Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Hilary Naylor Papers, 1977-2006, bulk 1985-1997

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Series I: Death Penalty, 1977-2006

This large series documents efforts to abolish the death penalty, especially in the United States. It contains documents on funding, events, training, and prisoners on death row, as well as meeting minutes, student programs, and many other materials. It also contains information on other organizations such as Death Penalty Focus of California.



Box 1 Folder 1 Mailings, 1985-1986


Box 1 Folder 2 Actions, 1987-1988


Box 1 Folder 3 National Mailings, 1986-198


Box 1 Folder 4 Western Mailings, 1988


Box 1 Folder 5 Campaign, 1987


Box 1 Folder 6 Group 64--La Pena, 1987 April


Box 1 Folder 7 Lawyers--California Attorneys for Criminal Justice (CACJ), Asilomar, CA, 1987


Box 1 Folder 8 Group 64 Death Penalty Panel, 1987


Box 1 Folder 9 UK Parliament Debate on Reintroduction, 1988


Box 1 Folder 10-12 Death Penalty Focus of California--Board Meetings, 1988, 3 folders


Box 1 Folder 13 Western Region Death Penalty Team, 1988


Box 1 Folder 14 March Director Special Initiative Fund (SIF), 1989


Box 1 Folder 15 Special Initiative Fund (SIF) Nancy Hart--Lobbyist, 1989


Box 1 Folder 16 International Mailings, 1988


Box 1 Folder 17 International Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Kick Off, 1989 April


Box 1 Folder 18 International Campaign Against the Death Penalty, 1987-1989


Box 1 Folder 19 National Mailings, 1989


Box 1 Folder 20 China, 1989-1990


Box 1 Folder 21 Western Region Mailings, 1989-1990


Box 1 Folder 22 Death Penalty Actions, 1988-1989


Box 1 Folder 23 National Press, 1989


Death Penalty Advisory Committee


Box 1 Folder 24 General, 1988


Box 1 Folder 25 AGM, 1989


Box 1 Folder 26 Boston Conference, 1989 November


Death Penalty Training, 1988


Box 1 Folder 27 New Orleans, 1988


Box 1 Folder 28 San Antonio, 1989 February



Box 2 Folder 1 Legislative Training--Washington, D.C., 1989 November


Box 2 Folder 2-3 National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP), State ProFiles, 1989, 2 folders


Box 2 Folder 4 Human Rights Education--Death Penalty Regional Packets, Originals, 1989


Box 2 Folder 5 Student Mailing, 1989 Fall


Box 2 Folder 6 National Student Death Penalty Conference Boston, 1989 November


Box 2 Folder 7 Geyer Report on Media, 1989 September


Box 2 Folder 8 Questions and Answers on the Death Penalty, 1986-1989


Box 2 Folder 9 ACLU Death Penalty Training, 1989


Box 2 Folder 10 ACLU/California Appellate Project--Training Program, 1989


Box 2 Folder 11 Death Penalty Training--Local Groups, 1987-1989


Box 2 Folder 12 Western Region--Correspondence, 1988-1989


Box 2 Folder 13-15 Death Penalty Focus Board Meetings, 1988 April-1989 November, 3 folders


Box 2 Folder 16 California, 1988-1991


Box 2 Folder 17 Washington, 1988-1990


Box 2 Folder 18 California Opinion Poll, 1989-1990


Box 2 Folder 19 National Mailings, 1990


Box 2 Folder 20 Burton Bill--Hearings, 1990


Box 2 Folder 21 California Legislative Workshop, 1990 February-May


Box 2 Folder 22 ACLU Foundation of Northern California Factsheets, 1990


Box 2 Folder 23 Powell Commission Report, 1989 August-1990 May


Box 2 Folder 24 State Budgets, 1989-1990


Box 2 Folder 25 March Against State Killing (MASK)--AGM Ideas Fair, 1990


Box 2 Folder 26 Mock Funeral Procession--Special Initiatives Fund (SIF), 1990 March


Box 2 Folder 27 Regional Abolition Coordinator Meeting--AGM Meeting, 1990


Box 2 Folder 28-30 Death Penalty Focus of California --Board Meetings, 1990 March-September, 3 folders


Box 2 Folder 31 General Correspondence, Flyers, Meeting Minutes, Memoranda, Newspaper Articles, 1990


Box 2 Folder 32 Western Region State Budgets, 1990-1991


Box 2 Folder 33 Texans Against State Killing (TASK), 1991


Box 2 Folder 34 Western Region Mailings, 1990-1991


Box 2 Folder 35 Death Penalty Mailings, 1991


Box 2 Folder 36 Alaska and Hawaii, 1989-1990


Box 2 Folder 37 Wyoming, 1989-1992



Box 3 Folder 1 Nevada, 1990-1992



Box 4 Folder 13 Death Penalty Focus of California, 1992



Box 3 Folder 12-14 Board of Directors Meetings, 1991 January 24-October 18, 3 folders


