World Day Against the Death Penalty 2022: “Torture,” post by Bucky (Arizona Death Row)
Death Penalty: A road paved with TORTURE On 10.10.2022 the 20th World Day against the Death Penalty is dedicated to the focus on TORTURE, …… Weiterlesen
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Fifty-seven-year-old Alan Eugene Miller was scheduled to be executed Thursday night by the state of Alabama. On Monday, a federal judge had issued a stay… Weiterlesen
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South Carolina: proposed alternatives for lethal injection are unconstitutional
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Oklahoma: James Coddington executed despite clemency board recommendation
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Illinois: former death row inmate cleared as innocent
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Alabama: Joe Nathan James Jr. executed – against the will of the victims’ family
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Japan carries out death sentence on spree killer who caused death of seven people in 2008
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