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Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
A recently published study on the cost of capital cases in California, conducted over three years by US 9th Circuit Judge Arthur L. Alarcon and Loyola Law School professor Paula M. Mitchell, reveals that taxpayers have spent roughly $4 billion to fund the death penalty since reinstating it in 1978.
The 714 prisoners currently on death row cost the taxpayer $184 million more per year than those sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
A death penalty prosecution costs up to 20 times as much as a life-without-parole case.
The least expensive death penalty trial costs ...
US drones strikes have caused devastation to innumerable families in the tribal areas of Pakistan by targeting innocents and causing destruction.
Now it seems drones are harming even more individuals than those directly involved in drone strikes. The chemicals used to fire off the drones have led to high numbers in cases of skin diseases, blood cancer and thalassaemia (a group of genetic blood disorders) among the local population.
Dr Anwar Bhittani has noted children exhibiting mental problems because of thaleassaemia and a growing number of people experiencing depression. He warns that health problems and “genetic defects” could become epidemic ...
The ECtHR has today decided that an ECHR jurisdictional link existed between the United Kingdom and individuals killed in the course of security operations carried out by British soldiers during the period May 2003 to June 2004.
This means the European Convention on Human Rights can, in the right circumstances, be extended to whole classes of individuals caught up by a European country exercising public powers’ on the territory of another State.
The law on this has existed for a while, but this judgment confirms that the Court is prepared to actually apply it in circumstances like this; it is ...
Hot on the heels of news that the US is providing Uganda and Burundi with Raven surveillance drones to support their operations in Somalia, the Washington Post reported yesterday that the first drone strike in Somalia allegedly injured two al-Shabab militants last week. As so often with drone reporting, no names were furnished.
Somalia is not the only place where the US appears to be expanding the drone wars. Since targeting Anwar al-Awlaki with a drone strike in Yemen last month, the US has reportedly carried out a further thirteen drone strikes just as reports are emerging that a new ...
Reprieve's campaign to raise support for British grandmother Linda Carty continued last week when we were invited to Lush's first festival in the beautiful surroundings of Holton Lee, Dorset.
Lush has long been an ardent campaigner for justice throughout the world, and has previously called for the rule of law for those suffering in Guantanamo Bay by helping us promote the Fair Trial My Arse campaign throughout their shops in the UK.
Yesterday was all about informing the public on the plight of Linda Carty by using the famous 'mock cell' -- a replica of a typical cell on ...
A couple of weeks ago the German Vice Chancellor Philipp Rösler refused to supply lethal injection drugs when his US counterpart Gary Locke kindly asked him.
"I noted the request and declined," Rösler answered. Simple and effective.
Noting the request is fair enough. It would probably be rude not to. Declining seems only logical and consistent with the strong consensus on the abolition of death penalty in Europe. If you are opposed to something, you probably would not consider being complicit with it, right? And yet, as the Lundbeck story shows, being logical and consistent still has to ...
As of this month in India, it is a matter of judicial discretion as to whether a person facing a successive drug conviction will be put to death.
On Thursday 16th June, whilst I was finishing my A-levels, the Bombay High Court struck down the mandatory element of India's death penalty for repeated drug offences.
Across the world, 32 countries impose capital punishment for offences involving narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. Of these, 13 countries (India having been one) prescribe mandatory sentences for such crimes.
Section 31 A of India's Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (1985) enforced ...
For someone to be held without trial once might be accidental; twice, misfortune; but the third time means he is the victim of persecution. Egypt must set Adel al-Gazzar free at once.
Adel, a former Guantanamo prisoner, was detained in the Cairo airport having finally tried to return home. He has undergone a decade-long ordeal involving torture, detention in legal black holes, and medical malpractice so severe that his leg had to be amputated. It had been 11 years since he had seen his wife and three children. However, the joyous reunion which his family envisioned was snatched from them ...
Recently Iran has elected to pick up the famously unwieldy sword of reciprocity and shield of adherence to mutually agreed international norms and called for the US to unconditionally release its national Shahrzad Mir-Gholikan, who was convicted in 2009 of attempting to export night-vision goggles to Iran.
A major part of that complaint appears to be that the US deprived Shahrzad of her rights under the VCCR to consular notification and access.
Even now the US is coming under strong criticism from India for the farcical wrongful arrest of an Indian diplomat’s daughter. Leaving aside her position in a ...
Uganda’s anti-gay bill has been in the offing for some time but the Ugandan Parliament adjourned last month without passing it.
On 13th May the Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament, in response to intense global pressure, blocked the bill from coming to a vote in the emergency session. At the close of parliament the bill was then wiped from the books, to be resubmitted at the opening of next session. Human rights activists have hailed this as a victory and Parliamentary spokespersons have said that, while the bill will most likely come back for debate in the next session ...
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