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Dec 5 2014 5:48pm
Why the Scott Panetti case strikes at the heart of the death penalty debate
On Wednesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the execution ...
Dec 3 2014 6:28pm
Texas, USA: stay of execution for mentally-ill Scott Panetti
Execution called off just hours before prisoner was due to die in t...
Dec 3 2014 4:00pm
Why Bhopal still matters, 30 years on
Today marks 30 years since the worst case of corporate negligence in l...
Nov 28 2014 4:59pm
Texas, USA: Execution of mentally ill man set for next week
Despite decades of mental illness, Scott Panetti set to be executed...
Nov 26 2014 12:18pm
Is 'the Penalty' worth the price? Lifting the lid on the death penalty
Last year, I set out across America with a small team of filmmakers to...
Nov 26 2014 11:00am
Ferguson, USA: Excessive force by police only serves to escalate 'incredibly tense environment'
Following the announcement on Monday (23 November) that the St. Louis ...
Nov 25 2014 2:17pm
Ferguson protests - Amnesty on the ground in Missouri
People took to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, yesterday to protest...
Nov 21 2014 4:58pm
USA: Call to free man who spent 40 years in solitary, as conviction overturned
Albert Woodfox has spent more than 40 years in isolation ...
Nov 12 2014 5:47pm
USA's recognition that UN torture convention applies at Guantánamo welcomed
In response to the US government’s recognition today in Geneva befo...
Nov 6 2014 11:33am
Guantánamo: transfer of Kuwaiti man welcomed, but 148 detainees remain at base
‘The US government must do far more to end human rights violations ...