End the Death Penalty

Okay, confession time - I’m a Guinness World Record holder. I was part of the world’s largest coconut orchestra in Trafalgar Square in 2007, and along with 5,566 other people, clip-clopped my way into the record books with a rendition...

“I can tell you that 28 years later, I killed the thing that almost killed me. It was the most gratifying thing I’ve ever felt in my life. No innocent man will ever be convicted and sentenced to death again. Not in my state.” Kirk...

Kirk Bloodsworth is the first person in the US to be exonerated from death row by DNA evidence. Kirk is now Advocacy Director at Witness to Innonence, and was a key part of the campaign to abolish the death penalty in Maryland. This is...

Today the Maryland House of Delegates followed the lead of the state Senate and passed the death penalty repeal bill. The bill now goes to Governor Martin O’Malley who almost certainly will sign it, making Maryland the 18th state to...

Today, I want to post a blog that the producer on our documentary project One For Ten has written about the death penalty that I thought you'd all like a read of. You can read more of Megan's writing at our blog . - Cheers Will In this...

Update: 20 February 2013 Just 30 minutes before he was scheduled to die, Warren Hill was granted a stay of execution. We don't know how long for: the state of Georgia can now appeal the stay. Details in this Guardian article The...

I've been doing death penalty work for a long time, and I've watched and been part of the evolution of the movement for abolition both as a filmmaker, and campaigner. It might just be that it has my full attention at the moment because...

For every 10 people executed in the US, one death row inmate is released after being found innocent. These exonerees have spent an average of 10 years on death row. I've been making films about the death penalty for some time now, and...

Yesterday amongst the voting for a new president, Senate seats and the House of Representatives, Californians had an opportunity to remove the death penalty from the state’s statute books. There are over 700 death row inmates In...

One year ago at 11.08pm, Troy Anthony Davis was executed by the State of Georgia, despite a massive global outcry against the flawed system that killed him. More than 60,000 of us in the UK emailed the authorities, asking them to make...

Update – 18 November We’re extremely sad to hear that today Idaho authorities chose to restart executions in the state, by executing Paul Rhoades with a lethal injection. Thank you to all of you who took action and shared this post. It...

20 years after being put on death row in Georgia, USA, Troy Anthony Davis was strapped to a gurney and injected with a lethal pentobarbital cocktail in the early hours of this morning – needlessly, outrageously, and absolutely...

Today the five members of the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles are meeting to decide whether Troy Davis’ execution, scheduled for 7pm on Wednesday, will go ahead as planned. We are expecting the Board to announce their...

Troy Davis has spent over 20 years on death row in Georgia, USA, for a murder he has always stated he did not commit. His case is riven with doubt. No physical evidence links Troy to the crime. 7 of the 9 witnesses have changed or...

Our campaign for Troy Davis suffered a major setback this week with the news that the US Supreme Court has rejected his appeal . At the realisation that Troy – who has been on death row for over 19 years and has already had an...

As we publish our latest death penalty report , looking at executions and sentences around the world during 2010, it is clear that countries using the death penalty are now increasingly isolated. Read on to find out how you can help...

Troy Davis was convicted for the murder of a policeman, which he maintains he did not commit. Convicted solely on eye-witness testimony as there was no physical evidence, Troy’s case has been the subject of global debate and campaigns...

Today Amnesty International published its annual death penalty repor t. To run through the headline statistics; at least 2,390 people were executed in 25 countries last year, which is almost double the number from last year’s report...