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Towards the abolition of the death penalty in Lebanon
By LACR / National Campaign for the Abolition of Death Penalty in Lebanon, on 1 January 2009
2009
Campaigning
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Educational booklet compiling testimonies, arguments, legal and historical facts about the path towards abolition in Lebanon.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate, Trend Towards Abolition,
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Concluding Talking Ponts on behalf of Parliamentarians and PGA, Attending the 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) / Parliamentarians for Global Action, on 1 January 2019
2019
Multimedia content
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Concluding Talking Ponts on behalf of Parliamentarians and PGA, Atteding the 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Public debate, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Déclaration finale au nom des parlementaires et de l'Action mondiale des parlementaires présents au 7ème Congrès mondial contre la peine de mort
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A Matter of Life and Death: films, an assembly, lessons and information on the death penalty to inspire students aged 14+
By Amnesty International UK, on 8 September 2020
2020
Campaigning
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Through A Matter of Life and Death lessons, assembly and films, students aged 14+ can explore the issues surrounding the use of the death penalty, one of Amnesty’s oldest and most established campaigns.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Public opinion,
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The death penalty in Thailand
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) / Julie Morizet / Sinapan Samidoray / Siobhan Ni Chulachain, on 1 January 2005
2005
NGO report
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The present report shows that, although the formal judicial process which leads to the imposition of the death penalty is theoretically in accordance with the international legal standards, serious miscarriages of justice can result in condemnations to the capital punishment. By lasting up to 84 days, the long police custody creates conditions that favour possible cruel, inhuman and degrading treatments. The difficult access to legal aid, both during police custody and the trial process, does not provide sufficient safeguards that the rights of the defence are fully respected. The conditions of detention in prisons, and notably the fact that death row inmates are chained 24 hours a day, may amount to torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
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Annual report on the death penalty in Iran 2015
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) / Iran Human Rights (IHR), on 1 January 2016
2016
NGO report
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The 8th annual report of Iran Human Rights (IHR) on the death penalty provides an in-depth assessment of how the capital punishment was implemented in 2015 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.In addition to providing the number of executions that were conducted, the report also looks at the trends compared to previous years, the methods of execution, geographical distribution, the charges that were used by authorities to justify the executions and the articles in the penal law that were used to issue the death sentences.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages بخش اول از گزارش سالانه اعدام - دستکم ۷۵۳ اعدام در سال ۲۰۱۴
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The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
By Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), on 1 January 2014
2014
International law - Regional body
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This publication covers the period 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 and offers a concise update that highlights only those changes in the status of the death penalty made since the last Background Paper.
- Document type International law - Regional body
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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.
- Document type Book
- Themes list Networks,
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Training Resource: Advocacy Tools in the Fight Against the Death Penalty and Alternative Sanctions that Respect International Human Rights Standards
on 1 January 2011
2011
NGO report
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The aim of this resource is to build and strengthen civil society organisation’s (CSOs) knowledge and awareness of advocacy and what advocacy methods are available for the fight against the death penalty and for alternative sanctions that respect international human rights standards. This resource covers issues related to using the media to influence, and how to build coalitions to strengthen your advocacy work.
- Document type NGO report
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Not to Decide is to Decide: The U.S. Supreme Courts Thirty-Year Struggle With One Case About Competency to Waive Death Penalty Appeals
By Phyllis L. Crocker / Wayne Law Review 49(4), 885-938, on 1 January 2004
2004
Article
United States
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In 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed Rees v. Peyton, Rees was a death penalty case in which the petitioner sought to withdraw his petition for writ of certiorari so that he could be executed. The Court stayed the proceedings after Rees was found incompetent to waive his appeal, but the Court did not dismiss the case until after Rees died of natural causes. Rees pended in the Court during the terms of three Chief Justices. Even though the Court underwent major changes in personnel and philosophy during those years, the Court’s treatment of Rees was essentially the same–to hold the case in abeyance. This article chronicles the extraordinary history of Rees in the U.S. Supreme Court for those thirty years.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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The Death Penalty in Japan: A Practice Unworthy of a Democracy
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) / Sharon Hom / Etienne Jaudel / Richard Wild, on 1 January 2003
2003
NGO report
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Despite the Japanese Federation of Bar Associations’ efforts towards improving the defence system, Japanese prisoners – especially those sentenced to death – do not receive a fair trial.The Daiyo Kangoku practice is one amongst several practices which allows suspects to be detained in police stations for 23 days, contravening the rules of a fair trial. Confessions, which can be obtained through strong pressure, give police the basis for accusation. Furthermore, the conditions on death row themselves amount to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatments: Once the death sentence has been delivered, the prisoner is held in solitary confinement. Detainees have extremely limited contact with families and lawyers and meetings are closely monitored. Above all, prisoners live with the constant fear of never knowing if today will be their last day. The prisoner is informed that the execution will take place on the very same day, and family members are notified the following day.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages Japanese : 死刑民主主義国家にあるまじき行為La peine de mort au Japon, une pratique indigne d'une démocratie
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The Death Penalty in the United States: An International Human Rights Perspective
By Anthony N. Bishop / Texas Law Review, on 1 January 2002
2002
Article
United States
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On December 10, 1998, the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, former President William J. Clinton signed Executive Order No. 13107 stating, “It shall be the policy and practice of the Government of the United States, being committed to the protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms, fully to respect and implement its obligations.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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The Court of Life and Death: The Two Tracks of Constitutional Sentencing Law and the Case for Uniformity.
