Category: international law

Amnesty International Releases Annual Report on the Death Penalty Worldwide in 2020

Post author By Kristin
Post date April 27, 2021

Amnesty International recently released its annual Global Report: Death Sentences and Executions 2020, which updates key figures on the use of capital punishment worldwide. Overall, executions and death sentences dropped […]

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Amnesty International Releases Annual Global Report on the Death Penalty

Post author By Vanessa Akins
Post date April 18, 2018

Earlier this month, Amnesty International published its annual report, Death Sentences and Executions 2017. The report details the 39% decrease in the use of the death penalty worldwide since 2015 […]

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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Accepts Petition from Robert Garza

Post author By Kristin
Post date August 22, 2013

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has accepted a petition alleging serious human rights issues in the case of Texas death row inmate Robert Garza. Mr. Garza is scheduled to […]

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Editorial on Leal Execution; Other Media Coverage

Post author By Kristin
Post date July 14, 2011

Today’s Fort Worth Star-Telegram features an editorial on last week’s execution of Humberto Leal and the implications for the rule of law (“U.S. treaty promises must mean what they say,” […]

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Profile On Soon To Be Executed Texas Death Row Inmate, Linda Carty

Post author By tcadpintern
Post date April 29, 2010

Bianca Jagger, an international human right’s activist, Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador, and the founder and chair of the Biana Jagger Human Rights Foundation, wrote a death row profile in […]