http://www.reprieve.org.au Site provides information about the organization Reprieve Australia, which fights the death penalty in Australia and around the world. The National, United Arab Emirates - Nov 4, 2008 "Clive Stafford Smith, the director of the British legal-action charity Reprieve, points out that among the hurdles in closing a facility that holds 250 ... http://www.reprieve.org.au/americas-voters-make-history/623750/news-item.htm 2008-12-02 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 The Louisiana Capital Assistance Center (LCAC) is a non-profit capital trial office deeply committed to providing quality legal representation to people facing the death penalty, and is currently looking for people that are interested in corresponding with people on death row and people serving life without the possibility of parole. http://www.reprieve.org.au/become-a-pen-pal/616750/news-item.htm 2008-11-20 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) For 15 years, Rev. Carroll Pickett served as the death house chaplain to the Walls prison unit in Huntsville, Texas. He presided over 95 executions, including the first lethal injection to be administered anywhere in the world. http://www.reprieve.org.au/premiere-screening-at-the-death-house-door-20-n/605550/news-item.htm 2008-11-07 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) Divisions are emerging in the Federal Government over Labor's stance on the death penalty as execution day for the Bali bombers approaches. http://www.reprieve.org.au/alp-split-on-death-penalty-stance/592250/news-item.htm 2008-10-21 Reprieve News Cynthia Banham Diplomatic Editor (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)