http://www.reprieve.org.au Site provides information about the organization Reprieve Australia, which fights the death penalty in Australia and around the world. Hear 3 lawyers discuss how their encounters with capital punishment have influenced their careers and perspectives on the law. http://www.reprieve.org.au/perspectives-on-the-death-penalty/1078750/news-item.htm 2010-07-15 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 A lawyer from Reprieve UK has flown to Laos to assist a pregnant Briton who faces possible death by firing squad, if convicted of drug smuggling... http://www.reprieve.org.au/reprieve-lawyer-to-visit-pregnant-prisoner-/786850/news-item.htm 2009-05-04 Reprieve News Letter from the Prime Minister’s office in response to Reprieve’s recent letter writing campaign regarding the death penalty http://www.reprieve.org.au/letter-from-the-prime-ministers-office/706350/news-item.htm 2009-02-20 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 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 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 At Herbert Smith, lawyers are invited to attend a lecture by human rights charity Reprieve on defending clients on death row and at Guantanamo Bay , while ... http://www.reprieve.org.au/city-elite-line-up-projects-to-mark-annual-pro/635650/news-item.htm 2008-11-12 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) 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) 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) International musicians’ unions will condemn the practice of using music as a form of torture today. http://www.reprieve.org.au/musicians-condemn-torture/597850/news-item.htm 2008-10-03 Reprieve News musicweek.com, UK (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) Reprieve Australia regrets the passing of Philip Henry Napoleon Opas OBE QC, noted for... http://www.reprieve.org.au/reprieve-regrets-passing-of-phil-opas-qc/552350/news-item.htm 2008-08-29 Reprieve News Reprieve Australia (mailto:contact@reprieve.org.au) On August 17, BBC Radio 4 broadcast This is a True Story as its Friday Play. http://www.reprieve.org.au/this-is-a-true-story-radio-play/545350/news-item.htm 2008-08-18 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) 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) 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)