The Saudi Human Rights Commission has announced that the death sentences of Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon and Abdullah al-Zaher, sentenced as juvenies, have been referred for review, following a recent royal decree mandating that the maximum punishment for childhood crimes should be ten years imprisonment.
Worldwide, 106 countries have abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes, and 142 countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.
More Americans are now aware of how the death penalty targets vulnerable populations, is applied in a racially biased and unfair manner, risks executing innocent people and harms victims' families.
Executions in Japan are shrouded in secrecy, with prisoners typically given only a few hours’ notice and some given no warning at all before their death sentences are carried out.
Amnesty International has called on the governor of Texas to grant clemency to Rodney Reed, a black man facing execution despite serious doubts over his conviction before an all-white jury in 1998.
Reprieve says that the Home Secretary is putting British lives around the globe at risk by refusing to seek death penalty assurances from the US for two men currently held in Syria.