By Rachel E. Barkow / New York University (NYU), on 1 January 2008
2008
Article
United States
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This Article argues for the abandonment of the two-track approach to sentencing by the Supreme Court. It finds no support in the Constitution’s text, history, or structure, and the functional arguments given by the Court to support its capital decisions apply with equal force to all other criminal punishments.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Arbitrariness,
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Prisoner’s Future Foundation
on 28 March 2023
Prisoners’ Future Foundation (PFF) is a local non-governmental Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS) following government enforcing the NGO Act of 2009 of the laws of Zambia. PFF has in the past handled both advocacy and service delivery, in responding to the needs of currently and formally incarcerated people and citizens who have […]
2023
Zambia
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The death penalty worldwide developments in 2007
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2008
2008
NGO report
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In 2007 the world continued to move closer to the universal abolition of the capital punishment. A historical landmark is the resolution on a moratorium on executions endorsed by the United Nations. By the end of the 2007, 91 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes. The death penalty has now been abolished in law or practice by 135 countries. Other subjects covered in this report include commutations, judicial reviews, use against child offenders; and extradition.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages La peine de mort dans le monde : évolution en 2007LA PENA DE MUERTE EN EL MUNDO: NOTICIAS DEL AÑO 2007تطورات عقوبة العدام على النطاق العالمي في 2007
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The death penalty wordwide: developments in 2004
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2005
2005
NGO report
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This document covers significant events concerning the death penalty during the year 2004. Five countries abolished the death penalty for all crimes, bringing to 84 the number of totally abolitionist countries at year end. Scores of death sentences were commuted in Malawi and Zambia, and moratoria or suspensions of executions were being observed in several other countries. Other subjects covered in this document include significant judicial decisions; the use of the death penalty against the innocent; resumptions of executions; and campaigning activities to promote abolition.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages La peine de mort dans le monde: évolution en 2004La pena de muerte en el mundo: noticias del año 2004
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Safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty
By United Nations, on 1 January 1984
1984
United Nations report
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Approved by Economic and Social Council resolution 1984/50 of 25 May 19841. In countries which have not abolished the death penalty, capital punishment may be imposed only for the most serious crimes, it being understood that their scope should not go beyond intentional crimes with lethal or other extremely grave consequences.
- Document type United Nations report
- Themes list Fair Trial, International law, Most Serious Crimes,
- Available languages الضمانات التي تكفل حماية حقوق الذين يواجهون عقوبة الإعدامМеры, гарантирующие защиту прав тех, кому грозит смертная казньGaranties pour la protection des droits des personnes passibles de la peine de mort关于保护面对死刑的人的 权利的保障措施Salvaguardias para garantizar la protección de los derechos de los condenados a la pena de muerte
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Death Penalty Cases: Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment
By David McCord / Barry Latzer / Butterworth-Heinemann, on 1 January 2010
2010
Book
United States
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This brand new edition of Death Penalty Cases makes the most manageable comprehensive resource on the death penalty even better. It includes the most recent cases, including Kennedy v. Louisiana, prohibiting the death penalty for child rapists, and Baze v. Rees, upholding execution by lethal injection. In addition, all of the cases are now topically organized into five sections: * The Foundational Cases * Death-Eligibility: Which persons/crimes are fit for the death penalty? * The Death Penalty Trial * Post-conviction Review * Execution Issues The introductory essays on the history, administration, and controversies surrounding capital punishment have been thoroughly revised. The statistical appendix has been brought up-to-date, and the statutory appendix has been restructured. For clarity, accuracy, complete impartiality and comprehensiveness, there simply is no better resource on capital punishment available.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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on 9 September 2022
2022
Document(s)
Poster World day against the death penalty 2024 – 2025
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 12 June 2024
2024
Campaigning
World Coalition
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- Available languages ملصق اليوم العالمي لمناهضة عقوبة الإعدام 2024 - 2025Cartel Día mundial contra la pena de muerte 2024 - 2025پوستر روز جهانی علیه مجازات اعدام 2024 - 2025Affiche journées mondiales contre la peine de mort 2024 & 2025Плакат Всемирный день против смертной казни 2024 - 2025海報 2024 年至 2025 年世界反對死刑日
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ON REDUCING WHITE SUPPORT FOR THE DEATH PENALTY: A PESSIMISTIC APPRAISAL
By Steven F. Cohn / Steven E. Barkan / Criminology and Public Policy, on 1 January 2005
2005
Article
United States
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As Soss et al. (2003) point out, whites are the most influential racial groupand support the death penalty much more than blacks do. In the 2002GSS, 69.8% of whites favored the death penalty, compared with only42.1% of blacks. If white support for the death penalty was as low as blacksupport, it would be much more difficult for the Supreme Court to believethat “evolving standards of decency” had not evolved against capitalpunishment.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate,
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Smart on Crime: Reconsidering the Death Penalty in a Time of Economic Crisis
By Death Penalty Information Center / Richard C. Dieter, on 1 January 2009
2009
NGO report
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The death penalty in the U.S. is an enormously expensive and wasteful program with no clear benefits. All of the studies on the cost of capital punishment conclude it is much more expensive than a system with life sentences as the maximum penalty. In a time of painful budget cutbacks, states are pouring money into a system that results in a declining number of death sentences and executions that are almost exclusively carried out in just one area of the country. As many states face further deficits, it is an appropriate time to consider whether maintaining the costly death penalty system is being smart on crime.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Financial cost,
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Leaflet 10.10.10: The Death Penalty Casts a Shadow on Democracy
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2010
2010
Arguments against the death penalty
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Information leaflet about the 2010 World Day on the USA. This leaflet provides information on the death penalty in the USA, 10 arguments to end the death penalty and 10 things you can do to abolish the death penalty.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Brochure 10.10.10 : La Peine de Mort Assombrit la Démocratie
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Japan: Hanging by a thread: Mental health and the death penalty in Japan
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2009
2009
NGO report
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The use of the death penalty is in decline globally. Japan is one of the few industrialized countries to continue to use it, hanging a small number of prisoners each year. This report discusses the legal basis for exempting mentally ill prisoners from the death penalty and documents the situation faced by such prisoners on death row in Japan. It calls on the authorities to ensure that mentally ill prisoners are not executed and to implement a moratorium on the death penalty.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Mental Illness,
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The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2010
By Rick Lines / Patrick Gallahue / Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2010
2010
NGO report
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The report is the first detailed country by country overview of the death penalty for drugs, monitoring both national legislation and state practice of enforcement. Of the states worldwide that retain the death penalty, 32 jurisdictions maintain laws that prescribe the death penalty for drug offences. The study also found that in some states, drug offenders make up a significant portion – if not the outright majority – of those sentenced to death and/or executed each year.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Drug Offences,
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Philippines: March 2018 National Survey on Public Perceptions on the Death Penalty
By Social Weather Stations (SWS), on 1 January 2018
2018
NGO report
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This is the main finding of the March 2018 National Survey on Public Perception on the Death Penalty, conducted by Social Weather Stations (SWS) for the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHRP). This is the first survey in the Philippines to explore thought processes and disentangle layers of perceptions about the death penalty. It did face-to-face interviews of 2,000 respondents aged 15 and above nationwide during the period March 22 to 27, 2018.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Public opinion, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Moving away from the death penalty
By Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) , on 1 January 2015
2015
International law - United Nations
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The present publication provides an extensive review of global trends in death penalty matters, a summary of the applicable international legal standards, and the current status of legislative reform related to the death penalty in South-East Asia. As a product of the OHCHR Regional Office for South-East Asia, this publication is intended to be a resource for further discussions in the region toward the abolition of the death penalty.
