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A Torturous Practice: Prohibiting the Death Penalty’s Use Through a Peremptory Norm of International Law
John Bessler - University of Baltimore School of Law
May 4, 2023
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz
Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz
August 5, 2022
"The Laws, Judges, & Judicial System are Anti-Women": Narges Mohammadi on the Death Penalty in Iran
World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
October 10, 2021
Narges Mohammadi: "What can International Entities Do to Help Stop the Death Penalty in Iran?"
World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
October 10, 2021
Interview with Hamed Farmand: "No One Deserves to Experience Injustice"
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
October 1, 2020
Criminal Responsibility and Youth Offenders: A Neuroscientific View
Dr. Robert Griffith, Psy. D.
March 30, 2019
What Happens to Murder Rates when the Death Penalty is Scrapped? A Look at Eleven Countries Might Surprise You
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
December 13, 2018
Majles Rep. Pourmokhtar: 3,000 On Iran's Death Row for Drug Trafficking, Drug Executions Hurt Families and Damaged Iran's Image Internationally
Majles TV, Audio-Visual News Service of the Iranian Parliament / translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
September 3, 2018
After Catholic Church's Renunciation of Death Penalty, What Will the Islamic Establishment Do? Three Iranian Religious Experts Weigh In
Ali Kala'i / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
August 16, 2018
As Religious Authorities Insist on Execution as a Remedy, the People Disavow It
Radio Zamaneh / translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
August 2, 2018
Sociologist: Punishments Ought to be Designed Fairly
ISNA / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
July 29, 2018
Shirin Ebadi: People Don't Want the Death Penalty / Corruption Stems from the Supreme Leader
Radio Zamaneh / translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
July 23, 2018
Iran Chief Public Prosecutor: Punishment Not Enought to Deal with Drugs
HRANA / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
July 3, 2018
12 Years Without an Execution: Is Zimbabwe Ready for Abolition?
Mai Sato
May 22, 2018
Interview with Rashid Williams, Lawyer for Guantanamo Bay Defendant (Video)
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
April 2, 2018
A Former Drug User Speaks : One Face of Iran's War on Drug (Video)
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
March 30, 2018
Access to a Lawyer: A Matter of Life and Death (Video)
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
March 5, 2018
Why Do You Go to Cheer On a Hanging?" An Iranian Cleric Condemns Public Execution (Video)
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
March 5, 2018
Interview with Fulgence Massawe, Tanzanian Constitutional Lawyer (Video)
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
March 2, 2018
Interview with Magdaleno Rose-Avila, Executive Director of Witness to Innocence (Video)
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
March 2, 2018
Interview with Shreya Rastogi, National Law University Delhi Death Penalty Project Researcher (Video)
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
March 1, 2018
Family of Murder Victim Setayesh Ghoreishi: "Executing Murderer Didn't Bring Us a Bit of Peace"
Fatima Ferdows / Partial Translation by ABC
February 17, 2018
Abolitionist Reflections: Roya Boroumand on the Fight Against Capital Punishment in Iran
Amnesty International
December 20, 2017
Halting the Death Penalty in Divine Hodud Punishments from a Practical Expediency Perspective
Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation and Various Iranian Religious Authorities
November 16, 2017
Sunni Religious Law Perspectives on Hodud
Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation
November 16, 2017
Legal and Criminal Analysis of Child Executions in Iran: A Report of the November 2017 Meeting of the Society for the Protection of Children’s Rights
Iran Society for the Protection of Children’s Rights / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
November 14, 2017
Death Penalty Expert Robin Maher: The Importance of Effective Defense for Mentally Ill Defendants
Robin Maher
October 29, 2017
In U.S. State of Georgia, Three Catholic Bishops Oppose Death Penalty for Man who Murdered Priest
Barbara D. King, Director of Communications for the diocese of Savannah
October 26, 2017
Investigating Two Victims of Violence in Iran
Shahrzad Hemmati / Translation by Adorrahman Boroumand Center
October 21, 2017
Pope Francis: Death Penalty an Inhumane Measure that Abuses Human Dignity
Pope Francis I
October 11, 2017
The World Knows Better: Iran's Global Neighbors Who Don't Execute
Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation
October 1, 2017
Majles Rep. Taherkhani: Preventative Measures like Employment Will Reduce Iran's Execution Rate
HRANA
September 10, 2017
Majles Rep. Jahanabadi: Root Cause of Drug Abuse Social and Cultural, Not Addressed through Police Action Alone
Khane-ye Mellat
September 2, 2017
South Africa: After Half a Century, Hanged Anti-Apartheid Activists Identified, Exhumed for Proper Burial and Grieving
Maluti Obuseng
August 31, 2017
Do Public Executions Deter or Spur Violence?
