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Abolish The Death Penalty Now Capital punishment is a moral stain on our nation: Add your name to the growing calls to abolish the death penalty now.

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.

Graphic reading "Black adults compromise 14% of our nation's population but they account 41% of people currently on death row." Hands holding through jail cells.

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.

Luigi Mangione's lawyers seek a dismissal of federal charges in CEO killing 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.

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

Abolish The Death Penalty Now Capital punishment is a moral stain on our nation: Add your name to the growing calls to abolish the death penalty now.

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.

Tool of Fear: Executions on the rise as death penalty used to show the heavy hand of the state On the occasion of the 23rd World Day Against the Death Penalty on 10 October 2025, Amnesty International joins the World Coalition Against the Death

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.

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SINGAPORE: DRUG-RELATED EXECUTION OF MALAYSIAN ARBITRARY, MORATORIUM URGED Joint Statement - Amnesty International & ADPAN (Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network) 10 October 2025

Joint Statement by @amnesty.org and @adpan.bsky.social on the execution of Pannir Selvam Pranthaman in Singapore on 8 October.

Theme of World Day Against Death Penalty 2025: Use of death penalty as tool to oppress - Law360 Canada This Friday marks the 23rd World Day Against the Death Penalty. On this day, abolitionists around the world call on governments that retain the practice to abolish capital punishment. We also use the ...

Theme of World Day Against Death Penalty 2025: Use of death penalty as tool to oppress www.law360.ca/ca/accesstoj...

TOOL OF FEAR: EXECUTIONS ON THE RISE AS DEATH PENALTY USED TO SHOW HEAVY HAND OF THE STATE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT 10 October 2025 ACT 50/0357/2025

Executions on the rise as governments use the death penalty to oppress - statement on World Day Against the Death Penalty

Singapore: Drug-related execution of Malaysian national arbitrary, moratorium urged

Urge Gov. Abbott to Stop Robert Roberson’s Execution Mr. Roberson would be first person in the U.S. executed based on the discredited shaken baby syndrome hypothesis. Act now.

Via @sisterhelen.org on twitter: “Texas is planning (again) to execute Robert Roberson for a non-existent crime.”
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Singapore: Unlawful execution of Malaysian for drug offence must be halted 6 October 2025

Press Release / Media Quote: Singapore: Unlawful execution of Malaysian for drug offence must be halted

Pannir Selvam Pranthaman could be executed Wednesday by Singapore, in violation of international law.

AICES: Death Penalty Abolition (@dpabolition) We have learned today that the Singaporean Authorities have set Wednesday 8 October 2025, just days away, as the execution date for Pannir Selvam Pranthaman. Please continue to take action calling on ...

Singapore may be about to violate international law, again, by executing Pannir on Wednesday. Take action now to help stop this execution.

AICES: Death Penalty Abolition (@dpabolition) Lance Shockley may be executed in less than ten days. Please take action to stop this execution. Lance Shockley’s death sentence has continued despite strong claims of inadequate trial representation ...

Lance Shockley may be executed in days despite inadequate representation at his trial and serious misconduct by the jury foreman. Take action now to help halt this execution.

11th Annual International Wrongful Conviction Day is Today 2 Oct 2025

Today is International Wrongful Conviction Day! We must recognise that even the most careful and thorough legal system will get things wrong. Abolishing the death penalty is an important step in protecting the innocent, but also for protecting human rights for everyone.

SINGAPORE: CRUEL AND UNLAWFUL DRUG-RELATED EXECUTION OF MALAYSIAN MAN RENEWS URGENCY FOR MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS 27 September 2025 | ACT 50/0341/2025

SINGAPORE: CRUEL AND UNLAWFUL DRUG-RELATED EXECUTION OF MALAYSIAN MAN RENEWS URGENCY FOR MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS

Iran: Over 1,000 people executed as authorities step up horrifying assault on right to life 26 September 2025

Iran: Over 1,000 people executed as authorities step up horrifying assault on right to life

Amnesty International Condemns Trump’s Renewed Push for Federal Executions September 26, 2025

Amnesty International Condemns Trump’s Renewed Push for Federal Executions

Malaysian government must support commutation of death sentence of Pannir Selvam in Singapore - Amnesty Malaysia Pannir Selvam Pranthaman is one of several Malaysian nationals currently on death row in Singapore. In 2017, aged 29, he was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty for importing just over 50g of dia...

See also www.amnesty.my/2024/10/10/g... for an online petition

Singapore: Further information: Risk of execution after appeal denied: Pannir Selvam Pranthaman 11 September 2025 | Index Number: ASA 36/0281/2025

Urgent Action - Singapore: Further information: Risk of execution after appeal denied: Pannir Selvam Pranthaman

Webinar: Capital Punishment and the Iranian Legal System Please join us on Saturday, September 20, at 9:30 PDT, 10:30 CST, 12:30 EDT, 1:30 ADT for the seventh webinar in this ongoing series on the abolition of

Part 7 of this informative series on the death penalty will be on Saturday 20 September at 12:30 EDT. Register here!

Trump’s death-penalty pledge for Washington DC is ugly racial politics | Austin Sarat The president’s unconstitutional vision would bring a racist practice back to a city that has banned it for decades

Trump’s death-penalty pledge for Washington DC is ugly racial politics | Austin Sarat

Saudi Arabia: Deplorable execution exposes broken promise to halt death penalty for juveniles 22 August 2025

Saudi Arabia: Deplorable execution exposes broken promise to halt death penalty for juveniles

Business Leaders Against the Death Penalty Business Leaders Against the Death Penalty brings together responsible company and corporate leaders in an unprecedented campaign to end capital punishment around the world. By using their voice, reso...

Business Leaders Against the Death Penalty is an association of prominent business leaders taking an ethical stand against capital punishment. Find out more here:

www.bizvsdp.org

Take a moment to read these words by death penalty attorney Kelley Henry, about the killing of her longtime client, 69-year-old Byron Black.

‘I Need This to Be a Homicide’ Prosecutors who want to look tough on crime may be tempted to treat the death penalty as a political tool.

The death penalty, "theoretically reserved for the worst of the worst" may in fact be "exploited by prosecutors for political advantage, even in cases where guilt is unclear," argues Elizabeth Bruenig:

Amnesty International Media Awards The Amnesty Media Awards celebrate excellence in human rights reporting. Submissions will be accepted until Thursday, July 30, 2025.

@amnesty.ca is accepting nominations for our 2025 Media Awards until 17 August! Find out more here: amnesty.ca/media-awards/

Tennessee man noted intense pain during lethal injection without deactivating defibrillator An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was in serious pain after the lethal injection started.

What on earth is to be gained by executing an intellectually disabled, elderly man in a wheelchair, and to do so causing such pain and horror…