- Document type International law - United Nations
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
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SHAMS Center issues a report on the status of death penalty in the Palestinian territories: in 2017
By Human Rights & Democracy Media Center (SHAMS), on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
State of Palestine
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In this report, SHAMS emphasizes that in Palestine they apply inconsistent legal combination of laws that punish with death penalty, which are not Palestinian laws basically.The problem is that capital punishment violates against an essential human right, and it is irreversible once executed. It doesn’t represent a public deterrent so; it is nothing but a form of violence not a solution for it.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list State of Palestine
- Themes list Death Penalty,
- Available languages مركز “شمس” يصدر تقريراً حول واقع عقوبة الإعدام في الأراضي الفلسطينية في العام 2017
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The Bahamas: Death Penalty Joint Stakeholder Report for the United Nations Universal Periodic Review
By The Advocates for Human Rights, on 1 January 2017
2017
NGO report
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- Document type NGO report
- Themes list International law, Member organizations, Death Penalty,
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The Death Penalty: The Ultimate Punishment
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2008
2008
Campaigning
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Campaigning toolkit published by Amnesty International. A 16-page detailed advocacy document explaining why the abolition of the death penalty is necessary and how the theories behind capital punishment get it wrong.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Korean : 사형제도 극단적 형벌La Peine de Mort: Le Châtiment SuprêmeLa Pena de Muerte: El Castigo Máximp
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Fair Trial Rights and Their Relation to the Death Penalty in Africa
By Lilian Chenwi / International and Comparative Law Quarterly, on 1 January 2006
2006
Article
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A fair trial is a basic element of the notion of the rule of law, and the principles of ‘due process’ and ‘the rule of law’ are fundamental to the protection of human rights. At the centre of any legal system, therefore, must be a means by which legal rights are asserted and breaches remedied through the process of a fair trial in court, as the law is useless without effective remedies. The fairness of the legal process has a particular significance in criminal cases, as it protects against human rights abuses. Hence, constitutional due process and elementary justice require that the judicial functions of trial and sentencing be conducted with fundamental fairness, especially where the irreversible sanction of the death penalty is involved.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Fair Trial,
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The Last Holdouts: Ending the Juvenile Death Penalty in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yeman
By Human Rights Watch, on 1 January 2008
2008
NGO report
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In this 20-page report, Human Rights Watch documents failures in law and practice that since January 2005 have resulted in 32 executions of juvenile offenders in five countries: Iran (26), Saudi Arabia (2), Sudan (2), Pakistan (1), and Yemen (1). The report also highlights cases of individuals recently executed or facing execution in the five countries, where well over 100 juvenile offenders are currently on death row, awaiting the outcome of a judicial appeal, or in some murder cases, the outcome of negotiations for pardons in exchange for financial compensation
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Juveniles,
- Available languages آخر المعاقلالقضاء على عقوبة إعدام الأحداث في إيران والمملكة العربيةالسعودية والسودان وباآستان واليمن
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Mandatory Justice: Eighteen Reforms to the Death Penalty
By The Constitution Project, on 1 January 2001
2001
NGO report
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One major goal of these recommendations is to create additional safeguards against the endemic tendency of decision-makers in the criminal justice system to “pass the buck.” The system is far too lax in catching errors and injustices in part because many of those who might catch these errors and injustices do not fully understand their own duty to ensure that a death sentence is the appropriate punishment. Several of these recommendations are addressed to those who occupy critical roles in the capital punishment system, including the defense attorney, the prosecutor, the jury, the trial judge, and the reviewing courts. They emphasize that each, individually, has the responsibility to ensure, to the best of his or her ability, that justice is done.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Networks,
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Report of the General Secretary of the United Nations 2013
By United Nations, on 1 January 2013
2013
International law - United Nations
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The report contains information on the question of the death penalty, and reports that the international community as a whole is moving towards the abolition of the death penalty in law or in practice. Nevertheless, a small number of States have continued to use the death penalty and in many instances, int ernational standards guaranteeing the protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty were not fully respected. Thereport also discusses the continued difficulties in gaining access to reliable information regarding executions, and issues related to the hum an rights of children of parents sentenced to the death penalty or executed.
- Document type International law - United Nations
- Themes list Death Penalty,
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Death Qualification in Black and White: Racialized Decision Making and Death‐Qualified Juries
By Craig Haney / Mona Lynch / SSRN, on 1 January 2018
2018
Academic report
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Death qualification has been shown to have a number of biasing effects that appear to undermine a capital defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to a fair jury. Attitudes toward the death penalty have shifted modestly but consistently over the last several decades in ways that may have changed the overall impact of death qualification. Specifically, the very large gap between black and white Americans’ current support for capital punishment raises the question of whether death qualification procedures disproportionately exclude African Americans from capital jury participation. In order to examine this possibility, we conducted two countywide death penalty attitude surveys in the California county that has the highest percentage of African American residents in the state. Results show that death qualification continues to have a number of serious biasing effects—including disproportionately excluding death penalty opponents—which result in the significant underrepresentation of African Americans. This creates a death‐qualified jury pool with the potential to be significantly more likely to ignore and even misuse mitigating factors and to rely more heavily on aggravating factors in their death penalty decision making. The implications of these findings for the fair administration of capital punishment are discussed.
- Document type Academic report
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California People of Faith
on 30 April 2020
The California People of Faith (CPF) is a nonprofit organization 501, based in Los Angeles in the United States. CPF is an interfaith organization which advocates for alternatives to the death penalty in California and throughout the United States. CPF coordinates grassroots affords via chapters located throughout California, organizing Faith-based communities to resist corrosive temptation […]
2020
United States
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Fédération Syndicale Unitaire (FSU)
on 30 April 2020
The United Trade-Union Federation (FSU) brings together 22 national trade unions in the fields of education, teaching, research, culture, training and social integration. They represent the majority or a large proportion of workers in their professional fields. FSU unites these national trade unions by combining diversity, pluralism and unity. Its characteristic organisational innovation is to […]
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Grief, Loss, and Treatment for Death Row Families
By Sandra Joy, on 5 December 2013
2013
Book
Murder Victims' Families
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The families of death row inmates are rarely considered in public discourse regarding the death penalty. They have largely been forgotten, and their pain has not been acknowledged by the rest of society. These families experience a unique grief process as they are confronted with the loss of their loved one to death row and brace themselves for the possibility of an execution. Death row families are disenfranchised from their grief by the surrounding community, and their; mental health needs exacerbated as they struggle in isolation with the ambiguous loss that comes with the fear that the state will kill their loved one.
