United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights
Resolution Supporting Worldwide Moratorium on Executions April 1999 [Preliminary unedited version] Question of the death penalty Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/61The Commission on...
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Message from Mary Robinson: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to the Press Conference Organized by the Death Penalty Information Center New York City, USA Tuesday, 12 October...
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Third World Congress Against the Death Penalty
The Third World Congress Against the Death Penalty took place in Paris from February 1-3, 2007. During this time, Paris welcomed hundreds of death penalty experts and activists from around the world,...
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NEW RESOURCE: Religion and the Death Penalty Web Page
The Death Penalty Information Center's new Religion and the Death Penalty Web page is now available online. In recent years, a growing number of religious organizations have participated in the...
View ArticleNEW VOICES: Victims Organizations Issue Joint Statement for National Victims'...
Three organizations whose memberships include family members of murder victims recently issued a joint statement in conjunction with National Crime Victims' Rights Week, which takes place April 22 -...
View ArticleNEW VOICES: Florida League of Women Voters Calls for Halt to Executions
The League of Women Voters of Florida is urging Governor Charlie Crist to continue the moratorium on executions and to consider alternative sentences. In a letter from Florida League President Dianne...
View ArticleSenate Judiciary Committee Hears Testimony on Adequacy of Counsel in Death...
On April 8, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on "The Adequacy of Representation in Capital Cases." Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) presided over the session of the Subcommittee on...
View ArticleEuropean Union Reasserts Its Opposition to the Death Penalty in All Countries...
On June 16, 2008, the Council of the European Union (EU) meeting in Luxembourg released a statement on General Affairs and External Relations. The document contained a restatement of its 1998 Human...
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Professor Anthony Amsterdam Delivers Speech at Southern Center of Human...
Leading attorney, law professor, and advocate Anthony Amsterdam was honored by the Southern Center for Human Rights with the Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award in Washington, DC on October 2....
View ArticleSenator Raymond Lesniak: The Road to Justice and Peace
http://blog.nj.com/njv_raymond_lesniak/2009/02/the_road_to_justice_and_peace.htmlNew Jersey Senator Raymond Lesniak delivered the following speech at the Memorial de Caen International Human Rights...
View ArticleGovernor Bill Richardson Signs Repeal of the Death Penalty
SANTA FE - Governor Bill Richardson today signed House Bill 285, Repeal of the Death Penalty. The Governor's remarks follow: Today marks the end of a long, personal journey for me and the issue of the...
View ArticleNEW VOICES: Medical Society of New Jersey Urges AMA to Oppose Death Penalty
The Medical Society of New Jersey recently approved a resolution calling upon the American Medical Association (AMA) to advocate for the "abolition of capital punishment by each jurisdiction in the...
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Pennsylvania Cost Commission to Consider Expensive Death Penalty System
On Monday, June 7, the Pennsylvania State Government Management and Cost Study Commission will hear from experts on proposals to cut the costs of various government programs. The Commission,...
View ArticleRELIGIOUS VIEWS: Over 150 Catholic Theologians Call for Repeal of the Death...
In response to the executions of Troy Davisand Lawrence Brewer on September 21, over 150 Catholic theologians have signed a statement calling for the abolition of the death penalty in United States....
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DEATH ROW: Former Texas Death Row Inmate Testifies at Congressional Hearings...
On June 19, the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights held hearings on solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, including the conditions of many state death rows....
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LETHAL INJECTION: Manufacturer of Proposed Execution Drug Blocks Its Use
The main supplier to the U.S. of a drug proposed for lethal injections hasannounced it will not allow the drug to be sold for executions. Fresenius Kabi USA, a German-based company with offices in...
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NEW VOICES: Kentucky Human Rights Commission Recommends Death Penalty Abolition
On October 17, the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, a state agency that enforces civil rights, unanimously passed a resolution in favor of ending the death penalty. The Commission urged the...
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INTERNATIONAL: UN Investigator Claims Executions are Increasingly Viewed as...
On October 23, the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Mendez, told a UN General Assembly human rights committee that countries around the world are increasingly viewing capital...
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INTERNATIONAL: U.N. Death Penalty Resolution Backed by Record Number of...
On November 19, 110 countries voted for a resolution at the United Nations General Assembly calling for a worldwide moratorium on executions as a step towards the abolition of the death penalty. The...
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BOOKS: Gil Wanger's Lifetime of Work Against Capital Punishment
The Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment has published a collection of over 40 years of testimony, brochures, and other information by attorney and death-penalty expert Eugene Wanger. The...
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Colorado Governor Indefinitely Stays Execution Over Concerns About Flawed System
On May 22, Governor John Hickenlooper of Colorado granted an indefinite stay of execution to Nathan Dunlap, who was facing execution in August. In his Executive Order, the governor expressed concerns...
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Former Gov. Bill Richardson Issues Human Rights Day Statement on...
December 10 is Human Rights Day, the 65th anniversary of the United Nations' adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To mark this anniversary, formerNew Mexico Governor Bill Richardson...
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Boston Bar Association Announces Opposition to Use of Federal Death Penalty
On January 7, the Boston Bar Association, representing more than 10,000 lawyers, released a statement opposing the use of the federal death penalty. The Association already had a longstanding position...
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King's Daughter Says Death Penalty Perpetuates Cycle of Violence
Bernice King, the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr., encouraged New Hampshire to repeal the death penalty, saying that even though she lost her father and grandmother to murder, "I can’t...
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NEW VOICES: Partner of Murdered New Hampshire Police Officer Now Opposes...
New Hampshire, which is considering a bill to repeal the death penalty, only has one inmate on death row--Michael Addison, who was convicted of killing a police officer. Now that officer's former...
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