Search results for 'capital punishment' (43)
The failed lethal injection of Christa Pike, and the proposed livestreamed execution by firing squad of US Army major Nidal Hasan, drew the world’s attention to America’s use of the death penalty.
Observed every 10 October, the World Day Against the Death Penalty unifies the global abolitionist movement to mobilize and support the call for the universal abolition of capital punishment.
I woke up Monday thinking about Troy Davis. Fifteen years ago, Georgia executed him. He was innocent. I was outside the prison that night. Troy's ghost still speaks after all these years.
Nearly three decades after Rodney Reed was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of Stacey Stites, new evidence and allegations of racial bias are fueling efforts to overturn his conviction.
Wrongful convictions are often defined by numbers: the number of lives upended, the number of years unjustly served, and the number of systemic failures that allowed such injustices.
In a surprise announcement, Lammy said the King has granted a conditional pardon to Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, after she was convicted of murdering her abusive lover.
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