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death penalty in US

February 14, 2011

Parliamentary hearing will hear plea on lethal injection drugs

The All Party Parliamentary Group on the Abolition of the Death Penalty is hearing evidence on the use of drugs obtained from the UK for an execution.
January 24, 2011

UK supplied lethal drugs to be used in imminent execution

A legal charity says the state of Georgia will execute Emanuel Hammond tomorrow using drugs supplied by London based Dream Pharma.
January 6, 2011

UK firm exporting execution drugs to US is named

A London- based company, Dream Pharma Ltd, has been revealed today (6 January 2011) as the UK source of all three drugs which are used to execute prisoners in the US.
December 29, 2010

Government inaction over export of execution drugs

Repreive has called on the Business, Innovation and Skills Secretary. Vince Cable, to act immediately to ban the export of execution drugs to the US
November 29, 2010

UK government bans export of lethal injection drugs to US

Vince Cable, Minister for Business Innovation and Skills, has agreed a ban on the export of lethal drugs to the US for use in executions.
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.
June 22, 2009

Religious concerns highlighted as California resumes executions

California is to resume executions after a three-year hiatus. Campaigners have responded to the proposed lethal injection regulations with a series of concerns placing a strong focus on religious and spiritual freedoms.
May 27, 2009

Texas governor blocks limited move against the death penalty

Amid pressure from both sides, the governor of Texas has blocked part of a bill which would have prevented the death penalty being used for a particular category of people convicted under a provision called the Law of Parties.
May 22, 2009

Legal and legislative challenges to death penalty in the USA

Worldwide vigils have been held for Troy Davis, a death row prisoner in Georgia, USA, who is believed to be innocent, and is still trying to get a court to hear evidence collected since his original trial 18 years ago, which could prove his innocence.
November 17, 2005

Catholic bishops back campaign to end US death penalty

Catholic bishops in the US have emphatically endorsed a campaign to end the use of the death penalty in America, saying that the country cannot "teach that killing is wrong by killing those who kill."