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• Program Overview
• Execution Calendar
• Current Calendar
• All Calendars
• Juveniles
• Introduction
• Seminal Cases
• Thompson v. Oklahoma
• Stanford v. Kentucky
• Current Cases
• Sample Clemency Letter
• Ron Chris Foster
• Ryan Matthews
• Antonio Richardson
• Kevin Stanford
• Chris Simmons
• Past Cases
• Scott Hain
• Toronto Patterson
• T.J. Jones (On the ABA site)
• Napoleon Beazley
• Gerald Mitchell
• Joseph Ward
• Alexander Williams
• International Instruments
• Summary of Customary International law and Jus Cogens
• International Court of Justice
• Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
• Michael Domingues
• Domingues v United States (IACHR Decision)
• Overview of the Decision in Domingues v United States
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: How Can It Be Utilized in a Capital Case.
• American Convention on Human Rights
• Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian persons in Time of War
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  • U.S. Reservations on the ICCPR
• United Nations Commission on Human Rights, The Question of the Death Penalty Resolution 2003/67 UN Doc. E/CN.4/RES/2003/67
• Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of the Rights of Those Facing the Death Penalty
• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Human Rights in the Administration of Justice, in Particular Juvenile Justice Resolution
• United Nations Commission on Human Rights Rights of the Child
• United Nations General Assembly. Human Rights in Administration of Justice
• United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice ("The Beijing Rules")
• Statistics
• US Statutes
• Juvenile Statistics
• Victor Streib's, "Juvenile Death Penalty Today"
• Executions Worldwide
• Resources
• Amnesty International Report
  United States: Indecent and internationally illegal: The death penalty against child offenders
• Amnesty International Report on Worldwide Executions Since 1990
• Domingues v United States (Decision)
• Domingues v United States (IACHR Decision)
• Overview of the Decision in Domingues v United States
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: How Can It Be Utilized in a Capital Case.
• The Juvenile Death Penalty Today: Death Sentences and Executions for Juvenile Crimes
  (January 1, 1973 - December 31, 2002; by Victor L. Streib, Professor of Law, The Claude W. Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern University)
  
• Mitigation Factors
• Brain Development
• Trauma
• Atkins v Virginia Summary
• Atkins v Virginia Implications
• National Council on Disability: Addressing the Needs of Youth with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System: The Currect Status of Evidence-ased Research
• Summary of Customary International law and Jus Cogens
• International Court of Justice
• Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
• Michael Domingues
• Domingues v United States (IACHR Decision)
• Overview of the Decision in Domingues v United States
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: How Can It Be Utilized in a Capital Case.
• United Nations
  Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Mr. Bacre Waly Ndiaye, submitted pursuant to Commission resolution 1997/61
• Links
• Briefs
• Napoleon Beazley (Amicus Curiae)
• Napoleon Beazley (Petition for Writ of Certiorari)
• Napoleon Beazley (Petition for Clemency)
• Ron Chris Foster (Petition for Writ of Certiorari-USSC)
• Scott Allen Hain (Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus - Trial Level)
• Scott Allen Hain (Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus) Hector Huertas (Motion to Preclude)
• Hector Huertas (Motion to Preclude)
• Toronto Markkey Patterson (Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights)
• Christopher Simmons (Applicability of Atkins v Virginia Issues)
• Kevin Nigel Stanford (Amicus Curiae-American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry)
• Foreign Nationals
• Introduction
• Current Cases
• Gerardo Valdez
• Past Cases
• Javier Suarez Medina
• International Instruments
• The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
• The Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes
• World Court
• International Court of Justice
• Statute of the Court
• Statistics
• Resources
• American Bar Association (ABA) Guidelines to the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases.
• Amnesty International: A Time for Action: Protecting the Consular Rights of Foreign Nationals Facing the Death Penalty
• US State Department: Instructions for Federal, State, and other Local Law Enforcement and Other Officials Regarding Foreign Nationals in the United States and the Rights of Consular Officials To Assist Them
• Equal Protection : Consular Assistance & Criminal Justice Procedures in the USA (International Justice Project & Human Rights Research)
• Proteccion sin Distincion: La Ayuda Consular y los Procesos de Justicia Penal en los Estados Unidos de America
• Foreign Consular Offices in the United States
• LaGrande - Summary and Analysis
• Ramon Martinez Villareal v United States (Merits), IACHR, October 10, 2002
• Links
• Briefs
• Javier Suarez Medina (Amicus Curiae- United Mexican States)
• Javier Suarez Medina (Petition for Writ of Certiorari-USSC)
• Gerardo Valdez (Motion for Evidentiary Hearing and Discovery)
• Mental Retardation
• Introduction
• Seminal Cases
• Ford v Wainwright
• Penry v Lynaugh
  492 U.S. 584 (1989)
• Atkins v Virginia
• Atkins v Virginia
  122 S.Ct. 2242 (2002)
• Current Cases
• Atkins v. Virginia U.S. Supreme Court ruling
• Glenn Holladay
• Daryl Renard Atkins
  