Grief, Loss, and Treatment for Death Row Families describes the grief that families experience from the time of their loved one’s arrest through his or her execution. In each chapter, Sandra Joy guides the reader through the grief process experienced by the families, offering clinical interventions that can be used by mental health professionals who are given the opportunity to work with these families at various stages of their grief. The author conducted over seventy qualitative interviews with family members from Delaware who either currently have a loved one on death row or have survived the execution of their loved one. Delaware was chosen because though it has a relatively small death row, it is ranked third in the nation with its rate of per capita executions. This book provides an in-depth awareness of the grieving process of death row families, as well as ways that professionals can intervene to assist them in healing. With increased awareness and effective clinical treatment, we can ensure that the families of death row inmates are forgotten no more.
- Document type Book
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families
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Note verbale dated 28 July 2015 from the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
By United Nations, on 8 September 2020
2020
United Nations report
Antigua and Barbuda
Bangladesh
Botswana
Brunei Darussalam
China
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Egypt
Ethiopia
Guyana
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq
Jamaica
Kuwait
Libya
Malaysia
Moratorium
Nigeria
Oman
Pakistan
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Trinidad and Tobago
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
Zimbabwe
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The permanent missions to the United Nations in New York listed below have the honour to refer to General Assembly resolution 69/186, entitled “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty”, which was adopted by the Third Committee on 21 November 2014 and subsequently by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014 by a recorded vote. The permanent missions wish to place on record that they are in persistent objection to any attempt to impose a moratorium on the use of the death penalty or its abolition in contravention of existing stipulations under international law, for the following reasons:
- Document type United Nations report
- Countries list Antigua and Barbuda / Bangladesh / Botswana / Brunei Darussalam / China / Democratic People's Republic of Korea / Egypt / Ethiopia / Guyana / Iran (Islamic Republic of) / Iraq / Jamaica / Kuwait / Libya / Malaysia / Nigeria / Oman / Pakistan / Qatar / Saudi Arabia / Singapore / Sudan / Syrian Arab Republic / Trinidad and Tobago / United Arab Emirates / Yemen / Zimbabwe
- Themes list Moratorium
- Available languages مذكرة شفوية مؤرخة 28 تموز/يوليه ٢٠١٥ موجهة إلى الأمين العام من البعثة الدائمة لمصر لدى الأمم المتحدةNota verbal de fecha 28 de julio de 2015 dirigida al Secretario General por la Misión Permanente de Egipto ante las Naciones UnidasNote verbale datée du 28 juillet 2015, adressée au Secrétaire général par la Mission permanente de l’Égypte auprès de l’Organisation des Nations UniesВербальная нота Постоянного представительства Египта при Организации Объединенных Наций от 28 июля 2015 года на имя Генерального секретаря2015年7月28日埃及常驻联合国代表团给秘书长的普通照会
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The Grass Beneath His Feet: The Charles Victor Thompson Story
By Roger Rodriguez / AuthorHouse, on 1 January 2008
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
Document(s)
Seven Winters in Teheran
By Steffi Niederzoll, on 24 March 2023
2023
Multimedia content
Gender
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Women
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In the summer of 2007, an older man approaches Reyhaneh Jabbari and asks the architecture student who has a side job as an interior decorator for her help in the design of offices. During the site inspection, he tries to rape her. Reyhaneh stabs him in self-defence. She is arrested for murder and sentenced to death. Reyhaneh was to spend the next seven years in prison while her family hired lawyers and made the public aware of the case. However, in spite of the efforts of national and international politicians and human rights organisations, the Iranian judiciary continued to cite the “right of blood-revenge”. This meant that, as long as Reyhaneh did not withdraw her accusations against the man, his family could demand her death. Reyhaneh stuck to her testimony and was hanged at the age of 26.
In her moving and shockingly topical documentary debut, director Steffi Niederzoll uses among other things original audio and visual material that was smuggled out of Iran. This film, in which Holy Spider actor Zar Amir Ebrahimi lends Reyhaneh her voice, makes visible the injustice in Iranian society and portrays an involuntary heroine who gave her life in the fight for women’s rights.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Themes list Gender / Women
- Available languages Sept hivers à Téhéran
Document(s)
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
Document(s)
How States Abolish the Death Penalty
By International Commission Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2013
2013
International law - Regional body
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This document reviews the processes towards abolition of capital punishment through studying the experiences of 13 States. Drawing on these lessons and experiences, the document provides guidance to States on how to abolish the Death penalty.
