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USA: 'I don't really know what mitigation means': Action for ...
5 July 2012

The USA's resort to the death penalty in an increasingly abolitionist world means that US authorities run into criticism when seeking to defend their country's ...

Document       AMR 51/056/2012

USA (Texas): Further information: Clemency petition filed for ...
4 July 2012

Lawyers for Yokamon Hearn, who remains scheduled to be executed in Texas on 18 July, are making a final bid in the courts and before the Texas clemency authorities ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/055/2012

USA (Ohio): Prosecutor and judge oppose Ohio execution: John Eley
3 July 2012

John Eley, aged 63, is due to be executed in the US state of Ohio on 26 July 2012 for a murder committed in 1986. The prosecutor who obtained the death sentence ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/053/2012

Artists write to UN leader Ban Ki-moon on 'a matter of life and ...
2 July 2012

International artists have come together to call on governments to agree a strong Arms Trade Treaty.

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USA: Where's the evidence (Postcard)
1 July 2012

LONDON OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: STOP DEFENDING DOW CHEMICAL. JOIN US: AMNESTY.ORG/EN/JOIN. PROTECT PAHARILAND RIGHTS IN THECHITTAGONG HILLTRACTS. WHERE'S THE EVIDENCE ...

Postcard       AMR 51/034/2012

Wire, July/August 2012. Vol. 42, issue 04
1 July 2012

1) The Agenda 2) Up front "They know they are being watched" 3) Bhopal: Carrying the torch 4) International Day of the Disappeared: "Our life without him is bare ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/004/2012

يوليو/ تموز - اغسطس/ آب 2012 المجلد 42 ...
1 July 2012

ﻩﺬه ةﺮﺸﻨﻟا ﺮﻴﻏ ةﺮﻓﻮﺘﻣ نﻵا فﻮﺳ ﻢﺘﻳ ﺎهﺮﺸﻧ ﺎﺒﻳﺮﻗ.

Newsletter       NWS 21/004/2012

USA: Time to end ten years of injustice: Oral statement to the UN ...
29 June 2012

The failure of the US authorities to turn to the fully functioning civilian judicial system has not only deprived detainees at Guantánamo of their fair trial rights ...

Document       AMR 51/052/2012

USA (Arizona): Further information: Arizona carries out USA's ...
28 June 2012

Sammy Lopez was executed in the US state of Arizona on 27 June for a murder committed in 1986.

Urgent Action       AMR 51/051/2012

USA: Deadly formula: An international perspective on the 40th ...
28 June 2012

In June 1972, the US Supreme Court issued a ruling, Furman v. Georgia, which, in effect, nullified the country's capital laws and overturned nearly 600 death sentences ...

Report       AMR 51/050/2012