Gay court says yes to drug
The US Supreme Court has produced contrasting decisions recently: it voted 5-4 to free up gay marriage, but also 5-4 condemned death row prisoners to a possibly painful death. 30 June 2015
The US Supreme Court has produced contrasting decisions recently: it voted 5-4 to free up gay marriage, but also 5-4 condemned death row prisoners to a possibly painful death. 30 June 2015
The Australian government should follow up the Bali state executions by leading an international campaign against the death penalty…and reining in the AFP, CLA and others say. 20 May 2015
AFP guidelines currently provide little restraint on police handing Australians over to potential death by execution overseas. Police should instead be forced to adopt and promote our human rights principles. 4 May 2015
To try to prevent another Bali 9 death penalty situation, a parliamentary committee – at CLA’s request – is seeking an urgent briefing on current rules binding the Australian Federal Police. 16 Feb 2015
When Australia pleads for the lives of two Bali 9 members on death row in Indonesia, it is a plea for everyone everywhere sentenced to state killing, Melissa Parke says. 14 Feb 2015
As threat of the execution of two members of the Bali 9 draws darkly closer, CLA has joined in a direct appeal to the Indonesian President for clemency. 9 Feb 2015
As Australians face imminent execution in Bali, after AFP perfidy, and Australia considers extraditing people overseas into harm’s way, it is time to look back on CLA work in 2008: 24 Jan 2015
AG Brandis and the government came under fire during Senate Estimates hearings over why Australia apparently did not care when two of our citizens were assassinated by the USA.
An apparently botched execution in the USA has seen a prisoner experience ‘incredible pain’ before dying, exactly as a Harvard medical professor had warned years earlier.
Adults using Facebook should be free to read and watch mostly what they want, CLA believes. Sometimes, gruesome material can help motivate people to campaign against what offends them.