This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2021. 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 2018. 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 2020. 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...

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...

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 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...

In this document AI expresses concern to the new Afghan Government about reported violations allegedly perpetrated by Mujahideen forces in late April/early May of this year. AI is also concerned about possible sentences of death or amputation under Islamic law.

In this document, Amnesty International calls for the Nigerian Government to: abolish the death penalty, and pending abolition, immediately impose a moratorium on executions and commute all death sentences under Nigerian criminal law and new Sharia penal laws; ratify international human rights...

This document provides details of developments around the issue of the death penalty during 1998. Subjects covered include abolition, reduction in scope, moratoriums, death sentences and executions, the use of the death penalty against child offenders, international legislation, developments in the...

While welcoming the release of long-term prisoners of conscience and the commutation of all death sentences in Turkey in 1991, and the new government’s declaration of intent to end torture, Amnesty International remains concerned about a disturbing increase in allegations of torture,...

There have been no executions in Trinidad and Tobago since November 1979, but there have been several recent attempts to reverse this, the most recent being on 24 March 1994. This document discusses the judicial process behind the death penalty and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC)...

This document contains updated facts and figures on the following issues relating to the death penalty: Abolitionist and retentionist countries; progress towards worldwide abolition; moves to reintroduce the death penalty; death sentences and executions; use of the death penalty against juveniles;...