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The Death Penalty Information Centre reports on events in 2019 reflecting continuing moves towards abolition in the US and the continuing problems associated with the

Amazing ABC program looks back at the battle to prevent the death penalty being carried out on Ronald Ryan, the last person hanged in Australia:

2017 figures on use of the death penalty and the pathway to abolition from the United Nations and Amnesty International: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-45835584

This shouldn’t be necessary but there are amazing people in the world: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49970317

Off death row and back again: how Marcus Robinson’s experience reflects institutional racism in South Carolina: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/north-carolina-v-robinson-returned-death-row/596782/

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/455101-the-death-penalty-is-racially-bias-fiscally-irresponsible-and-very

Among the many reasons to oppose the death penalty is that corrupt or incompetent investigations produce wrongful convictions: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article232356647.html

In a 7-2 decision written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the US Supreme Court struck down a conviction for murder of a Mississippi man on the