Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
In India, Judges who inspected a jail where executions are carried out, have first hand knowledge of the agony and horror that a condemned prisoner is subjected to every day.
Reviewing the situation of 26 mercy petitions submitted to the President of India, the Supreme Court has noted that some of the condemned had been on death row for decades.
"In addition to the solitary confinement and lack of privacy with respect to even daily ablutions, the rattle on the cell door heralding the arrival
of the Jailor with the prospect [of his being] the harbinger of bad news, a ...
Further to the recent news that the State of Texas have almost certainly put to death an innocent man (see Cameron Todd Willingham's story), the ACLU has just published an article raising more doubts as to how many innocents sentenced to death have actually been executed.
John Holdridge and Christopher Hill write: "There have almost certainly been at least nine others, and possibly many more given the flaws in our criminal justice system revealed by the recent explosion in DNA exoneration. These include Carlos DeLuna, Ruben Cantu, Gary Graham, Larry Griffin and, perhaps, Sedley Alley names no doubt unfamiliar ...
According to the China Daily, a total of 86,800 kidney transplants, 14,643 liver transplants, 882 heart and lung transplants and more than 220 transplants of other organs have been carried out in China.
Official estimates indicate that, in fact, 1.5 million Chinese people need organ transplants each year, but only 10,000 operations are performed because of a severe shortage of donors.
After it surfaced that some hospitals have been performing illegal organ surgery for foreigners, the China Daily recently reported that experts estimate that more than 65% of organ donors comes from death row.
Although Chinese ...
New Vision reports that Luzira Prison is stuck with 17 juveniles sentenced to death who cannot be hanged because of their young age at the time of their offence. Some of them, now adults, have spent 12 years on death row. Their fate is now in the hands of the Minister of Justice.
The law does not allow the execution of any convict who is below 18. Such a person is to be detained in safe custody until the minister decides their fate.
In the case of the 17 juveniles, it is unclear if the minister will order their execution ...
Can there ever be a humane way to execute someone? The case of Romell Broom, described by Giles Whittell in the Independent, makes it even clearer that the answer is no.
Romell Broom was sentenced to death in Ohio some 25 years ago, and was due to be executed by lethal injection yesterday. After some initial delay, the prison authorities (somewhat ironically, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction) attempted to execute him at 2.00pm. The execution was aborted two hours later as they were unable to find suitable veins for the lethal cocktail of drugs.
Thanks to previous ...
The Associated Press reports that an Ohio execution team has failed to put condemned prisoner Romell Broom to death.
Although a medical evaluation had determined that the veins in Broom’s right arm appeared accessible, the execution team struggled for two hours to find a suitable entry point.
After numerous attempts failed, Broom tried to help them bring him a quicker death by pointing out new places on his arms to try to insert the needle. However, witnesses said that Broom appeared to be crying and grimacing in pain with his stomach heaving as workers tried multiple times to establish ...
In a brilliant article, David Mc Neill reports for the Independent on an innocent survivor of the Japanese death row system.
Anyone who still has the slightest doubt as to whether the death penalty is an inhumane punishment should read M. Sakae Menda's story. It adds to the vivid testimonies recounted in a book published earlier this year, revealing the secret lives and unheard voices of people on death row in Japan.
These prisoners are not told their execution date until the day they will be hanged, thus leading them to live in terror that each day could be ...
Harsh new laws in Aceh province include the death penalty for adultery, according to Associated Press in Indonesia.
Adulterers can be stoned to death and homosexuality is punishable by lengthy prison terms under the new legislation, which was passed unanimously by 69 members of Aceh's regional parliament on Monday.
Reprieve and other rights groups are alarmed by the prospect of 'legal' killing in the semi-autonomous province, and even Aceh's deputy governor expressed grave concerns about instituting a new form of capital punishment so swiftly.
The law will take effect within 30 days...
Medical complicity in abusive practices is one of the most disturbing revelations from the CIA 'torture memos'.
Physicians for Human Rights has released a short report – Aiding Torture – that highlights medical complicity in ‘designing, deploying, monitoring and legitimising the program of torture,’ used against prisoners in the so-called ‘war on terror.’ The report is a response to new revelations contained in the recently published CIA Inspector General’s Report of May 2004 and looks at specific techniques such as ‘walling, dietary manipulation and forced shaving’ and their effects.
Reprieve’s clients have often spoken of the key role played by ...
I’ve spent a really fascinating and inspiring week volunteering at Reprieve.
The highlight was Thursday morning, which saw our client Linda Carty engage the press and passers by in Trafalgar Square as she seemingly addressed the British public from Antony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth.
Brian Capaloff, the plinther and friend of Reprieve, dedicated his one hour spot to Linda’s case and just sixty minutes of audio loop and two hundred leaflets generated worldwide media coverage documenting Linda’s plight as she faces her last crucial months. We also had a flood of donations and supportive e-mails to Reprieve ...
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