Amnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization. http://www.amnestyusa.org/rss/en/news/deathpenalty.xml en Amnesty International Amnesty International hourly 4 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010031215783&rss=deathpenalty 2010-03-12T00:00:00-05:00 countries=egypt http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010031215796&rss=deathpenalty An Egyptian man, who may have been wrongfully convicted of murder, was hanged in Cairo on Wednesday morning, Amnesty International has learned. 2010-03-12T00:00:00-05:00 countries=egypt http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20100311001&rss=deathpenalty Human rights organization welcomes expanded reporting on discrimination and press freedom, but says that reports fail to provide a comprehensive assessment of economic, social, and cultural rights. 2010-03-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE010872010&rss=deathpenalty Amnesty International has made an urgent personal appeal to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to prevent the execution of a man who is believed to have been wrongly convicted of murder and whose co-accused was executed on Wednesday 2010-03-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=egypt http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010022515611&rss=deathpenalty In a five to four ruling, the Court stated that capital punishment did not violate "human dignity and worth" protected in the Constitution. 2010-02-25T00:00:00-05:00 countries=south_korea http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010022515610&rss=deathpenalty Speaking at an anti-death penalty summit in Geneva, Amnesty International's interim Secretary General Claudio Cordone hailed global efforts but said more needs to be done. 2010-02-25T00:00:00-05:00 countries=switzerland http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010022315561&rss=deathpenalty A new Amnesty International report documents extrajudicial executions, torture and other ill-treatment carried out by particular units of Guinea's armed forces last year. 2010-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=guinea http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010021715472&rss=deathpenalty Henry Skinner is scheduled to become the 450th person to be executed in the state since judicial killing resumed in the USA in 1977. 2010-02-17T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20100217003&rss=deathpenalty Amnesty International today criticized Iran for rejecting important recommendations by the United Nations to improve human rights in the country 2010-02-17T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE130212010&rss=deathpenalty AI asks the UN to consider discrimination against women and minorities, arbitrary arrest, torture and other ill-treatment, unlawful killings, restrictions on freedoms of expression, association and assembly, unfair trial, and the death penalty in its Universal Periodic Review of Iran. 2010-02-12T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010021015366&rss=deathpenalty Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to allow peaceful demonstrations on Thursday, the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in the country. 2010-02-10T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010020215238&rss=deathpenalty Amnesty International says it fears the authorities are planning to execute some or all of the nine before 11 February, the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. 2010-02-02T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE010282010&rss=deathpenalty Amnesty International has condemned the execution of two men arrested during protests that followed Iran's disputed presidential election last year 2010-01-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010012615144&rss=deathpenalty Amnesty International deplores the execution in Baghdad of 'Ali Hassan al-Majeed, also known as Chemical Ali', for his involvement in one of the worst atrocities committed under the government of Saddam Hussain. 2010-01-26T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iraq http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010012215099&rss=deathpenalty Habibollah Latifi was sentenced to death in 2008 in connection with his links to a banned Kurdish organization. 2010-01-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010011815021&rss=deathpenalty Amnesty International has called on the Iraqi authorities to halt the mounting number of death sentences being handed out in the run-up to delayed national elections in March. 2010-01-18T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iraq http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010011414971&rss=deathpenalty Amnesty International has voiced its concerns that the defendants may have been forced to confess to the 2005 murders of 13 policemen under torture. 2010-01-14T00:00:00-05:00 countries=sudan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010010814900&rss=deathpenalty Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities not to sentence to death protesters arrested during religious commemorations last month. 2010-01-08T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009122314845&rss=deathpenalty Amnesty International has called on the Chinese authorities to reveal the whereabouts of 20 ethnic Uighur asylum-seekers who were forcibly deported from Cambodia to China on 19 December 2009-12-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=cambodia,china http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009121714710&rss=deathpenalty Mosleh Zamani was hanged on Thursday morning, along with four other unidentified prisoners. He was sentenced to death in 2006 for allegedly raping his girlfriend when he was 17. 2009-12-17T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009121114600&rss=deathpenalty A European Court of Human Rights ruling has called for the release of Belarusian opposition activist and musician Igor Koktysh, detained in Ukraine since 2007, pending extradition to Belarus. 2009-12-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=ukraine http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009121014570&rss=deathpenalty Lebanese national 'Ali Hussain Sibat and another unidentified man, could be executed at any time if their sentences are upheld by the appeal and Supreme Courts. 2009-12-10T00:00:00-05:00 countries=lebanon,saudi_arabia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009120814513&rss=deathpenalty The Iranian authorities must halt Wednesday's planned execution of a juvenile offender, Amnesty International has urged. 2009-12-08T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009120414450&rss=deathpenalty The prisoners, who include 17 women, are said to have had their death sentences ratified by the Presidential Council, the final step before executions are carried out. 2009-12-04T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iraq http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091203002&rss=deathpenalty Amnesty International reported today that China's Supreme Court must carefully review the death sentences imposed on five individuals by a court in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of northwest China. 2009-12-03T00:00:00-05:00 countries=china http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009120314422&rss=deathpenalty China’s supreme court must carefully review reported death sentences imposed today on five individuals by a court in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of northwest China, Amnesty Inte 2009-12-03T00:00:00-05:00 countries=china http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009112014164&rss=deathpenalty Amnesty International has welcomed a decision by Russia's Constitutional Court that brings the country a step closer to abolishing the death penalty. 2009-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 countries=russian_federation http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009112014172&rss=deathpenalty Amnesty International is appealing to the authorities in the state of Ohio not to resume executions, following their adoption of a new lethal injection protocol. 2009-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091116001&rss=deathpenalty The Iranian authorities must halt the imminent execution of Sherko Moarefi, a Kurdish man convicted of "enmity against God" over his alleged membership in a proscribed Kurdish organization, Amnesty International said today. 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE200911131404&rss=deathpenalty The Iranian authorities must halt the imminent execution of Sherko Moarefi, a Kurdish man convicted of “enmity against God” over his alleged membership of a proscribed Kurdish organization, Amnesty International said today. 2009-11-13T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran