http://www.reprieve.org.au Site provides information about the organization Reprieve Australia, which fights the death penalty in Australia and around the world. 25 people are convicted of the murder of one man, 14 are sentenced to hang, one lawyer is assassinated and the other goes into exile. 'A Common Purpose' is the dramatic story behind a notorious murder trial that marks South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy. http://www.reprieve.org.au/reprieve-and-hrlc-put-on-exclusive-screening-a-co/1313250/news-item.htm 2012-04-20 Reprieve News A UK barrister talks about Reprieve's campaign to assist Ryan Matthews, an innocent man convicted of murder in Louisiana. http://www.reprieve.org.au/how-it-feels-to-help-save-an-innocent-man/1265650/news-item.htm 2011-12-08 Reprieve News REPRIEVE Film Night Special screening: Love Lived On Death Row To mark the Reprieve’s 10th Annual General Meeting, please join us for a special screening of Love Lived on Death Row. Reprieve’s AGM will be held prior to the screening. View a trailer. Venue: Thousand Pound Bend, 361 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne (near the corner of Elizabeth St.) Date: Wednesday 16 November,... http://www.reprieve.org.au/film-screening-and-agm-16th-november-2011/1256550/news-item.htm 2011-11-10 Reprieve News Join this free public forum to consider why more prisons in Victoria is not the answer to reducing crime and disadvantage. Register at www.communitylaw.org.au. This forum will include updates on current sentencing and prison trends in Victoria; Law and order policies being implemented or planned and their likely impact; the role of the media in law and order debates and strategies for change;... http://www.reprieve.org.au/free-public-forum-why-more-prisons-are-not-the-an/1243950/news-item.htm 2011-09-08 Reprieve News /assets/94/newsimages/ 1740_1 Bali 9 Members Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran face execution in Indonesia unless presidential clemency is secured. What should Australians be doing and saying about their citizens facing the death penalty overseas? http://www.reprieve.org.au/icj-public-forum-on-the-death-penalty-in-the-asia/1217350/news-item.htm 2011-07-04 Reprieve News Coming up on 3 June 2011, US-based death penalty lawyer Richard Bourke speaks on the intersection between politics and capital punishment. http://www.reprieve.org.au/obama-and-the-death-penalty-a-study-on-politics-a/1194250/news-item.htm 2011-05-13 Reprieve News Join us on 31 May for a fascinating discussion with Richard Bourke, director of the Louisiana Capital Assistance Centre, and Peter Norden, social justice campaigner and former Pentridge Prison chaplain. http://www.reprieve.org.au/religion-and-the-death-penalty-with-richard-bourk/1193550/news-item.htm 2011-05-13 Reprieve News Reprieve Australia has applauded plans recently announced by federal Attorney-General for legislation to ban Australian states from ever re-introducing the death penalty. Reprieve strongly endorses this Petition, and encourages all its members and supporters to sign, so that together we can urge our politicians to shut the door once and for all on the death penalty in Australia. http://www.reprieve.org.au/support-petition-to-outlaw-the-death-penalty/872250/news-item.htm 2009-08-10 Reprieve News Reprieve Australia’s latest newsletter reflecting on what our members and supporters have helped us achieve over the past 12 months. Also, provides information on how to become a member or renew your membership. http://www.reprieve.org.au/reprieve-australia-newsletter-july-2009/840050/news-item.htm 2009-07-01 Reprieve News In 2008, ten men and one woman were sentenced to death in Texas, the lowest number since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Citing the introduction of the sentencing option of life without parole, and other recent developments, including the case of Juan Quintero (on which Reprieve's interns worked), Time Magazine concludes, "with broader legal options, the most execution-prone state of... http://www.reprieve.org.au/is-texas-changing-its-mind-about-the-death-penalty/650350/news-item.htm 2009-01-12 Reprieve News December 2008 Newsletter Please click the links at the end of the article abstracts to read the full story. http://www.reprieve.org.au/welcome-to-the-reprieve-australia-online-newslette/614650/news-item.htm 2008-12-01 Reprieve News On Thursday 20 November a number of Reprieve supporters gathered for the Australian premiere of "At the Death House Door". Recently shortlisted for an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, the film was screening as part of the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival in Melbourne. It is the moving story of Rev. Carroll Pickett who served as the death house chaplain to the Walls prison unit in... http://www.reprieve.org.au/report-reprieve-film-night/619550/news-item.htm 2008-11-21 Reprieve News Actors for Human Rights, the outreach network of London-based iceandfire theatre company, is giving a voice to people who have suffered torture and abuse under the CIA's counter-terror method known as 'extraordinary rendition'. http://www.reprieve.org.au/the-rendition-monologues-december-10-8pm/613950/news-item.htm 2008-11-17 Reprieve News Reprieve Australia strongly endorses the stance declared by Foreign Affairs Minister, Stephen Smith, that Australia will soon co-sponsor an international moratorium on capital punishment at the United Nations General Assembly. Rachel Walsh, President of Reprieve Australia, said today Australia should stand against capital punishment at every opportunity in line with the declared policy of both... http://www.reprieve.org.au/statement-on-execution-of-bali-bombers/609750/news-item.htm 2008-11-11 Reprieve News DEATH row. The expression conjures stark images. One of them for me is the faces of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, pictured, two of the Bali nine being held in Kerobokan prison. They have been sentenced to be shot. When I last saw them 10 days ago, their anxiety was raw. Ten prisoners have been executed in Indonesia since June and one question on the minds of those working for Australians on death row in Bali is, what are the implications of Sunday's execution of the Bali bombers