theory, he dedicated much of his life to the mission of educating the public about the inequities of the American death penalty. This final book does that in an extraordinarily effective way by combing together studies of illustrative cases, analysis of the lawyers’ roles and dilemmas, and cogent explanations of the state of the law.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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The Problem of False Confessions in the Post – DNA World
By Steven A. Drizen / Richard A. Leo / North Carolina Law Review 82(3), 894-1009, on 1 January 2004
2004
Article
United States
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In recent years, numerous individuals who confessed to and were convicted of serious felony crimes have been released from prison— some after many years of incarceration—and declared factually innocent, often as a result of DNA tests that were not possible at the time of arrest, prosecution, and conviction. DNA testing has also exonerated numerous individuals who confessed to serious crimes before their cases went to trial. Numerous others have been released from prison and declared factually innocent in cases that did not involve DNA tests, but instead may have occurred because authorities discovered that the crime never occurred or that it was physically impossible for the (wrongly) convicted defendant to have committed the crime, or because the true perpetrator of the crime was identified, apprehended, and convicted. In this Article, we analyze 125 recent cases of proven interrogation-induced false confessions (i.e., cases in which indisputably innocent individuals confessed to crimes they did not commit) and how these cases were treated by officials in the criminal justice system.This Article has three goals. First, we provide and analyze basic demographic, legal, and case-specific descriptive data from these 125 cases. This is significant because this is the largest cohort of interrogation-induced false confession cases ever identified and studied in the research literature. Second, we analyze the role that (false) confession evidence played in these cases and how the defendants in these cases were treated by the criminal justice system. In particular, this Article focuses on how criminal justice officials and triers-of-fact respond to confession evidence, whether it biases their evaluations and overwhelms other evidence (particularly evidence of innocence), and how likely false confessions are to lead to the wrongful arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of the innocent. Analysis of the aforementioned questions leads to the conclusion that the problem of interrogationinduced false confession in the American criminal justice system is far more significant than previously supposed. Furthermore, the problem of interrogation-induced false confessions has profound implications for the study of miscarriages of justice as well as the proper administration of justice. Third, and finally, this Article suggests that several promising policy reforms, particularly mandatory electronic recording of police interrogations, will minimize the number of false confessions and thereby inject a much needed dose of justice into the American criminal justice system.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Due Process , Networks,
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Deterrence and the Death Penalty
By John V. Pepper / Daniel S. Nagin / Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty / Committee on Law and Justice / Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education / National Research Council , on 1 January 2012
2012
Book
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Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached widely varying, even contradictory, conclusions. Some studies have concluded that the threat of capital punishment deters murders, saving large numbers of lives; other studies have concluded that executions actually increase homicides; still others, that executions have no effect on murder rates. Commentary among researchers, advocates, and policymakers on the scientific validity of the findings has sometimes been acrimonious.
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- Themes list Deterrence ,
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West Africa: Time to abolish the death penalty
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2003
2003
NGO report
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This doument summarizes each of the 16 ECOWAS countries’ legislation on the death penalty, provides information on the most recent executions and convictions and notes the view currently taken by the governments concerned. Two thirds have already abolished the death penalty
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages AFRIQUE DE L’OUEST : Il est temps d’abolir la peine de mort
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Going backwards The death penalty in Southeast Asia
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), on 1 January 2016
2016
NGO report
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Over the past year, Southeast Asia has witnessed significant setbacks with regard to the abolitionof the death penalty. Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore have all carried out executions. It isunknown whether any executions were carried out in Vietnam, where statistics on the deathpenalty continue to be classified as ‘state secrets.’ In the name of combating drug trafficking,Indonesian President Joko Widodo is rapidly becoming Southeast Asia’s top executioner. ThePhilippines, which effectively abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 2006, is consideringreinstating capital punishment as part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s ill-conceived and disastrous‘war on drugs.’
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
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Averting Mistaken Executions by Adopting the Model Penal Code’s Exclusion of Death in the Presence of Lingering Doubts
By Margery Malkin Koosed / Northern Illinois Law Review, on 1 January 2001
2001
Article
United States
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This article considers community views on the risk of mistaken executions and how sentencing juries respond to such risks. It explores the present state of the law surrounding risk-taking regarding lingering or residual doubt, and finds the law in a state of denial. Though the risk may be there, and jurors may see it, this is not something they are directed, or even invited, to consider. Some jurors may deny effect to the risk they see, believing it is not a proper subject of their attention. Others will consider it, yet wonder whether they should. This inconsistent treatment, and dissonance from what the public wants and justifiably expects from its legal system, is largely a product of the United States Supreme Court’s 1988 decision in Franklin v. Lynaugh. Arguably misread, and at least misguided, the Court’s decision on considering lingering or residual doubts about guilt as a mitigating factor at the penalty phase has retarded development of meaningful ways to avert mistaken executions.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning
By John D. Carlson / Erik C. Owens / Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company / Eric P. Elshtain / J. Budziszewski / E. J. Dionne / Avery Cardinal Dulles / Stanley Hauerwas / Frank Keating / Gilbert Meilaender / David Novak, on 1 January 2004
2004
Book
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This important book is sure to foster informed public discussion about the death penalty by deepening readers’ understanding of how religious beliefs and perspectives shape this contentious issue. Featuring a fair, balanced appraisal of its topic, Religion and the Death Penalty brings thoughtful religious reflection to bear on current challenges facing the capital justice system.
