This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2017. Amnesty International reports only on executions, death sentences and other aspects of the use of the death penalty, such as commutations and exonerations, where there is reasonable confirmation. In...

This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2016. Amnesty International reports only on executions, death sentences and other aspects of the use of the death penalty, such as commutations and exonerations, where there is reasonable confirmation. In...

This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2015. Amnesty International reports only on executions, death sentences and other aspects of the use of the death penalty, such as commutations and exonerations, where there is reasonable confirmation. In...

According to reports, some 570 people were sentenced to death in September 1993, of whom at least 373 have been executed. This is an unprecedented number of death sentences to be passed in one month. AI’s records for the past few years suggest that numbers of death sentences and executions...

This document contains reports of six death sentences handed down in Nigeria in 1991 and four executions known to have taken place in 1990 and 1991. Joseph Okon, convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to death in September 1980 by Lagos High Court, is now awaiting the result of his plea for...

AI has learned of six death sentences for armed robbery and has received confirmation of six executions carried out in August and September 1991. The six men under sentence of death are: Nelson Aliba, Imo State, Sabastine Ojukwu, Anambra State and Monday Okonkwo, Obika Ozoji, Anselem Nzekwe and...

Death sentences in Ghana continue to be imposed. At the end of 2016, 148 people were on death row, all sentenced to death for murder. While the last executions were carried out in July 1993, there is no official moratorium on executions in Ghana. Research carried out by Amnesty International in...

The UN General Assembly has adopted resolutions calling on member states to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty. However, the countries of the English-speaking Caribbean have consistently opposed such international initiatives for worldwide abolition....

This document is a compilation of the annual death penalty statistics for 2006. It includes information under the following headings: Death Sentences and Executions in 2006; Facts and Figures on the Death Penalty – 1 January 2007; List of Abolitionist and Retentionist Countries – 1...

This document provides information about abolitionist and retentionist countries; progress towards worldwide abolition; moves to reintroduce the death penalty; death sentences and executions; methods of execution; use of the death penalty against child offenders; the deterrence argument; effect of...

This document provides information about abolitionist and retentionist countries; use of the death penalty against child offenders; reintroduction of the death penalty; death sentences and executions; effect of abolition on crime rates; execution of the innocent; and the death penalty in the USA.

This document provides details on abolitionist and retentionist countries; use of the death penalty against child offenders; reintroduction of the death penalty; death sentences and executions; effect of abolition on crime rates; execution of the innocent; and the death penalty in the USA.