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Campaign Features
The casualties of Iran’s ‘war on drugs’
Iran is leading the global 'war on drugs' - but at what cost to human rights?
Thousands across Asia executed after unfair trials
A hard-line group of Asian countries are putting to death thousands of people after unfair trials every year.
Death sentences and executions in 2010
At the end of 2010, nearly 18 000 were on death row, facing the death sentence. Our latest report provides a global snapshot of the use of the death penalty in 2010.
The death penalty - A year of progress?
In 2009 more than 700 people were executed and a further 2001 sentenced to death across the globe, but there was also good news on the road to eradicating the death penalty.
Death sentences and executions in 2009
While the world moved closer towards global abolition of the death penalty, 18 countries carried out executions in 2009. China once again refused to divulge exact figures on its use of the death penalty.
Children should never be executed
Child executions are one of the most shocking manifestations of the death penalty.
© Delara Darabi
The secret hanging of Delara Darabi
On 1 May 2009, Delara Darabi was executed in Iran, despite having been given a two-month stay of execution on 19 April.
Stop Action: Aisha Ghalib al-Hamzi executed
'Aisha Ghalib al-Hamzi, Yemeni mother of seven, was executed on 19 April 2009 for the murder of her husband. All seven of her children refused to pardon her.
Executions by stoning commuted in three cases
Three Iranian women have had their death sentences of stoning commuted to lashes and imprisonment.
Stop Action: Tan Chor Jin executed
Tan Chor Jin was hanged in the morning of 9 January 2009 in Singapore. The president rejected his appeal for clemency, which was his last resort.
Stay of execution for Darold Stenson
Darold Stenson has received a stay of execution. He was due to be executed in Washington State on 3 December.
Stop Action: Yang Jia executed
Yang Jia was executed on 26 November 2008 after the Supreme People's Court approved his sentence on 21 November.
Stop Action: Wo Weihan executed
Wo Weihan, a Chinese medical scientist, was executed by shooting on the morning of 28 November 2008.
Indonesia must end death penalty
In the wake of the execution of the Bali Bombers, Amnesty International calls on the Indonesian Government to permanently abolish the death penalty in its country.
Execution stopped: Sayed Perwiz Kambaksh
The Appeal Court of Kabul overturned student journalist Sayed Perwiz Kambaksh's death sentence on 21 October.
Stop Action: Gregory Wright executed
Gregory Wright was executed in Texas on 30 October. He had been sentenced to death in December 1997 for the murder of Donna Vick, who was stabbed to death in her home near Dallas nine months earlier.
Death penalty takes the lives of two children
Girl, 13, stoned to death in Somalia. Her crime? Reporting that she had been raped.
An Iranian woman spared death penalty after a pardon was given.
Stop action: Yemeni cousins executed
Ismail Lutef Huraish and his cousin Ali Mussara’a Muhammad Huraish were executed on the morning of 29 October. They had exhausted all their appeals and their death sentences had been ratified by the President.
Good news: Juvenile offender’s death sentence has been quashed
Hossein Haghi’s death sentence has been quashed by the head of Iran's judiciary in September 2008.
Good news: Iranian sisters have their sentence of death by stoning overturned
Zohreh Kabiri-niat and her sister Azar have had their sentence of death by stoning overturned by the Head of the Judiciary in Iran.
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6 February 2012, 02:27PM