Testimony and Statements

Message from Mary Robinson: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to the Press Conference Organized by the Death Penalty Information CenterNew York City, USATuesday, 12 October…

Sep 15, 1999

Historic Illinois Hearings Address Innocence and the Death Penalty

Following a series of celebrated releases of innocent defendants from its death row, Illinois’s House of Representatives held hearings to address the state’s system of capital punishment on September 15 & 16, 1999. Among those who testified were Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking; Mike Farrell, actor and human rights activist; Renny Cushing, Director of Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation; Bryan Stevenson, Director of Equal Justice Initiative; Professor Lawrence…

Sep 15, 1999

Testimony of Richard C. Dieter, Esq. Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center to the Illinois House of Representatives addressing innocence and the death penalty

HISTORIC ILLINOIS HEARINGS ADDRESS INNOCENCE AND THE DEATH…

Apr 28, 1999

Resolution Supporting Worldwide Moratorium on Executions from the United Nations Commission on Human Rights

Resolution Supporting Worldwide Moratorium on Executions April 1999 [Preliminary unedited version] Question of the death penalty Commission on Human Rights resolution…

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International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

Death Penalty: The Torah and Today

Press Release for Senator Russ Feingold’s Introduction of Senate’s First Death Penalty Moratorium Bill

Transcript of Dr. Pat Robertson’s Speech on the Role of Religion and the Death Penalty at The College of William and Mary

The Challenge of Holiness: A Sermon on the Death Penalty

Amnesty International Southern Regional Conference: Orlando, Florida Remarks by Former Florida Chief Justice Gerald Kogan

Mary Robinson, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights — Message to the Press Conference organized by the Death Penalty Information Center for the release of the report, ​“International Perspectives on the Death Penalty”

Historic Illinois Hearings Address Innocence and the Death Penalty

Testimony of Richard C. Dieter, Esq. Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center to the Illinois House of Representatives addressing innocence and the death penalty

Resolution Supporting Worldwide Moratorium on Executions from the United Nations Commission on Human Rights

Mary Robinson, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights — Message to the Press Conference organized by the Death Penalty Information Center for the release of the report, “International Perspectives on the Death Penalty”