Death penalty - poverty and access to legal representation
361 views · Published 18 October 2018 · 1:48:33 · Indexed 7 October 2026
Channel: UN Human Rights · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism
Convicted of a murder he did not commit, Ndume Olatushani spent 20 years on death row, 27 years in jail in total, in Tennessee, United States. “It is hard to imagine that any sensible person – with any humanity in them – will say that they support a punishment that is going to kill innocent people,” he told country representatives at a discussion about poverty, the right to legal representation and the death penalty at the United Nations in New York on 25 September 2018.
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