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Urgent Action Outcome: Alabama Execution Goes Ahead After Stay Lifted
Matthew Reeves was put to death by lethal injection in Alabama on the evening of 27 January.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jan 2022 -
Japan: three prisoners hanged in 'abhorrent' resumption of executionsPress release 21 Dec 2021
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Singapore: 'Time running out' for man with learning disabilities set to be hanged tomorrowPress release 09 Nov 2021
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Iran: authorities set to execute man deemed 'mature' at 17Press release 11 Oct 2021
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Troy Davis remembered: special event ten years on from his executionAmnesty International UK will hold a special online event on 21 September (7-8.30pm) to mark the ten-year anniversary of the execution of Troy Davis, a 42-old Black man executed in the US state of Georgia despite widespread concerns over the safety of…
Press release 16 Sep 2021 -
Iran: man originally arrested aged 15 secretly executedThe Iranian authorities have secretly executed a young man who was a child at the time of his arrest and had spent nearly a decade on death row.
Press release 04 Aug 2021 -
Saudi Arabia: fresh persecution following country's presidency of G20 - new reportSaudi Arabian has brazenly intensified its persecution of human rights defenders and dissidents after a lull in prosecutions during the country’s recent year-long G20 presidency, Amnesty International said in a new report.
Press release 02 Aug 2021 -
Sierra Leone: Abolition of death penalty a 'major victory'
The West African state has become the 23rd country on the continent to end capital punishment
Press release 25 Jul 2021 -
Iran: juvenile offender facing 'abhorrent' execution within daysIran is set to execute a 20-year-old man who was 17 at the time of his alleged offence.
Press release 22 Jun 2021 -
Saudi Arabia: 26-year-old facing execution for 'rioting' after forced confessionAmnesty International is calling for the execution of a 26-year-old man in Saudi Arabia to be halted after reports that his execution is imminent.
Press release 08 Jun 2021 -
Malawi: death penalty ruled unconstitutionalTwo people were sentenced to death last year in Malawai
Press release 29 Apr 2021 -
Death penalty in 2020: executions down a quarter - new reportPress release 20 Apr 2021
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Pakistan: 'landmark' ban on executing prisoners with mental disabilitiesPakistan’s Supreme Court has commuted the death sentences of Imdad Ali and Kanizan Bibi and placed a ban on the imposition of the death penalty on those with mental disabilities.
Press release 10 Feb 2021 -
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
