Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Last night ten top comedians, including Tim Minchin, Stewart Lee and Ed Byrne, came together to ‘stand up’ for Reprieve in front of 1,300 supporters in London’s Lyceum Theatre.
Reprieve Director Clive Stafford Smith opened the night by explaining why the Reprieve stewards were wearing rather fetching orange pants – due to the (unintentionally) comic regulations at Guantanamo Bay that ban prisoners from wearing Speedos and contraband underpants.
The rest of the first act was also pant-wettingly funny (groan-sorry!). First up was Ed Byrne, who launched into an angry rant about sombre Tuesday night crowds making Reprieve very relieved ...
In a surprise manoeuvre, China has released specific rules as to what measures of interrogation will be permitted in order to secure admissible evidence.
Only evidence obtained through “legal means” will be considered in death sentence cases. The two regulations indicate that where evidence is extracted through torture (although there appears to be a marked absence of what constitutes torture in China), it will not be used in testimony. The regulations advise the various states within China how to exclude such evidence.
It is expected (or rather hoped) that the new procedural provisions will enable clearer interpretation of specific laws ...
Chief Medical Examiner, Paul Shrode, has been dismissed from his position within El Paso County, Texas after it was discovered that evidence he had previously provided during a death penalty trial in Ohio was found to be false and without scientific merit.
It was during Richard Nields trial in 1997 that Shrode’s testimony helped to secure a death sentence. It has now been strongly recommended that Nields receive clemency for the conviction.
Digging further into Shrode’s past for further potential misdemeanours it has been revealed that he also made misrepresentations on his CV. Not only did he claim ...
Twelve men stood staring down the barrel of a gun. They stood staring into their inevitable fate with the knowledge that their murderers were not only above the law, they were fully supported by it. All twelve were charged with armed robbery or murder – serious crimes that require serious punishment. But the moment the executioners squeezed the triggers and the twelve bodies collapsed to the ground, a greater crime had been committed.
Seventeen years have passed since the Ghanaian government ordered the execution of 12 men in July 1993. Since then, the use of execution has been imposed, revoked and ...
The legal system in the US is not only racist in selecting those to put to death, but also in the recruitment of jurors where death is on the table. In a new study by the Equal Justice Initiative, jury selection in the south – studied in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee – is racist when prosecutors seek the death penalty.
The New York Times reports:
“Studies have shown that racially diverse juries deliberate longer, consider a wider variety of perspectives and make fewer factual errors than all-white juries, and that predominantly black juries are less likely ...
Win two tickets to Reprieve's comedy nighton 7 June by answering the following Tim Minchin trivia:
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Send entries to cortney.busch@reprieve.org.uk by 10.00am on Friday, 4 June. Please note that Reprieve's decision is final.
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Iran has been strongly urged to reconsider the death sentences passed against two people charged with being “enemies of God”. The call came from European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton who underlined that the EU is “profoundly concerned by the repeated sentencing to death in Iran of people belonging to minorities, as well as of those who were involved in the post-election protests."
Both Zeynab Jalalian and Hossein Khezri are awaiting execution and hope that the recent statements from the EU diplomatic community will hold sway over Iran’s dramatic decision.
In the week preceding five Iranian citizens were ...
Thanks to comedian Robin Ince for this great plug for Reprieve's Comedy Night 2010 on BBC Radio 7.
New allegations have emerged of abuse at a secret US-run prison site hidden within the large Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan.
Mark Arnold was due to be told his fate last week but judgment has been postponed until June 7th.
Originally from Stoke, Mark is currently on trial in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He was arrested on 25 August 2008, following the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend Kerry Winteron 20 August. Police are yet to find a body, but Mark has been charged with premeditated murder.
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