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Apr 12, 2018 · This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2017. Amnesty International reports only on executions, death sentences and other aspects of the use of the death penalty, such as commutations and exonerations, where there is reasonable confirmation.
- Abolition
- Distressing Trends
- Children and Disabled People Executed
- The Death Penalty Will Be Stopped
- We Won’T Stop Fighting
In 2017, sub-Saharan Africabecame a beacon of hope as it took positive strides towards abolishing the death penalty once and for all. Guinea became the 20th state in the region to abolish the death penalty for all crimes, while Kenya abolished the mandatory death penalty for murder. The president of Gambiaalso established an official moratorium (te...
However, against international law, 15 countries imposed death sentences or executed people for drug related offences. One person in this dire situation is Hoo Yew Wah in Malaysia(pictured below). He was arrested aged just 20 after being found having drugs on him, and was handed the death penalty. Thirteen years later, he’s still on death row. Hoo ...
Against international law at least five people in Iran were executed for crimes committed while they were still children, and at least 80 other children remained on death row. It is also illegal to execute people with mental or intellectual disabilities. But that didn’t stop Japan, the Maldives, Pakistan, Singapore and the USAwho all either execute...
The death penalty is the ultimate denial of human rights, and has been proven not to deter crime. Yet based on 2017 data, on average one execution takes place every nine hours. We have been campaigning to stop the death penalty since 1977, and one day it will be scrapped everywhere. But with at least 21,919 people at present known to be under sente...
Keeping the pressure on is exactly what we did for Marcellus Williams in Missouri, USA. Until recently, Marcellus was on death row for a 1998 murder conviction, a crime which he maintains he did not commit. An African American, he was tried before an almost all-white jury, plus there is no DNA evidence linking him to the murder. Nor were there any ...
Feb 22, 2018 · The Amnesty International Report 2017/18 documents the state of the world’s human rights in 159 countries and territories during 2017. Conflict, austerity measures and natural disasters pushed many into deeper poverty and insecurity; millions were forced to flee their homes and seek refuge elsewhere in their own countries or across ...
Apr 12, 2018 · Amnesty International recorded several cases of people facing the death penalty after “confessing” to crimes as a result of torture or other ill-treatment in Bahrain, China, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
The Amnesty International Report 2017/18 shines a light on the state of the world’s human rights during 2017. The foreword, five regional overviews and a survey of 159 countries and
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Aug 5, 2024 · La Cour pénale internationale (CPI) mène des enquêtes et, le cas échéant, juge les personnes accusées des crimes les plus graves qui touchent l’ensemble de la communauté internationale : génocide, crimes de guerre, crimes contre l’humanité et crime d’agression.
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Feb 28, 2017 · The European Union (EU) Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (SOCTA) 2017 is a detailed analysis of the threat of serious and organised crime facing the EU providing information for practitioners, decision-makers and the wider public.