- Document type Book
- Themes list Religion ,
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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.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate,
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The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2017
By Harm Reduction International / Gen Sander, on 1 January 2018
2018
NGO report
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The year 2017 marks 10 years since Harm Reduction International launched its Death Penalty for Drugs project. This report looks at the death penalty for drugs in law and practice and considers critical developments on the issue.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Drug Offences, Death Penalty,
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Missouri’s Death Penalty in 2016: The Year in Review
By Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2016
2016
NGO report
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MADP’s 2016 report has compiled the death penalty data for the State of Missouri in 2016 and notices a significant decline of executions (6 in 2015, 1 in 2016). Moreover, no new death sentences were handed down in Missouri in 2016
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Discrimination, Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
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Proceedings 6th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), on 1 January 2017
2017
Academic report
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This publication brings together the contributions of experts and discussions among participants at the 6th World Congress against the Death Penalty held in Oslo, Norway, in June 2016.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list International law, Right to life, Death Row Conditions, Sentencing Alternatives, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Les actes du 6ème Congrès mondial contre la peine de mort
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No to the Death Penalty
By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2008
2008
Multimedia content
Kazakhstan
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This film is based on the death penalty in Kazakhstan. The death penalty was formerly a common charge for the most obscene crimes, and was at its greatest prominence in 1995, when 101 males on charges of death sentences were executed by the firing squad.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Kazakhstan
- Themes list Most Serious Crimes, Country/Regional profiles,
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Prison guards and the death penalty
By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2015
2015
NGO report
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How are prison guards affected by overseeing prisoners on death row or even participating in executions? What effects does it have in the short and the longer term?This short paper draws on research and interviews with prison guards to outline the psychological impact that guards who have worked with prisoners for many years on death row can experience when a prisoner is put to death.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,
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Fatally flawed: Why Malaysia must abolish the death penalty
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
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Malaysia retains the death penalty for 33 offences and held 1,293 people on death row as of September 2019. This report highlights how the burden of the death penalty has largely fallen on those convicted of drug trafficking, who disproportionately include women and foreign nationals. These findings gain an even greater significance in the context of laws and policies that are in contravention of international human rights law and standards and which have added multiple layers of arbitrariness into the use of this punishment.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Women, Death Row Conditions, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages Malay : Kecacatan yang membawa maut: Mengapa Malaysia harus mansuhkan hukuman mati致命的缺陷 - 为何马来西亚必须废除死刑Defectos mortales - Por qué Malasia debe abolir la pena de muerteDéfaillances mortelles: Pourquoi la Malaisie doit abolir la peine de mort
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Victim Gender and the Death Penalty
By John H. Blume / Theodore Eisenberg / Sheri Lynn Johnson / Cornell Law Review / Martin T. Wells / Valerie P. Hans / Amelia Courtney Hritz / Caisa E. Royer, on 1 January 2014
2014
Article
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Do the characteristics of the victim determine a murderer’s punishment?Theory and research both suggest that they do. This Article focuses on thegender of the murder victim, in particular, how victim gender influences deathseeking and death penalty sentencing decisions. First, the Article reviews theexisting evidence supporting a “female victim effect” which theorizes that crimesinvolving female victims are punished more harshly than crimes with malevictims. It also presents and assesses various theoretical explanations for thefemale victim effect. Second, the Article analyzes cases from a comprehensivedataset of Delaware capital trials, exploring how cases with male and femalevictims differ. It then considers which of the theoretical explanations for afemale victim effect best explain death penalty decisions in this sample of cases.
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- Themes list Women, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Discrimination, Death Penalty,
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Religious Conservatives and the Death Penalty
By Thomas C. Berg / William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 9(1), 31-60, on 1 January 2000
2000
Article
United States
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In this Essay, Professor Thomas C. Berg examines how religious conservatives, especially Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants, have dealt with the recent concerns over the death penalty. Part I of the Essay documents how Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants traditionally approach the death penalty.Part II analyzes the particular theological arguments and practical concerns that will be most effective in persuading religious conservatives to oppose the death penalty.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Religion ,
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The Death Penalty in 2010: Year End Reports
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2010
2010
NGO report
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The death penalty continued to be mired in conflict in 2010, as states grappled with an ongoing controversy over lethal injections, the high cost of capital punishment, and increasing public sentiment in favor of alternative sentences. Executions dropped by 12% compared with 2009, and by more than 50% since 1999. The number of new death sentences was about the same as in 2009, the lowest number in 34 years. —– For other DPIC year end reports (from 1995 – 2009) please visit: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/reports
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
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WHEN THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY IS “CRUEL AND UNUSUAL”
By Michael J. Zydney Mannheimer / The University of Cincinnati Law Review, on 1 January 2006
2006
Article
United States
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Recent changes to the way the U.S. Department of Justice decides whether to pursue capital charges have made it more likely that the federal death penalty will be sought in cases in which the criminal conduct occurred within States that do not authorize capital punishment for any crime. As a result, since 2002, five people have been sentenced to death in federal court for conduct that occurred in States that do not authorize the death penalty. This state of affairs is in serious tension with the Eighth Amendment’s proscription against “cruel and unusual punishments.”
