1 October 2026

1 October 2026

2 October 2026 | Index Number: MDE 14/1529/2026

The autopsy notes two bullet wounds even though there were three shooters, and a forensic expert says the misfires likely caused "excruciating conscious pain and suffering."

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Media witnesses say Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder on Wednesday.

Christa Gail Pike was scheduled to be executed Wednesday, Sept. 30, and would've been the first woman put to death by Tennessee in more than 200 years.

Even if the jury were to acquit him, the U.S. military could still continue to hold the suspect in the USS Cole bombing case indefinitely.

Christa Pike, now 50, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee, USA, on September 30, 2026. In 1996, a court convicted her of a 1995 murder committed when

11 September 2026 | Index Number: MDE 19/1455/2026

Lawyers for Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, filed a 226-page clemen­cy peti­tion with Governor Bill Lee, ask­ing him to com­mute...

Recent deci­sions from California’s Supreme Court have nar­rowed the scope of the state’s Racial Justice Act (RJA), lim­it­ing a law aimed at...

The state of Georgia planned to exe­cute Stacey Humphreys by lethal injec­tion on September 16, 2026, but Cobb County Superior Court Judge Tyler...

Alabama Executes Jeffery Lee, Who Challenged State's Methods. https://t.co/IRpbF3a37R @law360 @PHADP @AlabamaArise @eji_org @uscedp #deathpenalty

International appeal to maintain the moratorium on executions in Algeria

19 August 2026 | Index Number: AMR 51/1380/2026

11 August 2026

31 July 2026 | Index Number: ACT 50/1341/2026

30 July 2026

28 July 2026

YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer

The date July 14, 2026, marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most consequential human rights decisions in Canadian history: Parliament’s 131-124 vote to abolish the death penalty from the Criminal...

14 July 2026: Celebrating 50 years since abolition of the death penalty from Canada's Criminal Code

Gregg v. Georgia: The death penalty could be revived in Georgia, Florida, and Texas because the new law provided sufficient clarity and objectivity in defining which defendants could be eligible for c...

The AICES Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty is part of a global campaign. We have, since 1977, made global abolition a goal of Amnesty International, the world's largest human rights organisation....

Organised by ECPM – Together Against the Death Penalty, sponsored by France (the host country), and co-sponsored by the European Union and Switzerland, this major event for the international abolition...

24 June 2026 | Index Number: ACT 50/1196/2026

22 June 2026 | Press Release

15 June 2026 | Index Number: ACT 50/1010/2026

28 May 2026 | USA: Further Information: Lethal injection team abandons execution

For two decades, Terry Pitchford has agued his conviction was not valid, pointing to what he says were racially biased selections of the jurors who heard the case.

Tony Carruthers Exposed The Death Penalty For What It Is - Torture

Amnesty International’s latest annual report on the global state of the death penalty paints a sobering picture.

YouTube video by Amnesty International Canada

Law mandates death penalty in military courts while excluding Israelis from prosecution under the same system

Justice Jackson: "I cannot understand the Court’s rush to extinguish [life], much less in the circumstances of this case." And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs