There are a number of other organisations who can offer a wide range
of advice, resources and assistance on death penalty cases, both in a
general sense, and specifically in the context of capital punishment in
the US.
Amicus was set up in 1992 in memory of Andrew Lee Jones, who was executed in Louisiana in July 1991. The charity aims to help provide legal representation for those awaiting capital trial and punishment in the US and raise awareness of potential abuses of their rights.
Contact details:
Margot Ravenscroft (Executive Officer)
Amicus, PO Box 46101, London, EC4V 6YT
DX 233 Chancery Lane
E: admin@amicus-alj.org
T: 0870 414 1000
F: 0870 777 1773
Abolition UK is a grassroots organisation formed in 2008. They are the only nationwide grassroots organization focused solely on the issue of death penalty abolition. They aim to strengthen the international dimension of the struggle against capital punishment.
They are committed to educating the public about the injustices of the death penalty worldwide through:
• campaigns of public education
• political lobbying
• media outreach
• tactical grassroots activism
• mobilizing communities to act to abolish capital punishment
• promoting alternatives to the death penalty
Contact details:
Abolition UK
PO Box 57844
London SE23 1UW
T: 07505 787 706
The Centre for Capital Punishment Studies is a project funded by the European Commission and the Quintin Hogg Trust, based at the University of Westminster, London. Research is undertaken into a diverse range of issues concerning the Death Penalty.
Contact details:
Peter Hodgkinson
(Director)
Centre for Capital Punishment Studies
School of Law
University of Westminster
4 Little Titchfield Street
London, W1W 7UW
Tel: + 44. 0207.911.5000 [ext.2501]
Fax: + 44. 0207.911.5821
The Death Penalty Project is an international human rights organisation which provides free legal representation to the many individuals still facing the death penalty in the Caribbean and Africa, and works to ensure compliance with regional and international human rights standards.
The project was formerly a project of Simons
Muirhead & Burton, Solicitors, and Penal Reform International, a UK
not-for-profit organisation. The project is now established in its own
right as an independent NGO with a connected charity, The Death Penalty
Project Charitable Trust.” (www.deathpenaltyproject.org). It offers free
legal representation, education and professional training.
Contact details:
Saul Lehrfreund: saul.lehrfreund@smab.co.uk
Parvais Jabbar: parvais.jabbar@smab.co.uk
8/9 Frith Street
Soho
London
ENGLAND
W1D 3JB
+44 (0)20 3206 2748
The Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program is funded entirely by the Government of Mexico. MCLAP attorneys represent the Government of Mexico in pre-trial, appellate, and post-conviction proceedings, and provide litigation support to defense counsel. They also routinely refer defence counsel to competent experts and mitigation specialists, advise defence counsel regarding mitigation themes and investigations in Mexico, and provide sample briefs on a variety of legal issues. Depending on the case circumstances, MCLAP may also file amicus briefs on issues of international law, or provide other resources necessary to ensure Mexican nationals receive vigorous and effective representation.
Contact details:
Gregory J. Kuykendall (Director)
Kuykendall & Associates
531 South Convent Avenue
Tucson, Arizona 85701
Tel. 520-792-8033
Website: http://kuykendall-law.com
Email: greg@kuykendall-law.com
Penal Reform International is an international non-governmental organisation working on penal and criminal justice reform worldwide.
PRI has regional programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the South Caucasus and North America. They also work with partner organisations in South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
PRI seeks to achieve penal reform by promoting:
• the development and implementation of international human rights
instruments in relation to law enforcement and prison conditions
• the elimination of unfair and unethical discrimination in all penal measures
• the abolition of the death penalty
• the reduction of the use of imprisonment throughout the world
• the use of constructive non-custodial sanctions which support the
social reintegration of offenders while taking into account the
interests of victims.”
Contact details:
Penal Reform International (Head Office)
Unit 450, The Bon Marche Centre
241–251 Ferndale Road
London SW9 8BJ
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 20 7924 9575
Email: info@penalreform.org
Death Watch International is a not-for-profit organisation which exists to help promote the campaign against the death penalty and other groups around the world working towards the same goal.
