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Document(s)

Leaflet – 10th World Day

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Academic report

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The leaflet on the 2012 World Day provides information on the evolution of the abolition of the death penalty in the past ten years and presents the challenges ahead. It also gives arguments against the death penaty.

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Poster – 10th World Day

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

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Poster of the 10th World Day against the Death Penalty:Abolish the Death Penalty. It’s a better world without it.

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Elmer ‘Geronimo’ Pratt dies at 63; former Black Panther whose murder conviction was overturned

By Robert J. Lopez / Los Angeles Times, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

United States


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Elmer G. “Geronimo” Pratt, a former Los Angeles Black Panther Party leader whose 1972 murder conviction was overturned after he spent 27 years in prison for a crime he said he did not commit, has died. He was 63.

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

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MVFHR Asia Speech Tour in Korea & Japan

By Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty / Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights / YouTube, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

Japan

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MVFHR is an organization formed by a group of victim’s family members. They have traveled across the ocean all the way down to Korea, Japan, and Taiwan to share their stories and views on the death penalty with the local victim’s family members, attorneys, and human rights organizations.

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Outlook: The release of Sierra Leone’s longest serving female death row prisoner.

By BBC, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

Sierra Leone


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The release of Sierra Leone’s longest serving female death row prisoner.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Countries list Sierra Leone
  • Themes list Innocence,

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Ratification Campaign Update 9 – October 2011

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

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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.

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Victim’s son objects as Texas sets execution in hate crime death

By Karen Brooks / Reuters, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

United States


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As Texas prepares to execute one of his father’s killers, Ross Byrd hopes the state shows the man the mercy his father, James Byrd Jr., never got when he was dragged behind a truck to his

  • Document type Academic report
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Murder Victims' Families,

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Ratification Campaign Update 8 – August 2011

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

fr
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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.

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Death penalty’s unlikely opponents

By Death Penalty Information Center / Eliott C. McLaughlin, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

United States


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This article reviews several cases where the families of victim’s speak out against the death penalty.

  • Document type Academic report
  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Murder Victims' Families,

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Ratificationt Kit – Cambodia

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


Academic report

Cambodia

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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.