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Amnesty International remarked, "Time is running out for Hakamada to receive the fair trial he was denied more than four decades ago. If ever there was a case that merits a retrial, this is it." [16] A prosecution appeal of the decision to release Hakamada was denied. [27] Hakamada was the sixth Japanese death row inmate to be granted a retrial.
Myanmar abstained from voting regarding the 2020 United Nations moratorium on the death penalty. [6] There were at least 86 new death sentences in Myanmar in 2021. This was a significant increase on previous years; Amnesty International credits this to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, and the subsequent martial law since February of that year. [7]
For example, South African groups joined in 1992 and hosted a visit by Pierre Sané to meet with the apartheid government to press for an investigation into allegations of police abuse, an end to arms sales to the African Great Lakes region and the abolition of the death penalty. In particular, Amnesty International brought attention to ...
When the French parliament overwhelmingly outlawed the death penalty in 1981, he put his hand on the plaque commemorating Victor Hugo’s seat, also a strident abolitionist, and said “It is done.”
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Globally in 2023, the number of people put to death jumped by 30%, making it the deadliest year in nearly a decade, according to a report released Tuesday by Amnesty International.
Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( August 2020 ) Below is an incomplete list of individuals that Amnesty International has considered to be prisoners of conscience, organized by country.
The Constitutional Court of Russia extended the moratorium indefinitely until the Sixth Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights (which Russia had signed) is ratified (which will ban the death penalty). Until then, the death penalty is still officially on the books, and given the reluctance of the State Duma to ratify the protocol, I ...