British drug company acts to stop its products being used in US executions
A drug manufacturer based in Britain has vowed to add new restrictions to sales of its products in the US after it was revealed that it sold a batch of barbiturate to the Arkansas department of corrections, which intended to use it in executions.…
Event: Belfast to host death row exhibit
The global campaign to save death row inmate Troy Davis - executed in the US in 2011, while still protesting his innocence - has been documented in a photo exhibition to be staged in Belfast. Davis was found guilty of murdering a police officer in Savannah, Georgia, in…
Japan executions show ‘chilling’ escalation in death penalty
The execution of two death row inmates in Japan shows that a "chilling" escalation of death penalty use under the new Liberal Democratic government is intensifying, Amnesty International said. Yoshihide Miyagi, 56, and Katsuji Hamasaki, 64, were hanged in Tokyo today. …
