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USA: An "uncomfortable truth": Two Texas governors - more than 300 ...
20 April 2007

As Texas prepares to carry out its 13th execution of the year, the editorial board of major Texan newspaper, the Dallas Morning News, has taken the historic step ...

Report       AMR 51/076/2007

USA: Further infromation on prisoner of conscience: Agustín ...
19 April 2007

Prisoner of conscience Agustín Aguayo was released on 18 April. He had been held in a US military prison in Germany.

Urgent Action       AMR 51/075/2007

Colombia: Second International Conference on Human Rights in ...
18 April 2007

This document considers the question of whether Colombia is undergoing an irreversible renaissance in which there is relative peace, rapidly decreasing levels of ...

Report       AMR 23/007/2007

USA (Ohio): Death penalty / Legal concern: James J. Filiaggi (m)
16 April 2007

James Filiaggi is scheduled to be executed in Ohio on 24 April. He was sentenced to death in 1995 for the murder of his former wife, Lisa Huff Filiaggi, who was ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/074/2007

USA (Indiana): Death penalty / Legal concern: David Leon Woods (m)
13 April 2007

David Woods, white, aged 42, is scheduled to be executed in Indiana on 4 May 2007. He was sentenced to death in 1985 for the murder of Juan Placencia in 1984. David ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/072/2007

USA (Texas): Death penalty / Legal concern: Ryan Heath Dickson (m)
13 April 2007

Ryan Dickson, white, aged 30, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 26 April. Ryan Dickson, then aged 18, his younger brother Dane Dickson, Freddie Medina and ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/073/2007

USA (Nebraska): Death penalty / Legal concern: Carey Dean Moore (m ...
12 April 2007

Carey Moore is due to be executed in Nebraska's electric chair on 8 May. He was sentenced to death in 1980 for the murder of two men in Omaha in August 1979. Carey ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/067/2007

USA (Texas): Further information on death penalty / legal concern ...
12 April 2007

James Clark, white, aged 38, was executed in Texas in the early evening of 11 April 2007. He was sentenced to death in May 1994 for the rape and murder of 17-year ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/068/2007

USA: Guantánamo: Conditions getting worse (Web Feature)
5 April 2007

A new facility at Guantánamo Bay is creating even harsher conditions of extreme isolation and sensory deprivation for detainees. Detainees at Camp 6 are confined ...

Report       AMR 51/063/2007

USA: New Amnesty International report condemns conditions in ...
5 April 2007

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Public Statement. AI Index: AMR 51/060/2007 (Public). News Service No: 064. Embargo Date: 5 April 200700:00GMT. ...

Press Release       AMR 51/060/2007