The United States Tortures Before It Kills: An Examination of the Death Row Experience from a Human Rights Perspective

Prepared for the 9th Annual World Day Against the Death Penalty, this position paper explores the link between the death row experience and torture.

To read an op-ed by Rachel and Robert Meeropol prepared in October 2010 for the 8th World Day Against the Death Penalty, "The Death Penalty is a Human Rights Abuse," click here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vincent-warren/the-death-penalty-is-a-hu_b_757004.html.

To read an opinion piece by Rachel Meeropol for the 9th World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10, 2011, "Death Row: America's Torture Chamber," click here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/10/death-row-torture-chamber.