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Aug 7 2015 5:56pm
Iran: child offender Salar Shadizadi faces execution in days
Shadizadi set to be hanged on Monday, amid unprecedented Iranian ex...
Aug 4 2015 8:36am
Pakistan: execution of Shafqat Hussain 'a deeply sad day'
Claims that Hussain was under 18 at time of crime and tortured into...
Jul 23 2015 2:03pm
Iran: 'staggering' execution spree with nearly 700 people executed in just over six months - new figures
New figures show 694 executions up to 15 July, with executions set ...
Jul 17 2015 10:52am
Zambia: President commutes death sentences
The decision by President Edgar Lungu to commute the sentences of 3...
Jul 16 2015 2:33pm
Zambia spares hundreds of prisoners execution
Zambia took a welcome move towards ending its use of the death penalty...
Jun 29 2015 3:57pm
USA: Supreme Court lethal injection ruling leaves injustice of death penalty in place
Risk of wrongfully-convicted person being executed remains   ...
Jun 25 2015 12:06pm
Japan carries out first execution of year
‘To take a man’s life in this way is the politics of the gutter’ - ...
Jun 22 2015 4:29pm
Nebraska just abolished the death penalty
By Christy Hargesheimer, Nebraska resident and Nebraska State Death Pe...
Jun 17 2015 1:14pm
After four decades on Japan's death row, Okunishi should be retried, not hanged
Okunishi Masaru is Japan’s longest serving death row inmate. This wee...
Jun 16 2015 6:27pm
Egypt: confirmation of Morsi death sentence condemned
‘This is nothing more than a vengeful march to the gallows’ - Hassi...