List of Resources
General
- Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Representing Individuals Facing the Death Penalty – A Best Practices Manual, June 2017.
- Amnesty International, Fair Trial Manual, April 2014.
- Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Justice Denied – A Global Study of Wrongful Death Row Convictions, January 2018.
- Sandra Babcock, Sub-Saharan Africa – The New Vanguard of Death Penalty Abolition.
- Sandra Babcock, Representing Foreign Nationals in Capital Cases, December 2021. See also Sandra Babock’s lecture.
Gender and the Death Penalty
- Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Judged for More than Her Crime, September 2018.
- Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Defending Women and Transgender Persons Facing Extreme Sentences – A Practical Guide, October 2021.
- Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and Penal Reform International, Prison conditions for women facing death penalty, October 2018.
- Delphine Lourtau, Presentation on gender and the death penalty, May 2021 (only available in French)
- Sandra Babcock, Presentation on defending women facing the death penalty, December 2021. See also Sandra Babcock’s lecture.
- Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Gender-sensitive questionnaire for interviews with clients facing the death penalty, October 2021.
Procedure and Advocacy
- Michael O’Connor, Presentation on Forced and False Confessions, June 2021. See also Michael O’Connor’s lecture.
- Robin Maher, Presentation on Working with the Media and Social Media, October 2021. See also Robin Maher’s lecture.
- Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Top 10 tips for effective oral advocacy, November 2021.
- Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Notes on opening and closing statements, November 2021.
Mitigation
- Jessica Sutton, Presentation – An Introduction to Mitigation, June 2021. (see also Jessica Sutton’s lecture).
- Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Advice for a first interview with a client facing the death penalty, October 2021.
- Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Gender-sensitive questionnaire for interviews with clients facing the death penalty, October 2021.
- Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Questionnaire for interviews with family members of a client facing the death penalty (short version), October 2021.
- Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Questionnaire for interviews with family members of a client facing the death penalty (long version), October 2021.
- Reprieve, 255 Research and Investigation, Malawi Human Rights Commission, Cornell University, Malawi Mitigation Investigation Guide, December 2019.
Mental Health
- Marc Tassé, Recognizing and Working with a Client with a Developmental Disability, Psychiatric Disorder and/or Trauma, June 2021 (only available in French) – see also Marc Tassé’s lecture (English transcript available).
- Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Sample Mental Health Assessment of a Person Facing the Death Penalty (1/2), April 2021.
- Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Sample Mental Health Assessment of a Person Facing the Death Penalty (2/2), April 2021.
- Word Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Fact Sheet on Mental Health and the Death Penalty, October 2014.
- Sandra Babcock, Mental Illness and Intellectual Disability – the failure to protect individuals with mental disorders facing executions.