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TJ Riggs: “It’s difficult to watch Alabama continue to kill people and to do it so mercilessly and so often”
TJ Riggs is Amnesty International’s Death Penalty Abolition Coordinator for Alabama. He talks about fighting on behalf of those on…
May 31, 2024
Press Release
Global: Executions Soar to Highest Number in Almost a Decade
A total of 1,153 executions took place in 2023, which does not include the thousands believed to have been carried…
May 28, 2024
Report
Amnesty International Global Report: Death Sentences and Executions 2023
Amnesty International's report covers the judicial use of the death penalty from January to December 2023.
May 28, 2024
Press Release
Amnesty International Delivers Thousands of Petitions to Alabama Governor, Asking Her to Grant Clemency to Rocky Myers and Commute His Death Sentence
The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. With a swipe of her pen, Governor Ivey could…
March 21, 2024
Press Release
Amnesty International USA Condemns Alabama’s Execution of Kenneth Smith, Calls for Moratorium on Use of the Death Penalty as First Critical Step
The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment and accounts of Kenneth Smith’s last moments simply show…
January 26, 2024
Press Release
Amnesty International USA: Cruel Planned Execution of Kenneth Smith by State of Alabama Must Be Stopped
Amnesty International USA urges Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to use her clemency power to stop the execution of Kenneth Smith…
January 23, 2024
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Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back – Updates on the Death Penalty in 2023
On 16 May, Amnesty International released its annual Death Sentences and Executions report which documents the global developments on the…
August 4, 2023
Press Release
DEATH PENALTY 2022: Recorded Executions Skyrocket to Highest Figure in Five Years
Recorded executions in 2022 reached the highest figure in five years, as the Middle East and North Africa’s most notorious…
May 16, 2023
Press Release
Sri Lanka: Biden Must Respond to Dangerous Anti-Terrorism Act
“The draft Anti-Terrorism Act categorically fails on every human rights benchmark. If the Biden administration values the rights of the…
April 14, 2023
Press Release
Depths of Degradation, Heights of Hypocrisy: USA’s First Execution of 2023
Paul O’Brien, Amnesty International USA A macabre ritual, incompatible with human dignity but enacted over one and a half thousand…
January 4, 2023
Press Release
First Executions in Myanmar in Decades Mark Atrocious Escalation in State Repression
Responding to reports that Myanmar’s military authorities have carried out executions for the first time since the late 1980s, Amnesty…
July 25, 2022
Report
Biden Must Take Action on Promise to End Federal Death Penalty
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Furman v. Georgia ruling, which temporarily outlawed executions in…
June 27, 2022