Fereshteh Zeybeyhan
August 27, 2017
Great Majority of Native American Tribes in U.S. Don’t Practice Death Penalty
Felicia Fonseca and Russell Contreras
August 21, 2017
The Fate of the Bill for the Elimination of the Death Penalty for Drug Criminals
Fariba Khan Ahmadi
August 19, 2017
With Majles' Approval, Prison Time to Replace Execution for Some Drug Offenses Meeting Certain Conditions
Sajad Khosrovanian
August 14, 2017
Drug Reform Bill Approved by Majles: Prison Rather than Death for Trafficking Under 50 Kilograms of Opium
Iran Newspaper
August 13, 2017
Should the US Death Penalty Still Exist?
Oliver Pickup
July 30, 2017
Ohio Bishops: Replace Death Penalty with Mercy, Conversion
Catholic News Agency
July 28, 2017
Majles Rep. Jahanabadi: Judiciary Should Announce Statistics on Drug-Related Executions
Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA)
July 23, 2017
Under Pressure from Guardian Council, Majles Changes Drug Reform Measure
Andisheh / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
July 10, 2017
Number of Iranian Addicts Doubles in Past Five Years
Fariba Khan Ahmadi / Partial Translation by ABC
June 25, 2017
Commander Zahedian: Necessary Framework and Infrastructure for Eliminating of Death Penalty for Drug Traffickers not Available
ANA News Agency / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
May 1, 2017
Lex Talionis: An Ancient Principle Limiting Capital Punishment in Abrahamic Faiths
ABF Legal Expert
March 27, 2017
Families of Drug Convicts Gather before Majles in Support of Drug Reform Measure
ILNA
February 25, 2017
Majles Rep. Chupani: Unemployment, Lack of Investment Drive Poverty and Despair in Kurdistan
ILNA
February 21, 2017
Sociologist Abroshan: Iran's "Futile, Non-Scientific, and Reactionary" Drug War Needs Reform
Tasnim / Translation by ABC
February 8, 2017
Majles Rep. Jahanabadi: Drug Execution Law Reform Crucial
ISNA Khorasan Razavi Bureau
January 22, 2017
Free Narges : An Islamic Defense of Universal Human Rights
Zahra Rabani Amlashi/ABF Translation
October 27, 2016
Iranian Religious Scholar Yussefi Eshkevari: A Path Toward Replacing the Death Penalty in Shi'a Religious Law
Deutsche Welle
October 10, 2016
Death Penalty and the Victims
United Nations
September 21, 2016
Tehran University Academic to Ayatollah Ardebili: An Indictment of Drug-related Executions
Mohsen Borhani, Tehran University Faculty Member
August 5, 2016
A Juvenile who Went to the Gallows Four Times but was Ultimately Released
ISNA / translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
May 31, 2016
Expert Conference on Drug Fight: Death Penalty Not Effective, Alternative Punishments Needed
Cafe Houghough
May 11, 2016
Iran's Reckless Narcotic-Related Executions Exemplifies the Failure of this Punitive Approach
Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation/Impact Iran
April 20, 2016
Death Penalty: A Short History
Jean-Marie Carbasse
March 30, 2016
Jewish Leaders Take A Stand Against The Death Penalty
Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz
February 17, 2016
Drug Crimes and the Death Penalty: Fact Sheet
World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
October 1, 2015
Drugs and the Death Penalty: A Report from Open Society Foundation
Patrick Gallahue
October 1, 2015
Deputy Prosecutor General Zebhi: Drug Users who Resist Treatment, Do not Kick Addiction are Criminals
Entekhab News and Analysis
September 30, 2015
Interview with Top Iranian Anti-Drug Official Dr. Ali Hashemi
Fatemeh Isma'ili and Salmaz Khan/Translation by ABC
June 23, 2015
It Is 20 Years Since a Great Anti-Death Penalty Judgement
N. Jayaram
June 5, 2015
Iran Government Report: Addiction Spike, Average Addict Age Drops to 20
Mehr News Agency
February 4, 2015
Sharia Law and the Death Penalty
Michael Mumisa, Dr. Mohammad Habash
January 1, 2015
Majles Representatives: Do Away with Death Penalty for Drug Crimes to Address Root Causes
Quds Online News and Analysis Website
December 15, 2014
Is the Qur'an Opposed to Abolishing the Death Penalty?
