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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.
The first conviction for this offence was in 2000. [25] The coroner reporting on the 1998 Omagh bombing recommended that the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland should prosecute for two counts of child destruction as well as 29 of murder, as one of the people killed was 34 weeks pregnant with twins. [26]
Death penalty for murder; instigating a minor's or a mentally ill's suicide; treason; terrorism; a second conviction for drug trafficking; aircraft hijacking; aggravated robbery; espionage; kidnapping; being a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit a capital offence; attempted murder by those sentenced to life imprisonment if the attempt ...
Garcia Glenn White was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Tuesday for the murder of 16-year-old identical twin sisters 35 years ago.The execution makes him the sixth death row inmate killed ...
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Amnesty International primarily targets governments, but also reports on non-governmental bodies and private individuals ("non-state actors"). There are six key areas which Amnesty deals with: [115] Women's, children's, minorities' and indigenous rights; Ending torture; Abolition of the death penalty; Rights of refugees; Rights of prisoners of ...
James Welsh, lead author of a 2009 Amnesty International report into conditions on death row, noted that "the daily threat of imminent death is cruel, inhuman and degrading".
The group urged Parson to commute McLaughlin’s death sentence to life without the possibility of parole “to reflect the conscience of the community that refused to recommend” the death penalty.