Saudi Arabia: Further Information: Essam Ahmed Executed After Grossly Unfair Trial

New from me for @theintercept.com: As public support for the death penalty fell to the lowest level in 50 years, the US is poised to execute 48 people in 2025 -- the highest amount in 15 years. FL drove the surge in executions. I wrote about @deathpenaltyinfo.org's report, which was released today.

This year, 48 people are expected to be executed in the U.S. Meanwhile, fewer new death sentences are being issued, and public support for the death penalty is at its lowest point in over 50 years. n.pr/3YuTZyY

Death penalty bill to include Palestinians imprisoned for 7 October, Ben Gvir says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/death-penalty-bill-palestinians-imprisoned-7-october-ben-gvir

The Florida supreme court today rejected challenges to a recent law that allows death sentences by split juries. Nearly all other states with the death penalty require juries to be unanimous. flcourts-media.flcou...

NEW: Florida's year of executions mask broader discontent with the death penalty. Beneath an alarming number of executions in 2025, there are signs of continued growing opposition. Tonight, at Law Dork:

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1969: The United Kingdom fully abolishes the death penalty. The United States remains one of the few developed countries that continues this barbaric practice. The 53 countries in red actively maintain the death penalty in law and practice.

Just in: Florida's supreme court today has UPHELD a recent state law that enables juries to sentence someone to death nonunanimously. Bolts reported on FL's law a few years ago, amid huge concern that nonunanimous convictions have a high error rate, & are likelier to sideline Black jurors.

from the dissent: flcourts-media.flcourts.gov/content/down...

USA: Clemency denied, Tennessee execution proceeds

ADPAN AND PARTNER HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS DENOUNCE THE EXPANSION OF THE DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG OFFENSES IN THE MALDIVES

It’s Human Rights Day!! You can still take action for our Write For Rights writeathon! See writeathon.ca for information on the cases and ways you can take action! @amnesty.ca

WRITE FOR RIGHTS 2025! Come join us in Toronto today for our free writeathon at the Centre for Social Innovation on Spadina (11am-5:30pm), or find local events near you and find out about this year's cases here and at writeathon.ca

Burkina Faso: Plans to reinstate death penalty must be stopped

URGENT ACTION: USA: Jurors support clemency as execution set (Tennessee) #DeathPenalty

The deadliest wait: five women on death row www.theguardian.com/global-devel... via @rdunhamdp.bsky.social

I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.

It’s time to abolish the death penalty for good. Read our new report, Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Death, and Wrongful Convictions in full.

Our new report highlights how wrongful convictions are a common feature of the death penalty. Black people are more likely to be wrongfully convicted and executed despite their innocence.

NEW: We released a report exposing how death penalty cases are often plagued with errors and misconduct that lead to wrongful convictions. Black defendants are more likely to be sentenced to death for a crime they didn’t commit because of the systemic racism baked into the death penalty.

The death penalty grew out of this country’s brutal practice of lynching. When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative. No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.

Urgent Action: Algeria: Poet and Activists could face death sentence based on their peaceful activism and private online communications advocating for political reforms. Please Take Action!

Our former Secretary General Alex Neve gave the 2025 Massey Lectures on human rights. The series is now available on CBC to listen for free.

Bangladesh: Justice for victims of the 2024 massacre are not served by the death sentence against Sheikh Hasina

Bangladesh's ousted PM Hasina sentenced to death for student crackdown - www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Nigeria: Government must clear names of executed activists Ogoni Nine #deathpenalty #Shell #COP30 @amnesty.org @amnesty.ca

MALAYSIA: ANNOUNCED REVIEW OF DEATH PENALTY MUST BE FIRST STEP TO ABOLISH IT ONCE AND FOR ALL

The shift towards requiring courts to impose the death penalty against Palestinians is a dangerous and dramatic step backwards and a product of ongoing impunity for Israel’s system of apartheid and its genocide in Gaza. It did not occur in a vacuum. amnesty.ca/human-rights...

Israel must immediately halt legislation of discriminatory death penalty bill

7 veterans have already been executed, 5 were in Florida, where the next 2 of veterans are. Veterans will make up nearly a quarter of the executions this year. What a betrayal — to execute those who once served their country, especially under a governor who is himself a veteran. #VeteransDay

🪖This Veterans Day, we honor those who served — but we must also face a painful truth. 2025 is among the deadliest years for veterans on death row. 💔

Our 2025 Write For Rights writeathon is coming! Find out more about our cases and find a local free event you can attend here: amnesty.ca/write-for-ri... @amnesty.ca

States’ death penalty policies are heading in sharply different directions. Colorado is among states that have abolished the death penalty. From @stateline.org

Israel’s parliament has advanced a controversial bill that would allow the death penalty for ‘terrorists,’ seen as targeting Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis. Far-right Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was seen carrying sweets in the Knesset chamber after the vote.

Israel's Ben Gvir hands out sweets after death penalty bill for Palestinians advances - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ben-gvir-distributes-sweets-after-preliminary-approval-prisoner-execution-law

Veterans are overrepresented on death row across the United States. The Death Penalty Information Center's new report explores the cases of veterans sentenced to death and the injustices they face in the criminal legal system.

A short personal piece on Canada's last military execution in WWII and those executed in WWI under British military law at the time. The death penalty remained on Canada's National Defence Act as an available punishment until 1998, though had not been used since 1945.

Facts About the Death Penalty – Execution of Prisoners with Severe Mental Illness #deathpenalty To read the full article visit our website: deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-about-...

Florida is respon­si­ble for the sin­gle high­est num­ber (117) of death-sen­tenced vet­er­ans in any state — account­ing for rough­ly 15% of all vet­er­ans nation­wide who have received death sen­tences.

42 states, the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment, and the mil­i­tary have sen­tenced more than 800 vet­er­ans to death since 1972.

New DPI Report Reveals Military Veterans are Overrepresented on Death Row and Juries Often Do Not Hear Critical Evidence of Military Service #deathpenalty #military #veteransday deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/new-dpi...

Reports that Iran today executed a person accused of spying

Black people are far more likely to be sentenced to death than white people, especially if the victim is white. Add your name to our petition to demand an end to the death penalty.

Today, Robert Badinter, the architect of the abolition of death penalty in France, and a great conscience, is entering the #Panthéon where he will be resting next to Condorcet, the French Enlightenment philosopher.

Racism is embedded in the death penalty. This World Against the Death Penalty Day and every other day of the year, we’re calling on our elected officials to work toward an end to capital punishment once and for all.

Mangione's lawyers asked a federal judge to dismiss some criminal charges, including the only count for which he could face the death penalty, from a federal indictment brought against him. n.pr/46NIo3c

We must end the death penalty, once and for all. On this World Day Against the Death Penalty, add your name to the growing number of people calling for an end to capital punishment.

Today is World Day Against the Death Penalty. The number of countries resorting to the death penalty is decreasing. We won’t give up until the death penalty is abolished everywhere. Change is possible.

On the occasion of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, Amnesty International joins abolitionist activists and organizations in denouncing the continued use of the death penalty and encouraging its full abolition. amnesty.ca/human-rights...

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