- Document type International law - Regional body
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Penalty,
- Available languages Как госуда́рствa отменяют смертная казньComment les Etats abolissent la peine de mortLa abolicion de la pena de meurte en los estados
Document(s)
Poster 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 12 June 2023
2023
Campaigning
World Coalition
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- Document type Campaigning / World Coalition
- Available languages 2023 ملصق اليوم العال مPoster Spanish – 2023 Día Mundial contra la Pena de MuertePoster Farsi 2023 – بیستمین روز جهانی علیهمجازات مرگPoster 21ème Journée Mondiale contre la peine de mortPoster Russian 2023 — 21-Й ВСЕМИРНЫЙ ДЕНЬ БОРЬБЫ ПРОТИВ СМЕРТНОЙ КАЗНИPoster Chinese 2023- 第21个世界反对死刑日
Document(s)
The Contemporary American Struggle with Death Penalty Law: Selected Topics and Cases
By Jerome A. Cohen / New York University (NYU), on 1 January 2013
2013
Arguments against the death penalty
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The U.S.-China Death Penalty Reform Project of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute (USALI) at New York University School of Law is a product of cooperation between USALI and Chinese experts during the recent period of death penalty law reform in China and the U.S. It includes the full text of USALI’s U.S. death penalty law casebook, The Contemporary American Struggle with Death Penalty Law: Selected Topics and Cases, in English and Chinese, and an online forum for discussion and questions.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list International law,
Document(s)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: No return to execution – The US death penalty as a barrier to extradition
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
United States
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This document examines the issue of extradition and the death penalty in the United States. It looks at the emergence of death penalty clauses in extradition treaties and laws and gives examples of specific cases in the US where extradition has either prevented the application of the death penalty or been circumvented to allow individuals to be sentenced to death.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Extradition,
- Available languages الولاية المتحدة الأمركية : لا عودة الى الاعدام - العقوبة الاعدام في امريكة كحاجز لالتسليمESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA : Que no se envíe a nadie a la ejecución: La pena de muerte en Estados Unidos como barrera frente a la extradición
Document(s)
Joint Statement: The death penalty for drug-related offences
By Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2015
2015
Multimedia content
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Joint Statement signed by Amnesty International, Anti Death Penalty Asia Network, Harm Reduction International, International Drug Policy Consortium, Penal Reform International and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty to highlight to Member States of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the preparatory Board of the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs the continued use by some countries of the death penalty for drug-related offences despite clear restrictions set out in international law.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Drug Offences,
Document(s)
Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2016: The Year in Review
By Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2016
2016
NGO report
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TCADP reviews the death penalty situation in Texas in 2016: The State of Texas executed seven people in 2016, the lowest number of executions in two decades. Seven other individuals with execution dates received reprieves from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. It was only the second time since the resumption of executions in 1982 that no African-Americans were put to death in Texas.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Discrimination, Intellectual Disability, Death Penalty, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
The Death Penalty Worldwide – Developments in 2003
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
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This document covers significant events concerning the death penalty during the year 2003. Subjects covered in this document include significant judicial decisions; the use of the death penalty against the innocent; reductions and expansions in the scope of the death penalty; moratoria on executions and commutations of death sentences
- Document type NGO report
- Available languages La peine de mort dans le monde : évolution en 2003La pena de muerte en el mundo: noticias del año 2003
Document(s)
A Crisis of Confidence: Americans’ Doubts About the Death Penalty
By Death Penalty Information Center / Richard C. Dieter, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
United States
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According to a national public opinion poll conducted in 2007, the public is losing confidence in the death penalty. People are deeply concerned about the risk of executing the innocent, about the fairness of the process, and about the inability of capital punishment to accomplish its basic purposes. Most Americans believe that innocent people have already been executed, that the death penalty is not a deterrent to crime, and that a moratorium should be placed on all executions.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Public opinion,
Document(s)
STOP CHILD EXECUTIONS! Ending the death penalty for child offenders
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2004
2004
NGO report
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International law prohibits the use of the death penalty for crimes committed by people younger than 18, yet some countries continue to execute child offenders or sentence them to death. Although executions of child offenders are few compared to the total number of executions in the world, they represent a complete disregard by the executing states of their commitments under international law, and an affront to all notions of morality and decency when it comes to the protection of children – one of the most vulnerable groups in society. This document describes the use of the death penalty against child offenders worldwide and its prohibition under international law.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Juveniles,
- Available languages HALTE À L'EXECUTION DE MINEURS DELINQUANTS!Eliminar la pena de muerte para delincuentes juveniles
Document(s)
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: The Impact on Women
By Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
More details See the document
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Women, Drug Offences, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Exile and Embrace: Contemporary Religious Discourse on the Death Penalty
By Northeastern / Anthony Santoro, on 1 January 2013
2013
Book
United States
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With passion and precision, Exile and Embrace examines the key elements of the religious debates over capital punishment and shows how they reflect the values and self-understandings of contemporary Americans. Santoro demonstrates that capital punishment has relatively little to do with the perpetrators and much more to do with those who would impose the punishment. Because of this, he convincingly argues, we should focus our attention not on the perpetrators and victims, as is typically the case in debates pro and con about the death penalty, but on ourselves and on the mechanisms that we use to impose or oppose the death penalty.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Religion ,
Document(s)
Singapore: The death penalty – A hidden toll of executions
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
Singapore
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More than 400 prisoners have been hanged in Singapore since 1991, giving the small city-state possibly the highest execution rate in the world relative to its population of just over four million people. This report examines the use of the death penalty for drug offences, murder and firearms offences. It emphasizes the cruel and arbitrary nature of the death penalty and shows how it has been imposed on the most marginalized or vulnerable members of society including drug addicts, the poorly educated, the impoverished or unemployed, and migrant workers.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Singapore
- Themes list Transparency, Foreign Nationals,
- Available languages Singapore: Taux d'exécutions : un secret bien gardé
Document(s)
Indian Movie on the Death Penalty: Dhananjoy
By Book My Show, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
India
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The story is based on the conviction Dhananjoy, accused for the gruesome murder of Hetal Parekh, which took place in the year 1990. On the basis of circumstantial evidence and on the basis of the deceased mother’s statement, Dhananjoy Chatterjee- a security guard, was executed and hanged to death on the early hours of 15th August 2004, after serving imprisonment for 14 long years and after having appealed to all levels of court in the country; and finally, to the President of India.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list India
- Themes list Public opinion, Innocence, Death Row Conditions, Discrimination, Death Penalty,
The-Power-of-Example-Whither-the-Biden-Death-Penalty-Promise-
on 21 July 2022
2022
Document(s)
Uzbekistan: Unfair trials and secret executions: Summary of the report “‘Justice only in heaven’ – the death penalty in Uzbekistan”
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
Uzbekistan
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This document provides a summary of the report “Uzbekistan: “Justice only in heaven” – the death penalty in Uzbekistan” (EUR 62/011/2003).
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Uzbekistan
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages OUZBÉKISTAN : Procès iniques et exécutions tenues secrètesUzbekistán: Juicios sin garantías y ejecuciones secretas : Este documento es un resumen del informe de Amnistía Internacional titulado “Justice only in heaven” - the death penalty in Uzbekistan
Document(s)
RESOLUTION 1097 (1996) on the abolition of the death penalty in Europe
By Council of Europe / Parlamentary Assembly, on 1 January 1996
1996
Regional body report
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The Parliamentary Assembly recalls its Resolution 1044 (1994) on the abolition of capital punishment. It welcomes the complete abolition of capital punishment in Italy, Spain, Moldova and Belgium during the last two years, which provide an excellent example for other countries to follow.