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment,
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The death penalty worldwide: Developments in 2000
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2001
2001
NGO report
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This paper covers events around the exercise of the death penalty during the year 2000, including such subjects as significant national and international court cases and decisions; important studies; the use of the death penalty against the mentally ill and those with mental retardation; its use against the `innocent’ and against women; medical and religious perspectives and public opinion polls and surveys.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages العقوبة الاعدام في العالم : تطورات في العام ٢٠٠٠La peine de mort dans le monde : évolution en 2000La pena de muerte en el mundo: noticias del 2000
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Capital Punishment, the Moratorium Movement, and Empirical Questions: Looking Beyond Innocence Race and Bad Lawyering in Death Penalty Cases
By James R. Acker / Charles A. Lanier / Psychology, Public Policy and Law, on 1 January 2004
2004
Article
United States
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This article briefly explores the underpinnings of the contemporary capital punishment moratorium movement and examines executive and legislative responses to calls for a halt to executions, including suggestions for studying the death penalty process. Although most investigations focus on select issues like innocence, ineffective counsel, and race bias, this article suggests that a wide-ranging constellation of issues should be investigated in any legitimate attempt to evaluate the administration of the death penalty. The article canvasses this broader sweep of issues, discusses related research evidence, and then considers the policy implications of conducting such a thorough empirical assessment of the administration of capital punishment in this country.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Moratorium ,
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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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No one is spared – The widespread use of the death penalty in Iran
By League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran, on 5 November 2020
2020
Drug Offenses
Fair Trial
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Juveniles
Women
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- Document type Array
- Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Themes list Drug Offenses / Fair Trial / Juveniles / Women
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Tanzania: the death sentence institutionnalised
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) / Eric Mirguet / Arnold Tsunga, on 1 January 2005
2005
NGO report
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Individuals are regularly sentenced to death in murder cases, but no statistics are published about the number of condemnations. Under the Tanzanian Penal Code, the death sentence remains a mandatory penalty for murder while it can also be applied for treason. As of April 2003, 370 persons (359 males and 11 females) were awaiting execution in the prisons of mainland Tanzania in conditions that might amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. There are a number of dysfunctions in the Tanzanian legal system, which seems to represent a threat to the rule of law, and an obstacle to reform: the unwillingness of the Executive to have its decisions challenged in judicial proceedings, and; the existence of a Penal System essentially based on retaliation towards the offenders rather than rehabilitation ; e.g. corporal punishments can still be applied for numerous offences, in spite of the fact that they clearly violate international and regional human rights instruments. Furthermore, pervasive corruption in the police and the judiciary represents a serious threat to the due process of law, including in death penalty cases.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Transparency, Mandatory Death Penalty,
- Available languages Swahili : Tanzania: Adhabu ya Kifo Imerasimishwa?Tanzanie: La peine de mort institutionnalisée
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In the Extreme: Women Serving Life Without Parole and Death Sentences in the United States
By The Sentencing Project, National Black Women’s Justice Institute and the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, on 14 January 2022
2022
NGO report
Women
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One of every 15 women in prison — amounting to more than 6,600 women — is serving a life sentence and nearly 2,000 of these have no chance for parole. Another 52 women in the U.S. are awaiting execution. Many women serving extreme sentences were victims of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse long before they committed a crime.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Women
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Putting Them There, Keeping Them There, and Killing Them: An Analysis of State-Level Variations in Death Penalty Intensity
By William S. Lofquist / Iowa Law Review, on 1 January 2002
2002
Article
United States
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The landscape of the American death penalty is diverse. Though death penalty attitudes show a remarkable and increasing degree of homogeneity by region, race, gender, religion, and other factors, the actual practice of the death penalty varies substantially from region to region, and even from state to state. While these variations are widely recognized, they are not widely studied or understood. The lack of attention paid to the actual practice of the death penalty in different states and regions, the patterns that contribute to its use, and the factors associated with these patterns represents a substantial and troubling gap in our knowledge of an issue as widely studied as the death penalty.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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A year-end compilation of death penalty data for the state of Missouri : Annual Report 2015
By Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2015
2015
NGO report
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MADP released its annual report which highlights some of the major problems with Missouri’s broken death penalty system. Here is a snapshot of the death penalty in Missouri in 2015: 6 executions in 2015 but no new death sentences in Missouri in 2015.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
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Siting the Death Penalty Internationally
By Valerie West / David F. Greenberg / Law and Social Inquiry, on 1 January 2008
2008
Article
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We examine sources of variation in possession and use of the death penalty using data drawn from 193 nations in order to test theories of punishment. We find the death penalty to be rooted in a country’s legal and political systems, and to be influenced by its religious traditions. A country’s level of economic development, its educational attainment, and its religious composition shape its political institutions and practices, indirectly affecting its use of the death penalty. The article concludes by discussing likely future trends.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Networks,
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A blow to human rights: Taiwan resumes executions: The Death Penalty in Taiwan, 2010
By Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2011
2011
NGO report
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This report details the administration of the death penalty in Taiwan. It discusses Taiwans obligations under international law, how executions are carried out, the profile of the condemned, discrimination in the sysem and discusses placing a moratorium on executions in Taiwan.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages 重啓死刑執行 廢死之路大倒退- 2010台灣死刑報告
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Death Penalty in Belarus: Murder on (Un)lawful Grounds
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) / Viasna Human Rights Center, on 1 January 2016
2016
NGO report
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In June 2016, FIDH and its member organisation in Belarus, the Human Rights Center ″Viasna″(HRC ″Viasna″), conducted an international fact-finding mission on the issue of the death penaltyin Belarus. The use of the death penalty (execution by shooting) in Belarus is provided for by Art. 24 of theConstitution of the Republic of Belarus as an exceptional measure of punishment for the mostserious crimes.Apart from the very fact of taking a person’s life, which is not only cruel, but also ineffective infighting and preventing crime, the use of the death penalty in Belarus is accompanied by many grosshuman rights violations.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages Смертная казнь в Беларуси: убийства на (не)законных основаниях
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Death IS Different: An Editorial Introduction to the Theme Issue.
By Richard L. Wiener / Craig Haney / Psychology, Public Policy and Law, on 1 January 2004
2004
Article
United States
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Capital punishment has once again become the focus of intense national debate in the United States. There is increasingly widespread public concern over the propriety of state-sanctioned executions and the legal processes by which they are accomplished. Even in political arenas, where little more than a decade ago commentators could quip that “the electric chair has replaced the American flag as your all-purpose campaign symbol,” many elected officials are voicing second thoughts about capital punishment. The American Bar Association (ABA), among other prestigious groups, has called for a moratorium on executions until, at least, the procedural flaws in the legal process through which death sentencing takes place — what the ABA analysts characterized as a “haphazard maze of unfair practices” — have been identified and remedied. Recent assessments of the scope and seriousness of the problems that plague this process suggest that the task of reforming the system of capital punishment will prove to be a daunting one. For example, James Liebman and his colleagues have presented a sobering picture of what they termed a “broken system” in which the outcomes of capital trials — if judged by their fates in the appellate courts — are legally wrong more often than they are right. And at least one judge declared the federal death penalty unconstitutional because it failed to provide sufficient procedural protections to capital defendants.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate,
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Moving Away from the Death Penalty: Arguments, Trends, and Perspectives
By United Nations / Ivan Šimonovic, on 1 January 2014
2014
International law - United Nations
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Why yet another book on the death penalty? The answer is simple: Aslong as the death penalty exists, there is a need for advocacy against it.This book provides arguments and analysis, reviews trends and sharesperspectives on moving away from the death penalty.
