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Death penalty - 2 May 2008
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2 May 2008
India: Time to end the lethal lottery of India’s death penalty system - 2 May 2008
(New Delhi): The first major study into India’s legal judgements on death penalty cases has revealed that the system is riddled with fatal flaws and that the only remedy is to abolish the death penalty completely, said the study authors in New Delhi today.Secret video shows horror of Saudi beheading - 28 April 2008
Secretly filmed footage of a man being beheaded in Saudi Arabia has been received by Amnesty International.Saudi Arabia: Secret video shows horror of beheading - 25 April 2008
Amnesty International has received secretly filmed grisly footage of a man being beheaded in Saudi Arabia. The organization strongly condemns the execution and calls for the Saudi Arabian government to adhere to the UN moratorium on executions around the world.Iraq executions follow apparently unfair trials - 18 April 2008
Twenty-eight people have been executed in Iraq this week following what appear to have been hasty and unfair trials.US Supreme Court rules lethal injections constitutional - 18 April 2008
The US Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the state of Kentucky's lethal injection procedures are constitutional.Iraq: 28 people executed after what seems to be hasty and unfair trials - 18 April 2008
The execution of 28 people this week following what appears to be hasty and unfair trials makes it urgent for the Iraqi authorities to establish a moratorium on the death penalty, Amnesty International said today.Amnesty International calls on governments to lift the veil of secrecy around executions - 15 April 2008
In a new report published today, Amnesty International revealed that at least 1,200 people were executed in 2007 and expressed deep concern that many more were killed by the state, in secret, in countries including China, Mongolia and Viet Nam.Secrecy surrounds death penalty - 15 April 2008
At least 1,200 people were executed in 2007 and many more were killed by the state, in secret, in countries including China, Mongolia and Viet Nam.Japan: executions must stop, says Amnesty International - 10 April 2008
Amnesty International deeply regrets the hanging of four men -- Akinaga Kaoru, 61, Nakamoto Masayoshi, 64, Nakamura Masahuru, 61 and Sakamoto Masahito, 41 -- in Japan today, Thursday 10 April.