PENALTY

CONTENTS
Preface – Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General p.6
Introduction – An Abolitionist’s Perspective, Ivan Šimonović p.8
Chapter 1 – Wrongful Convictions p.22
• Kirk Bloodsworth, Without DNA evidence I’d still be behind bars p.24
• Brandon Garrett, DNA evidence casts light on flaws in system p.30
• Gil Garcetti, In the United States, growing doubts about the death penalty p.39
• Saul Lehrfreund, Wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice
in death penalty trials in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia p.48
Chapter 2 – Myth of Deterrence p.66
• Carolyn Hoyle & Roger Hood, Deterrence and public opinion p.68
• Jeff Fagan, Deterrence and the death penalty in international perspective p.84
Chapter 3 – Discrimination p.100
• Damien Echols, The terrors of prison fade slowly p.103
• Stephen Braga, Damien Echols and the West Memphis Three Case p.107
• Stephen Bright, Imposition of the death penalty upon the poor, racial
minorities, the intellectually disabled and the mentally ill p.115
• Arif Bulkan, The death penalty in the Commonwealth Carribean:
Justice out of reach? p.130
• Usha Ramanathan, The death penalty in India: Down a slippery slope p.150
• Alice Mogwe, The death penalty in Botswana: Barriers to equal justice p.170
• Innocent Maja,The death penalty in Zimbabwe: Legal ambiguitites p.180
Chapter 4 – Values p.184
• Sister Helen Prejean, Death penalty: victims’ perspective p.187
• Mario Marazziti, World religions and the death penalty p.192
• Nigel Rodley, The death penalty as a human rights issue p.204
• Christof Heyns & Thomas Probert, The right to life and
the progressive abolition of the death penalty p.214
• Paul Bhatti, Towards a moratorium on the death penalty p.227
Chapter 5 – Leadership p.234
• Federico Mayor, Leadership and the abolition of the death penalty p.236
• Mai Sato, Vox populi, vox dei? A closer look at the ‘public opinion’
argument for retention p.250
• H.E. Mr. Didier Burkhalter, Federal Councilor and Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, Leadership through dialogue p.259
• H.E. Mr. Tsakhia Elbegdorj, President of Mongolia,
Mongolia honours human life and dignity p.266
• Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International
Development of France, Towards universal abolition of the death penalty p.268
• Mohamed Moncef Marzouki, former President of the Republic
of Tunisia, Challenges related to abolition of the death penalty in
Arab and Islamic Countries: Tunisia’s model p.272
• Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, President of the Council of
Ministers of the Italian Republic, The role of leadership p.276
• H.E. Dr. Boni Yayi, President of the Republic of Benin,
A fight for the progress of humanity p.282
Chapter 6 – Trends and Perspectives p.284
• Salil Shetty, Global death penalty trends since 2012 p.286
Afterword, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights p.295
Acknowledgements p.297