Article(s)
Opening up the debate in countries with the death penalty
By Penal Reform International, on 19 September 2011
On 19 and 20 September, World Coalition member organisation Penal Reform International (PRI) is bringing 120 people from retentionist countries to London to discuss global trends towards abolition of the death penalty.
2011
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Public Opinion
Syrian Arab Republic
United Kingdom
Article(s)
Former death row warden turns frontline abolitionist
on 6 June 2011
Jeanne Woodford, who used to oversee excutions in California, has become the executive director of the prominent anti-capital punishment organisation Death Penalty Focus.
2011
Death Row Conditions
Public Opinion
United States
Article(s)
The future of the death penalty in the United States
on 27 March 2011
Governor Pat Quinn’s signing abolition into law last week in Illinois has reopened the debate on the death penalty throughout the country. Several states are currently considering abolition.
2011
Public Opinion
United States
Article(s)
An uncertain future for the infamous San Quentin prison
on 26 March 2011
The death row facility of California at San Quentin finds itself at the center of a fierce debate over the future of a hugely expensive and increasingly unpopular death penalty system.
2011
Death Row Conditions
Public Opinion
United States
Article(s)
From death row to elusive freedom
By Ron Keine, on 26 October 2010
Ron Keine, an exonerated former prisoner turned activist, shares his story so that the United States may one day join the rest of the civilized world in abolishing the death penalty.
2010
Death Row Conditions
Innocence
United States
Article(s)
California’s moratorium holds
on 11 October 2010
A few days out from the World Day Against the Death Penalty, California has decided not to resume executions. A shortage of one of the drugs used for lethal injections gives death row inmates and abolitionists more time to continue the legal battle.
2010
Clemency
Mental Illness
Moratorium
United States
Article(s)
Hands Off Cain names Jean Ping “Abolitionist of the Year”
on 27 July 2010
World Coalition member organisation Hands Off Cain will on July 31present Jean Ping, the chairman of the African Union Commission, with its 2010 award.
2010
Italy
Article(s)
“Young people over 13 will understand”
on 28 February 2010
Wen-Yu Weng (19), a student and debating coach from Thailand who attended the World Congress workshop on educational strategies, thinks young teenagers are mature enough to understand the death penalty debate – just like she did.
2010
Thailand
Article(s)
“Academics can enable activists with technology”
on 28 February 2010
Luis Arroyo Zapatero is the head of the Institute for European and International law at the University of Castilla-La-Mancha. In 2009, he kick-started the foundation of the International Academic Network for the Abolition of Capital Punishment.
Moratorium
Women
Article(s)
Victims of crime oppose the death penalty
on 26 February 2010
Parents and friends of those killed fill a growing space in the debate on the death penalty and, increasingly, this is to call for abolition rather than vengeance.
2010
Murder Victims' Families
