INDEX
Article(s)
To escape the death penalty: be rich and kill a foreigner
on 24 February 2010
The racial origin of the victim and the social class of the criminal are key factors of discrimination.
2010
Bahrain
Fair Trial
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Article(s)
US death sentences hit new low in 2009
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 7 January 2010
As legal efforts and economic woes weighed in against the death penalty, fewer Americans were sent to death row in 2009 than any other year since the restoration of capital punishment in the US in 1976.
2010
Mental Illness
United States
Article(s)
200 executions in Texas under Rick Perry
on 8 June 2009
On June 2, 2009, the 200th execution authorized by governor Rick Perry took place in Texas. Protests were scheduled from Huntsville to Paris to denounce the death penalty situation in the southern US state.
2009
Clemency
Innocence
Mental Illness
United States
Article(s)
Amnesty charts death penalty world map and vows to remove Belarus from it
on 25 March 2009
World Coalition member Amnesty International has released its annual statistics on the death penalty and launched a campaign against capital punishment in Belarus.
2009
Belarus
Belarus
China
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
United States
Article(s)
Amnesty recorded 1,200 known executions in 2007
on 15 April 2008
Amnesty International’s early figures for last year show that China tops the executioners’ list, although secrecy surrounds the real death penalty statistics in many countries.
2008