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

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

Delia Perez-Meyer, an elementary school teacher, has taken a weeklyjourney from the classroom to death row for the past 12 years. She tells of her personal voyage, beginning from a place of frustration to acceptanceand hopeful activism.

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

For the 2013 World Day, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is asking Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago to abolish the mandatory death penalty for all crimes.

• Document type Academic report
• Countries list Barbados
• Themes list Mandatory Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
• Available languages Pétition - Barbade et Trinité-et-Tobago

This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list International law,

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

This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list International law,
• Available languages Evolution de la campagne de ratification 11 - mai 2013

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

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

This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every other month to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.

• Document type Academic report
• Themes list International law, Trend Towards Abolition,
• Available languages Evolution de la campagne de ratification 10 - Mars 2012

Is the Troy Davis case the tipping point on the capital punishment debate? Unfortunately, not until the majority of Americans believes that killing—even an unquestionably guilty murderer—is wrong.

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

For 15 years there have been no executions in South Korea. The film focuses mainly on South Korea through the stories of those directly affected by the death penalty and others outside the country who argue the case for abolition from the perspective of victims’ families, Renny Cushing, Murder Victims Families for Human Rights. It includes testimony from those sentenced to death, a prison warden, the former President of South Korea, Kim Dae Jung, a former prisoner of conscience who was himself sentenced to death and who introduced a moratorium during his presidency. No executions have taken place in South Korea since former President Kim Dae Jung announced his decision. In September South Korea celebrated 5,000 days with no executions.

• Document type Academic report
• Countries list Republic of Korea
• Themes list Country/Regional profiles,