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  • 22 Sep 2011
    Troy Davis executed despite doubts over safety of conviction

    Troy Davis has been executed by lethal injection despite widespread and significant doubts over the safety of his original conviction.

  • 22 Jul 2011
    Iranian video shows public execution

    New video footage of a public hanging in Iran highlights the brutalisation of the condemned and those who watch executions, says Amnesty International.

  • 15 Apr 2011
    UK government bans export of execution drugs

    The legal charity Reprieve has welcomed the announcement by the Department for Business that it is introducing controls on the export of execution drugs to the US.

  • 6 Jan 2011
    UK firm exporting execution drugs to US is named

    A London- based company, Dream Pharma Ltd, has been revealed today (6 January 2011) as the UK source of all three drugs which are used to execute prisoners in the US.

  • 4 Jun 2010
    Rights groups condemn Libyan executions

    Human rights organisations have condemned the reported execution by firing-squad of some 18 people, many of them foreign nationals, in Libya this past weekend.

  • 6 Nov 2009
    Texas man executed after court case Bible row

    America's busiest death chamber claimed another victim this evening as 32-year-old Khristian Oliver, whose conviction was secured through misuse of the Bible, was executed in Texas.

  • 22 May 2009
    Legal and legislative challenges to death penalty in the USA

    Worldwide vigils have been held for Troy Davis, a death row prisoner in Georgia, USA, who is believed to be innocent, and is still trying to get a court to hear evidence collected since his original trial 18 years ago, which could prove his innocence.

  • 16 Jan 2008
    The death penalty shows its true colours

    Ex-Conservative MP Michael Portillo was on TV last night, documenting his attempts to discover whether there is a "humane" way for the state to kill people found guilty of heinous crimes.

  • 8 Jan 2007
    Saddam hanging farce leads to new global push against death penalty

    Human rights, religious and civic political activists are stepping up the global campaign for the abolition of the death penalty, in the wake of overwhelming worldwide criticism of the manner and impact of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's execution.

  • 1 Jan 2007
    Williams should have helped indict Saddam to avert war, says MP

    Welsh Labour MP Ann Clwyd, a long-term campaigner for human rights in Iraq, has said that Dr Rowan Williams did not do enough to get Saddam Hussein indicted for mass murder before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 ‚Ä' when he was Archbishop of Wales.