- Document type Regional body report
- Themes list International law,
Document(s)
HRI makes two submissions on human rights and drug control to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2018
2018
NGO report
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On May 18th HRI submitted information to the OHCHR, feeding into a report that the human rights body will present at the next session of the Human Rights Council, on the implementation of the 2016 UNGASS Outcome Document (entitled “joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem with regard to human rights”).The first contribution, submitted jointly with the World Coalition against the Death Penalty (WCADP), focuses on the death penalty for drug offences, building on our 2017 Global Overview. The second submission, dedicated to harm reduction as a core component of the right to health, analyses global trends related to the availability, accessibility and funding of harm reduction services, also highlighting the specific challenges faced by subjects in detention.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list International law, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
ARBITRARINESS: Getting a Death Sentence May Depend on the Budget of the County
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 1 January 2014
2014
NGO report
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Whether the death penalty will be sought in a murder may depend more on the budget of the county in which it is committed than on the severity of the crime, according to several prosecutors. A report by the Marshall Project found that the high costs of capital cases prevent some district attorneys from seeking the death penalty.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
The Forgotten Population: A Look at Death Row in the United States Through the Experiences of Women
By American Civil Liberties Union, on 1 January 2004
2004
NGO report
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This report — the first-ever national survey of women currently on Death Row — found that women who have been sentenced to death are often subjected to harsh living conditions, including being forced to live in virtual isolation, and many are sentenced for crimes that don’t result in a death sentence for men.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Women,
Document(s)
The ‘Shocking Truth’ About the Electric Chair: An Analysis of the Unconstitutionality of Electrocution
By Dawn Macready / Ohio Northern University Law Review, on 1 January 2000
2000
Article
United States
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Cruel and unusual punishment, as prohibited by the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution, encompasses punishment that amounts to torture and barbarity, cruel and degrading punishment not known to the common law, and punishment so disproportionate to the offense as to shock the moral sense of the community. Thus, contained in the Eighth Amendment is a fundamental respect for humanity. For the imposition of a death sentence, the trier is constitutionally mandated to take into account the character and record of the individual offender and the circumstances of the particular offense. What constitutes cruel and unusual punishment?
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Electrocution,
Document(s)
The Death Penalty In 2018: Year End Report
By Death Penalty Information Center / Death Penalty Information Centre, on 1 January 2018
2018
NGO report
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New death sentences and executions remained near historic lows in 2018 and a twentieth state abolished capital punishment, as public opinion polls, election results, legislative actions, and court decisions all reflected the continuing erosion of the death penalty across the country.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Death penalty abolition, Death penalty as inhuman and degrading treatment
By European Court of Human Rights, on 1 January 2012
2012
International law - Regional body
More details See the document
Factsheet regarding cases concerning the Death Penalty
- Document type International law - Regional body
- Themes list International law,
Document(s)
How States abolish the death penalty 2nd Edition
By International Commission Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018
2018
International law - United Nations
More details See the document
This publication briefly describes the experiences of 26 countries and 3 USA states as they moved towards abolition of the death penalty. These Case Studies are drawn from 27 countries from all regions of the world. This publication is an updated and enlarged version of ICDP’s 2013 publication How States Abolish the Death Penalty.
- Document type International law - United Nations
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Sentencing Alternatives, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Singapore: Cooperate or die: Singapore’s flawed reforms to the mandatory death penalty
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
Singapore
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Singapore has recorded a significant reduction in its use of the death penalty in recent years, with executions dropping from more than 70 per year in the mid-1990s to single figures in the subsequent decade. Despite this progress, the death penalty in the country continues to be used in violation of international law and standards, particularly with respect to its mandatory application and use for drug-related offences.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Singapore
- Themes list Mandatory Death Penalty, Member organizations, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Public Opinion on the Death Penalty
By Cornell Law School, on 1 January 2018
2018
Article
More details See the document
Public officials in retentionist or de facto abolitionist countries often invoke public support for the death penalty as one of the reasons why they do not promote abolition. A closer look at this justification, however, reveals some common flaws. This note offers a critical assessment of public opinion polls on the death penalty and suggests tools to properly gauge the level of public support for the death penalty.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Poster – 13th Wold Day against the death penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Multimedia content
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Poster of the 13th Wold Day against the death penalty dedicated to drug crimes: the death penalty doesn’t stop drug crimes
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Drug Offences, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages German : Poster - 13° Welttag gegen die TodesstrafeItalian : Poster - 13° Giornata mondialeپوستر - روز جهانی سال 2015плакат - Всемирный день 2015г海報 - 2015 年世界反死刑日Cartel - Día Mundial 2015Affiche Journée Mondiale 2015
Document(s)
Facts Law Enforcement Should Know About the Death Penalty
By Death Penalty Focus, on 8 September 2020
Working with...
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A leaflet detailing the facts that law enforcement should be aware of; how the system prolongs suffering of the victim’s family, mistakes that have been made, the uneven application of the death penalty – these amongst other topics are explored to inform law enforcement about the facts of the death penalty.
- Document type Working with...
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
World Day Against the Death Penalty Report 2007
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2007
2007
Campaigning
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World Coalition Report: No to the Death Penalty! The World decides 10 October 2007 World Day against the Death Penalty. The actions of the world coaltion and their iniatives during the World Day 2007 campaign can be found in this report.
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Networks,
- Available languages Rapport de la Journée Mondiale Contre la Peine de Mort 2007
Document(s)
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.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Networks,
Document(s)
The death penalty worldwide: developments in 2002
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2003
2003
NGO report
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This paper covers significant events concerning the death penalty during the year 2002. Other subjects covered in this paper include significant judicial decisions; important studies; the use of the death penalty against the innocent; reductions in the scope of the death penalty; moratoria and commutations; and moves to restrict appeals in capital cases.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Statistics,
- Available languages La peine de mort dans le monde : Evolution en 2002La pena de muerte en el mundo: noticias del 2002
Document(s)
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam: The death penalty – recent developments
By Amnesty International, on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
Viet Nam
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This document contains information about the recent developments in Vietm Nam regarding the death penalty. Amnesty International welcomes the reduction in the number of offenses punishable by the death penalty. However, the organization remains concerned that there is still a broad range of offenses which are punishable by the death penalty.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Viet Nam
Document(s)
Alternatives to the Death Penalty
By Death Penalty Focus / Alternatives to the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2008
2008
Arguments against the death penalty
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In every state that retains the death penalty, jurors have the option of sentencing convicted capital murderers to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The sentence is cheaper to tax-payers and keeps violent offenders off the streets for good. The information is California specific.
