Abolish The Death Penalty
Death Penalty - Amnesty International
The Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty. Although international law says that the use of the death penalty must be ...
Abolish The Death Penalty - Amnesty International USA
Amnesty International USA works to abolish the death penalty by researching the use of executions around the world in order to mobilize & legislate against it.
State by State - Death Penalty Information Center
... abolished the death ... The Death Penalty Information Center provides essential statistics like execution numbers, death row population, and murder rates for each ...
The Abolitionist Movement - Death Penalty Information Center
In 1846, Michigan became the first state to abolish the death penalty for all crimes except treason. Later, Rhode Island and Wisconsin abolished the death ...
Why the Death Penalty should be abolished
The death penalty is incompatible with human rights and human dignity. The death penalty violates the right to life which happens to be the most basic of all ...
Death Penalty | Equal Justice Initiative
In 1972, the Supreme Court struck down the death penalty because it looked too much like “self-help, vigilante justice, and lynch law.” 13 Furman v. Georgia, ...
Abolish The Death Penalty Now | American Civil Liberties Union
Capital punishment is a deeply racist, inhumane, and flawed system. It is past time for our government to put it to an end. I am part of the millions of ...
It's time to repeal the death penalty
Most recently, New Hampshire, Colorado, and Virginia became the latest states to abolish the practice (read AFSC's Arnie Alpert's essay on ...
Some 170 States have abolished or introduced a moratorium on the death penalty either in law or in practice. Despite this abolitionist trend, the death penalty ...
The End of the Death Penalty? - Harvard Law School
Georgia that the death penalty was an unconstitutional violation of the Eighth Amendment ban against cruel and unusual punishment. With that, ...
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
TCADP is the only statewide grassroots advocacy organization dedicated solely to ending the death penalty in Texas.
Capital punishment in the United States - Wikipedia
In 1972, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down capital punishment statutes in Furman v. Georgia, reducing all pending death sentences to life ...
International | Death Penalty Information Center
More than 70% of the world's countries have abolished capital punishment in law or practice. However, the death penalty continues to exist in many parts of the ...
Taiwan: Constitutional Court recognizes fundamental flaws in death ...
As of today, 112 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes and 144 are abolitionist in law or practice. According to figures by ...
Pressley, Durbin Reintroduce Bill to End the Federal Death Penalty
Specifically, the bill would prohibit the imposition of the death penalty as punishment for any violation of federal law and would require the ...
Capital punishment - Wikipedia
History of abolition · Emperor Shōmu banned the death penalty in Japan in 724. · Leopold I, Grand Duke of Tuscany (later Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor), ...
NAACP Reaffirms Its Support of Abolishing the Death Penalty
Be it finally resolved the NAACP reaffirms its support of abolishing the death penalty across the United States and calls for racial equity throughout the ...
The Case Against the Death Penalty | American Civil Liberties Union
In 2009, the American Law Institute (ALI), the leading independent organization in the U.S. producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize and ...
Abolition of the death penalty - The Council of Europe
The Council of Europe played a pioneering role in the abolition of capital punishment. It adopted Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights ...
Innocence and the Death Penalty
These cases powerfully establish that — notwithstanding legislative and constitutional guarantees of increased scrutiny for and oversight of such cases — the ...