AUSTRALIANS AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

To mark World Day Against the Death Penalty (10 October 2021), the Law Council of Australia has released its revised Policy Statement on the Death

To mark the 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty, the Human Rights Institute of the International bar Association called for universal abolition of legalised

A number of prosecutors in Utah are coming together to agitate in favour of abolishing the death penalty in that State: https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/sl-co-da-building-coalition-of-prosecutors-to-end-the-death-penalty-in-utah and https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/utah-county-attorney-says-he-will-no-longer-seek-the-death-penalty-in-future-court-cases. A

Lawyers for Walter Raglin who was sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of musician, Michael Bany, have filed a motion seeking a new trial

Shane Claiborne discusses Pope Francis’s August 2 condemnation of the death penalty and the strange fact that some Christians are proponents of the death penalty

Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives have written to US Attorney-General, Merrick Garland, urging the Biden administration to stop seeking the death penalty

Tahla Burki, writing in the medical magazine, The Lancet, draws on the Amnesty International annual report on executions around the world to draw a generally

Amnesty International’s annual report shows that China (whose number of executions is unknown), Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia were the five countries who carried