Ƙungiya ce mai zaman kanta ta lauyoyi da masu bincike na kasa da kasa wadanda burinsu shi ne "yakar wadanda aka zalunta da keta hakkin dan adam tare da daukar matakan shari'a da ilimin jama'a". Babban abin da suka fi mayar da hankali a kai shi ne hukuncin kisa, tsarewa ba tare da fitina ba (kamar a hukumomi), ba da hukunci na musamman da kisan gilla. ƙungiyarRefrieve da aka kafa tana cikin Burtaniya, sannan kuma akwai ƙungiyoyi a Amurka, Australia da Netherlands, tare da ƙarin masu goyan baya da masu sa kai a duniya. Na farko kuma mafi girma a cikin kungiyoyin ragin, Reprieve UK, an kafa shi ne a shekarata 1999, shekara guda bayan da aka dakatar da hukuncin kisa a hukumance a Burtaniya (duk da cewa ba a aiwatar da shi tun a shekarata 1964), ta hannun lauya mai kare hakkin dan'Adam Clive Stafford Smith . Smith ya wakilci sama da fursunoni dari uku 300 da ke fuskantar hukuncin kisa a kudancin kasar Amurka kuma ya taimaka wajen sakin fursunoni Guantánamo Bay guda 65 da wasu da ke fadin duniya da aka tsare a wurare irin su Bagram Theater Internment Facility, Afghanistan, wadanda ke ikirarin sun kasance gwamnatin Amurka ta azabtar da .