Daniel Cook is scheduled to be executed in Arizona on 8 August. The lead prosecutor from the 1988 trial has said that he would not have sought the death penalty ...
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 ...
Father Antonio Rodríguez López, a priest working on rehabilitation projects with former gang members in El Salvador, was told on 5 September 2012 that there is ...
In this submission Amnesty International comments on the implementation of recommendations the government accepted during its previous review in 2008. Amnesty ...
Two members of a community organisation that opposes mining operations in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca were shot and wounded on 16 June. They and other ...
Fears of a new wave of executions in Japan increased after two death row inmates were hanged on Thursday, one the first woman to be executed in more than 15 years ...
Eleven members of a dissident organization and three of their relatives have been detained, without being told of any charges against them, since their arrest on ...
In the Americas laws there is an entrenched discriminatory attitude against Indigenous peoples. On the International Day of the World's Indigenous People, Amnesty ...
Three foreign nationals convicted of drugs related offences are at risk of execution in Saudi Arabia against the backdrop of an upsurge of executions since the ...