Contact details:
Simon Shepherd
(Founder and Director)
Death Watch International
Suite 642
State House
176 Station Rd
Harrow
HA1 2RH
UK
email: info@deathwatchinternational.org
Amnesty International has done a great deal of valuable work campaigning against the death penalty and is calling for:
• a moratorium on executions throughout the world.
• the abolition of the death penalty for all crimes.
• universal ratification of treaties providing for abolition, including
the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights.
• all countries that retain the death penalty to
comply with their international obligations not to use it against child
offenders.”
Contact details:
Piers Bannister (Death Penalty Team Coordinator)
email: pbannist@amnesty.org
Press Office
Amnesty International
1 Easton Street
London WC1X 0DW
+44 20 7413 5566
Hands Off Cain (Nessuno Tocchi Caino) is a league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide. It was founded in Brussels in 1993. Hands Off Cain (HOC) is a non-profit organisation and a constituent member of the Transnational Radical Party.
Marco Pannella (President and MEP)
Sergio D’Elia (General Secretary and Italian MP)
Via di Torre Argentina 76
00186 Rome
Tel. +39/06/68803848
The International Justice Project works towards the development, coordination and increased employment of international law and human rights standards as they pertain to capital punishment. The project is organized to undertake the following:
• Provide technical assistance and coordinate efforts to promote the employment of international law and human rights standards.
• Liaise between foreign governments and legal counsel on specific cases, providing comprehensive, accurate and timely information. Offer guidance on political and legal strategy when possible foreign governmental intervention is under consideration.
• Share technical legal knowledge and legislative strategy with lawyers, students, international entities, and organizations, becoming a clearinghouse for information, experience and expertise.
• Organize conferences and workshops focused on international law as it relates to the death penalty. These forums will allow for candid, dynamic discussion between the international and domestic communities on the numerous issues involved.
• Establish an internship programme, giving students of human rights and/or international law, especially from those countries where the death penalty is still utilized, the opportunity to spend valuable time working with and assisting the project. Students will be able to broaden their knowledge of general principles of international law as well as the relationship between international and domestic law.”
Contact details:
Anne James (Executive Director)
International Justice Project
6 Allerton Court
Stanhope
Bishop Auckland
County Durham, DL13 2FB
England
email: Billbettuk@aol.com
Tel: +1 (0)1388-527-403
Human
Rights Research acts as a clearing house for information on consular
notification and assistance issues in the context of the death penalty
in the USA offering free information on consular rights issues in death
penalty cases, free additional assistance to pro bono counsel
representing foreign nationals facing the death penalty or in other
cases which raise issues under international law (such as extradition,
deportation or fair trial concerns), including support in the
preparation of motions, appeals and amicus briefs. Drafting applications
to international bodies such as the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights. Clemency campaigning in the cases of foreign nationals or other
prisoners facing execution, including the preparation of campaign
strategies, press releases, publicity coordination etc. Consulting
services for consulates.
Mark Warren is a human rights researcher specialising in the application of treaty law and international human rights standards to US death penalty cases.
Contact details:
Mark Warren
Human Rights Research
1408 Ramsay Concession 1 RR2
Almonte
Ontario K0A 1A0
Canada
613 256 8308
email: aiwarren@sympatico.ca
Transnational Radical Party is an association of citizens, parliamentarians and members of government of various national and political backgrounds who intend to achieve, through nonviolent Gandhian methods, a number of concrete objectives aimed at creating an effective body of international law with respect for individuals and the affirmation of democracy and freedom throughout the world.
TRP is an NGO in general consultative status with ECOSOC (the UN Economic and Social Council).
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty aims to strengthen the international dimension of the struggle against capital punishment. Wherever the death penalty is in force, it contributes to reducing, and where possible definitively abolishing, death sentences and executions.
To do this, the Coalition facilitates the constitution and development of national and regional coalitions against the death penalty, leads lobbying actions towards international organisations and States, and organises events which have an international impact.
