Indian rape debate: Why death penalty is no solution
By Ananth Guruswamy, Director of Amnesty International in India The tragic case of the 23-year old woman who was brutally attacked, raped and left for dead by six men in Delhi on 16 December 2012 has...
View ArticleWe wish to inform you that tomorrow you will be executed
Muhammad Haza’a is one of some 180 people facing death in Yemeni prisons for crimes they allegedly committed when they were under 18. He is due to be taken out of his crowded prison cell tomorrow...
View ArticleFor some in Belarus, Independence Day might be their last
By Svetlana Vorobyeva, Amnesty International’s Belarus campaigner As Belarus marks Independence Day today, three men have been left wondering if it will be their last. These men live in the only...
View ArticleA year on from the Gambia’s return to executions
By Lisa Sherman-Nikolaus, West Africa researcher at Amnesty International *This blog has been adapted from a speech given at an event on 23 August 2013 with 12 other organizations in Dakar, Senegal to...
View ArticleTime to end the myth that the death penalty reduces crime
By Selwyn Strachan, former death row inmate from Grenada. Between 1986 and 1991, I spent 1,715 days on death row at Richmond Hill Prison in Grenada. I was one of 14 people, all of us former government...
View Article‘This is not freedom … I’m just in a bigger jail’
By Imam Baba Leigh, Gambian Muslim scholar and human rights activist. Just a few days ago, on 22 October, I was given an award from the Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network. I was not expecting...
View ArticleTwo lessons the USA must learn from Glenn Ford
By Tessa Murphy, USA campaigner at Amnesty International. There are two lessons the USA should learn from the release of Glenn Ford, a 64-year-old man who spent 28 years on death row in Louisiana for a...
View ArticleExecutions make a mockery of any justice system
By Sherif Elsayed-Ali, Deputy Director of Global Thematic Issues at Amnesty International. For a long time, I believed the death penalty to be a legitimate, albeit severe punishment for severe crimes....
View Article“I want them to show compassion for my dad”
Solomon Ebhogadhe speaks to Amnesty about his hope that his father will be freed from death row and prison one day. On 16 June 2013, ThankGod Ebhos was dragged to the gallows in Benin Prison, Nigeria....
View ArticleMiddle Eastern nations at forefront of disturbing spike in executions
By Sara Hashash, Middle East and North Africa media officer at Amnesty International It sounds like a scene from a grisly horror film; five decapitated bodies swinging from a horizontal pole suspended...
View Article‘There is no justice in this country anymore’ – Egypt’s mass death sentences
By Mohamed ElMessiry, Egypt Researcher at Amnesty International, who attended the sentencing hearing in El Minya “Welcome to the village of death penalties”, lawyer Ahmed Shabeeb told me as I arrived...
View ArticleEgypt’s judicial system spiraling out of control
By Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s Secretary General. Egypt’s criminal justice system was in the spotlight again after a court agreed to hand down the largest number of death sentences in modern...
View ArticleExecutions in Belarus – more of the same?
Belarus resumed executions in 2014. It’s time to increase the pressure on the only country in Europe that still uses the death penalty, writes Amnesty International’s Jan Wetzel. Earlier this year,...
View ArticleSeizing the momentum
Hakamada Iwao spent 46 years on death row before his release in March. For Wakabayashi Hideki, Director of Amnesty International Japan, it was an incredible moment, but the fight isn’t over yet....
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