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Apr 29 2021 4:18pm
Malawi: death penalty ruled unconstitutional
Two people were sentenced to death last year in Malawi Move part of...
Apr 21 2021 12:00am
Death penalty in 2020: executions down a quarter - new report
Authoritative overview records 483 executions in 18 countries - down 2...
Feb 10 2021 3:16pm
Pakistan: 'landmark' ban on executing prisoners with mental disabilities
Supreme Court says executing two men diagnosed with schizophrenia woul...
Jan 21 2021 5:03pm
Urgent Action outcome: Thirteen federal executions in six months
Three people, including one woman, were executed in the last week of t...
Jan 6 2021 5:33pm
USA: Trump should grant clemency to federal death row prisoners
Three executions scheduled in four days next week, with Lisa Montgomer...
Dec 18 2020 5:57pm
Iran: Stop execution of man arrested at 16 and forced to 'confess' to murder under torture
Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee, 30, has spent more than 12 years on death row...
Dec 1 2020 11:59pm
Egypt: 'horrifying execution spree', with at least 57 killed in past two months
Number executed more than double for whole of 2019 Arrest of Egypti...
Nov 24 2020 8:55pm
Iran: imminent execution of Swedish-Iranian academic must be stopped immediately
Ahmadreza Djalali has been transferred to solitary confinement in Evin...
Sep 12 2020 4:36pm
Iran: secret execution of wrestler Navid Afkari a 'travesty of justice'
The secret execution this morning of wrestling champion Navid Afkari, ...
Sep 11 2020 5:49pm
Iran: wrestling champion Navid Afkari feared at risk of imminent secret execution
The Iranian authorities must immediately reveal the fate and whereabou...