Module 1. History and Processes

Materials

Mandatory readings.

• Letter from Pope Francis to the President of the International Commission against the Death Penalty.
• Manacorda, S..: “The abolition of capital punishment in Europe: the virtuous circle of criminal policy and the risks of rupture”, in Arroyo, L./Biglino, P./Schabas, W. (eds.): Towards the universal abolition of capital punishment, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2010, pp.147-15
• Ragués and Vallés, R.: “The death penalty in the United States: a slow agony? Recent Supreme Court rulings on capital punishment: Baze v. Rees and Kennedy v. Louisiana”, in Arroyo, L./Biglino, P./Schabas, W. (eds.): Against horror, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2012, pp. 233-269.
• Berdugo Gómez de la Torre, I .The death penalty in the Ibero-American Penal Codes. In . Stream, L. /Bible, P./Schabas, W. (1999).. Towards the universal abolition of capital punishment. Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2010, pp. 199-2013
• Hood, R. The abolition of the death penalty: current situation and future prospects. Western Magazine, no. 385, June 2013.

Documents and links of interest.

• Cudgel Explanatory Brochure.
• How States abolish death penalty. International Commission Against the Death Penalty.
• Interactive map of the death penalty. International Amnesty.
• Death sentences and executions in 2016. Amnesty International Report.
• García Ramírez, S.: “The Inter-American Court of Human Rights before the death penalty”, in Arroyo, L./Biglino, P./Schabas, W. (eds.): Towards the universal abolition of capital punishment, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2010, pp. 229-263.
• Hood, R.: “Against the death penalty in the Anglophone Caribbean: a criminological contribution”, in Arroyo, L./Biglino, P./Schabas, W. (eds.): Against horror, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2012, pp. 153-179.
• Rivera Delgado, J.M. and Torres Rivera, L.M.. The death penalty in Puerto Rico. Two faces of the criminal justice system.

Module 2. International Law of the Death Penalty.

Materials
Mandatory readings.

• Dálbora Guzmán, J.L.: “The death penalty in legal philosophy and in criminal, military and international criminal law”, in Arroyo, L./Biglino, P./Schabas, W. (eds.): Towards the universal abolition of capital punishment, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2010, pp. 499-524.
• Arroyo Zapatero, L. "The prohibition of cruel and inhuman punishment and the universal abolition of the death penalty" Revista de Occidente. June 2013.
• Yorke, J.: “Inhuman treatment and abolition of the death penalty in the Council of Europe”, in Arroyo, L./Biglino, P./Schabas, W. (eds.): Against horror, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2012, pp. 323-366.

Documents and links of interest.

• Report of the Secretary General. Capital punishment and the application of safeguards to guarantee the protection of the rights of those sentenced to the death penalty. UN Economic and Social Council (2015).
• Report of Special Rapporteur Juan E. Méndez on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. NNUU General Assembly, Human Rights Council. (2013).
• Report of the special rapporteur Manfred Nowak on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. UN General Assembly, Human Rights Council. (2009).
• Report of the Secretary General. The question of capital punishment. UN General Assembly. Human Rights Council (2012).
• Treaties and documents of international law and human rights.
• Arroyo Zapatero, L.: “Death penalty and drug trafficking”. Time of Peace magazine, no. 108. 2013
• Victor Hugo Saldanoslow death. The country. June 15, 2014.

Module 3. Deterrent Effect, Discriminatory Application, Victims and Opinion

Materials
To answer the following test-type questions, the student will have to have watched the previous videos and carry out the following readings:

• Albrecht, H.J.: “Death penalty, deterrent effect and policy formulation”, in press.
• Demetrio Crespo, E.: «On the alleged intimidating effect of the death penalty», in press.
• Schöch, H.: “The death penalty from a victimological perspective”, in Arroyo, L./Biglino, P./Schabas, W. (eds.): Against horror, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2012, pp. 79-92.

Module 4. Damned Innocent.

Materials
Mandatory readings.

• major error. The death penalty against Human Rights. International Amnesty.
• The Risen Club. El País weekly 2010. Edition dedicated to convicted innocents.

Other materials and links of interest.

• Innocent Project
• Joaquin Jose Martinez website

Module 5. Extrajudicial Executions: Deaths Without Penalty.

Materials
Mandatory readings.

• Henderson, H. Extrajudicial execution or homicide in Latin American legislation.
• Report of the special rapporteur Christoph Heyns on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. UN General Assembly, Human Rights Council (2014).

Other materials of interest.

• Report of the special rapporteur Philip Alston on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. UN General Assembly, Human Rights Council (2009).
• Report of the special rapporteur Philip Alston on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. UN General Assembly, Human Rights Council (2009). Mission to the USA. (2012).
• All the reports can be consulted in the database of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations.

Module 6. Art and Death Penalty.

Materials
required reading

• Arroyo Zapatero, L. Francisco de Goya: “Against the cruelty of the penal system and the death penalty”, in Arroyo, L./Nieto, A. Schabas, W. (eds.): Death penalty: a cruel and inhuman punishment, UCLM-Tirant lo Blanch (in press).
• Reviriego, F. The death penalty in the movies, in Arroyo, L./Nieto, A. Schabas, W. (eds.): Death penalty: a cruel and inhuman punishment, UCLM-Tirant lo Blanch (in press).

Other Recommended Reading

• De Vicente, R. The arts against the death penalty. Tirant lo Blanch. 2010.
• Delibes, M. The heretic.
• Camus, A. and Koestler, A. The death penalty.

Other materials of interest.

About painting:

• The death penalty and torture through painting. Amnesty International Catalonia.
• Oh pity, pity, pity! Variations on Goya. Against the death penalty. A deadly furniture store. Antonio Martorell.
• Bordes, J. and Arroyo Zapatero, L. (eds.) Francisco de Goya against the cruelty of the penal system.

About cinema:

• List of films included in De Vicente, R. The arts against the death penalty. Tirant lo Blanch, 2010. Pp. 354 and 355.

About music:

• Music and Human Rights. Amnesty International Catalonia.

Module 7. Strategies.

Materials
Mandatory readings.

• Arroyo, L.: “The abolition of the death penalty and the program of the Millennium Declaration”, in Arroyo Zapatero, L./Biglino, P./Schabas, W. (eds.): Against horror, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2012, pp. 53-68
• Schabas, W.A.: “The United Nations and the abolition of the death penalty”, in Arroyo Zapatero, L./Biglino, P./Schabas, W. (eds.): Towards the universal abolition of capital punishment, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2010, pp. 25-68.
• Nieto Martin, A.: “Judicial Cooperation in the European Union as a means of fighting against the death penalty and the expansion of Human Rights”, in Arroyo Zapatero, L./Biglino, P./Schabas, W. (eds.): Towards the universal abolition of capital punishment, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2010, pp. 463-487.
• Charfi, M.: “Diplomacy and international politics in the fight against the death penalty”, in Arroyo Zapatero, L./Biglino, P./Schabas, W. (eds.): Towards the universal abolition of capital punishment, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2010.

Documents and links of interest.

• "A battle of ideas". Academics for afolition in El País Semanal (2014).
• «An irreversible path». International commission against the death penalty in El País Semanal (2014).
• Representing people facing the death penalty: a best practice manual. Death penalty worldwide.
• International Amnesty
• Together against the death penalty:
• World coalition against death penalty
• Death penalty worldwide