Publications and Reports

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...

Updated: May 16, 2012

Discrimination, Torture, and Execution: A Human Rights Analysis of the Death Penalty in U.S. Prisons (Oct. 9, 2013)

In May 2013, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) undertook a fact-finding mission in California and Louisiana to evaluate the death penalty...

Updated: November 18, 2013

CCR Written Testimony for Senate Judiciary Committee December 2014 Hearing on State of Civil and Human Rights

For the December 9, 2014 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "The State of Civil and Human Rights in the United States," called by the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and...

Updated: December 9, 2014