Death Penalty

Death Penalty (939)

Mar 30 2016 12:55pm

Urgent Action: Political leader at imminent risk of execution in Bangladesh

Mar 22 2016 10:06am

Urgent Action: Journalist risks death penalty for tweets in Saudi Arabia

Mar 17 2016 1:58pm

Urgent Action update: Juvenile offender threatened in Iran

Mar 11 2016 8:36pm

Saudi Arabia: Families fear their sons will be executed within 24 hours

“Saudi Arabia’s use of the death penalty to silence dissent sends a...

Mar 8 2016 1:47pm

Urgent Action update: Juvenile offender faces death after retrial in Iran

Feb 29 2016 3:16pm

Pakistan: execution is no way to deliver justice for Salman Taseer murder

Pakistan has executed more than 300 people in past 14 months ...

Feb 18 2016 12:03pm

Iraq: 40 people sentenced to death taking to 92 those condemned in 2016

‘For Iraqi courts to hand down 92 death sentences in just six weeks...

Feb 15 2016 3:20pm

'My heart is exhausted': A mother’s story of death row in Saudi Arabia

By Ali al-Nimr's mother, Nassra al-Ahmed When I first heard the verdi...

Feb 3 2016 8:00am

Making a Murderer and Matsumoto Kenji: The truth can be stranger than fiction

Does this set of circumstances sound familiar? A man from a poor...

Jan 26 2016 12:00am

Iran: dozens of juvenile offenders on death row - new report

Girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 to be sentenced to d...