Human Rights
,International
,DPIC Reports
,Apr 10, 2019
Executions worldwide have fallen to their lowest levels in a decade, according to a new report released April 9, 2019 by Amnesty International. In its annual
Human Rights
,International
,Apr 21, 2021
Fewer executions were carried out across the world in 2020 than at any time in a decade and new death sentences fell by more than a third, according to a new report by Amnesty International. It was the third consecutive year in wh…
Arbitrariness
,Human Rights
,Intellectual Disability
,Mental Illness
,Race
,Aug 28, 2018
A new report by Amnesty International says Florida’s approach to redressing the nearly…
Human Rights
,International
,Secrecy
,Apr 22, 2020
Executions across the globe fell 5% worldwide in 2019 to the fewest in more than a decade, despite a record number of executions in Saudi Arabia, Amnesty International reported in the human rights organization’s
Human Rights
,Intellectual Disability
,International
,Juveniles
,Mental Illness
,Apr 12, 2018
Use of the death penalty declined worldwide in 2017, according to the Amnesty International’s annual global report on capital punishment. The human rights organization recorded 2,591 death sentences imposed in 53 countries in 2017, down 1…
International
,Secrecy
,Apr 11, 2017
Executions worldwide fell by 37% in 2016, according to the annual Amnesty International Global Report on Death Sentences and Executions, released on April 11, 2017. With 20 executions in 2016, the United States
International
,Apr 06, 2016
Amnesty International reported that worldwide executions spiked by 54% to at least 1,634 — a 25-year high — in 2015, even as the number of countries abolishing the death penalty reached record levels. In its annual report on …
International
,Apr 01, 2015
Executions around the world declined by 22% last year, according to Amnesty International’s 2014 annual report on death sentences and executions. The report — released on April 1 — indicates that an estimated 607 people were exe…
Human Rights
,Foreign Nationals
,Apr 01, 2003
More than 60 foreign citizens representing 22 nationalities are under sentence of death in the United States of America (USA). In virtually every case, the arresting authorities failed to notify detained foreigners of their right to communicate wi…
Human Rights
,International
,Sentencing Data
,Jun 06, 2022
More countries abandoned the death penalty and a record low number carried it out, but extreme practices in a few outlier nations caused global executions to rise in 2021, according to the human rights group Amnesty International.…
Human Rights
,International
,Nov 15, 2021
Two Japanese death-row prisoners have filed a lawsuit alleging that the country’s long-criticized practice of notifying prisoners of their execution the same day they are to be put to death is “inhumane” and violates the nation’s constitution.…
Human Rights
,International
,Federal Death Penalty
,Jul 11, 2022
A new report by the human rights organization Amnesty International urges President Joe Biden to act upon his campaign pledge to work to abolish the death penalty by exercising his constitutional authority to comm…
International
,Time on Death Row
,Mar 20, 2023
On March 13, 2023 in Japan, Tokyo’s High Court granted a retrial for Iwao Hakamada, a former boxer known as the “longest serving death row” prisoner in the world. He was convicted of murder in 1968. Hideaki Nakagawa, Director of Amnesty Internatio…
Human Rights
,International
,Dec 12, 2022
In what human rights groups warn is just the start of a violent campaign of political repression, the Islamic Republic of Iran has begun executing protesters in the ongoing civil unrest following the death of 22-year-old M…
Human Rights
,International
,Sep 29, 2020
The Republic of Kazakhstan has joined the ranks of nations that have formally committed to abolishing the death penalty. On September 23, 2020, in conjunction with the 75th session of the United Nations Genera…
International
,Jun 12, 2022
The use of the death penalty for non-violent drug offenses violates international human rights law. In its 2022 annual report on the global
Federal Death Penalty
,Feb 09, 2021
A coalition of 82 civil rights and advocacy organizations have called on President Joe Biden to honor his campaign promise of “ensuring equality, equity, and justice in our criminal legal system” by taking executive action to end …
Human Rights
,International
,Juveniles
,Apr 25, 2019
In an action condemned by the United Nations and human rights groups as a flagrant violation of international law, Saudi Arabia beheaded 37 people, including juvenile offenders, in six separate locations on April 23, 2019. It was …
Human Rights
,International
,Dec 05, 2022
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and a coalition of more than 30 non-governmental organizations have condemned the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a series of executions for drug crimes carried out in violat…
Human Rights
,Intellectual Disability
,International
,Apr 07, 2022
In a move sharply criticized by rights advocates as a violation of international human rights law, Singapore has resumed executions for non-violent drug offenses. On March 30, 2022, the authoritarian city/state hanged Abd…
Human Rights
,International
,May 23, 2022
The U.S. State Department and the European Union have joined human rights and pro-democracy advocates in condemning the expansion of the death penalty in Belarus to include non-lethal “attempted a…
Human Rights
,International
,Dec 28, 2022
Fulfilling a pledge made while campaigning for office, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema on December 23, 2022 signed legislation abolishing the nation’s death penalty (pictured). Zambia’s repeal of its colonial-era capital pun…
Human Rights
,International
,May 31, 2022
Two more African nations have taken major steps towards abolishing the death penalty. On May 25, 2022, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema (pictured) announced that, in commemoration of Africa Freedom Day, he was commuti…
