Campaigns
What does campaign mean?
In cases of blatant injustice - these are cases, in which the death sentence is too harsh according to international or even US law standards, because of the role in the crime (law of parties) or the criminal liability up to innocence cases - Alive offers special support within a campaign.
How does an inmate become a campaign?
If an inmate wishes direct support for the case, he (or she) can write to Alive and request a campaign. Then he will get a questionnaire. This questionnaire will give a first overview about the case and makes contact to the attorney. If the case is eligible for an Alive campaign, we get in touch to the legal representation of the prisoner and request the legal documents.
Then we view the documents and prepare a
dossier, which is a summary of the case. This work is duty of the
Alive board. Even though the board members are no US certified
jurists, they have judicial knowledge gathered through many years of
self-study.
This self-study contains - among other things - intense study of the
US death penalty low and all relevant facts of the death penalty.
Sources are - among others - the FindLaw Cooperation and the Death Penalty Information Center,
Washington, DC. Also the study of precedence cases of the US Supreme
Court. Petra E. Herrmann published in this connection a Legal
Dictionary for "interested lay-people", explaining terms of
the US criminal law in German language. Reading trial transcripts
and appeal writs up to countless witness testimonies helped to expand
the theoretically gathered knowledge.
However, we ALWAYS work together with the according attorneys and
investigators/experts.
If the board assumes after studying the legal
documents and after intense conversation with the attorney of the
inmates that this case satisfies the criteria of a campaign AND we
have the necessary resources to take a new case, the according
dossier will be presented to the members meeting. The members
decide about adopting an inmate as campaign. In urgent cases the
board is able to do an emergency-adoption.
What is ALIVE able to do for campaigns?
ALIVE e. V. provides an detailed website to campaigns - with own name-domain - with information about the case. This website is a tool to get the case public to build up a support-team for the according inmate.
The inmate also gets flier with a summary of the case. He/She can get "business cards".
At all Alive events we hand out fliers und
present our campaign cases to the public. If needed we prepared
petitions.
All this service if of course free of charge for the prisoner.
The board is always in contact with the campaign prisoners and
direct contact persons to them. Visiting campaign prisoners, their
attorneys, family has highest priority at Alive trips to the US.
All other activities will be done after
consultation with the inmates and his attorney.
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Advice: Because of limited resources we do not adopt any new campaigns currently. |
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