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Death row prisoner Makino Tadashi has just had his latest appeal for clemency rejected on 30 September 2008, and is at imminent risk of execution. He was sentenced ...
Urgent Action ASA 22/010/2008
1) Japan: Forty years on death row 2) Nigeria: Indefinite detention 3) Saudi Arabia: Executions and floggings may be imminent 4) Turkey: Activist in police shooting ...
Document NWS 22/002/2008
PUBLIC AI Index: AMR 51/108/2008. UA 275/08 Death penalty/Legal concern 26 September 2008. USA (Ohio) Richard Wade Cooey (m), white, aged 41. ...
Urgent Action AMR 51/108/2008
Troy Davis received a stay of execution on Tuesday less than two hoursbefore he was due to be put to death by lethal injection in Georgia.
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On 14 September 2008, a woman known only as “Zahra” had her death sentence, for the murder of her husband, sent to the Office for Implementation of Sentences in ...
Urgent Action MDE 13/143/2008
On 23 September 2008, the US Supreme Court issued a stay of execution for Troy Davis, less than two hours before he was to be put to death in Georgia. He has been ...
Urgent Action AMR 51/106/2008
Mahmoud Matin and Arash Basirat have been formally charged with apostasy, which on conviction can carry the death sentence. Their lawyer was initially informed ...
Urgent Action MDE 13/138/2008
Jack Alderman was executed in Georgia on the 16 September. He was sentenced to death in June 1975 for the murder of his wife, Barbara Jean Alderman, in 1974. He ...
Urgent Action AMR 51/105/2008
On 12 September 2008, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles voted to deny clemency to Troy Davis. He remains scheduled to be executed at 7pm local time on 23 ...
Urgent Action AMR 51/103/2008
Three men were executed in Japan on Thursday 11 September 2008. Amnesty International hascalled for the government to immediately adopt a moratorium onexecutions ...
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