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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.
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.
May 27, 2018

British citizen Andy Tsege is pardoned by Ethiopia

After almost four years on death row in Ethiopia, British citizen Andy Tsege has received a pardon from the Ethiopian Government.
March 18, 2017

Boris Johnson fails to secure death row Briton's return from Ethiopia

The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has said that on his first trip to Ethiopia, he has received assurances that a British man who is illegally held on death row has been permitted to see a lawyer.
December 14, 2016

Briton on Ethiopia death row two years without family phone call

A British man on death row in Ethiopia has gone two years without a phone call to his family in London. Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege last spoke to his partner and three children on 14 December 2014.
November 29, 2016

Eminent actors voice ‘last words’ of death-row prisoners

Actors including David Tennant, David Morrissey, Tobias Menzies and Olivia Colman have voiced a collection of ‘last words’ from prisoners facing the death penalty and other abuses around the world.
November 23, 2016

Foreign Office takes two weeks to confirm death-row Briton still alive

The Foreign Office and Commonwealth Office has confirmed that a Briton held on death row in Ethiopia is still alive, two weeks after hearing that his life may be in danger.
November 8, 2016

UK fails to confirm safety of Briton on Ethiopia’s death row

The British Foreign an Commonwealth Office (FCO) has failed for over a week to confirm the safety and wellbeing of a British father held on death row in Ethiopia, despite having received reports last weekend that his life was in danger.
October 15, 2016

Secrecy over UK work at Bahrain’s death-row jail challenged

Britain’s secretive work at a death-row jail in Bahrain is being challenged by the international human rights group Reprieve.
September 20, 2015

Family of paraplegic death-row Pakistani plead for mercy

The family of a paraplegic death row prisoner in Pakistan have begged the authorities to cancel plans to execute him on 22 September.