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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 ...
Jared Lee Loughner, the young man facing a death sentence for the now infamous shootings in Tuscon, Arizona in the USA earlier this year, was ruled incompetent to stand trial earlier this week. There is a good discussion on the issue from NPR. Competency is a fascinating and disturbing issue in the US death penalty system. Here at Reprieve we are big fans of Slate and their US legal commentator Dahlia Lithwick and I recommend checking them out for stories on US judicial issues, including an article on Loughner earlier this year.
If you’ve been paying attention to the ...
Pharmaceutical company Lundbeck - best known these days for supplying drugs used in the execution of prisoners in the US - is apparently looking for a new public relations manager
Whether this indicates that the scale of the PR problem - you can read about it in the media around the world, from the FT to the AP - means that they now need extra staff, or that the manager of Lundbeck’s communications has simply had enough and left, is not clear.
Either way, we’ve had a quick read through the summary of the job description, and suggest that, for the sake ...
My name is Nicole Baltus and I am from Germany. I was the close Friend of Mister Cary Kerr, in Texas, for nearly 3 years.
Cary was executed on May 3rd, 2011, by the State of Texas. Texas could do it, because Texas had got the lethal injection drug from your company Lundbeck.
On Wednesday April 27, 2011 I started my trip to Texas. I wanted to spend the last days and hours with my best friend Cary.
No one, not even Cary's attorneys have really thought that Cary will be executed. So we had all of the big ...
Clive Stafford Smith is among those to have received correspondence from the non-existent Mrs E Adams of 10 Downing St - of Have I Got News For You and BBC News fame...
Edward Earl Johnson was executed in a Mississippi gas chamber 24 years ago today, on 20 May 1987.
Edward, a young African American convicted of the murder of a white police officer, spent 7 years on the Mississippi state penitentiary’s death row before he was executed at the age of 26. He protested his innocence to the end, claiming that his confession had been forced out of him by police, who took him to the woods to question him and threatened to kill him on the spot.
The award-winning documentary Fourteen Days in May tells the story of the ...
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