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
Analysis Published by the Lancet shows Generally Favourable Trends in the Direction of the use of Capital Punishment
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’S ANNUAL REPORT BRINGS THE GOOD AND BAD NEWS ON EXECUTIONS IN 2020
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
AMAZING DRAWINGS FROM INDIGENOUS STOCKman WHO WAS FIRST PERSON TO BE HANGED IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
A story of injustice from 1890s Darwin comes with a collection of amazing drawings. Charlie Flannigan, the first person to be executed in the Northern
more on the nevada judiciary committee’s vote to abolish
The Nevada Assembly Judiciary Committee voted on Friday in support of a bill to abolish the death penalty in tha State. The six Republican members
more developments in ohio
Attorney-General and lawmakers in Ohio consider moves to abolish the death in that state: https://www.nbc4i.com/news/state-news/attorney-general-says-ohios-death-penalty-system-breaking-down/
a fresh start on abolition in Nevada
The Judiciary Committee of Nevada’s House of Assembly has introduced a bill to abloish the death penalty in that state. The committee chair, Steve Yeagar,
Sneaking around buying drugs for executions
In this startling article, Ed Pilkington documents how Republican governed states in the US are paying huge sums on the black market to obtain, illegally,