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Death Penalty Downward Spiral Continues
Year-end reports show that both nationally and in Texas, use of the death penalty is declining in the US. Death sentences reached historic lows in 2011.
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Iran Resorts to Mass Executions to Deal with Its Drug Crisis
At least 488 people have been executed for alleged drug offenses so far in 2011, a nearly threefold increase on 2009, a new Amnesty International report says.
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Amnesty International Documents “Killing Spree” by Iran — Surge of Secret Executions for Drug Offenses – To Contain Huge Drug Problem
This year has seen a dramatic rise in the number of people – many impoverished and some juveniles – who are executed for drug offenses in Iran, Amnesty International said…
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The Shady World Of Execution Drug Trafficking
More and more drug companies object to being involved in executions. As a result, state efforts to get lethal injection drugs are looking more and more unseemly.
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Beheading for “Sorcery” in Saudi Arabia Shocking, says Amnesty International
The beheading of a woman convicted of "witchcraft and sorcery" is deeply shocking and highlights the urgent need for a halt in executions in Saudi Arabia, Amnesty International said today.
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Death Penalty Abolition: Five States That Could Be Next
Five states could abolish the death penalty in 2012. But almost every state has an abolition effort that supporters can join.
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Over 250,000 Call on Belarus to End Executions, Says Amnesty International
Contact: Sharon Singh, [email protected], 202-509-8194 (Washington, D.C.) -- Amnesty International and Belarusian human rights organizations Viasna and Belarus Helsinki Committee were today turned away from delivering a global petition to…
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Clinton to United Nations: "Gay Rights Are Human Rights"
The fight for LGBT human rights took not one but two critical steps forward with key actions by the Obama administration.
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No Execution For Mumia Abu-Jamal
Prosecutors have given up their quest to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal -- his sentence will now be commuted to life without parole. He should have gotten a new trial.
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Amnesty International Welcomes Decision on Mumia Abu-Jamal Case
In response to the Philadelphia prosecutors’ decision not to seek another death sentence for Mumia Abu-Jamal, Laura Moye, director of Amnesty International’s Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty, made the…
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Death Penalty Coalition Including Amnesty International Urge Asia to Stop Executions and Unfair Trials in New Report
A hard-line group of Asian countries are defying the global trend against the death penalty and putting to death thousands of people after unfair trials every year, the Anti-Death Penalty…
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Amnesty International Hails Martina Davis Correia as “Hero of the Human Rights Movement”
Following the announcement that Martina Davis Correia, the longtime activist against the death penalty and sister of Troy Anthony Davis, had succumbed to cancer, Curt Goering, chief operating officer, Amnesty…