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Jan 21 2021 5:03pm
Urgent Action outcome: Thirteen federal executions in six months
Three people, including one woman, were executed in the last week of t...
Jan 6 2021 5:33pm
USA: Trump should grant clemency to federal death row prisoners
Three executions scheduled in four days next week, with Lisa Montgomer...
Dec 18 2020 5:57pm
Iran: Stop execution of man arrested at 16 and forced to 'confess' to murder under torture
Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee, 30, has spent more than 12 years on death row...
Dec 1 2020 11:59pm
Egypt: 'horrifying execution spree', with at least 57 killed in past two months
Number executed more than double for whole of 2019 Arrest of Egypti...
Nov 24 2020 8:55pm
Iran: imminent execution of Swedish-Iranian academic must be stopped immediately
Ahmadreza Djalali has been transferred to solitary confinement in Evin...
Sep 12 2020 4:36pm
Iran: secret execution of wrestler Navid Afkari a 'travesty of justice'
The secret execution this morning of wrestling champion Navid Afkari, ...
Sep 11 2020 5:49pm
Iran: wrestling champion Navid Afkari feared at risk of imminent secret execution
The Iranian authorities must immediately reveal the fate and whereabou...
Aug 27 2020 5:51pm
Saudi Arabia: review of death sentences against three young men welcomed
Controversial case of Ali al-Nimr and two other Shia activists to be r...
Jul 13 2020 2:43pm
Urgent Action outcome: Man executed for crime when he was 18 years old
Billy Wardlow was executed on 8 July 2020. He was on death row in Texa...
May 29 2020 10:35am
Urgent Action outcome: Man with claims of innocence executed in Missouri
Walter Barton was executed on 19 May 2020. He was on death row in Miss...