for them? http://www.reprieve.org.au/all-executions-are-a-failure-of-justice/610450/news-item.htm 2008-11-10 Reprieve News Julian McMahon, The Age (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) The state of Texas has scheduled ten executions in 30 days, a record in the southern state that is already the US leader in capital punishment, having put more than 400 people to death in 30 years. http://www.reprieve.org.au/texas-schedules-ten-executions-in-30-days-/595750/news-item.htm 2008-10-23 Reprieve News Julian McMahon, The Age (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) Human rights organisations today praised Iran for announcing an end to the widely-condemned practice of juvenile executions – a decision which should spare the lives of 130 youths on death row. http://www.reprieve.org.au/iranians-outlaw-execution-of-juvenile-offenders/590850/news-item.htm 2008-10-17 Reprieve News By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) The world is moving closer to the final abolition of the death penalty, according to the latest figures published to coincide with World Day against the Death Penalty today. http://www.reprieve.org.au/world-is-moving-towards-banning-death-penalty-say/597150/news-item.htm 2008-10-10 Reprieve News By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) ...in the last 18 months, there are still thousands of people being executed every year around the world," said Clive Stafford Smith, director of Reprieve. ... http://www.reprieve.org.au/report-reveals-more-countries-abolishing-death-pen/596450/news-item.htm 2008-10-09 Reprieve News By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) Please take five minutes to send an email in support of Federal Labor backbencher and Government Whip, Chris Hayes, who is sponsoring a motion in the House of Representatives calling for a legislative bar to the reintroduction of the death penalty in Australia... http://www.reprieve.org.au/reprieve-supports-preventing-return-of-the-death-p/576150/news-item.htm 2008-10-06 Reprieve News By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) In 1922, Colin Campbell Ross was hanged in Melbourne Gaol for murdering 12 year old Alma Tirtschke. Thanks to the efforts of journalist Kevin Morgan and the Ross and Tirtschke families, he has recently been proven innocent of the crime and this year was officially pardoned posthumously by the Governor of Victoria on the recommendation of the Premier. This prompted Reprieve Australia to write to... http://www.reprieve.org.au/reprieve-makes-recommendation-on-permanent-board-o/574750/news-item.htm 2008-09-30 Reprieve News Reprieve Australia (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) Speech to be given by His Honour Justice Lasry on 9 October 2008... http://www.reprieve.org.au/inaugural-reprieve-lecture/558650/news-item.htm 2008-09-01 Reprieve News Reprieve Australia (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) Read media coverage on Dale Bishop's execution... http://www.reprieve.org.au/articles-on-dale-bishop-execution-/534850/news-item.htm 2008-08-04 Reprieve News Reprieve Australia (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) "They got involved long before it became fashionable," said Clive Stafford Smith, director of the British legal aid society Reprieve, who... http://www.reprieve.org.au/-lawyers-make-huge-pro-bono-effort-for-guantnamo-/514550/news-item.htm 2008-07-24 Reprieve News Reprieve Australia (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) ... not broaden it," said Billy Sothern, a New Orleans lawyer who was part of the team that represented the defendant, Patrick Kennedy... http://www.reprieve.org.au/executions-barred-in-rapes-of-children/515250/news-item.htm 2008-07-23 Reprieve News Reprieve Australia (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) ... a lot of cases in Texas that defy common sense, but this does reach a new low," said Andrea Keilen, executive director of the Texas Defender Service. ... http://www.reprieve.org.au/day-of-11thhour-appeals-halts-texas-execution/522950/news-item.htm 2008-07-23 Reprieve News Reprieve Australia (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) Critics question the speed at which Texas carries out its executions http://www.reprieve.org.au/pace-of-texas-executions-revives-fairness-disputes/515950/news-item.htm 2008-07-22 Reprieve News Chicago Tribune (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) The BBC Radio production of the play Lorilei, co-written by Reprieve Australia President Nick Harrington, has taken out the 2007 BBC Radio Drama and Gold Drama Award, 2007 Sony Radio Academy Award. http://www.reprieve.org.au/lorilei-radio-production-wins-major-awards/217750/news-item.htm 2007-05-02 Reprieve News Nick Harrington, President, Reprieve Australia (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) Welcome to the new website of Reprieve Australia! http://www.reprieve.org.au/reprieve-website-goes-live/151950/news-item.htm 2006-12-19 Reprieve News Nick Harrington, President, Reprieve Australia (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) In a recent speech, His Honour Justice Kirby, patron of Reprieve Australia, honoured the role played by pro bono lawyers http://www.reprieve.org.au/kirby-j-lauds-pro-bono-lawyers/820450/news-item.htm Reprieve News Nick Harrington, President, Reprieve Australia (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) http://www.reprieve.org.au/reprieve-intern-volunteers-in-life-or-death-situat/972350/news-item.htm Reprieve News Nick Harrington, President, Reprieve Australia (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) http://www.reprieve.org.au/reprieve-intern-volunteers-in-life-or-death-situat/971650/news-item.htm Reprieve News Nick Harrington, President, Reprieve Australia (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) http://www.reprieve.org.au/intern-volunteers-in-life-or-death-situation-on-us/970950/news-item.htm Reprieve News Nick Harrington, President, Reprieve Australia (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) http://www.reprieve.org.au/intern-volunteers-in-life-or-death-situation-on-us/970250/news-item.htm Reprieve News Nick Harrington, President, Reprieve Australia (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au)