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World Day Against the Death Penalty (10 October 2003)
On 10 October 2003, the first World day against the death penalty will
take place. This event is launched by the World Coalition Against the
Death Penalty, which gathers international non-governmental organisations
(NGOs), Bar Associations, Unions and local governments from all over
the world. Established by organisations who participated in the first
international Congress against the death penalty (Strasbourg, 2001),
the Coalition aims at encouraging the establishment of national coalitions,
the organisation of common initiatives and the coordination of international
lobbying efforts to sensitize states that still maintain the death penalty.
Source: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
News
Death
Penalty: Cases and developments 2003 (10 October 2003)
World Day Against the Death Penalty: Amnesty International calls for Mobilization
(10 October 2003)
World Day Against the Death Penalty, 10 October 2003 (10 October
2003)
Thailand:
Amnesty International calls on authorities to stop executions (9
October 2003)
Philippines: Children on death row (3 October 2003)
Armenia
ratifies Protocol N° 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights,
abolishing death penalty in peace time (29 September 2003)
Nigeria:
Amina Lawals death sentence quashed at last (25 September 2003)
Uzbekistan:
Government urged not to carry out death sentences in cases under international
appeal (7 July 2003)
USA:
Delma Banks case is a model of death penalty injustice (10 March
2003)
Council
of Europe calls for international rejection of the death penalty
(28 February 2003)
China:
Execution of Tibetan Lobsang Dhondup after unfair trial (28 January
2003)
Amnesty
International campaigns against death penalty in English speaking Caribbean
(20 January 2003)
Turkey
signs protocol banning death penalty in peacetime (15 January 2003)
USA:
Historic Illinois decision must be a first step towards abolition of
the death penalty (13 January 2003)
Largest
commutation of death sentences in modern U.S. history (11 January
2003)
USA:
Indecent and internationally illegal, the execution of child offenders
(25 September 2002)
Jamaica:
Death penalty should not be an election issue (18 September 2002)
OSCE
report confirms trend towards abolition of death penalty (10 September
2002)
USA:
Time to rethink the death penalty - 30 years after landmark court ruling
(28 June 2002)
Worldwide
executions doubled in 2001 (9 April 2002)
Jamaica:
Attorney General's brave stance against the death penalty (22 March
2002)
Useful Links
World
Coalition Against the Death Penalty
The Death Penalty: Questions and Answers 
International treaties to abolish the death penalty:
- Second
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty (1989)
- Protocol No. 6 to the
European Convention on Human Rights (1983)
- Protocol No. 13 to
the European Convention on Human Rights (2002)
- Protocol to the American
Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty (1990)
Council of Europe Theme File on Death Penalty
Amnesty International Website Against the Death Penalty
Amnesty International-USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty
The Death Penalty in the United States (Human Rights Watch)
Death
Penalty Information Center (USA)
European
Coalition Against Death Penalty
International
Death Penalty Abolition Day (10 October)
Selected learning materials
Death
Penalty Curricula for High School
This curriculum addresses history of the death
penalty, arguments for and against, court cases on the death penalty
and additional resources. The site includes two sample units plans for
teachers. Each of the units involves an extensive amount of group work,
simulations, persuasive and individual essay writing, and class participation.
International
standards on the death penalty
This document gives extracts of international and regional instruments
(treaties, declarations) relevant to the abolition or restriction of
the death penalty, arranged by subject. Among other things, the instruments
set forth safeguards and restrictions on the death penalty. The appendix
of this document includes the texts of the relevant sections of the
instruments.
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