AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

MEDIA ADVISORY

ACT 50/003/2012 08 March 2012

Amnesty International publishes 2011 global death penalty statistics

Tuesday 27 March 2012 00:01 GMT

Embargoed copy of the report available in advance

On Tuesday 27 March Amnesty International publishes its global death penalty statistics, looking at how many people were executed or sentenced to death across the world during 2011.

The report looks at the key trends in the use of the death penalty in the past year including the number of executions per country and the number of death sentences passed.

Amnesty International’s experts on the death penalty will be available for interview in Arabic, English, French and Spanish.

To request an embargoed copy of the report and supporting materials (key facts and figures and graphics) please contact:

Tom Mackey

Amnesty International Press Office,

+44 207 413 5810

tom.mackey@amnesty.org

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For more information please call Amnesty International's press office in London, UK, on +44 20 7413 5566 or email: press@amnesty.org

International Secretariat, Amnesty International, 1 Easton St., London WC1X 0DW, UK

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