- Document type International law - United Nations
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
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The Death Penalty Project: 2018 Report
By The Death Penalty Project, on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
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The Death Penalty Project publishes its 2018 annual report. It provides testimonies, figures and a look on the actions accomplished in favour of the human rights worlwide.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Right to life, Legal Representation, Death Penalty,
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The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2018
By Harm Reduction International / Giada Girelli, on 1 January 2019
NGO report
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Harm Reduction International has monitored use of the death penalty for drug offences worldwide since its first ground-breaking publication on this issue in 2007. This eighth report on the subject, continues its work of providing regular updates on legislative and practical developments related to the use of capital punishment for drug offences, a practice which is a clear violation of international human rights law.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Drug Offences, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
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Investigating Attitudes to the Death Penalty in Indonesia in bahasa Indonesia
By Universitas Indonesia LBH Masyarakat Universitas Oxford The Death Penalty Project, on 10 August 2021
2021
NGO report
Drug Offenses
Indonesia
Public Opinion
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Pandangan Para Pembentuk Opini tentang Hukuman Mati di Indonesia
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Indonesia
- Themes list Drug Offenses / Public Opinion
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Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2010: The Year in Review
By Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2010
2010
NGO report
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Death sentences in Texas have dropped more than 70% since 2003, reaching a historic low in 2010. According to data compiled from news sources and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, juries condemned eight new individuals to death in Texas in 2010. This is the lowest number of new death sentences since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas’ revised death penalty statute in 1976. For preious annual reports on Texas please visit: http://tcadp.org/get-informed/reports/
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
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Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran 2018
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) / Iran Human Rights (IHR), on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
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This report provides an assessment and analysis of death penalty trends in 2018 in the Is-lamic Republic of Iran. It sets out the number of executions in 2018, the trend compared to previous years, the legislative framework and procedures, charges, geographic distribution and a monthly breakdown of executions.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Ultimate Sanction: Understanding the Death Penalty Through Its Many Voices and Many Sides
By Robert M. Bohm / Kaplan Trade, on 1 January 2010
2010
Book
United States
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The book looks at the death penalty through interviews with people affected by the system in different ways. He uses interviews to explore issues of deterrence, retribution, and fairness, while taking a unique look at how the death penalty affects those who participate in the system.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Fair Trial, Deterrence , Retribution,
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Flawed Justice: Unfair Trial and the Death Penalty in indonesia
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2015
2015
NGO report
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Despite strong protests from local and international human rights organisations, the new Indonesian administration under President Joko Widodo has executed 14 people, including Indonesian and foreign nationals, in 2015. All of them had been convicted of drug trafficking. In other occasions President Widodo also stated publicly that the government would deny any application for clemency made by people sentenced to death for drug-related crimes. This report, which builds on Amnesty International’s past work over three decades documenting the use of death penalty in Indonesia, includes research carried out during a March 2015 visit to the country. The report highlights 12 individual cases of death row prisoners, out of a total of 131 people on death row, which point to systemic problems in Indonesia’s administration of justice that resulted in violations of international human rights law and standards.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Fair Trial, Drug Offences, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages Indonesian : Kaedilan ang Cacat. Peradilan Yang Tidak Adil Dan Hukuman Mati di IndonesiaUne justice déficiente. Procès iniques et recours à la peine de mort en Indonésie
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The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2015
By Rick Lines / Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2015
NGO report
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In this new fourth edition of HRI’s ‘Global Overview’ series, HRI updates its previous research on the death penalty for drugs worldwide, and it considers critical developments on the issue. While the report notes that there still are a troubling number of governments with capital drug laws, in practice very few states execute people for drugs. The number of people killed for drug-related offences is high because China, Iran and Saudi Arabia are aggressive executioners. Those governments that kill for drugs are an extreme fringe of the international community.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Drug Offences,
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TAJIKISTAN: DEADLY SECRETS – The death penalty in law and practice
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
Tajikistan
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Official secrecy surrounds the death penalty in Tajikistan. The picture that Amnesty International has been able to build is incomplete, yet alarming. With random and relentless cruelty, prisoners are executed in secret after unfair trials, with no warning to their families. According to the evidence gathered by Amnesty International, none of the prisoners sentenced to death in Tajikistan received a fair trial. Most, if not all, were tortured. Several different prisoners have given detailed accounts naming the same investigator, but no action has apparently been taken to investigate the truth of these allegations. Testimony extracted under torture has been admitted as evidence and used to condemn prisoners to death.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Tajikistan
- Themes list Transparency, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages ТАДЖИКИСТАН: СМЕРТЕЛЬНЫЕ ТАЙНЫ
Document(s)
Is the Death Penalty Good for Women
By Phyllis L. Crocker / Buffalo Law Review, on 1 January 2001
2001
Article
United States
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In this essay, I suggest a different and particularly feminist reason for reexamining, and rejecting, the death penalty. The death penalty perverts society’s response to the tragedy of a woman being raped and murdered by relying on a form of racism that is gendered in nature and by making the horrific nature of the crime of rape-murder a more important consideration in determining punishment than the individual characteristics of the person who committed it.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
The Death Penalty in Uzbekistan: Torture and Secrecy
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) / Christine Martineau / Caroline Giraud / Richard Wild, on 1 January 2005
2005
NGO report
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On August 1, 2005, President Karimov announced, through a presidential decree, that the abolition of the death penalty was planned for January 1, 2008. The report concludes that the Uzbek authorities are responsible of serious and systematic human rights violations in the framework of the administration of criminal justice. The rights of those arrested are systematically violated. They often lack any access to a lawyer during their pre-trial detention, their families are not informed and torture is used in order to extort confessions, which often serve as a basis for their condemnation.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Torture, Death Row Conditions, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages Смертная казнь в Узбекистане: пытки и секретностьLa peine de mort en Ouzbékistan: torture et opacité
Document(s)
Annual Report of the Death Penalty in Iran in 2010
By Iran Human Rights (IHR), on 1 January 2010
2010
NGO report
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The annual report of the death penalty in 2010 shows a dramatic increase in the number of executions compared to the previous years. The number of annual executions in 2010 in Iran is probably the highest since the mass executions of political prisoners in the summer of 1988.
- Document type NGO report
- Available languages سازمان حقوق بشر ایران: گزارش سالانه اعدام در سال میلادی ۲۰۱۰
Document(s)
The Death penalty for Drug Offences: A Violation of International Human Rights Law
By Rick Lines / Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2007
2007
NGO report
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The report calls for an end to the use of the death penalty for drug offences around the world, and concludes that the on-going execution of drug offenders is a violation of international human rights law. The report emphasises how the harms faced by people who use drugs do not only include health harms such as HIV and hepatitis C infections, but also the effects of repressive law enforcement activities.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Drug Offences,
Document(s)
The Death Penalty in Taiwan: Towards Abolition?
