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November 2, 2020

Case proceeds against Saudi child defendant facing death penalty

Mohammed al Faraj was 15 years old when he was arrested outside a bowling alley in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
August 29, 2020

Saudis to review all death sentences for childhood crimes

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.
April 22, 2020

Death penalty data shows worldwide decline in executions

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.
March 25, 2020

State of Colorado repeals the death penalty

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.
March 9, 2020

Urgent appeal to Egypt for release of four minors facing death sentences

After their arrest, the minors were held incommunicado for several months, tortured to obtain confessions, and denied their right to a fair trial.
February 28, 2020

Colorado becomes 22nd US State to repeal the death penalty

Since 1973, 167 innocent people have been officially exonerated from death row.
December 27, 2019

Execution in Japan 'a shameful stain on human rights record of Olympic hosts'

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.
November 18, 2019

Call for governor of Texas to grant clemency to Rodney Reed

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.
September 3, 2019

Jewish congregations oppose death penalty for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter

Members of the two Synagogues targeted in the worst anti-Semitic shooting in US history are asking that the killer be spared the death penalty.
August 1, 2019

UK government's approach to death penalty 'puts lives at risk around the globe'

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.