Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
“But, how do they justify that?” This was the question posed by a rather stricken law student after she had watched Love Lived on Death Row, about capital punishment in the USA.
I attended the screening at the request of Abolition UK, a volunteer campaign group. Love Lived was a deeply moving film which showed in the most tragic of ways exactly how the death penalty does nothing other than cause pain to innocent family members and friends of a person sentenced to death. Love Lived told the story of the Syriani family in North Carolina.
In 1990 Elias Syriani ...
Watch Maya Foa explain the vital decision Reprieve expects manufacturer Lundbeck to make so no death row prisoner in the US is executed with an european drug.
Sometime in early 2002, the higher-ups at Guantánamo Bay decided to bring SERE instructors in to train interrogators stationed there. The aim was to teach them methods that could ‘break’ the detainees.
What is SERE? It’s an acronym for Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape training. It was started by the US Airforce in the 1950s in order to train soldiers to maintain ‘honour’ if and when they were captured by “Communist enemies”. It quickly spread to the Army and the Navy as well. Soldiers maintain their honour in captivity by ensuring they tell the enemy nothing more than name ...
Despite the lead prosecutor on Daniel Cook’s case now saying that he would not have sought the death penalty had he known about the abuse and mental illness in his past, Daniel is scheduled to be killed on April 5th using experimental drugs.
On April 5th, 23 excruciating years after he was sentenced to death, Daniel Cook is due to be killed. He will eat his last meal, he will be strapped to a gurney and then, when the time comes, he will be pumped full of enough drugs to slowly and painfully put him to death.
Sadly ...
Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman needed a really good lawyer. Prosecutors claimed to have a mountain of physical evidence and powerful eyewitness testimony against him in a murder case. And they were seeking the death penalty.
Cellmates at the Nashville jail where Abdur'Rahman was being held told him there was only one lawyer to call: Lionel Barrett.
Barrett, they said, never turned down a client in need, no matter how controversial the case was, how bad the facts were and how impossible the defense seemed.
"I never said no," Barrett confirms. "I took cases no one else would. Everyone deserves representation ...
In North Carolina the state Supreme Court was recently asked to consider whether or not a judge was correct to order state officials to revamp the protocol for executions in that state.
Assistant Attorney General Joe Finarelli has argued that the judge had no right to do so because the Department of Corrections was exempt from the state law governing review of administrative procedures.
Litigation about the protocol and about physician participation in executions has stopped executions in the state since 2006. If the state Supreme Court agrees, the case will go back to a lower court to review and ...
Linda Carty is a British grandmother facing execution. She loves to read and was very pleased to receive books from Reprieve supporters when we posted a 'wish list' on our website earlier this year
If anyone would like to send a book, please do send a title of your choice. Please note that books must be ordered at Amazon as this is the only way the prison will accept them in the post.
Books should be sent to:
Linda Carty, # 999406, Mountainview Unit, 2305 Ransom Rd, Gatesville, Texas 76528, USA
Linda also welcomes supportive letters, which must include a return ...
The Middle East domino effect reached Yemen in late January this year when the Yemeni people took to the streets of the capital Sana'a and demanded an end of a decades-long totalitarian regime. With the uprising escalating, Reprieve client Sharif Mobley watched similar unrest unfold within Sana'a Central Prison.
Reporting from within the robust walls of the interment facility - an enormous and imposing building that had me awestruck the first time I visted - Sharif spoke of how on March 7th, around Maghreb prayer time, the prisoners stood in solidarity with their free fellow comrades. They flocked to the ...
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and the Ministry of National Defense (MND) have formally apologised to the family of former air force private Chiang Kuo-ching for their son's wrongful execution.
Kuo-ching was wrongfully executed for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in the R.O.C. Air Force Command Headquarters in Taipei in September 1996. The Air Force team allegedly tortured Chiang Kuo-ching continuously for 37 hours before he finally signed a confession for the crime that the Taipei District Prosecutors Office has now said he never committed.
The family’s lawyer Huang Ta-yuan, who has worked consistently ...
John B. Bellinger III has spoken out on the need for the US to comply with the International Court of Justice’s ruling on its obligations under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
In an opinion piece in the Washington Post the former member of the Bush administration called for legislators, both Republican and Democrat, to authorise the President to review the sentences of 51 Mexicans whose right to consular access had been breached. These individuals were tried and sentenced without being given, or even being informed of their right to, the assistance of a consul from their native country ...
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