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) / Sharon Hom / Penelope Martin / Siobhan Ni Chulachain, on 1 January 2006
2006
NGO report
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This report highlights serious concerns regarding the conditions of detention of prisoners in Taiwan. Although there has been some improvement in conditions in recent years, FIDH and TAEDP report severe problems of overcrowding and inadequate medical treatment for prisoners, requiring urgent attention. In addition, the mission found that the use of shackles, in violation of international standards, is widespread. Prisoners, in particular those on death row, regularly have their legs chained together for 24 hours per day, in violation of the prohibition against cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Despite recent reforms to the criminal justice system, FIDH and TAEDP found that serious failings continue to lead to miscarriages of justice. The report highlights persistent problems including discrimination, limited access to legal representation, piecemeal and only partially implemented reforms and unsatisfactory appeals procedures. FIDH and TAEDP found that training and supervision for actors within the system, including police, is grossly inadequate, leading to failures in the collection and preservation of evidence, whilst prosecutors and judges are inclined to “rubber stamp” police findings.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Row Conditions, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Voting record – Draft resolution A/C.3/75/L.41 as amended, Moratorium on the use of the death penalty
By United Nations General Assembly, on 18 November 2020
2020
International law - United Nations
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Document(s)
Death Penalty: Majority of States Continue to Support UN Call for Moratorium on Executions at Committee Vote
on 1 January 2020
2020
NGO report
Antigua and Barbuda
Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Dominica
Eswatini
Guinea
Lebanon
Libya
Nauru
Niger
Pakistan
Philippines
Republic of Korea
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
South Sudan
Tonga
Uganda
Zimbabwe
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- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Antigua and Barbuda / Congo / Democratic Republic of the Congo / Djibouti / Dominica / Eswatini / Guinea / Lebanon / Libya / Nauru / Niger / Pakistan / Philippines / Republic of Korea / Sierra Leone / Solomon Islands / South Sudan / Tonga / Uganda / Zimbabwe
Document(s)
When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition
By Austin Sarat / Princeton University Press, on 1 January 2001
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.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Chinas Death Penalty: History, Law and Contemporary Practices
By Terance D. Miethe / Hong Lu / Routledge, on 1 January 2007
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,
Document(s)
The Death Penalty in 2016: video summary of DPIC Year End Report.
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2016
2016
NGO report
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DPIC’s 2016 Year-End Report: another record decline in death penalty use in the US. A video summary of the report.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Does the death penalty give victims closure? Science says no
By Linda Lewis Griffith / San Luis Obispo Tribune, on 1 January 2019
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,
Document(s)
Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures
By Oxford University Press / Beth A. Berkowitz, on 1 January 2006
2006
Book
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In this book Beth Berkowitz tells the story of modern scholarship on the ancient rabbinic death penalty and continues the story by offering a fresh perspective using the approaches of ritual studies, cultural criticism, and talmudic source criticism. Against the scholarly consensus, Berkowitz argues that the rabbinic laws of the death penalty were used by the early Rabbis in their efforts to establish themselves in the wake of the destruction of the Temple. The purpose of the laws, she contends, was to create a complex ritual of execution that was controlled by the Rabbis, thus bolstering their claims to authority in the context of Roman imperial domination.
- Document type Book
- Themes list Religion ,
Document(s)
UN advocacy: the universal periodic review – Death penalty
By The Advocates for Human Rights / Amy Bergquist / Rosalyn Park / Jennifer Prestholdt, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
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PowerPoint presentation used at The Advocates for Human Rights’ training session on death penalty advocacy for the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review of human rights. See also the video of the presentation here.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list International law,
Document(s)
Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972-1994
By Oxford University Press / Herbert H. Haines, on 8 September 1999
1999
Book
United States
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While most western democracies have renounced the death penalty, capital punishment enjoys vast and growing support in the United States. A significant and vocal minority, however, continues to oppose it. Against Capital Punishment is the first full account of anti-death penalty activism in America during the years since the ten-year moratorium on executions ended.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
Document(s)
Failure to Apply the Flynn Correction in Death Penalty Litigation: Standard Practice of Today Maybe, but Certainly Malpractice of Tomorrow
By John E. Wright / John Niland / Cecil R. Reynolds / Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment / Michal Rosenn, on 1 January 2010
2010
Article
United States
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The Flynn Effect is a well documented phenomenon demonstrating score increases on IQ measures over time that average about 0.3 points per year. Normative adjustments to scores derived from IQ measures normed more than a year or so prior to the time of testing an individual have become controversial in several settings but especially so in matters of death penalty litigation. Here we make the argument that if the Flynn Effect is real, then a Flynn Correction should be applied to obtained IQs in order to obtain the most accurate estimate of IQ possible. To fail to provide the most accurate estimate possible in matters that are truly life and death decisions seems wholly indefensible.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Wounds That Do Not Bind: Victim-based Perspectives on the Death Penalty
By James R. Acker / David R. Karp / Carolina Academic Press, on 1 January 2006
2006
Book
United States
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This book examines how family members and advocates for victims address the impact of capital punishment. The book presents the personal stories of victims’ family members and their interactions with the criminal justice system. It also examines the relevant areas of legal research, including the use of victim impact evidence in capital trials, how capital punishment affects victims’ family members, and what is known about addressing the needs of the survivors after a murder.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families,
Document(s)
FINAL DECLARATION – 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) / World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Multimedia content
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FINAL DECLARATION7TH World Congress Against the Death PenaltyBrussels, 1st March 2019
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Capital offences, Public debate, Right to life, Member organizations, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
- Available languages DECLARATION FINALE - 7ème Congrès contre la peine de mort
Document(s)
Poster – 16th World Day against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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Poster of the 16th World Day against the Death Penalty dedicated to living conditions on death row. Dignity For All.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,
Document(s)
Financial Costs of the Death Penalty
By Office of Performance Evaluations Idaho Legislature, on 1 January 2014
2014
Government body report
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Idaho’s death penalty involves many criminal justicestakeholders at both the local and state levels and in all three branches of government. Because death penalty processes involve so many entities, legislators asked for a better understanding of the structure, workings, and costs. The following events also sparked legislative interest: (1) two offenders sentenced to death werelater released from prison in 2001 and (2) two recent executions after a 17-year pause.Legislators wanted to know whether costs of sentencingdefendants to death could be compared with costs of sentencing them to life in prison.
