Death row prisoner Makino Tadashi has just had his latest appeal for clemency rejected on 30 September 2008, and is at imminent risk of execution. He was sentenced ...
1) Japan: Forty years on death row 2) Nigeria: Indefinite detention 3) Saudi Arabia: Executions and floggings may be imminent 4) Turkey: Activist in police shooting ...
Richard Cooey is scheduled to be executed in Ohio on 14 October 2008. He was sentenced to death on 5 December 1986 for two murders committed three months earlier ...
On 14 September 2008, a woman known only as “Zahra” had her death sentence, for the murder of her husband, sent to the Office for Implementation of Sentences in ...
On 23 September 2008, the US Supreme Court issued a stay of execution for Troy Davis, less than two hours before he was to be put to death in Georgia. He has been ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: MDE 14/025/2008. 19 September 2008. Iraq: Urgent investigation needed into the killing of eight civilians. ...
Mahmoud Matin and Arash Basirat have been formally charged with apostasy, which on conviction can carry the death sentence. Their lawyer was initially informed ...
Jack Alderman was executed in Georgia on the 16 September 2008. He was sentenced to death in June 1975 for the murder of his wife, Barbara Jean Alderman, in 1974 ...
On 12 September 2008, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles voted to deny clemency to Troy Davis. He remains scheduled to be executed at 7pm local time on 23 ...
