Amnesty International has received secretly filmed grisly footage of a man being beheaded in Saudi Arabia. The organization strongly condemns the execution and calls for the Saudi Arabian government to adhere to the UN moratorium on executions around the world. The horrific footage shows the condemned man’s public execution. He kneels on a mat while Weiterlesen
Irak: Hinrichtungen nach unfairen Verfahren
Twenty-eight people have been executed in Iraq this week following what appear to have been hasty and unfair trials. Those executed were arrested in clashes that took place in the past three weeks. Amnesty International has said that, for them to be arrested, sentenced and executed within such a short period raises serious concerns about Weiterlesen
USA: Oberster Gerichtshof erklärt Giftspritze für verfassungskonform
Yesterday’s US Supreme Court ruling in Baze v. Rees upholding the constitutionality of Kentucky’s lethal injection procedures will in all likelihood be followed by moves in various US jurisdictions to resume executions, although the ruling is unlikely to stop litigation on this issue. Executions in the USA have been suspended since late September 2007 as Weiterlesen
AI-Todesstrafenstatistik 2007: Todesstrafe weltweit auf dem Rückzug – China vor Olympia Hinrichtungsweltmeister
Berlin, 15. April 2008 – Auch 2007 hat sich der weltweite Trend gegen die Todesstrafe bestätigt: „Das Gros der Hinrichtungen geht auf das Konto einer Handvoll Staaten, und China ‚gewinnt’ diese makabre Disziplin auch im Jahr vor den Olympischen Spielen. Zugleich ist die Todesstrafe unweigerlich auf dem Rückzug“, sagte Oliver Hendrich von amnesty international (ai) Weiterlesen
Japan: Hinrichtungen müssen stoppen
Amnesty International deeply regrets the hanging of four men – Akinaga Kaoru, 61, Nakamoto Masayoshi, 64, Nakamura Masahura, 61 and Sakamoto Masahito, 41 – in Japan today, Thursday 10 April. These executions bring to seven the number of executions announced in Japan in 2008. “We are extremely concerned about the increased number of executions. We Weiterlesen