Death penalty: Stop the state killing

Index AI : ACT 50/011/2007
Date de publication : 1 avril 2007

This document focuses on the significant developments and events - both negative and positive - in the struggle against the death penalty in 2006. It includes steps towards abolition; horrific state killings; executions after unfair trials, including that of Saddam Hussein; the growing global campaign for abolition, and the political courage needed to rid the world of judicial state killing.