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'I felt the shadow of execution over my head': A letter from Iran's death rowHamed was hanged along with five other men in Iran. All of them were executed for the vague crime of 'enmity against god'; each was a Sunni Muslim from Iran's Kurdish minority. Before Hamed was hanged in March this year, he snuck out a letter detailing…
Blog post 09 Mar 2015 -
Iran: six Sunni men set to be executed as early as tomorrow morningPress release 03 Mar 2015
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Iran: fears mount for death row Kurd Saman Naseem who may be executed in secretPress release 19 Feb 2015
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Iran: child offender to be executed on ThursdayPress release 16 Feb 2015
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UPDATE: Iran due to execute child offenderBlog post 16 Feb 2015
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Pakistan: two executions today are 'a dangerous and disturbing' escalation in use of the death penaltyPress release 13 Feb 2015
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Killing of Jordanian pilot 'abhorrent' but 'revenge killings' not the answerPress release 04 Feb 2015
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Egypt: today's confirmation of 183 death sentences is 'outrageous'Press release 02 Feb 2015
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Letter to Justice Secretary Chris Grayling seeks answers over Saudi prisons dealPress release 28 Jan 2015
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2014: A botched year for the death penalty
2014 was, perhaps more than any I can remember recently, a year of gruesome examples of the flaws in the death penalty system.
Blog post 24 Dec 2014 -
Pakistan: Plans to execute 500 more prisoners 'deeply disturbing'Press release 22 Dec 2014
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Pakistan: resuming executions is 'not the answer' to Peshawar school tragedyPress release 17 Dec 2014
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Iran: child offender among ten Kurds on hunger strike facing executionPress release 16 Dec 2014
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Why the Scott Panetti case strikes at the heart of the death penalty debateBlog post 05 Dec 2014
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Texas, USA: stay of execution for mentally-ill Scott PanettiPress release 03 Dec 2014
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British grandfather Mohammad Asghar awaits execution for blasphemy in Pakistan70-year-old British grandfather Mohammad Asghar is currently awaiting execution in Pakistan for 'blasphemy'. We are calling on the government of Pakistan to release Mohammad immediately, and let him return home to his family in Edinburgh, where he can…
02 Dec 2014 -
Texas, USA: Execution of mentally ill man set for next weekPress release 28 Nov 2014
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Is 'the Penalty' worth the price? Lifting the lid on the death penaltyLast year, filmmaker Will Francome set out across America to record ten stories investigating what it was like to be innocent and on death row. Now Will's going back to look at how the death penalty affects everyone it touches - the families, lawmakers,…
Blog post 26 Nov 2014 -
Pakistan: Death sentence for Christian woman latest 'poisonous' blasphemy law outragePress release 16 Oct 2014
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Saudi Arabia: death sentence against leading Shi'a cleric is 'shocking'Press release 15 Oct 2014