Kianush Razaghi
December 13, 2014
Iranian Grand Ayatollahs Weigh in on Public Executions
Iranian students residing in Europe / Nine Shi'a Religious Authorities
October 24, 2014
The Slap of Forgiveness: Interview with a Man Spared at the Gallows
Khabar Online
April 17, 2014
Death Sentences and Executions 2013
Amnesty International
March 1, 2014
Somehow My Children and I Were Executed Along With Alireza: On the Impact of Death Penalty on the Convict's Relatives
The wife of the execution survivor, Alireza M. /ABF translation
February 4, 2014
Can Hodud Punishments Be Carried Out in Our Time? Sadeq Larijani’s Polite Response to His Critics
Jalal Ya’qubi
December 24, 2013
Supremely Bad Reasoning from the Head of the Judiciary
Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari
December 16, 2013
The Death Penalty vs. Human Rights: Why Abolish the Death Penalty?
Amnesty International
October 10, 2013
Lightening the Load of the Parental Death Penalty on Children
Oliver Robinson and Rachel Brett
June 1, 2013
The Qoran and Abolition of the Death Penalty
Saleh Nazari
May 3, 2013
Representing Individuals Facing the Death Penalty: A Best Practices Manual
Death Penalty Worldwide
April 1, 2013
Executions Have No Effect on Drug Crimes: An Expert Critique
Khalil Homayi
November 20, 2012
Don't Execute Me in Public, Don't Look at My Hanging Corpse
Abdolkarim Lahidji
July 2, 2012
Death Sentences and Executions in 2011
Amnesty International
March 27, 2012
The Death Penalty and the Absolute Prohibition of Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Juan E. Mendez
January 1, 2012
Death Sentences and Executions in 2010
Amnesty International
October 10, 2011
Death Penalty, The Ultimate Punishment
Amnesty International
February 16, 2011
Global Moratorium on Executions : Now
Amnesty International
October 1, 2009
Deputy Prosecutor Zebhi: Execution for Trafficking 30 Grams of Heroin with Prior Record
Fars News Agency
June 6, 2008
"There is no God Here": Documented Report on Crimes Committed in Gohardasht Prison
Human Rights Activists in Iran
January 22, 2008
Tehran Province Judiciary Head: Addicts are Criminals, Drug Sentences Harsher Now than in 1980s
Kayhan Newspaper
January 8, 2008
Grand Ayatollah Yussef Sane’ee: Respecting Human Rights Paves Way for Imam of the Age
Ebtekar Newspaper
January 20, 2007
The Death Penalty for Drug Offenses: A Violation of International Human Rights Law
Rick Lines
January 1, 2007
Rising Prison Population Threatens Harm to Individuals, Families, Society
Alef
December 25, 2006
ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST DEATH PENALTY IN THE USA
Revoltes.org
July 26, 2006
Top Anti-Drug Official Ayubi: Judiciary's Lax Conduct Weakens Drug War
Fars News Agency
June 22, 2005
DEATH PENALTY IN THE WORLD
Jean Michel Bloch
January 1, 2002
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS NOT THE RESPONSE TO HOMICIDE
Amnesty International
January 1, 1989