In 2003 the Coalition established October 10th as the World Day Against the Death Penalty. Comprising over 60 member organisations, the Coalition was founded in Rome in May 2002.
Contact details:
World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Executive Secretariat:
ECPM
197/199 avenue Pierre Brossolette
92120 Montrouge
France
Tél. : +33 157 212 273
Email: coalition@abolition.fr
Arianna Ballotta (President): arianna@linknet.it
Casella Postale n° 39
80078 Pozzuoli (Na)
Italy
email: info@coalit.org
• No Alla Pena di Morte (Comunità di Sant’Egidio)
The Community of Sant'Egidio is a Christian community officially recognized by the Catholic Church as a 'Church public lay association'. The 'No Alla Pena di Morte' campaign is run out of the association.
Contact details:
Piazza S.Egidio 3/a - Roma - Italia
phone: +39.06/8992234
email: info@santegidio.org
• Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort (Together Against the Death Penalty)
Contact details:
Olivier Déchaud (Founder and President): olivier.dechaud@wanadoo.fr
Cécile Thimoreau (Director): cthimoreau@abolition.fr
197/199 Avenue Pierre Brossolette
92120 Montrouge - France
phone: 01.57.21.22.73
email: redaction@abolition.fr
• ALIVE - Coalition against the Death Penalty (Koalition gegen die Todesstrafe)
ALIVE demands the worldwide abolition of the death penalty through petitions and provides inmate support by publishing pen-pal requests, poetry and prisoner newsletters, and by supporting some individual campaigns.
Contact details:
ALIVE - Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Postfach 1326
46363 Bocholt
Germany
phone: 02871 260515
email: info@alive-gegen-todesstrafe.de
• German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (GCADP)
German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (Initiative gegen die Todesstrafe) directly supports inmates on death row by assisting them in finding effective defence counsel and organizing pen-pal relationships.
The GCADP also endeavours to inform and educate the public about the situation of death row inmates and to raise awareness about the inhumanity of the death penalty.
If an execution in the US is imminent, they send appeals to Governors, Boards of Pardons and the American ambassador in Germany. GCADP also appeals to German politicians to stand out in public against the death penalty and to bring their influence to bear in order to help prisoners on death row, especially German prisoners in those cases in which international law has been violated.
Contact details:
Susanne Cardona (Chairperson)
Bahnhofstr. 40
97944 Boxberg
Germany
email: info@gcadp.org
Lifespark is a Swiss organization founded in 1993. One of its main goals is to arrange pen pal relationships with inmates on death row in the USA - over 1,000 such relationships have been successfully created to date. Lifespark also gets involved in political events and activities against the death penalty. They work to improve the conditions of prisoners on death row and collaborate with other organizations with whom they share common goals.
Contact details:
Lifespark
Postfach
4002 Basel
Switzerland
Evelyne Giordani (President and general information): contactus@lifespark.org
Ines Aubert (German-speaking regional coordination): german@lifespark.org
Evelyne Giordani (French-speaking regional coordination): french@lifespark.org
• Coalition For Truth and Justice
The CFTJ was created in 1999 and has head offices located in Belgium. The organization fights for the human rights of inmates on death row, with a particular focus on equality of treatment.
• Danish Medical Group Against the Death Penalty
The Danish Medical Group Against the Death Penalty was established in 1981 as a subsection of Amnesty International’s Danish Medical Group, in accordance with a proposal put forth by Amnesty’s International Secretariat in London.
The purpose of forming a medical group against the death
penalty was primarily to draw public attention to the fact that
physicians are a party to the passing of death sentences and participate
at executions. The
group is the only medical group of its kind in Amnesty International and
works closely with Amnesty’s International Secretariat in
London.
The group numbers between five and ten members, three of
whom have been members for the entire period. The members of the group
are primarily medical doctors, but nurses have also taken part in the
work.
Contact details:
Amnesty International
Gammeltorv 8, 5. sal
1457 København K
Tel. +45 3345 6565
email: dmgdp@amnesty.dkb
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