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Just in re: Sharif Mobley (pictured right with his daughter)--
This week Harold Koh, legal advisor to the Obama Administration, gave a talk at Columbia Law School. The thesis—Obama’s people had delivered ‘change you can believe in’ in the war on terror. Perhaps recognizing that law students like a clear assignment, he even urged the audience to pass the word on: The New Administration Is Not the Old Administration.
Then a hand went up. What was the administration doing about its duty not to solicit disappearances—or to take part in interrogations that involve torture or CIDT (cruel ...
About halfway through the Angola Prison Rodeo last Sunday, a man drove into the arena and out of his star spangled banner-emblazoned truck jumped three dogs…with live monkeys tied to their backs.
The dogs, “ridden” by the monkeys, proceeded to herd three goats into a red, white and blue pen before the entire merry band leapt back into the truck, cheered on by a delighted crowd. If it wasn’t already, this particularly surreal section made one thing achingly clear: the Angola Prison Rodeo is a circus. There are even “professional rodeo clowns” present to “ensure inmate participant safety ...
Linda Carty is a British grandmother on death row in Texas. She is the victim of a catastrophically flawed trial.
Please find out more about our campaign to help save her life. If you are religious or compassionate, please join our "Sing Amazing Grace for Linda Carty" campaign.
MEPs from across Europe came together this week and voted overwhelmingly for an "unconditional worldwide moratorium on executions" making it clear where Europe stands as the World Day Against the Death Penalty approaches…..
"Death can never ever be considered an act of justice" Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament at the opening of the plenary session on 6 October 2010.
574 MEPs voted in favour of the worldwide moratorium at the voting session on 7 October with 39 abstentions and just 25 opposing the resolution. The vote was scheduled to coincide with the World Day Against the Death Penalty ...
As ‘World Day Against the Death Penalty’ approaches, The Gambia in Western Africa has introduced the death penalty for drug possession.
October 10, 2010 marks the 8th World Day Against the Death Penalty. In contrast, The Gambia, on Monday, amended the Principal Act of the Drug Control and introduced the death penalty for any individual found in possession of more than 250 grams of cocaine or heroine. Previously, the penalty for such possession was a jail sentence lasting 30-40 years.
Edward Anthony Gomez, the Attorney General and minister of Justice, tabled the bill and it received support from both sides ...
Justice John Paul Stevens says he regrets one vote during his time at the Supreme Court – his decision to uphold the death penalty in 1976.
Earlier this year, 90 year old Justice John Paul Stevens announced his retirement at the end of the court’s session in June. He was the longest serving member of the court having sat for almost 35 years.
In his first court session in 1976, Stevens sat on the key case of Gregg v. Georgia in which the court held 7 – 2 to uphold the death penalty. With Justice Stewart and Powell, Stevens concluded that ...
Coffee and croissants, torture and terror. Not my usual choice of breakfast, but certainly a meal to remember…
At 8am this morning, myself and about twenty others gathered at Jones Day law firm to hear Joshua Phillips speak about his new book, None of Us Were Like This Before.
Joshua Phillips is a journalist who has reported extensively on Asia and the Middle East. In this new book, he brings together investigations and interviews carried out with soldiers and detainees in the Middle East and Afghanistan over the course of the so-called “War on Terror”.
What emerges is a fascinating ...
Executions have been halted in several US states this week, not because clemency has been secured, or a moratorium has been called. No, executions are halted because the drug used in the first stage of death by lethal injection has almost run out.
Yes, run out and not expected to be in stock until 2011. Meanwhile state prisons are frantically trying to get hold of the drug as nine states have planned 17 executions before the end of January. It’s like a weird opposite of the Tamiflu crisis, everyone panicking because they can’t get hold of a drug ...
Lawyers representing Guantánamo Bay prisoner Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri have filed a petition against the Polish government, demanding an investigation into CIA torture on Polish soil.
Reprieve is excited by the work of human rights group Open Society Justice Initiative, working on behalf of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi national who was held in a secret CIA “black-site” in Poland, code-named 'Quartz'.
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was captured in November 2002, and held in CIA prisons around the world until he reappeared in Guantanamo Bay in September 2006.
Public documents released through “freedom of information” litigation in the US confirm that ...
Teresa Lewis, whom friends describe as ‘childlike’ and ‘barely capable of buying food at the shop’, was accused of masterminding a murder plot and sentenced to die by lethal injection.
Virginia’s governor, Robert M. McDonnell, who has supported legislation to expand the use of the death penalty, branded Lewis ‘the head of this serpent’, denying her request for clemency on Friday. But Lewis is far from the ‘mastermind’ killer McDonnell suggests.
With an IQ score of just 72, Lewis has the intellectual ability of a 13 year old. If her IQ score had been two points lower, the U ...
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