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
- Themes list Sentencing Alternatives,
Document(s)
Final Declaration 6th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), on 1 January 2016
2016
Multimedia content
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The participants to the 6th World Congress against the death penalty have handed over their final declaration, calling again for the universal abolition of the death penalty.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Available languages Déclaration finale 6ème Congrès mondial contre la peine de mort
Document(s)
The Death Penalty Failed Experiment: From Gary Graham to Troy Davis in Context
By Diann Rust-Tierney / McKinney & Associates, on 1 January 2012
2012
Book
United States
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A new book published in electronic format, The Death Penalty Failed Experiment: From Gary Graham to Troy Davis in Context by Diann Rust-Tierney, examines the problem of arbitrariness in the death penalty since its reinstatement in 1976. Through an analysis of the cases of Gary Graham and Troy Davis, the author argues that race, wealth and geography play a more significant role in determining who faces capital punishment than the facts of the crime itself.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Arbitrariness,
Document(s)
2016 World day against the death penalty
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2016
2016
NGO report
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On 10 October 2016 Amnesty International joins the global abolitionist movement in marking the 14th World Day Against the Death Penalty, whose focus on the use of the death penalty for terrorism-related offences is timely. While armed and other violent attacks are not a new phenomenon, recent years have seen repeated high-profile violent attacks – in many cases against a backdrop of political instability and conflict – that have sent shockwaves throughout the world.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list International law, Deterrence , World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Annual Report On The Death Penalty In Iran 2017
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) / Iran Human Rights (IHR), on 1 January 2018
2018
NGO report
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The 10th annual report on the death penalty by Iran Human Rights (IHR) provides an assessment and analysis of the death penalty trends in 2017 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.The report sets out the number of executions in 2017, the trend compared to previous years, charges, geographic distribution and a monthly breakdown of executions.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Death Penalty,
- Available languages Rapport Annuel sur la peine de mort annuel en Iran 2017
Document(s)
Report : Third World Congress Against the Death Penalty
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), on 1 January 2008
2008
NGO report
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Participants in the Third World Congress Against the Death Penaltyin Paris have repeated again and again that the universal abo-lition of the death penalty is underway. The work carried outin Paris 2007 has clearly shown it: an irreversible downwardtrend in the number of death sentences and executions is vis-ible worldwide. Above all an increasing number of nations haveabandoned this useless and cruel practice.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
- Available languages Actes : 3e Congrès mondial contre la peine de mort
Document(s)
Indonesia: A briefing on the death penalty
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2004
2004
NGO report
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This briefing follows the first executions in Indonesia in more than three years. Ayodhya Prasad Chaubey, an Indian national convicted of drug-trafficking in 1994, was executed by firing squad. Two Thai nationals, Saelow Prasert (m) and Namsong Sirilak (f), who had been sentenced to death in the same case, were executed on 1 October 2004. A total of at least 54 people are currently believed to be under sentence of death in Indonesia, 30 of them for drug-related offences. Amnesty International is concerned that these recent developments reflect an increasing willingness by the authorities to use the death penalty to address crime, in particular drug-trafficking. The organization is also concerned about calls to expand the number of crimes for which the death penalty may be imposed.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Networks, Statistics, Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages Indonesian : Indonesia: Urusan tentang pidana mati
Document(s)
Unjust and unfair: The death penalty in Iraq
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2007
2007
NGO report
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Since the reintroduction of the death penalty in August 2004 more than 270 people have been sentenced to death in Iraq. Iraq now figures among the countries with the highest numbers of executions reported in 2006. Amnesty International is concerned that many of those sentenced to death by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq did not receive a fair trial. Amnesty International calls on the Iraqi government to immediately establish a moratorium on executions with a view to total abolition of the death penalty.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
- Available languages ل عدل فيها ول إنصاف: عقوبة العدام في العراقLa peine de mort en Irak: un châtiment injuste et iniquePena de muerte en Irak: arbitraria e injusta
Document(s)
The Death Penalty in Botswana: Hasty and Secretive Hangings – International Fact Finding Mission
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), on 8 September 2020
2020
NGO report
Botswana
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This report determined that the death penalty remains a sensitive and secretive issue in Botswana. The authorities are reluctant to encourage public debate about the death penalty and its possible abolition. There is a total lack of transparency in the actual execution process of the death sentence. The hasty way in which most recent hangings have been carried out, further cast doubt upon the willingness of the Government of Botswana to seriously address this issue.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Botswana
- Themes list Transparency, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
PROCEEDINGS – 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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Six months after the 7th World Congress against the Death Penalty, ECPM is proud to announce the publication of the Proceedings of the Brussels Congress. This unpublished, documented and illustrated book reports on the rich debates held during the Congress and discusses the new associative and political dynamics promoted in this context.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Member organizations, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
The Death Penalty and Intellectual Disability: A Guide
By Edward Polloway / AAIDD- American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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In the 2002 landmark decision Atkins v. Virginia 536 U.S. 304, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that executing a person with intellectual disability is a violation of the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment,” but left states to determine their own criteria for intellectual disability. AAIDD has always advocated against the death penalty for people with intellectual disability and has long provided amicus curiae briefs in Supreme Court cases. Thus, in this comprehensive new book published by AAIDD, notable authors in the field of intellectual disability discuss all aspects of the issues, with a particular focus on foundational considerations, assessment factors and issues, and professional concerns in Atkins assessments.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability,
Document(s)
Exoneration and Wrongful Condemnations: Expanding the Zone of Perceived Injustice in Death Penalty Cases
By Craig Haney / Golden Gate University Law Review, on 1 January 2006
2006
Article
United States
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In this article I argue that despite the very serious nature and surprisingly large number of these kinds of exonerations revelations about factually innocent death-sentenced prisoners represent only the most dramatic, visible tip of a much larger problem that is submerged throughout our nation’s system of death sentencing. That is, many of the very same flaws and factors that have given rise to these highly publicized wrongful convictions also produce a more common kind of miscarriage of justice in capital cases. I refer to death sentences that are meted out to defendants who, although they may be factually guilty of the crimes for which they were placed on trial, are not “death worthy” or “deserving” of the death penalty. This includes the many who, if their cases had been handled properly by competent counsel at the time of trial and adjudicated in a fairer and more just system, would have been sentenced to life instead.
- Document type Article
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Innocence,
Document(s)
Uganda: Challenging the Death Penalty
By International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) / Thomas Lemaire / Eric Mirguet / Mary Okosun, on 1 January 2005
2005
NGO report
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The general feeling of NGOs and abolitionists in Uganda is that the most pressing issue is the situation of ordinary prisoners, while the death penalty as administered by the military should be addressed at a second stage. The questions relating to the military are sensitive issues in Uganda, which might also explain that position. The focus of the present report is consequently mainly on the death sentences pronounced by ordinary criminal courts.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
‘A “Most Serious Crime”? – The Death Penalty for Drug Offences and International Human Rights Law’
By Rick Lines / Amicus Journal, on 1 January 2010
2010
Article
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An in-depth analysis of the international law ramifications of applying the death penalty for drug offences. It reviews the the ‘most serious crimes’ threshold for the lawful application of capital punishment as established in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It then explores the question of whether drug offences meet this threshold by examining the issue through the lenses of international human rights law, the domestic legislation in retentionist states, international narcotics control law, international refugee law and international criminal law. The article concludes that drug offences do not constitute ‘most serious crimes’, and that executions of people for drug offences violates international human rights law.