- Document type Government body report
- Themes list Statistics, Financial cost,
Document(s)
Annual report on the death penalty in Iran 2013
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) / Iran Human Rights (IHR), on 1 January 2014
NGO report
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The sixth annual report of Iran Human Rights (IHR) on the death penalty gives an assessment of how the death penalty was implemented in 2013 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Juveniles, Women, Minorities, Religion , Fair Trial, International law, Transparency, Drug Offences, Torture, Discrimination, Foreign Nationals, Hanging, Stoning, Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages گزارش سالانه اعدام در ايران – سال ٢٠١٣ میلادیRapport annuel sur la peine de mort en iran 2013
Document(s)
Not Making Us Safer: Crime, Public Saftey and the Death Penalty
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2013
2013
NGO report
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Thisdocument aims at providing a generaloverview of how crime and concerns about public safety are often met by government calls forthe death penalty—distracting public attention fromthe much-needed, long-term solutionsthat could more effectively tackle crime and the root causes of crime. It reviews a number ofrecent studies on homicide trends, public perception of safety and the deterrent effect of thedeath penalty. The studies found that, in order toeffectively deter crime, governments shoulduse a multi-faceted approach involving different segments of society and multiple tools—andthat the death penalty is not one of them.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Deterrence ,
- Available languages Así No Hay Mayor Seguridad: Delincuencia, Seguridad Publica y Pena de Muerte
Document(s)
Compounded Violence: Domestic Abuse and the Mandatory Death Penalty in Ghana and Sierra Leone
By Anjuli Peters / University of Oxford, on 1 January 2019
2019
Arguments against the death penalty
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This paper applies a gendered perspective to women sentenced to a mandatory death penalty in the West African countries of Ghana and Sierra Leone. At present, there are six women on death row in Ghana and two women on death row in Sierra Leone. All eight women are sentenced to mandatory death for murder. However, interviews with the women on death row suggest that their offenses do not meet the threshold of ‘most serious crimes.’ Instead, many are convicted for acts committed in retaliation following violence against them.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Women,
Document(s)
Compounded Violence: Domestic Abuse and the Mandatory Death Penalty in Ghana and Sierra Leone
By Anjuli Peters / University of Oxford, on 1 January 2019
Arguments against the death penalty
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This paper applies a gendered perspective to women sentenced to a mandatory death penalty in the West African countries of Ghana and Sierra Leone. At present, there are six women on death row in Ghana and two women on death row in Sierra Leone. All eight women are sentenced to mandatory death for murder. However, interviews with the women on death row suggest that their offenses do not meet the threshold of ‘most serious crimes.’ Instead, many are convicted for acts committed in retaliation following violence against them.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Women,
Document(s)
Joint Statement on the Death Penalty in Bahrain
By Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, on 1 January 2015
2015
Multimedia content
Bahrain
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Joint statement calling on the government to immediately commute all death sentences; to investigate all allegations of torture made by persons sentenced to death, and to dismiss any and all convictions made on the basis of confessions obtained under conditions of torture; to re-impose a moratorium on the death penalty with a view towards abolishing the practice.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Bahrain
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
DNA and the Death Penalty
By Brandon Garrett / Joshua Marquis / CATO Unbound / Jeffrey Kirchmeier / George H. Smith, on 1 January 2012
2012
Article
United States
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Essays on the theme of the issue of the DNA and the Death Penalty
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
Double Tragedies: Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty for People with Severe Mental Illness
By Susannah Sheffer / National Alliance on Mental Illness / Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights, on 1 January 2009
2009
NGO report
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This report asserts that the death penalty is not only inappropriate and unwarranted for persons with severe mental illness but that it also serves as a distraction from problems within the mental health system that contributed or even led directly to tragic violence. Families of murder victims and families of people with mental illness who have committed murder have a cascade of questions and needs. It is to these questions, rather than to the death penalty, that as a society we must turn our attention and our collective energies if we are truly to address the problem of untreated mental illness and the lethal violence that can result.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Mental Illness, Murder Victims' Families,
Document(s)
The death penalty, terrorism and international law
By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2014
2014
Academic report
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The death penalty is retained for terrorism offences in many countries, but how does it conform with international standards? The global community has had much to say about both terrorism and capital punishment; this paper brings together the key arguments to identify the appropriate state responses in the face of terrorism.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list International law, Terrorism,
Document(s)
ENHANCING EU ACTION ON THE DEATH PENALTY IN ASIA
By Roger Hood / European Parliament / DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR EXTERNAL POLICIES OF THE UNION, on 1 January 2012
2012
Article
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This paper has three objectives. First, it provides an analysis of the state-of-play regarding the death penalty in Asia. Second it reports on EU human rights dialogues. Third, it suggests policies that might help to support initiatives in Asian countries aimed both at restraining the use of the death penalty and securing its complete abolition.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Executing the Innocent: the Next Step in the Marshall Hypotheses
By Eric G. Lambert / Alen W. Clarke / New York University (NYU) / Laurie Anne Whitt, on 1 January 2000
2000
Article
United States
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The study results indicate that when test subjects, many of whom are likely retributivists, are presented with information about the problem of innocence, the drop in support for capital punishment spans all points on the Likert scale. Our study suggests that more rigorous testing may demonstrate that an individual’s knowledge of the “innocence problem” can generate more profond changes in attitudes toward the death penalty than indicted by previous studies of the marshall Hypotheses.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public opinion, Innocence,
Document(s)
Punished for Being Vulnerable. How Pakistan executes the poorest and the most marginalized in society
By Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) / Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH), on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
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The present report aims to provide an update on the 2007 report, bearing in mind the significant changes that have taken place in Pakistan under various governments since then, including the 2008 unofficial moratorium and the resumption of executions in 2014. The mission aimed at exploring specific issues within the theme of the death penalty, including detention conditions on death row, the use of capital punishment for minors, and the impact of the death penalty on families of death row inmates, particularly their children. However, a recurring theme emerged in discussions about each of these sub-issues: a strong systemic bias against the poor and marginalized.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Fair Trial, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Preventing the Execution of the Innocent: Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee.