• Ernest McCarver
  
• Antonio Richardson
  
• Past Cases
• International Instruments
• International and U.S. law on the execution of those with mental retardation
• United Nations Economic and Social Council, Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of Rights of those Facing the Death Penalty, ECOSOC Res. 1984/50, UN Doc E/1984/150 (1984)
  http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/i8sgpr.htm
• United Nations Economic and Social Council, Implementation of the Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of Rights of those Facing the Death Penalty, ECOSOC Res. 1996/15, UN Doc E/CN.15/1996/15 (1996)
  http://www.un.org/documents/ecosoc/res/1996/eres1996-15.htm
• United Nations General Assembly, Human Rights in the Administration of Justice, GA Res. 39/118, UN Doc. A/39/700 (1984)
  http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/39/a39r118.htm
• United Nations General Assembly, Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care, A/RES/46/119 (1991), Annex
  http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/46/a46r119.htm
• United Nations General Assembly, Declaration on Rights of Disabled Persons, UN Doc A/RES/33447 (XXX) (1975)
  http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/72.htm
• United Nations General Assembly, Declaration on Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons, GA Resolution 2856 (XXVI), UN Doc. A/8429 (1971)
  http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/m_mental.htm
• Organization of American States, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Recommendation of the IACHR for Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Mentally Ill
  http://www.oas.org/cidh/annualrep/2000eng/chap.6e.htm
• United Nations General Assembly, Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons With Disabilities A/RES/48/96 (1995)
• Resources
• Atkins v. Virginia
• Atkins v Virginia Summary
• Atkins v Virginia Implications
• Syllabus
• Majority Opinion
• Dissent (Rehnquist)
• Dissent (Scalia)
• Links
• Mental Retardation and the Death Penalty: A Guide to State Legislative Issues; by James W. Ellis, Regents Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law
• Beyond Reason: The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation, available at http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/ustat/
• Briefs
• Daryl Renard Atkins (Petition for Writ of Certiorari-USSC)
• Ernest Paul McCarver (Amicus Curiae-European Union) (McCarver was made moot by North Carolina legislation, the Court then addressed the same issue in Atkins. This same brief was filed on behalf of Daryl Atkins.)
• Ernest McCarver- Amicus Curiae brief (Foreign Service)
• Mental Illness
• Introduction
• Ford v. Wainwright
• Current Cases
• Abu-Ali Abdur' Rahman
• Percy Walton
• James Brown
• Past Cases
• James Blake Colburn
• Alexander Williams
• Briefs
• Linroy Bottoson (Motion to Vacate and Request for Evidentiary Hearing)
• Daniel Colwell (Amicus Curiae- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill)
• Brief Bank, General Resources & Statistics
• Briefs
• Juvenile
• Napoleon Beazley (Amicus Curiae)
• Napoleon Beazley (Petition for Writ of Certiorari)
• Napoleon Beazley (Petition for Clemency)
• Beazley v. Johnson, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Amicus Curiae
• Ron Chris Foster (Petition for Writ of Certiorari-USSC)
• Scott Allen Hain (Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus - Trial Level)
• Scott Allen Hain (Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus)
• Hector Huertas (Motion to Preclude)
• Toronto Markkey Patterson (Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights)
• Christopher Simmons (Applicability of Atkins v Virginia Issues)
• Kevin Nigel Stanford (Amicus Curiae-American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry)
• Nanon Williams - Southern District of Texas - Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus
• Foreign National
• Javier Suarez Medina (Amicus Curiae- United Mexican States)
• Javier Suarez Medina (Petition for Writ of Certiorari-USSC)
• Gerardo Valdez (Motion for Evidentiary Hearing and Discovery)
• Mental Retardation
• Daryl Renard Atkins (Petition for Writ of Certiorari-USSC)
• Ernest McCarver- Amicus Curiae Brief (Foreign Service)
• Ernest Paul McCarver (Amicus Curiae-European Union) (McCarver was made moot by North Carolina legislation, the Court then addressed the same issue in Atkins. This same brief was filed on behalf of Daryl Atkins.)
• Mental Illness
• Linroy Bottoson (Motion to Vacate and Request for Evidentiary Hearing)
• Daniel Colwell (Amicus Curiae- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill)
• International Entities
• International Court of Justice
• Organization of American States/ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• The European Union
• Guides
• Juvenile Death Penalty: Representation Resource 2002 (International Justice Project & American Bar Association's Juvenile Justice Center) - for a copy of the resource guide, please contact the IJP.
• Juvenile Death Penalty: Representation Resource 2002 (Mitigation Supplement) (International Justice Project & American Bar Association's Juvenile Justice Center) - click here
• Equal Protection: Consular Assistance & Criminal Justice Procedures in the USA (International Justice Project & Human Rights Research)
• General Resources
• American Bar Association (ABA) Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases
• Amnesty International: Death by discrimination - the continuing role of race in capital cases
• The Department of Justice; Capital Punishment Report 2001
• Ring Decision and Implications
• Seminal Case Decisions
• General Statistics
• States with Capital Punishment
• Training & Events
• Past Events
• Internships
• Recommended Reading
• Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
• Beyond Reason: The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation

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