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Defending Women and Transgender Persons Facing Extreme Sentences: A Practical Guide
on 14 January 2022
2022
Legal Representation
Legal Representation
Women
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Written by a team including experts in the fields of capital defense, gender rights, gender-sensitive mitigation and the rights of transgender persons, the guide includes sections on gender-based violence, women’s mental health, prison conditions, discrimination in the legal system, working with the media, and how to build a gender-sensitive team. It also includes a step-by-step gender-sensitive interview protocol that builds on resources developed by the anti-violence community and is tailored to the needs of defense teams.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Legal Representation / Women
- Available languages Défendre les femmes et les personnes transgenres confrontées à des peines extrêmes
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Shepherds and Butchers
By Oliver Schmitz, on 1 January 2016
2016
Legal Representation
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South Africa, 1987. When Leon, a white 19-year-old prison guard commits an inexplicable act of violence, killing seven black men in a hail of bullets, the outcome of the trial – and the court’s sentence – seems a foregone conclusion.Hotshot lawyer John Weber reluctantly takes on the seemingly unwinnable case.A passionate opponent of the death penalty, John discovers that young Leon worked on death row in the nation’s most notorious prison, under traumatic conditions: befriending the inmates over the years while having to assist their eventual execution.As the court hearings progress, the case offers John the opportunity to put the entire system of legally sanctioned murder on trial. How can one man take such a dual role of friend and executioner, becoming both shepherd and butcher?Inspired by true events, this is the story that puts death penalty on trial and changes history.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Death Row Conditions, Discrimination, Country/Regional profiles,
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Summaries of Key Supreme Court Cases Related to the Death Penalty
By Capital Punishment in Context, on 1 January 2012
2012
Legal Representation
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Summary of key supreme court cases in the United States, these cases deal with juror problems, the constitutionality of the death penalty and juveniles amongst key cases discussed.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Networks,
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Iran must halt execution of web programmer
By Amnesty International - Canada, on 1 January 2012
Legal Representation
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Saeed Malekpour was sentenced to death in December 2010 following what appears to have been an unfair trial, without access to his lawyer, and amid allegations that he was tortured and forced to confess to crimes which he did not commit. Iran must not execute this web programmer sentenced to death after one of his web programs was used to post pornographic images without his knowledge, Amnesty International said today, as the Iranian authorities continue their crackdown on bloggers and other users of the internet.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Networks,
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The Story of Chiou Ho-shun
By Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty / Ho Chao-ti, on 1 January 2011
2011
Legal Representation
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Chiou Ho-shun, a death row inmate in Taiwan, may be executed at any time. He said, ‘ I hope you can save me, but if it’s too late, please scatter my ashes in the Longfeng harbour, and buy a meatball, come and see me.’
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Torture,
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A Deadly Case of Mistaken Identity
By Sam Olukoya / IPS, on 1 January 2011
Legal Representation
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The worst day of Olaniyi Emiola’s life was Mar. 17, 1998. At least it was for Olaniyi Emiola, 22, the spare motor parts trader. For Olaniyi Emiola, the armed robber, it was a lucky escape as another man with the same name had been wrongly sentenced to death for a crime he committed.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Innocence,
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Getting It Right Project
By Brandon Garret / The Innocence Project, on 1 January 2011
Legal Representation
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Getting it right is a project to learn more about the central causes of wrongful convictions and suggested reforms to prevent future injustice. It analyses the role of eyewitness, forensics, confessions, informants, representation and law enforcement.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Innocence,
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Randall Adams, 61, Dies; Freed With Help of Film
By Douglas Martin / New York Times, on 1 January 2011
Legal Representation
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Randall Dale Adams, who spent 12 years in prison before his conviction in the murder of a Dallas police officer was thrown out largely on the basis of evidence uncovered by a filmmaker, died in obscurity in October in Washington Court House, Ohio. He was 61.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Innocence,
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Anthony Graves: The TT Interview
By Brandi Grissom / The Texas Tribune, on 1 January 2011
Legal Representation
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The state of Texas incarcerated him for nearly two decades — and nearly executed him twice — for murders he didn’t commit. And now, the state is balking at giving him the $1.4 million he’s owed for all the years he spent wrongfully imprisoned.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Innocence,
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The Night I Forgave My Daughter’s Killer
By Marietta Jaeger-Lane / Yes! Magazine / Lynsi Burton, on 1 January 2011
Legal Representation
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How a grieving mother put compassion before vengeance, and found closure along the way.
- Document type Legal Representation
- Themes list Murder Victims' Families,