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Urgent Action outcome: Thirteen federal executions in six months
Three people, including one woman, were executed in the last week of the Trump administration.
Urgent action outcomes 21 Jan 2021 -
USA: Trump should grant clemency to federal death row prisonersPress release 06 Jan 2021
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Iran: Stop execution of man arrested at 16 and forced to 'confess' to murder under torturePress release 18 Dec 2020 -
Egypt: 'horrifying execution spree', with at least 57 killed in past two monthsThe Egyptian authorities have executed at least 57 people in the past two months in a “horrifying execution spree”, nearly double the number recorded for the whole of 2019.
Press release 01 Dec 2020 -
Iran: imminent execution of Swedish-Iranian academic must be stopped immediatelyAhmadreza Djalali has been transferred to solitary confinement in Evin prison and told by authorities that he will be killed imminently
Press release 24 Nov 2020 -
Iran: secret execution of wrestler Navid Afkari a 'travesty of justice'Press release 12 Sep 2020
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Iran: wrestling champion Navid Afkari feared at risk of imminent secret executionPress release 11 Sep 2020
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Saudi Arabia: review of death sentences against three young men welcomedSaudi Arabia’s public prosecutor has ordered a review into the death sentences of three young men who were minors at the time of arrest and have been at imminent risk of execution.
Press release 27 Aug 2020 -
Urgent Action outcome: Man executed for crime when he was 18 years old
Billy Wardlow was executed on 8 July 2020.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Jul 2020 -
UA Billy WardlowUrgent action outcomes 29 Jun 2020
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Urgent Action outcome: Man with claims of innocence executed in MissouriWalter Barton was executed on 19 May 2020. He was on death row in Missouri, USA since 2006.
Urgent action outcomes 29 May 2020 -
Singapore: Man sentenced to death via Zoom in 'cruel and inhumane' move by authoritiesPress release 20 May 2020
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USA: 'cruel' execution in Missouri set to go ahead despite innocence claimsThe US state of Missouri plans to execute a man who has proclaimed his innocence through five trials and faces execution despite claims that “compelling” evidence never heard at his trials could have exonerated him.
Press release 19 May 2020 -
Death penalty report 2019A global look at the state of the death penalty in 2019 - its use, legal issues, regional differences, resumed practices, and continued momentum toward abolition.
Reports and publications 21 Apr 2020 -
Yemen: Huthi-run court upholds death sentence against Baha'i manHamid Haydara, prisoner of conscience of Baha’i faith, originally arrested in 2013 and subjected to unfair five-year trial process
Press release 23 Mar 2020 -
Belarus must not execute Viktar SerhilDespite continuing pressure, Belarusian authorities continue to carry out executions.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Mar 2020 -
Egypt: 37 death sentences imposed after deeply unfair terrorism trial‘We are calling on the Egyptian authorities to retry the defendants’
Press release 02 Mar 2020 -
Egypt: Eight men executed following military trialDeath sentence handed down after attacks on Coptic Christian churches in 2017.
Press release 24 Feb 2020 -
Saudi Arabia: counter-terrorism court used to crush peaceful opposition - new report‘Our research gives the lie to the shiny new reformist image Saudi Arabia is trying to cultivate’
Press release 05 Feb 2020 -
India: Four men at risk of imminent executionAmnesty is calling for the death sentences of four convicted men to be commuted.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Feb 2020
