The Federal Government says it will make “high level representations” as it tries to save a former Australian soldier from being executed for murder in
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Group Gives Up Death Penalty Work – New York Times
Last fall, the American Law Institute, which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice system almost 50 years ago, pronounced its project a
Lawyers fight to halt Ohio execution condemned as human experimentation – The Guardian
• Lethal injection involves anaesthetic used on pets • Change of method follows previous failures in state Ed Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk, Monday 7
Texas accounts for half of executions in US but now has doubts over death row – The Guardian
Overturned convictions and growth of DNA forensic evidence shake state’s rock-solid faith in capital punishment Chris McGreal in Livingston Sunday 15 November 2009 22.00 GMT
BBC News: Kenya empties its death-row cells
By Will Ross BBC News, Nairobi More than 4,000 prisoners on death row in Kenya will have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, President Mwai
Togo: Fifteenth country in Africa to abolish the death penalty
23 June 2009 Togo today decided to abolish the death penalty following a unanimous vote by the national assembly. Togo has thereby become the 15th
Groups want end to drug offense executions
LONDON, June 22 (UPI) — The governments of Asia should stop applying the death penalty for drug-related offenses, advocates said Monday.The Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network,
Executions to Resume After Presidential Elections (Indonesia)
Attorney General Marks Four for Date with Firing Squad from Among 111 Now Sitting on Death Row. (6/1/2009) NusaBali reports that Indonesia’s Attorney General has
AUSTRALIANS AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT 