A resolution calling for a global moratorium on executions will be introduced at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) 62nd session which begins on 18 September ...
On 20 July 2007, President George W. Bush issued an executive order determining that Article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 "shall apply to a program ...
On 10 August, the US Supreme Court refused to intervene in the case of Ahmed Belbacha, aged 38, an Algerian national in US custody in Guantánamo Bay who is feared ...
On 3 August, the Georgia Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal of Troy Davis, black, aged 38, whose 17 July execution was stayed less than 24 hours before it ...