By Peter Neufeld / Hofstra Law Review, on 1 January 2001
2001
Article
United States
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There have been at least sixty-seven postconviction DNA exonerations in the United States. Our Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law has either assisted or been the attorney of record in thirty-nine of those cases, including eight men who served time on death row. For all of these men, existing appellate remedies failed to catch the mistakes and correct the injustice. In one third of the exonerations, bad lawyering contributed to their convictions yet in only one case was ineffective assistance of counsel recognized by an appellate court. Mistaken eyewitness identification was a critical factor in almost 90% of the unjust convictions yet not a single trial or appellate court found the eyewitness testimony to be unreliable.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
Investigating Forensic Problems in the United States: How the Federal Government Can Strengthen Oversight Through the Coverdell Grant Program
By Benjamin N. Cardozo / The Innocence Project, on 8 September 2020
2020
Working with...
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The report describes the federal forensic oversight program; outlines the problems that have plagued the program since its inception (with specific examples): Explains the consequences of the federal government’s inadequate administration of the program; shows how forensic negligence and misconduct lead to wrongful convictions; and gives specific recommendations for what the federal government, states and individuals can do to strengthen forensic oversight.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
Death Penalty in Liberia. When will it be abolished?
By FIACAT, on 1 January 2019
2019
Arguments against the death penalty
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The FIACAT and ACAT Liberia organized an awareness-raisingworkshop on 17 and 18 September 2019 in Monrovia (Liberia) for 30 participants: Muslim and Christian religious leaders, traditional chiefs, members of civil society organizations, journalists, members of the Independent National Commissionon Human Rights (INCHR) and parliamentarians. This workshop resulted in the production of this publication to raise awareness among opinion leaders on the abolition of the death penalty in Liberia, considering the specific characteristicsand needs of the country.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
Document(s)
Take action on the death penalty
By The Advocates for Human Rights, on 8 September 2020
2020
Campaigning
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Two-page guide with tips and contacts for individuals interested in getting started in anti-death penalty activism in the US.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Public opinion,
Document(s)
Race Discrimination and the Legitimacy of Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Interaction of Fact and Perception
By George Woodworth / David C. Baldus / DePaul Law Review, on 1 January 2004
2004
Article
United States
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The authors analyze data concerning race discrimination in capital sentencing and data regarding how the public perceives this issue. They conclude that race discrimination is not an inevitable feature of all death penalty systems. Before Furman v. Georgia was decided in 1972, widespread discrimination against black defendants marred the practice of capital punishment in America. According to studies cited by the authors, race-of-defendant discrimination has lessened since Furman. However, race-of-victim discrimination remains a significant factor in sentencing; defendants with white victims are at a significantly higher risk of being sentenced to death and executed than are defendants whose victims are black, Asian, or Hispanic. From 1976 to 2002, the proportion of white-victim cases among all murder and non-negligent manslaughter cases has ranged between 51% and 56%. However, 81% of executed defendants had white victims. Polling data indicate that the general public perceives only one form of race discrimination in the use of the death penalty – race-of-defendant discrimination – and that the public and elected officials may see racial discrimination as inevitable in the criminal justice system. Race of victim discrimination is a pervasive problem in the death penalty system. However, race discrimination is not inevitable. If serious controls were enacted to address this problem (such as those imposed in a few states) a fairer system could result.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Discrimination,
Document(s)
Killing as Punishment: Reflections on the Death Penalty in America
By Hugo Adam Bedau / Northeastern, on 1 January 2004
Book
United States
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Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the field, Bedau addresses topics such as strong public suppport for the death penalty, wrongful convictions, the disappearance of executive clemency, constitutional arguments surronding the Eight Amendment, and procedural reforms under consideration that move toward abolition.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
The Penalty
By Will Francome / Mark Pizzey, on 1 January 2017
2017
Multimedia content
United States
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The penalty follows three people caught in the crosshairs of capital punishment, and the political landscape thatcould decide their fate. Going behind the scenes of some of the biggest headlines in the history of America’sdeath penalty, the film follows the lethal injection protocol crisis that resulted in a botched execution, therehabilitation of a man who spent 15 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, and the family of a youngwoman – brutally murdered – split by the state’s pursuit of the ultimate punishment.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Fair Trial, Right to life, Murder Victims' Families, Death Row Phenomenon, Lethal Injection, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
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
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,
Document(s)
Oregon’s death penalty disproportionately used against persons with significant mental impairments
By Fair Punishment Project, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
United States
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Although,by all functional measures, Oregonians have abandoned the death penalty, 35 condemned inmates remain on Oregon’s death row.What do we know about those people, and about the quality of justice that resulted in their death sentences? This report examines the cases of the condemned men and women in Oregon to see how they ended up there, and what patterns emerged.Here’s what we found: In Oregon, two-thirds of death row inmates possess signs of serious mental illness or intellectual impairment, endured devastatingly severe childhood trauma, or were not old enough to legally purchase alcohol at the time the offense occurred.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Mental Illness, Death Row Phenomenon, Intellectual Disability, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Sources of Variation in Pro-Death Penalty Attitudes in China: An Exploratory Study of Chinese Students at Home and Abroad
By Lening Zhang / Terance D. Miethe / Hong Lu / Bin Liang / British Journal of Criminology, on 1 January 2006
2006
Article
China
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This paper examines Chinese students’ attitudes about the death penalty in contemporary China. Drawing upon Western public opinion research on the death penalty, samples of Chinese college students at home and abroad are used to explore the magnitude of their pro-death penalty attitudes and sources of variation in these opinions. Both groups of Chinese students are found to support the death penalty across different measures of this concept. Several individual and contextual factors are correlated with pro-death penalty attitudes, but the belief in the specific deterrent effect of punishments was the only variable that had a significant net effect on these attitudes in our multivariate analysis. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of this study for future research on public opinion about crime and punishment in China.
