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September 15, 2015

Pakistan can hang paralysed prisoner, says court

The Lahore High Court has ruled that a disabled death-row inmate can be hanged, in a judgment suggesting Pakistan’s international obligations “should be kept aside.”
May 11, 2013

Birmingham pupils make film on world's longest-serving death row prisoner

Two school pupils from Birmingham have made a hard-hitting new film about a prisoner in Japan who has been on death row for 45 years.
January 3, 2013

UK aid contributes to hundreds of executions in Iran, says Reprieve

UK aid for Iran’s ‘War on Drugs’ is helping to send hundreds of people to death row, says the legal charity Reprieve.
October 9, 2010

Call for USA to end death penalty

Amnesty International has urged the USA, the only country that carried out executions in the Americas in 2009, to end its use of this cruel and inhumane punishment.
March 24, 2004

Tutu visits death row inmate

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been to death row in Texas to visit an inmate condemned for the slaying of a Houston man more than 12 years ago.

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