Children should never be executed

Child executions are one of the most shocking manifestations of the death penalty. On World day against the death penalty 2009, over 90,000 people around the globe came together to tell Governments still executing child offenders that it's past time to stop.

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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.

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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.

Troy Davis granted another execution stay

Death row inmate Troy Davis has been given a last-minute reprieve, his second in less than a month.

Memorial to victims of the Bali
bombings, Kuta, Bali © rogerwp (Flickr)

Father of bombing victim opposes death penalty

To introduce myself, I am the father of Joshua Kevin Deegan, a beautiful young man, my eldest child, who was a victim of the [Bali bombings]...

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Death penalty an affront to our humanity

On World Day Against the Death Penalty, we call for the Australian Government to clarify our country's unconditional opposition to the death penalty, and other countries in our region to do the same. Read a compelling opinion piece by Katie Wood, Amnesty International Australia Campaign Coordinator, published in The Age.

Waiting to be put to death

All around the world men, women and sometimes even children, sit locked in jail cells awaiting their execution. Some of them have been tortured, and some have never even talked to a lawyer.

Last minute execution reprieve for Troy Davis

On Monday 29 September, the US Supreme Court was to begin deliberations on the fate of death row inmate Troy Davis – it's the 39-year-old's last chance of appeal for his life.