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March 24, 2012
March 24, 2012
The International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) met in Geneva on 22 and 23 March 2012 in order to discuss strategies on abolition of the […]
March 19, 2012
March 19, 2012
Belarus state television reported the executions on Saturday 17 March 2012. Dmitry Konovalov and Vladislav Kovalyov, both 25 years of age, were reportedly executed soon after […]
February 14, 2012
February 14, 2012
Pablo Ibar has been on death row in Florida State Prison for almost 12 years. He was convicted of a triple murder in 1994 despite serious […]
January 12, 2012
January 12, 2012
The trial is an occasion to reveal the truth about the unlawful killing of anti-government demonstrators but it is important that the process is conducted according […]
January 6, 2012
January 6, 2012
On 5 of January 2012, the Mongolian Parliament approved a bill to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, […]
November 30, 2011
November 30, 2011
More than 1’300 Join the Worldwide Celebrations “Cities for Life – Cities against the Death Penalty”
On the occasion of the 30 November, the day on which more than thousand cities celebrate the value of human life, the International Commission against the […]
November 23, 2011
November 23, 2011
On 22 November 2011, the Governor of the US state Oregon John Kitzhauber announced a moratorium on the use of the death penalty in that state. […]
November 19, 2011
November 19, 2011
Death row prisoner Paul Ezra Rhoades was executed on 18 November 2011. He was sentenced to death for murdering Susan Michelbacher and Stacy Baldwin in 1987. […]
September 22, 2011
September 22, 2011
Mr. Manuel Valle, who has been 33 years on death row and was sentenced to death in 1978 for murdering a police officer, is at imminent […]
September 22, 2011
September 22, 2011
On 21 September, Afro-American Troy Davis was executed by lethal injection in the US State of Georgia, although serious doubts had been raised repeatedly about the […]