Reprieve uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
In a bold statement, Justice Minister Wang Ching-feng said she’d rather take the place of a death row prisoner than sign one execution during her term as minister.
In what many hope will be the beginning of a campaign to make the death penalty illegal in Taiwan; the minister (pictured right) went on to say that the public would agree if she gave a clear explanation of her plans for long-term imprisonment to as opposed to the death penalty.
The minister acknowledged that the existence of capital punishment could make people feel better, but in practice it was unable ...
Three days. Only three days to film nine inspirational women in Great Britain who have agreed to support the fight we have started to save Linda Carty's life on Texas Death Row.
The women are actresses, writers, TV presenters: Martina Cole, Juliet Stevenson, Anna Chancellor, Diane Louise Jordan, Martha Lane Fox, Esther Freud, Margaret Busby, Pauline Melville and Clare Algar (from Reprieve).
Linda is dangerously close to execution, due to the fact that she has had a catastrophically unfair trial. She may face execution as soon as this summer if her last appeal fails. This is why we desperately ...
On 20-21st February Reprieve hosted the first Death Penalty Defence Conference in Pakistan.
We were very privileged to have our recently released client Shabbir Zaib speaking about his time in prison and how his case was transformed by Reprieve. He is photographed below with his Reprieve legal team (from left to right) Sarah Belal, Sultana Noon and myself.
Shabbir is a British national and father-of-three who was arrested whilst on holiday in Pakistan in June 2008. He was accused of the murder of his wife and, following torture by the police, he signed a confession. Reprieve's investigations revealed ...
A man has been executed in North Korea after it was discovered by security officials in late January that he had illegal possession of a mobile phone and had called a defector in South Korea to report rice prices.
The man, named only as Chong, was executed by firing squad after confessing under torture that he had also mentioned living conditions to his friend who had defected to South Korea some years ago.
Although it cannot be confirmed it is believed that Chong is the first person to be executed since the region of Pyongyang implemented a new policy to ...
The men are stretched out on the ground and then repeatedly whipped by officers in turn.
It was not a stunning piece of investigative journalism, involving hidden cameras and inside informants. It took place in full public view, suggesting that these crimes are so endemic that police officers see no need to hide them.
Here at Reprieve, we know that this video does not depict an isolated, or even rare, incident. Many of the prisoners we help in Pakistan have been subjected to varying degrees of mistreatment and torture.
Naheem Hussain (pictured, right) who has been in prison for over ...
A wrongly convicted man, who died while on death row in Texas in 1999, was given a posthumous pardon on Tuesday.
The tragedy of wrongful convictions is highlighted once more in the Lone Star State.
Governor Rick Perry gave Texas’ first posthumous pardon to former death row prisoner Tim Cole. Having languished in a cell for thirteen years Cole died of an asthma attack in 1999. He was sentenced to death in 1986 for the rape student Michelle Malin but had always proclaimed himself to be innocent.
Mr Cole’s case offers a window into the shockingly lax and unjust ...
Charles Dean Hood, sentenced to death by a Judge who was having an affair with the prosecuting attorney, has been granted a new trial by the US Supreme Court.
Reality, we find on frequent occasions, is stranger than fiction. Often, too, the truly bizarre stories are those involving sex. Bang on trend, the Texas Legal system, not to be outdone by footballers and golfers, has thrown up a sex scandal of its own. And it is a story no self-respecting author would make up, for fear of being abandoned by their readers; an audience must be able to suspend disbelief ...
European countries on Wednesday stepped up pressure for a global halt to the death penalty, as opponents of capital punishment hailed the growing number of countries scrapping or suspending executions.
More than 1,000 people attended the 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty February 24-26, 2010, in Geneva. The Congress was organized by the French NGO Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort in partnership with the Swiss Confederation and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, with the objective to build strategies to help abolish the death penalty.
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, created in Rome in ...
Linda Carty, a 51 year old British national will be executed by the state of Texas within the next few months unless her appeal to the Supreme Court for a retrial is successful.
The plea was filed on Friday 26th February in Washington DC and announced via a press conference in London, in which Reprieve was delighted to have bestselling Crime writer Martina Cole and British filmmaker Steve Humphries give their support to the battle to save Linda from her terrible plight.
Reprieve is appealing to the British Public and Government to do what they can to prevent Linda ...
Time Magazine gave long-time death penalty attorney David Dow a platform to air his views on the capital punishment system this week.
“I tell people that if you’re going to commit murder, you want to be white and you want to be wealthy – so that you can hire a first class lawyer – and you want to kill a black person.”
This is Dow’s opinion on the US capital punishment system. It is a system in which he has been embroiled for the past twenty years.
His is an assessment hard to refute, then. Dow’s statement highlights the ...
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