When Amnesty International was founded in 1961, only nine countries had abolished the death penalty for all crimes. Fifty years on, the trend towards worldwide ...
In this report – issued to mark the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Gregg v. Georgia ruling of 2 July 1976 and set against the backdrop of continuing litigation ...
A Chinese man, Gan Jinhua, has lost an appeal against a death sentence which he claims is a result of a confession extracted through torture. The Supreme People's ...
Saudi Arabian national Hamza Kashgari risks being charged of apostasy, punishable by death, for remarks he posted on Twitter. He was forcibly returned to Saudi ...
Reginald Clemons was one of nearly 300 people sentenced to death in the USA in 1993, a time when support for the death penalty there was far stronger than it is ...
Before leaving office on 2 January, the outgoing governor of California declined to act on the clemency petition filed on behalf of Kevin Cooper, who has consistently ...
Last month, the US administration sent a report to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in relation to upcoming scrutiny of the USA's human rights ...
