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racial bias

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.
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.
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.
February 20, 2019

Criminal justice experts say US death penalty is broken and cannot be fixed

Supreme courts in Washington and Delaware have recently declared their states’ death penalty laws unconstitutional.
October 14, 2018

Washington Supreme Court outlaws death penalty, citing racial bias

The decision makes Washington the 20th State to outlaw the death penalty.
May 10, 2018

Met police using 'racially discriminatory' Gangs Matrix database

The Metropolitan Police Service’s ‘Gangs Matrix’ is the “wrong tool for the wrong problem” says Amnesty International.

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Jan 14 2021

Call to halt UK police training programmes for repressive states

The College of Policing has provided training for at least 12 countries that are listed as 'human rights priority countries' by the Foreign and...

Jan 13 2021

Royal College of Paediatrics calls for urgent review of children's meal packages

Jan 13 2021

Jersey islanders invited to join citizens' jury on assisted dying

Jan 12 2021

Councils call for Ofsted school inspections not to be resumed

Jan 12 2021

Catholic bishops call on UK to 'forsake its nuclear arsenal'

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