In this open letter, written on the occasion of Benin's election to the UN Human Rights Council in the elections scheduled for 20 May 2011, Amnesty International ...
Yong Vui Kong's third appeal application against his death sentence was rejected on 4 April. Only an act of clemency from the President of Singapore can stop his ...
Muhammad Abdul Wahhab Faysal al-Qassem has been told by the General Prosecutor's office that he will be executed this coming Sunday. His age at the time of the ...
Seven Saudi Arabian men were publicly executed on 13 March in Abha, Saudi Arabia, despite appeals by family and international organizations to halt the executions ...
Warren Hill, a 52-year-old African American man, is due to be executed in the US state of Georgia on 18 July for the 1990 murder of a fellow prisoner. He has a ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. MEDIA BRIEFING. AI index: ACT 50/005/2012. EMBARGO: Tuesday 27 March 2012, 00:01 GMT. DEATH PENALTY 2011: FACTS AND FIGURES. GLOBAL FIGURES ...
Daniel Cook is scheduled to be executed in Arizona on 8 August. The lead prosecutor from the 1988 trial has said that he would not have sought the death penalty ...
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, is held on death row in Tabriz Prison, north-west Iran, and could still face execution. Around 7 July, ...