Box 3 Folder 15-16 General Correspondence, Newsletters, 1991


Box 3 Folder 18 Conference and Awards Dinner, 1991 October


Box 3 Folder 19 Mobilization, 1991-1992


Box 3 Folder 20 KQED Television Coverage of Executions, 1990-1991


Box 3 Folder 21 Harmless Error Demonstration, 1991 February 17-June 27


Harris, Robert Alton


Box 3 Folder 3 Media Releases, Urgent Action Appeals, General Correspondence, Newspaper Articles, 1989-1990


Box 3 Folder 4 Press Coverage, 1990-1991


Box 3 Folder 23 California Don't Kill For Me, 1992 February 16-May 4


Box 3 Folder 24 Media, Correspondence, Notes, Memoranda, 1992


Box 3 Folder 25-26 Press, 1992, 2 folders


Box 3 Folder 27 Psychiatric Testimony, 1991 May



Box 4 Folder 1 Clemency, 1992



Box 3 Folder 2 Special Death Penalty Meeting, 1990 August 17


Box 3 Folder 5 National Death Penalty News, 1985-1990


Box 3 Folder 6 China--List of Detainees and Death Sentences, 1990 October


Box 3 Folder 7 California--Death Penalty Press, 1987-1990


Box 3 Folder 8 Human Rights Education, 1983-1990


Box 3 Folder 9 Humanitas International Human Rights Committee Death Penalty Lobbying Day, 1990 August


Box 3 Folder 10 Lobbying Day Evaluations, 1990


Box 3 Folder 11 California Press, General Correspondence, 1991


Box 3 Folder 22 Giarratano, Joseph M.--Press Coverage, 1989 May 5-1991 February 23


Box 3 Folder 17 Juvenile Death Penalty Campaign, 1985-1991, 2 folders



Box 4 Folder 2 Capital Punishment Filmography, 1991 February 17


Box 4 Folder 3 Garrett, Johnny--Press Coverage, 1991-1992


Box 4 Folder 4 Amnesty International Death Penalty Information Papers, 1986-1992


Box 4 Folder 5 Habeas Corpus, 1991-1992


Box 4 Folder 6 Humanitas, 1989-1991


Box 4 Folder 7 Death Penalty Focus Board Meeting, 1992 January 23


Box 4 Folder 8 Europe Death Penalty Action, 1992


Box 4 Folder 9 Solitary Confinement Report--Ko Braun, 1985 August 7


Box 4 Folder 10 Death Penalty Press, 1992


Box 4 Folder 11 Preemptive Death Penalty Task Force, 1991-1992


Box 4 Folder 12 The Sentry, 1986-1992


Box 4 Folder 14 Death Penalty Action Committee, 1992


Box 4 Folder 15 Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty--Press, 1991-1992


Box 4 Folder 16 Death Penalty Bay Area, 1989-1992


Box 4 Folder 17 National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Program Book, 1991


Box 4 Folder 18 Amnesty International USA Death Penalty Mailings, 1992


Box 4 Folder 19 Harris, Robert--General Accounting Files, 1992


Box 4 Folder 20 Death Penalty Press, 1993


Box 4 Folder 21 Oregon, New Mexico Action and Press Coverage, 1988-1993


Box 4 Folder 22 Amnesty International USA Death Penalty Mailings, 1993


Box 4 Folder 23 Rand Corporation Study--"Relationship of Offender and Victim Race to Death Penalty Sentences in California", 1989