- Document type Article
- Countries list China
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate,
Document(s)
Lethal Rejection: An Empirical Analysis of the Astonishing Plunge in Death Sentences in the United States from Their Post-Furman Peak
By Talia Roitberg Harmon / David McCord / Albany Law Review, on 1 January 2018
2018
Article
United States
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The authors gathered information on 1665 death-eligible cases nationwide for three years at decade intervals: 1994, 2004, and 2014. In 517 cases death sentences were imposed; in 311 cases sentences spared the defendants from death sentences, and in 837 cases prosecutors spared defendants from death sentences.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Public support for the death penalty ticks up
By Pew Research Center / J. Baxter Oliphant, on 1 January 2018
Article
United States
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Public support for the death penalty, which reached a four-decade low in 2016, has increased somewhat since then. Today, 54% of Americans favor the death penalty for people convicted of murder, while 39% are opposed, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in April and May.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public opinion,
Document(s)
For or against abolition of the death penalty: Evidence from Taiwan
By Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty / The Death Penalty Project, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
More details See the document
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Public opinion, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Malay : Poster – 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Malay)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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17th World Day Against the Death Penalty Poster in Malay
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Juveniles, Public debate, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
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Poster – 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Black and White)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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17th World Day Against the Death Penalty Poster in black and white
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Juveniles, Public debate, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Affiche - 17ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mort (noir et blanc)
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Poster – 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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17th World Day Against the Death Penalty Poster
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Juveniles, Public debate, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Malay : Poster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Malay)German : Poster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)Poster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Persian)Poster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 17ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Cartel - 17º Día Mundial Contra la Pena de Muerte
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German : Poster – 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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17th World Day Against the Death Penalty Poster in German
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Juveniles, Public debate, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Malay : Poster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Malay)Poster - 17th World Day Against the Death PenaltyPoster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Persian)Poster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 17ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Cartel - 17º Día Mundial Contra la Pena de Muerte
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Indonesian : Poster – 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Cebuano)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Cebuano)
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Tagalog : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Tagalog)Japanese : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Japanese)Italian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Italian)Divehi : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Dhivehi)German : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Farsi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 18ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Spanish)Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (English)
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Tagalog : Poster – 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Tagalog)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Tagalog)
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Indonesian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Cebuano)Japanese : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Japanese)Italian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Italian)Divehi : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Dhivehi)German : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Farsi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 18ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Spanish)Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (English)
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Japanese : Poster – 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Japanese)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Japanese)
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Indonesian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Cebuano)Tagalog : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Tagalog)Italian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Italian)Divehi : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Dhivehi)German : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Farsi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 18ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Spanish)Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (English)
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Italian : Poster – 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Italian)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Italian)
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Indonesian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Cebuano)Tagalog : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Tagalog)Japanese : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Japanese)Divehi : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Dhivehi)German : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Farsi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 18ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Spanish)Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (English)
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Fact Sheet – Death Penalty in the Caribbean
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
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Detailed information on the death penalty in the Greater Caribbean
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list Due Process , Deterrence , Mandatory Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages Fiche sur la peine de mort dans les Caraïbes
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Restraints on Death Penalty in Europe: A Circular Process
By Stefano Manacorda / Journal of International Criminal Justice, on 1 January 2003
2003
Article
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That the European area is a zone free of capital punishment is the result of a complex process of restraints that has evolved over the last 50 years. Domestic, regional and universal international law, as well as certain components within each level, have influenced each other to produce a dynamic, circular movement towards abolition. Starting from the internal level, restraints on the death penalty rose up to the regional and universal levels, and then descended back down into domestic law. This process, however, has not produced a completely closed circle, and certain countries in Europe retain legislation permitting recourse to the death penalty for certain crimes, especially war crimes and, according to recent interpretations, criminal offences related to terrorist activity. Extradition or other administrative mechanisms of expulsion also illustrate potential disjunctions in the circle, as they may allow persons to be transferred to retentionist countries. Even though the legislative framework has significantly evolved in the last few years, the dominant role played by political evaluations creates new fissures in the abolitionist circle. Only recently have new abolitionist perspectives emerged from the ‘right of interference’ in foreign death penalty cases, which some countries try to exercise when their own nationals are involved.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Networks,
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Divehi : Poster – 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Dhivehi)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Multimedia content
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Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Dhivehi)
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Indonesian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Cebuano)Tagalog : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Tagalog)Japanese : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Japanese)Italian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Italian)German : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Farsi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 18ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Spanish)Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (English)
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German : Poster – 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Indonesian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Cebuano)Tagalog : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Tagalog)Japanese : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Japanese)Italian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Italian)Divehi : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Dhivehi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Farsi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 18ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Spanish)Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (English)
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Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (English)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2020
2020
Multimedia content
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Poster- 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (English)
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Indonesian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Cebuano)Tagalog : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Tagalog)Japanese : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Japanese)Italian : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Italian)Divehi : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Dhivehi)German : Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Arabic)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Farsi)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Russian)Affiche - 18ème Journée mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Chinese)Poster - 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Spanish)
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Innocence and the Death Penalty
By Death Penalty Focus, on 1 January 2011
2011
Arguments against the death penalty
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The wrongful execution of an innocent person is an injustice that can never be rectified. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty, 139 men and women have been released from death row nationally.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Innocence,
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USA: Breaking a lethal habit – A look back at the death penalty in 2007
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
United States
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This document looks back at the death penalty in 2007 beginning with the New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission releasing its final report recommending abolition and concluding with the UN General Assembly passing a landmark resolution calling for a global moratorium. It includes death by electrocution; abolition; execution, commutation and stay of execution; mental illness; child rape as well as geographical and colour bias.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks, Statistics,
- Available languages Estados Unidos: Rompiendo con un hábito letal - Un repaso a la pena de muerte en 2007
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Early Supreme Court Cases on the Death Penalty
By Robert Bohm / Carolina Academic Press, on 1 January 2012
2012
Book
United States
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A new book by Professor Robert Bohm of the University of Central Florida looks at death-penalty decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court prior to the modern era of capital punishment that began in 1968. In The Past As Prologue, Bohm examines 39 Court decisions, covering issues such as clemency, jury selection, coerced confessions, and effective representation.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list International law, Trend Towards Abolition,