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Urgent Action Update: Two Boys Jailed For Life After Unfair Trial (Somalia: UA 96.17)
Two boys have been imprisoned for life for murder. The boys say they were forced to confess to the murder.
Event
Fast and Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
For four days, death penalty abolitionists from around the country will gather at the steps of the Supreme Court to call for an end to capital punishment in the United…
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International Death Penalty
International death penalty trends are unmistakably towards abolition. Use of the death penalty worldwide has continued to shrink, and use of the death penalty has also been increasingly curtailed in…
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Death Penalty Cost
Recent Cost Studies A 2003 legislative audit in Kansas found that the estimated cost of a death penalty case was 70% more than the cost of a comparable non-death penalty…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Bahraini Man’s Death Sentence Upheld On Appeal (Bahrain: UA 252.14)
11 May, the Bahrain High Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence imposed against Maher Abbas Ahmed. His case will now go before the Court of Cassation. Maher Abbas Ahmed…
Issue
Abolish The Death Penalty
End Capital Punishment The death penalty is the ultimate, irreversible denial of human rights. By working towards the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, Amnesty International aims to end the…
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Terry Kay Rockefeller
Documentary film producer, peace and justice activist. Education: M.A. in U.S. History, The Johns Hopkins University; A.B in Government, Radcliffe College, Harvard University. Biography: Terry began her documentary filmmaking career…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Iranian Arrested At 15 Risks Imminent Execution (Iran: 94.17)
Peyman Barandah is at imminent risk of execution on 10 May in Shiraz’s Adel Abad prison, Fars Province, Iran. He was 15 years old at the time of his arrest,…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Philippines Senate Must Oppose Death Penalty (Philippines: UA 282.16)
Bills to reintroduce the death penalty in the Philippines are pending before the Senate, which resumed session on 2 May 2017. Despite the Philippines being a state party to an…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Man Arrested At 15 Faces Imminent Execution (Iran: UA 94.17)
Peyman Barandah, who was 15 years old at the time of his arrest, is due to be executed on 10 May in Shiraz’s Adel Abad prison, Fars Province, Iran. He…
Press Release
Arkansas Scheduled Double Execution is Heinous and Shameful
Arkansas executed Jack Jones today, the second of four prisoners scheduled to be executed before the state’s supply of lethal injections expires at the end of the month. Jones was…
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Throughout its history, Amnesty International has won critical protections for individuals and systemic change affecting millions, including: Immigrants and asylum-seekers have been freed after we campaigned against their unjust detention…
