The petitions presented on this page have reached the German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (GCADP) from various sources including other organisations and private individuals. The Coalition expresses its support for those petitions by showing them here. The GCADP supposes that the individuals who have prepared these petitons share the same objectives and have similar opinions to those of the GCADP with regard to the abolishing of the death penalty world-wide, improving prison conditions and publishing details of individual cases etc. ..  

The GCADP does not thoroughly investigate the content of the published petitions and states for that it does not accept any responsibility for the content of the information published here.

In 2004, John Quintanilla was sentenced to death for the murder of Victor Billings and is scheduled to be executed on July 16th, 2013. However, there are strong indications that John Quintanilla is innocent of this crime. To sign the Petition please go to: http://www.change.org/petitions/district-attorney-steve-tyler-of-victoria-county-texas-research-the-case-of-john-quintanilla

Duane Buck should be granted a new trial because the jury was told that Mr. Buck was more likely to pose a future danger to society because he is African American. For further information and to sign the petition, please go to: http://www.change.org/petitions/sentenced-to-death-because-he-is-black-grant-duane-buck-a-new-hearing?utm_campaign=new_signature&utm_medium=email&utm_source=signature_receipt#share

Bernardo Aban Tercero, a Nicaraguan national, was charged and convicted of capital murder in Texas in 2000. The death for which he was held responsible, is disputed in terms of the degree of culpability, but here we are concerned with matters pertaining to his age at the date of the crime. Bernardo has produced strong evidence that he was under the age of 18 at this time. For further information and to sign the Petition, please go to: http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Recognition_of_the_legality_of_Bernardo_Aban_Terceros_birth_certificate_and_his_ineligibilty_for_the_death_penalty/?cFOMsbb

DARFUR ACTIVIST AT IMMINENT RISK OF EXECUTIONBakri Moussa Mohammed, a Darfuri activist, is at imminent risk of execution in Khartoum. He was recently informed that his 10 year prison sentence was revised to a death sentence. For further information please go to: http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa03913.pdf

Kimberly McCarty's execution is scheduled for 26 June 2013 in Texas. She was convicted of stabbing to death her neighbor, 71year old Dorothy Booth, in 1995. Kimberly McCarthy suffered from a severe addiction to crack cocaine in the 1990's. For further information and to sign the petition, please go to : http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-execution-of-kimberly-mccarthy?utm_campaign=action_box&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition

Kerry Max Cook spent over 20 years on Texas Death Row before in 1999 he was finally proven innocent. But even after 14 years the state of Texas has still not judicially exonerated him. For further information and to sign the petition, please go to: http://www.change.org/petitions/pardon-kerry-max-cook-an-innocent-man#

A Chinese woman who killed her husband after suffering months of domestic violence is at imminent risk of execution, after exhausting all her appeals. According to sources within China, Li Yan is currently held at Anyue County Detention Center in Sichuan province, south-west China. Li Yan could be executed any day between now and Chinese New Year in early February. For further information please go to: http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa01313.pdf

Five members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority may be at imminent risk of execution after their death sentences were upheld by the Supreme Court of Iran. All were arrested in connection with their activities on behalf of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority. They are believed to have been tried unfairly and were reportedly tortured in detention. For further information please go to: persian2english.com

Amnesty International Online letter - writing campaign against the Death Penalty in India: http://www.amnesty-todesstrafe.de/petition.php?id=659

Online Petition for Jimmy Dennis who is located on Pennsylvania Death Row since October 1992. For further information and to sign the Petition please go to: http://www.change.org/petitions/free-jimmy-dennis-innocent-on-death-row-2?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=url_share&utm_campaign=url_share_after_sign

Liubou Kavaliova, the mother of Uladzislau Kavalyou, is fighting against the Death Penalty in Belarus. Kavalyou was executed in March 2012. He was convicted of participating in the terrorist attacks in Minsk. Belarus is the only European country that still has the Death Penalty. To sign the Petition, please go to:http://www.change.org/de/Petitionen/belarus-stop-executions-and-end-the-death-penalty

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan requests your urgent intervention in the following situation:

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has been approached by a number of prisoners on death row stating that the present government has once again started issuing black warrants and fixed the date of the hanging in some prisoners on death row.

Lancelot U. Armstrong is on Florida Death Row for more than 20 years. He is sentenced to death even though there are serious doubts concerning his guilt. Witnesses for the prosecution have withdrawn their testimony. For further information, please go to:http://www.petitiononline.de/petition/lancelot-armstrong-darf-nicht-sterben/1075

A young mother found guilty of adultery in Sudan has been sentenced to death by stoning on May, the 13th. She was tried without access to a lawyer and is being detained with her four-month-old baby. To sign the petition, please go to:http://www.thepetitionsite.com/859/188/060/save-sudanese-mother-20-from-death-by-stoning/

Hakamada Iwao ist wahrscheinlich der Mensch, der weltweit die längste Zeit im Todestrakt verbracht hat. Der heute 75-jährige wurde 1968 in einem unfairen Verfahren zum Tode verurteilt. Seine Verurteilung beruhte hauptsächlich auf einem unter Zwang abgegebenen Geständnis Iwaos.

Randy Halprin was sentenced to death on June 12, 2003 under the controversial Texas Law of Parties. Friends and family members ask you to sign this petition.

Jeffrey Lee Wood, aged 35, is waiting to die on Texas Death Row.Wood was charged under the Law of Parties and was not the shooter in this crime.

The petition is addressed to Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (Member of the Guardian Council and Head of the Iranian Judical System until the end of 2009) and Golam-Ali Haddad-Adel (Leader of the Iranian Parliament). It demands the abolition of stonings.

To read (and sign) the petition, please click here.

Although Iran has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, juvenile offenders are still being executed. 'Stop Child Executions' set up this online petition which is addressed to the Secretary General of the UN, the Leader of the Iranian Republic and the head of the Judiciary.

To read (and sign) the petition, please click here.