Dear Supporter Thank you for supporting our previous events. Australians Against Capital Punishment together with the Julian Wagner Memorial Fund are combining again, this year, to
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Australians Against Capital Punishment is a community group formed in early 2007 to advocate for a total abolition of the death penalty across the globe, and to call on our government to once again commit itself to opposing the death penalty in all cases, in all countries wholeheartedly.
We try to raise awareness of the issue through public forums, petitions, letterwriting, leafleting as well as through the media.
We welcome anyone aboard who shares our goals.
A Sad Report from Pakistan
Sarmad Ali interviewed on life for juveniles in Pakistan prisons including on death row: https://www.prison-insider.com/en/ressources/enquetes-reportages/pakistan-misery-on-death-row-including-for-juveniles Juveniles have recently been sent to the gallows, despite their
The death penalty is racially biased, fiscally irresponsible and very inaccurate
Attorney General William Barr recently announced the reinstatement of the federal death penalty — this comes as executions and death sentences in states are at historic lows.
Terrible News from Trumpland
The United States Department of Justice has decided to proceed with executions and has scheduled five such events: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-26/us-federal-government-brings-back-death-penalty/11348470
Presentation on Justice Project Pakistan
Our guest speaker Zainab Mahboob’s presentation on Justice Project Pakistan at Julian Wagner Memorial Event 24/06/2019. Please download it from here: PPT format / Pdf
Backward steps in Sri Lanka
Annual global Death Penalty report
PLEASE FIND THE FULL REPORT HERE Global executions fell by almost one-third last year to the lowest figure in at least a decade, Amnesty International said
The Supreme Court ruled that ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ no longer precludes unusually cruel punishments
The highest criminal justice priority of the current Supreme Court majority is apparently to make the state’s machinery of death work as efficiently as possible
