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Feb 16 2015 8:54pm
UPDATE: Iran due to execute child offender
In November we asked you to take action on behalf of Saman Naseem – a ...
Feb 16 2015 1:47pm
Iran: child offender to be executed on Thursday
Letter from Saman Naseem details how as 17-year-old he was tortured...
Feb 13 2015 5:34pm
'Awaiting my execution': Stop Saman's execution
Update, 10 March: After thousands of you around the world took action ...
Feb 13 2015 1:12pm
Pakistan: two executions today are 'a dangerous and disturbing' escalation in use of the death penalty
‘The government has apparently gone against its own stated policy o...
Feb 4 2015 2:54pm
Killing of Jordanian pilot 'abhorrent' but 'revenge killings' not the answer
‘The IS’s gruesome tactics must not be allowed to fuel a bloody cyc...
Feb 2 2015 2:20pm
Egypt: today's confirmation of 183 death sentences is 'outrageous'
415 people have now been sentenced to death in four trials    ...
Jan 28 2015 4:47pm
Letter to Justice Secretary Chris Grayling seeks answers over Saudi prisons deal
‘Even as the blogger Raif Badawi was languishing in prison facing 1...
Dec 24 2014 10:46am
2014: A botched year for the death penalty
What’s the biggest reason you have for not supporting the death penalt...
Dec 22 2014 4:59pm
Pakistan: Plans to execute 500 more prisoners 'deeply disturbing'
Pakistan’s reported plans to execute 500 more people are “deeply di...
Dec 17 2014 7:17pm
Pakistan: resuming executions is 'not the answer' to Peshawar school tragedy
‘Lifting the moratorium on executions appears to be a knee-jerk rea...