Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
This is an interview undertaken by Reprieve volunteer Emmanuel Purdon with a death row prisoner Anthony Mungin to mark the International Day Against the Death Penalty.
Anthony Mungin has been on death row in Florida since 1993, convicted for a crime in which he has always maintained his innocence. In the course of his correspondence with the free world for the last 16 years, he came across many teenagers, from the US and elsewhere. He has also been helping a specialized institution for many years dealing with troublesome youngsters from the ghetto, in Jacksonville, Florida. At the occasion of the ...
The Dallas Morning news reports of four Texas arson cases under scrutiny, following the highly controversial Willingham case in which respectable fire experts all concluded that evidence used to convict and execute Cameron Todd Willingham was based on debunked science.
It is now widely acknowledged that although Willingham was executed in 2004, he was surely innocent, and four new cases are now under the spotlight:
The police concluded that Willis was guilty, based on a polygraph test, the "evidence" that flammable material had been used, and that the "evidence" that the fire had started in different origin points ...
Professor Abdul-mouti Bayoumi, a leading Muslim scholar in Egypt has called for the death penalty for those caught smuggling into the country a device allowing women to fake their virginity.
He made the demand following reports that the device, currently made in China, had become available on the market in parts of the Arab world for $US15. The device is supposed to release a liquid imitating blood, thus allowing women to possibly feign virginity on their wedding night. It is also meant to be a cheap and easy alternative option to hymen repair surgery, which is carried out in secret ...
Twelve years after he was wrongly convicted for the rape and murder of two sisters, Paco Larranaga has finally been released from the notorious Bilibid prison in Manilla and is being transferred to Madrid today.
Paco has been in Bilibid since he was 18 and spent 9 years on death row before the Philippines commuted all death sentences in 2006. Paco holds dual Spanish and Filippino nationality and his transfer follows a long campaign from the Spanish government, international human rights organisations including Reprieve, his lawyer Sandra Coronel and his family, who despite obstacle after obstacle being thrown in the ...
Twelve years after he was wrongly convicted for the rape and murder of two sisters, Paco Larranaga has finally been released from the notorious Bilibid prison in Manilla and is being transferred to Madrid today.
Paco Larranaga has landed in Madrid where he will appear in court today. His family have been told that he will be transferred to the Basque country, where his father is from, in the next week.
Reprieve welcomes his arrival in Spain and urges Spain to immediately review the legality of his detention in light of the UN's express findings of the number of ...
As yet, President Obama has not outlawed the use of music as a form of torture against prisoners.
“It was pitch black, no lights on in the rooms for most of the time. They hung me up for two days. My legs had swollen. My wrists and hands had gone numb. There was loud music, Slim Shady and Dr. Dre for 20 days. Then they changed the sounds to horrible ghost laughter and Halloween sounds. At one point, I was chained to the rails for a fortnight. The CIA worked on people, including me, day and night. Plenty lost their ...
Today, families all over the world await news of relatives kidnapped by state security forces, trapped in limbo between grief and hope as they wait for news that might never come.
In November 2008, an Iraqi mother called Sabria Jaloob received what she described as a "blessing".
It was the body of her son, Noori, who had vanished during the 1980-88 war between Iraq and Iran and had not been heard of since.
For more than two decades, Sabria did not know whether he was dead or alive, and lived under a shadow of uncertainty as to his fate.
"Now ...
Torture is a powerful word. It conjures up graphic images of abuse that until relatively recently, most British people were more likely to associate with history books or despotic regimes than the government they elected to lead them.
No longer. A cross-party human rights committee from both houses of parliament - the Commons and the Lords - has published a damning report that calls for an independent inquiry into what it describes as the "disturbing number of credible allegations of UK complicity in torture".
No one is suggesting that British intelligence agents tortured anyone themselves. Instead, they are accused of working with ...
In a 2-1 ruling , a 6th Circuit Court of Appeals panel said that upcoming Reynolds' execution should not proceed before a federal court considers the issues with the botched execution of Romell Broom. As a result Gov. Ted Strickland placed a hold on executions of 2 death row inmates.
The court pointed to "serious and troubling difficulties in executing at least three inmates" that raised questions about whether prison officials are "completely adhering to the Ohio lethal injection protocol."
Broom's execution was halted after two hours during which emergency medical technicians failed to find a suitable vein to hook ...
Texas Governor Rick Perry suddenly decided to fire three board members of the state agency, whose investigation into the controversial 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham could help establish that Rick Perry is the first Governor in the US to have signed the death warrant of an innocent man.
The move is compared by critics to Nixon's in the Watergate when Nixon fired the prosecutor Archibald Cox to avoid turning over the Watergate tapes.
The new chairman chosen by Rick Perry, Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley is considered one of the most conservative, hard-line prosecutors in Texas. He ...
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