Box 4 Folder 24 Amnesty International USA Death Penalty History, 1984-1986



Box 5 Folder 1 Death Penalty Focus Board Meeting, 1992 May 21


Box 5 Folder 2 Press Packets, 1991-1994



Box 6 Folder 11 Alaska and Washington, 1994


Box 6 Folder 12 Arizona, 1994


Box 6 Folder 13 California, 1990-1992


Box 6 Folder 14 Colorado and Idaho, 1990-1991


Box 6 Folder 15 Montana and Utah, 1989-1991


Box 6 Folder 16 Wyoming and Nevada, 1992-1993


Box 6 Folder 17 14 Days in May, 1988


Box 6 Folder 18 Unity Day, 1994


Box 6 Folder 19 IS-USA Research Team, 1993-1994


Box 6 Folder 20 Western Region Correspondence, 1993


Box 6 Folder 21 Western Region Budgets, 1991-1995


Box 6 Folder 22 UK Parliamentary Debate, 1991


Box 6 Folder 23 Intersectional Meeting, 1991 July


Box 6 Folder 24 Religious Text and Press Clippings, 1998-2001


Box 6 Folder 25 Heller v Doe (Kentucky)--Amicus Brief, 1992


Box 6 Folder 26 Psychology and Psychiatry Papers--Factors on Death Row, 1993


Box 6 Folder 27 Helping the Starving, 1995


Box 6 Folder 28 Medical--Doctors and Death Penalty, 1986-1992


Box 6 Folder 29 Lethal Injection, 1986-1993


Box 6 Folder 30 Clemency, 1977-1993


Box 6 Folder 31 Swainsboro Project  1989


Box 6 Folder 32 Capital Punishment Research Project--Watt Espy, 1989-1992


Box 6 Folder 33 Death Penalty--Juveniles, 1986-1992


Box 6 Folder 34 Polls--Press Clips, 1990-1995


Box 6 Folder 35 Bowers--Polling, 1989-1991


Box 6 Folder 36 Racial Disparities in Death Penalty, 1987-1994


Box 6 Folder 37 Racial Justice Act, 1987-1994


Box 6 Folder 38 Kansas--Death Penalty Costs, 1987-1988


Box 6 Folder 39 Mike Radelet--Articles by, 1989


Box 6 Folder 40 Craig Haney--Articles by, 1987-1991



Box 7 Folder 1 Politics of Death Penalty, 1987-1994


Box 7 Folder 2 Resignation of Hilary Naylor, 1994


Box 7 Folder 3 Guidelines for State Death Penalty Abolition Coordinators (SDPAC), 1991


Box 7 Folder 4 Death Row Robert Harris Video Proposal--Heidi Price and Poems, 1993


Box 7 Folder 5 Death Penalty Action Committee, 1992-1994


Box 7 Folder 6 Death Penalty Focus, 1993-1994


Box 7 Folder 7 Death Penalty--Press, 1994


Box 7 Folder 8 Western Region Death Penalty Expenses, 1988-1994


Box 7 Folder 9 New York Office--Mailings and Correspondence, 1991-1994


Box 7 Folder 10 March Against State Killings (MASK)--Press Compilation, 1989


Box 7 Folder 11 LANLIST, 1992-1993


Box 7 Folder 12 Death Penalty Bimonthly Mailings, 1994


Box 7 Folder 13 Institute for Global Communications "Net News", 1991 March - 1992 November



Box 9 Folder 12 Death Penalty, UN International Criminal Court--ICCPR, 1992-1995


Box 9 Folder 13 Canada--Building Bridges, 1992-1994


Box 9 Folder 14 Death Penalty--Bowers, 1980


Box 9 Folder 15 CA State Supreme Court, 1988-1992


Box 9 Folder 16 Death Penalty--Costs, Davis Law Review, 1985


Box 9 Folder 17 Death Penalty—Mental Retardation, American Association of Mental Retardation (AAMR), 1988-1990


Box 9 Folder 18 Death Penalty/Mental Retardation Info Packet, 1988-1993


Box 9 Folder 19 Mr. Sacramento, 1989-1992


Box 9 Folder 20 San Francisco Office, 1994-1998


Box 9 Folder 21 Local Groups--Resources, 1993-1998


Box 9 Folder 22 West Student Program--Death Penalty Packet, 1988-1996


Box 9 Folder 23 Student Program West, 1992-1996


Box 9 Folder 24 Death Penalty National Strategic Plans and Comments, 1995


Box 9 Folder 25 Death Penalty--Transnational, 1994-1996


Box 9 Folder 26 UN Special Rapporteur, 1997


Box 9 Folder 27 Death Penalty Ad Slicks, undated



Box 13 Folder 1-2 Resources, 1994-2006, 2 folders


Box 13 Folder 3 Frontiers of Justice Volume 2: Coddling or Common Sense?--Book, 1998


Box 13 Folder 4 Governor George Ryan, 1992-2003


Box 13 Folder 5 State of Illinois and Innocent on Death Row, 1997-1998


Box 13 Folder 6 Aaron Patterson, 1997-2003


Box 13 Folder 7 Sr. Helen Prejean, 1993-2005


Box 13 Folder 8 Dead Man Walking—Book Signed by the Author, 1994


Box 13 Folder 9 The Death Penalty: Opposing Viewpoints--Book, 1997


Box 13 Folder 10 Journal of Prisoners on Prisons--Book, 1995


Box 13 Folder 11 Moratorium, 2000


Box 13 Folder 12 General, undated



Box 11 Folder 6 Death Penalty and Political Campaigns, 1992



Box 14 Folder 14 Death Penalty--Courthouse AC, 2001



Box 13 Folder 17 Western Region Death Penalty Meeting, 1995 May 6



Box 14 Folder 4 Death Penalty: CA Strategies, 1999



Box 7 Folder 24 International Death Penalty Campaign, 1994-1995



Box 8 Folder 4 Death Penalty Mailings, 1995


Box 8 Folder 29 Death Penalty National Mailing, 1996-1999



Box 12 Folder 1-3 Death Penalty Resources, 1996-2006, 3 folders