A new report says that the number of countries who have the death penalty is declining but there has been a surge in the number of executions in the Middle East.
Janice Bronwyn Linden was executed after being convicted for smuggling drugs into China – despite an appeal for clemency from the South African president.
Although attorneys argued that Brooks was a paranoid schizophrenic and not mentally competent to be tried for murder, he was executed by lethal injection for the 1982 killings of his three sons today in Ohio.
The 42-year-old spent more than two decades on death row for a crime he always maintained he did not commit. His request for a polygraph test before his execution was denied.
After spending more than two decades on death row, Georgia inmate Troy Davis is to be killed by lethal injection today – despite Amnesty International insisting that the evidence against him has “fallen apart”.
The execution of a man in Texas has been halted after his legal team produced the testimony of a psychologist from the original trial – in which it was said that black people were “more likely” to commit violence.
Capital punishment debate petition has been generating support online, but needs 100,000 signatures before being considered for House of Commons debate.
Human rights group Amnesty International has urged the Indian government call off two planned executions, which would be the first to occur in the country for seven years.
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