Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
To commemorate the anniversary of Ruth Ellis's execution, I will be tweeting live at the Litweeter Festival – part of the London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre – at 2.30 afternoon.
Today is the 55th anniversary of the death of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain. Ruth’s case provoked widespread public outrage – over 50,000 people signed a petition for clemency – and is now considered a pivotal moment in the campaign for the abolition of the death penalty in the UK. In 1965 the Murder (Abolition of the Death Penalty) Act suspended the death ...
On Thursday 8th July, Lord Faulkner asked the government in the House of Lords what representations had been made to US authorities about reprieving Linda Carty.
Baroness Neville-Jones, the Minister of State for Security, responded that the Lib-Con coalition was as staunchly opposed to the death penalty as its predecessor, and that the government is “committed to using all appropriate influence to prevent the execution of any British national”.
Lord Thomas of Gresford, a Liberal Democrat, then put three very interesting questions to the Minister:
“Is the Minister aware that Mexico and Germany took the United States to the International ...
Last week the Alabama Supreme Court set an execution date for Holly Wood, a man who was convicted of killing his former girlfriend Ruby Lois Gosha in 1993 and sentenced to death, despite the fact that he has an approximate IQ of 59 – the score for a person of normal intelligence is around 100.
In federal court, the judge threw out the death sentence on the basis that Wood’s lawyer had failed to tell jurors of his client’s serious mental impairment. The Alabama justice system is severely underfunded and only $1,000 was allotted to Wood's defence ...
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The catch is, the prison will not accept media sent from ...
Two of Reprieve’s toughest projects have turned a corner this week: our court battle over torture policy, and our call for a full public inquiry into allegations of complicity in torture by the British secret services.
On Monday, Reprieve’s ‘torture policy’ litigation forced the Coalition government to commit to creating new guidelines for British secret agents.
In our application for judicial review, we told the court why current secret guidelines may have allowed our secret services to be complicit in the torture of prisoners abroad. We asked the judge to review the official policy; regulating how MI5/MI6 ...
Lush have given Reprieve a fantastic opportunity to be part of the Glastonbury festival, which starts today.
We will be part of the Veggies exhibition in the Green Futures Field, which will be displaying information about Reprieve, along with a range of other organisations. We’re really excited to be part of this exhibition so, if you’re going, come along and check it out. There will be people there you can chat to about Reprieve’s work, and some information to take away with you as well.
Send us a message from Glastonbury: You can use the laptops at ...
As part of our exciting new project, Reprieve is now gathering evidence of police torture in Pakistan to create a record which the Pakistani authorities can no longer ignore.
This is the anonymous testimony of a victim of torture at Dadyal Police Station - a typical story:
“The policemen would take it in turns, beating us for about 10 minutes, and then those policemen would leave and more policemen would come in and just carry on beating us.
One beat me and then another beat me. They had sticks – like broom handles, about an inch thick, and bamboo canes. They would ...
In a small, chic art gallery in the French Quarter of New Orleans, three men stood on Saturday evening in front of a well-dressed, well-heeled crowd and told their stories.
Greg Bright, tall, chiseled and imposing, Albert Burrell who with his cowboy hat, bolo tie and syrup-thick accent seemed to embody Texas and John "JT" Thompson, bespectacled, enthusiastic and articulate.
John Thompson spent fourteen years on death row in Louisiana's infamous Angola penitentiary, for a crime he did not commit, and lived to tell the tale. Now on top of that great achievement he lives for telling his tale ...
Three minutes past midnight on June 18, Ronnie Lee Gardner was declared dead by a doctor. He was executed by a firing squad for a crime committed 25 years ago. His execution was ‘tweeted’ by the Utah Attorney General who gave the final go ahead.
The juxtaposition of these facts is jarring in today’s world. The choice between firing squad and lethal injection is no longer available -- a sign of how societies change and "evolve". Firing squad has been outlawed as a method of execution in all states except Utah (for cases pre-2004) and Okalahoma (if lethal injection and ...
Peter Cantu was sentenced to death in 1994, along with four alleged companions. They were convicted of taking part in the rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena. Two of the five have already been executed, whilst the two others had their sentences commuted to life after the US Supreme Court barred the death penalty for those who were under 18 at the time of their crimes. When Peter was sentenced to death, he was just 18 years old.
Peter has been on death row for sixteen years. A federal court refused to hear his appeal, despite the ...
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