Man who spent 45 years on death row in Japan hopes for chance to clear name
Iwao Hakamada, 88, who spent longer than anyone in the world awaiting execution, awaits murder retrial verdict
June 2024
I endured Evin, Iran’s most notorious jail. I can’t understand how Sweden can leave its citizen to die there
Siamak Namazi
I’m overjoyed two Swedes were released as part of a swap deal – but to leave another behind on death row is unconscionable, says businessman and former hostage Siamak Namazi
Texas man executed by lethal injection after US supreme court denies stay
Ramiro Gonzales, 41, guilty of kidnap and killing of teenage girl in 2001, becomes eighth person executed in US this year
Former White House staffer says Trump called for leaker to be executed
Missouri death row prisoner executed in state’s second lethal injection this year
Donald Trump had lots of negative opinions about felons. Now he is one
May 2024
After US’s first nitrogen gas execution, Alabama set to give man lethal injection
Alabama sets nitrogen-gas execution for man who survived botched 2022 effort
April 2024
Iran’s death sentence for rapper sparks protests and undermines criticism of US
Prison officers traumatized by rate of executions in US death penalty states
Black death row inmates suffer botched executions at twice rate of whites in US
Rise in US executions masks deep divide between states on use of death penalty
Missouri death row inmate executed despite widespread calls for clemency
Missouri death row inmate’s attorneys ask supreme court to block execution
More than 150 people call on Missouri governor to forgive Brian Dorsey’s death penalty
Oklahoma judge tells prison staff feeling strain of execution schedule: ‘Suck it up’
March 2024
Rights and freedom
Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror
Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activists
Georgia carries out execution for first time in four years for 1993 killing
Willie James Pye was convicted in 1996 for the shooting murder of his ex-girlfriend Alicia Lynn Yarbrough three years earlier
Three top nitrogen gas manufacturers in US bar products from use in executions
Move follows Alabama’s recent killing of death row inmate Kenneth Smith using previously untested method
February 2024
Texas executes Ivan Cantu for double murder despite protests of innocence
Cantu used final words before lethal injection to maintain his innocence of 2000 killing of cousin and cousin’s girlfriend
