David Woods, aged 42, was executed in Indiana on 4 May. He had been sentenced to death in 1985 for the murder of Juan Placencia in 1984. David Woods, who was 19 ...
1) Torture: Egypt's open secret 2) A legacy of sexual violence 3) 1 May - International Workers' Day: Trade unionists gunned down in Cambodia; Labour activists ...
The world continued to move closer to the universal abolition of capital punishment during 2006. By the end of the year 88 countries had abolished the death penalty ...
In May 2007, the Committee against Torture is scheduled to examine Denmark's fifth periodic report on its implementation of the Convention against Torture. While ...
Ryan Dickson was executed in Texas on 26 April. He was sentenced to death for the murder of Carmelo Surace in 1994, committed two weeks after Dickson's 18th birthday ...
Philip Workman, aged 53, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee on 9 May despite compelling evidence that a key state witness lied at the trial and that the police ...
This document is a compilation of the annual death penalty statistics for 2006. It includes information under the following headings: Death Sentences and Executions ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PRESS RELEASE. AI Index: AMR 51/082/2007 (Public). News Service No: 084. 27 April 2007. USA: Another CIA detainee transferred to Guantánamo ...