Elijah Page, white, aged 25, was executed in South Dakota shortly after 10pm local time on 11 July, in that state's first execution since April 1947. He had been ...
For more than five years, Amnesty International has been calling for fair trials or release of the detainees held at the Guant namo detention facility, while opposing ...
On 4 July, the USA celebrates its Declaration of Independence. Ironically, this day also marks 2000 days since the first transfer of "war on terror" detainees to ...
Troy Davis, black, aged 38, is scheduled to be executed in Georgia at 7pm local time on 17 July. He has been on death row for more than 15 years for the murder ...
This update considers that the allegations of police abuses made by Christina Sforza and Mariah Lopez are consistent with the findings of Amnesty International's ...
1.) Execution rate falls in 2006 as pressure grows for a universal moratorium; 2.) Rwanda abolishes the death penalty; 3.) Stop press: Abolitionist and retentionist ...
In a 5-4 decision issued on 28 June 2007, the United States Supreme Court blocked the execution of Scott Panetti, a Texas death row inmate who suffers from severe ...
Patrick Knight, white, aged 39, was executed in Texas on 26 June. He was sentenced to death in Randall County in 1993 for the murder of Mary Ann and Walter Werner ...
Omar Mohammed Khalifa, aged about 36, and a number of other Libyan nationals in US custody in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are feared to be at risk of forcible transfer ...