Rights group Amnesty International called on the United States on Friday to set an example to other nations by abolishing the death penalty.
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/ 24 September 2010
A US grandmother was put to death by lethal injection in Virgina, the first women executed in the state for nearly a century.
A Utah firing squad shot to death a convicted killer early on Friday in the third United States execution by that means since 1976.
A man convicted of two murders was scheduled to die by firing squad on Friday, becoming the third man put to death by that means in the US since 1976.
Zimbabwean politician Roy Bennet will learn on Monday whether he must answer terrorism charges that could result in the death penalty.
Amnesty International said on Friday Iraq should halt the execution of 128 prisoners because their trials may not have met international standards.
Roe Wilson sounds at peace with the fact that she has handled or supervised 91 executions in the 20 years she has overseen capital case appeals.
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/ 9 February 2009
A pair of identical twins have escaped being convicted and hanged on drugs charges, due to confusion over which one of them was the culprit.
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/ 21 January 2009
Uganda’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that death sentences be commuted to life imprisonment after three years in jail.
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/ 2 December 2008
Saddam Hussein’s notorious hatchet-man, Hassan al-Majid, was on Tuesday sentenced to death for war crimes committed during the 1991 Shi’ite uprising.
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/ 12 November 2008
More than 100 convicted murderers, rapists and kidnappers are on death row in Afghanistan waiting for President Hamid Karzai to sign the orders.
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/ 2 November 2008
Relatives of two of the militants facing imminent execution for the Bali bombings said on Sunday they will visit the brothers on Monday.
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/ 21 October 2008
Amnesty International called on Nigeria’s government on Tuesday to declare a moratorium on capital punishment.
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/ 14 October 2008
Poor foreign workers bear the brunt of ”the stark horror” of Saudi Arabia’s secretive death penalty system, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
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/ 10 October 2008
The world is moving closer to the abolition of the death penalty, according to figures published to coincide with World Day against the Death Penalty.
The Botswana justice department has honoured an agreement not to sentence two South Africans to death, SABC news reported on Tuesday.
Sudan sentenced to death 12 alleged Darfur rebels on Wednesday, bringing to 50 the number condemned to hang over an attack on Khartoum.
A Sudanese anti-terrorist court has convicted and sentenced to death two senior members of a Darfur rebel group and six others.
Iran executed 29 convicted drug smugglers and ”bandits” on Sunday morning in Tehran’s Evin prison, the state broadcaster’s website Irib reported.
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/ 24 November 1989
Beneath a menacing line of dangling plastic ‘corpses’, human rights lawyers call for an end to the death penalty this week.