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death penalty

June 26, 2014

Amnesty condemns secret execution of death row prisonerin Japan

The Japanese authorities' continued practice of secret executions despite growing concerns on the country's use of the death penalty is a scar on the justice system, says Amnesty International.
May 28, 2014

UK government challenged on role in Kenyan death sentence

The government has been challenged to explain its support for a Kenyan investigation resulting in a death sentence based on flawed evidence and a ‘confession’ extracted under torture.
May 3, 2014

Egypt, mass death sentences and the judicial skids

Well over two decades ago, one of my favourite university tutors in family law often delighted in reminding me of an expression that Charles Dickens had popularised in Oliver Twist. Was it not Bumble who had professed to Brownlow that the law is an ass - or to be more faithful to 19th century diction, "The law is a ass - a idiot [sic]"?
April 18, 2014

Balal's Good Friday: the liberation of forgiveness

Those of us whose trade is words do well to remember the relative value of a picture and a thousand words. The front page of the Guardian yesterday (17 April 2014) presented an unforgettable instance of the power this adage can carry.
March 29, 2014

Churches concerned over Egypt death sentence for 529 people

In Egypt, 529 people have been sentenced to death in one of the largest trials in the history of the country.
February 11, 2014

UN must stop funding death penalty in Vietnam, say human rights groups

Leading anti-death penalty groups have appealed to the UN to freeze counter-narcotics aid to Vietnam after the country sentenced 30 people to death.
November 18, 2013

Pressure on UK over counter-narcotics funding and death penalty concerns

Legal charity Reprieve has called on the UK to follow Ireland in stopping support for counter-narcotics programmes in Iran and Pakistan which result in death sentences.
October 21, 2013

Japan denial of retrial for death row octagenarian dubbed a 'travesty'

A decision by a court in Japan to deny a retrial to an 87-year-old man on death row is a “travesty of justice”, says Amnesty International.
September 18, 2013

British baby marks one year of life in Pakistani prison

The baby daughter of a British mother potentially facing the death penalty in Pakistan marked her first birthday in prison on 15 September.
August 21, 2013

One For Ten: challenging the death penalty

One ForTen is a series of interactive documentary short films about innocence and death row. Directors’ Mark Pizzey and Will Francome visited Edinburgh recently as part of Just Festival to share the real stories of ten exonerees across the United States. Coralie Tapper reports and comments.