Entries tagged with “Reprieve (UK)”
Executions
Lethal Injection
,Apr 23, 2024
Articles of Interest: Reprieve Issues New Report on Botched Executions and Racial Disparities
A new report issued April 17, 2024 by the UK-based international human rights organization Reprieve found racial disparities in the occurrence of botched executions in the United States. As reported in The Guardian, Reprieve analyzed all lethal injection executions between 1976 and 2023. It chronicled 73 confirmed botched procedures and found that 8% of executions of Black people were botched (37 times out of 465 executions), compared with 4% for white people (28 out of…
Executions
Executions Overview
,Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Aug 16, 2022
Private Autopsy Documents ‘Carnage’ Experienced by Alabama Death-Row Prisoner Joe Nathan James During Longest Botched Lethal-Injection Execution in History
A private autopsy of Alabama death-row prisoner Joe Nathan James, Jr. suggests that unqualified corrections personnel subjected him to a torturous, hours-long execution process in a botched execution that experts say was the longest since the advent of lethal injection forty years…
Policy Issues
Human Rights
,Intellectual Disability
,International
,Apr 07, 2022
Singapore Resumes Hangings for Drug Offenses, Provoking Outrage, Rare Public Protest
In a move sharply criticized by rights advocates as a violation of international human rights law, Singapore has resumed executions for non-violent drug…
Policy Issues
Human Rights
,International
,Religion
,Mar 16, 2022
Saudi Arabian Mass Execution of 81 People Draws Condemnation from U.N. High Commissioner, Rights Activists
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia executed 81 people on March 12, 2022, the largest mass execution in the modern history of the country, eliciting outrage from United Nations and non-governmental human rights…
Policy Issues
Human Rights
,International
,Juveniles
,Oct 29, 2020
Human Rights Organizations: Saudi Arabia’s Claims to Have Banned the Death Penalty for Juveniles are Belied by the Kingdom’s Actual Practices
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continues to use the death penalty against people accused of crimes committed as juveniles, despite a royal decree claiming to ban that practice, human rights organizations and defense lawyers have…
Policy Issues
International
,Juveniles
,Apr 14, 2020
World Death Penalty News — Report: Saudi Arabia Carries Out 800th Execution Under King Salman
NEWS (4/14/20) — Saudi Arabia: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has carried out its 800th execution under the five-year reign of King Salman bin Abdulaziz, according to reports by the human rights groups European-Saudi Organisation for Human Rights (ESOHR) and Reprieve. The groups say the execution rate is nearly double the rate in the five years preceding Salman’s assumption of leadership in the Kingdom in 2015. From 2009 to 2014, Saudi Arabia carried out a total of 423…
Policy Issues
Human Rights
,International
,Sep 14, 2017
Human Rights Groups Urge U.S. Government To Sanction Officials Accused Of Torture, Executions Under New Law
A coalition of 23 human rights groups, including Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch, and Reprieve, has urged the United States government to issue sanctions against foreign government officials who they say have used the death penalty to repress political dissent by torturing peaceful protesters into confessing to capital offenses they did not…