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- Themes list Drug Offences, Most Serious Crimes,
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Bahrain The Death Penalty Joint Stakeholder Report for the United Nations Universal Periodic Review
By The Advocates for Human Rights, on 1 January 2017
2017
NGO report
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- Document type NGO report
- Themes list International law, Member organizations, Death Penalty,
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PROTOCOL TO THE AMERICAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
By Organization of American States, on 1 January 1990
1990
Regional body report
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Article 1The States Parties to this Protocol shall not apply the death penalty in their territory to any person subject to their jurisdiction.
- Document type Regional body report
- Themes list International law,
- Available languages PROTOCOLO A LA CONVENCIÓN AMERICANA SOBRE DERECHOS HUMANOS RELATIVO A LA ABOLICIÓN DE LA PENA DE MUERTE
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Is the Death Penalty an Asian Value?
By Sangmin Bae / Asian Affairs, on 1 January 2008
2008
Article
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Since World War, a growing number of countries around the world have joinedthe movement to abolish capital punishment. Asia remains the exception and ithas been argued by some Asian leaders that the abolition of capital punishmentis in conflict with “Asian values” and that the abolitionist argument constitutesan illegitimate interference in what is essentially a domestic concern. Thisarticle reviews the death penalty in the context of international human rightsand examines the Asian values argument. Reviewing the teachings of Confuciusand other Asian philosophers, it suggests that the ongoing use of the deathpenalty in Asia is not rooted in intrinsic cultural traditions, but in fact is tiedto internal political decisions. The Asian values argument has been largelyused as a means to maintain political legitimacy, and not anything inherent tocultural factors.
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- Themes list Networks,
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Indecent and internationally illegal: The death penalty against child offenders
By Amnesty International, on 1 January 2002
2002
NGO report
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This report gives details of the national picture of the execution of juveniles, looking particularly at how two key decisions of the US Supreme Court have widened the gap between the USA and most other countries on this issue. The report examines the arguments used by those who oppose the execution of juvenile offenders and provides an overview of the international situation on the use of the death penalty against child offenders.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Juveniles,
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Bylaws of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 November 2020
2020
World Coalition
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- Available languages Statuts de la Coalition mondiale contre la peine de mort
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AEDPA Repeal
By Brandon L. Garrett & Kaitlin Phillips, on 1 September 2022
2022
Academic report
Terrorism
United States
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Given how pressing the problem has become, and the real interest in reforms to promote access to justice, this article takes a different tack than prior habeas reform work: to restore habeas corpus to its pre-AEDPA and pre-Rehnquist court state, in which a federal court can review claims and reach their merits. The approach would preserve flexibility at the district court level and remove the many layers of procedural complexity that the Supreme Court and then Congress have erected. We believe that deep changes are needed, and in that, we agree with judges and scholars that have for some time proposed such changes in the writ. As we describe, AEDPA was enacted as a culmination of more than two decades of complex Supreme Court law that had already limited access to federal habeas corpus. While AEDPA incorporated some of those procedural rulings, the concern would be that should AEDPA be repealed, even in part, those court-made restrictions could be interpreted to supplant AEDPA restrictions. Clear statutory language will be needed to ensure that the Court does not frustrate Congress, as it has in the past, by supplementing statutory text in order to limit constitutional remedies. We do not mean to suggest that the various proposals set out here are exhaustive. Our goal is to promote careful considerations of alternatives to the present-day set of federal habeas corpus statutes and accompanying judicial interpretation.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Terrorism
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The Hidden Death Tax: The Secret Cost of Seeking Execution in California
By Natasha Minsker / American Civil Liberties Union, on 1 January 2008
2008
NGO report
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California taxpayers pay at least $117 million each year at the post-conviction level seeking execution of the people currently on death row, or $175,000 per inmate per year. The largest single expense is the extra cost of simply housing people on death row, $90,000 per year per inmate more than housing in the general prison population. Executing all of the people currently on death row or waiting for them to die naturally – which will happen first – will cost California an estimated $4 billion more than if all the people on death row were sentenced to die of disease, injury or old age.
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- Themes list Networks, Financial cost,
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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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Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
By David Garland / Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, on 8 September 2020
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.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Networks,
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Death Penalty Lessons from Asia
By David T. Johnson / Franklin E. Zimring / Asia-Pacific Journal, on 1 January 2009
2009
Article
China
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Part one of this article summarizes death penalty policy and practice in the region that accounts for 60 percent of the world’s population and more than 90 percent of the world’s executions. The lessons from Asia are then organized into three parts. Part two describes features of death penalty policy in Asia that are consistent with the experiences recorded in Europe and with the theories developed to explain Western changes. Part three identifies some of the most significant diversities within the Asian region – in rates of execution, trends over time, and patterns of change – that contrast with the recent history of capital punishment in non-Asian locations and therefore challenge conventional interpretations of death penalty policy and change. Part four discusses three ways that the politics of capital punishment in Asia are distinctive: the limited role of international standards and transnational influences in most Asian jurisdictions; the presence of single-party domination in several Asian political systems; and the persistence of communist versions of capital punishment in the Asia region.
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- Countries list China
- Themes list Death Penalty,
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Religion and the Death Penalty
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 8 September 2020
2020
Arguments against the death penalty
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In recent years, a growing number of religious organizations have participated in the nation’s death penalty debate. The purpose of this Web page is to provide access to information regarding the efforts of these faith groups and to highlight recent developments related to religion and the death penalty.
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Mass Injustice: Statistical Findings on the Death Penalty in Egypt
By Reprieve, on 1 January 2019
2019
NGO report
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This report, Mass Injustice, presents the Egypt Death Penalty Index (“the Index”), a first-of-its-kind website and statisticaldatabase on Egypt’s application of thedeath penalty. The report provides background information on Egypt’s growing unlawful application of the death penalty, and explains how the Index was compiled.
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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Trial and Errors : The Texas Death Penalty
By Lisa Maxwell / AMITI, on 1 January 2013
2013
Book
United States
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TRIAL & ERROR takes a thorough look at the most controversial issues of the Texas Death Penalty that have raised questions of fairness and equality. Read words of inmates on death row in interviews conducted by the Amiti Organization, then judge for yourself whether the Death Penalty is administering justice or injustice.
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- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
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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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- Themes list Religion ,