Death Penalty April 23, 2019 Saudi Arabia executes 37 people in a single day – including three juveniles Pictured: Mujtaba al-Sweikat, executed today in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s official press agency has announced…Read More
Death PenaltyLethal Injection July 11, 2018 Judge blocks Nevada execution – rules that state may not use sedative against manufacturer’s wishes A Nevada judge has blocked tonight’s scheduled execution of Scott Dozier by ruling that the…Read More
Death PenaltyLethal Injection July 10, 2018 Pharma corporation sues to block Nevada execution The American pharmaceutical company Alvogen is suing the state of Nevada to prevent the use…Read More
Death Penalty May 29, 2018 BREAKING: Andy Tsege released in Ethiopia British citizen Andy Tsege has received a pardon from the Ethiopian Government and been released…Read More
Death Penalty May 25, 2018 Mississippi Memories – photos from an execution in 1987 Clive Stafford Smith and Paul Hamann remember an execution 31 years on through photos taken…Read More
Death Penalty May 20, 2018 Post Mortem – the execution of Edward Earl Johnson 31 years ago, on May 20, 1987, just before midnight, I was sitting in the…Read More
Death Penalty April 4, 2018 Mass trials and the death penalty in Egypt Mass trials have routinely led to death sentences, resulting in a dramatic expansion of Egypt’s…Read More
Death Penalty April 4, 2018 Article 122 – the loophole that allows death sentences for children The arbitrary arrests, unfair trials, and illegal death sentences inflicted by the Egyptian government on…Read More
Death Penalty April 4, 2018 Egypt’s crackdown on dissent – and the two laws underpinning it The Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi launched his crackdown on human rights immediately after the…Read More
Death PenaltyTorture March 21, 2018 I was arrested in Cairo when I was 17 and faced the death penalty I was arrested in Cairo when I was 17. I turned 18 in an Egyptian prison.…Read More