DEATH PENALTY PROGRAM DETAILS
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General
The agenda for the conference will relate not only to a report on the Death Penalty that Amnesty International will publish in 1978, but will also consider recommendations made by the preparatory seminars (see below).
The report, of some 125,000 words, will include a country by country survey of the law and practice in most of those countries where the death penalty still exists. It will analyse trends in such countries, and examine the phenomenon of murder committed, or acquiesced in, by governments. Countries that would fall within this latter category would include, for example, Argentina, Ethiopia, Guatemala and Uganda.
The preparatory seminars are to be convened either by the national sections of Amnesty International or by responsible non-governmental organisations which have an interest in the subject. Amnesty International national section seminars in New York, Sri Lanka, Paris and Hamburg will be convened. NGO seminars include one to be held in Lusaka by the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) and one to be held probably in Port of Spain, Trinidad, by the Caribbean Conference of Churches (CCC). These seminars will consider various aspects relating to the death penalty. Papers presented at the individual seminars will include :
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b)
"Norms and Standards of International Conduct".
"Alternatives to Capital Punishment".
"Public Opinion and the Death Penalty".
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d)
"Murder Committed or Acquiesced in by Governments".
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"The Death Penalty as Punishment".
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"The Death Penalty as a Cultural Phenomenon".
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"Racism and the Death Penalty".
Seminar Agendas
AIUSA New York Agenda :
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Norms and Standards of International Conduct
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b.
UN action taken.
Regional international action taken.
C. Proposals for IGO and NGO action to be taken.
Murder committed, or acquiesced in, by government.
AI Paris Agenda:
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2.
Individual Involvement in the Sentence of Death
a. The condemned person: a chronicle of physical and
mental deterioration between sentence and execution. b. The role of juror, judge and executioner.
Alternatives to Capital Punishment.
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