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USA: Guantánamo death highlights urgent need to end indefinite ...
12 September 2012

The ninth death of a Guantánamo detainee highlights the urgent need for the US authorities to end indefinite detention there.

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USA (Pennsylvania): Opposition to Pennsylvania execution grows ...
11 September 2012

Terrance Williams, a 46-year-old African American man, is due to be executed on 3 October in Pennsylvania for a murder committed when he was 18. The victim's widow ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/076/2012

USA: Another detainee dies at Guantánamo
11 September 2012

A tragic reminder of the numbing cruelty of the USA's indefinite detention regime at its Guantánamo Bay detention facility, and the urgent need to resolve the detentions ...

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USA: Arizona performs USA's 26th execution of 2012
10 August 2012

Daniel Cook was executed in Arizona on 8 August. The clemency board denied clemency and the US Supreme Court refused to intervene.

Urgent Action       AMR 51/072/2012

USA (Texas): Further information: Texas executes man despite ...
8 August 2012

Marvin Wilson was executed in Texas on 7 August for a murder in 1992. The state clemency authorities and the US Supreme Court refused to intervene despite evidence ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/073/2012

Amnesty International | USA: Texas man due to be executed despite ...
3 August 2012

The Texas authorities should commute the death sentence of a prisoner assessed as having a mental disability but facing execution in under a week, Amnesty International ...

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USA: Texas man due to be executed despite evidence of mental ...
3 August 2012

The Texas authorities should commute the death sentence of a prisoner assessed as having a mental disability but facing execution in under a week.

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USA (Texas): Mental disability claim as execution imminent: Marvin ...
1 August 2012

A 54-year-old African American man, Marvin Wilson, is due to be executed in Texas on 7 August for a murder committed in 1992. A clinical neuropsychologist has concluded ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/071/2012

USA (Texas): Further information: Court issues stay of execution ...
30 July 2012

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has issued a stay of execution for Marcus Druery, who was due to be executed in Texas on 1 August, for a murder in 2002.

Urgent Action       AMR 51/070/2012

World powers delay landmark arms trade deal | Amnesty ...
27 July 2012

As reports of civilians being targeted in Syria continue to make headlines, China, Russia and the USA acted to delay what could have been a landmark agreement to ...

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