Imminent execution
Urgent action: USA. Execution of mentally ill man, Reginald Brooks, in Ohio, imminent.
- Posté par : John le 10 November 2011
UA: 331/11 Index: AMR 51/091/2011 Issue Date: 9 November 2011
A 66-year-old man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia is facing imminent execution in Ohio, after nearly three decades on death row. Convicted of killing his three sons in 1982, Reginald Brooks is due to be put to death by lethal injection on 15 November. [ Lire la suite » ]
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Urgent action (follow-up): Iraq. Fifteen men at imminent risk of execution.
- Posté par : John le 3 November 2011
Further information on UA: 193/11 Index: MDE 14/044/2011 Issue Date: 02 November 2011
Fifteen men sentenced to death in Iraq in June could be executed at any time after 6 November, which marks the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Their sentences have reportedly now been ratified by the Iraqi presidency. The Prime Minister has the power to grant them clemency. [ Lire la suite » ]
Urgent action (follow up): Juvenile offender Mohammad Reza Haddadi not executed
- Posté par : John le 10 December 2009
Further information on UA: 71/08 Index: MDE 13/128/2009
The execution of Mohammad Reza Haddadi, a 21-year-old man, scheduled for 9 December, did not take place. No new execution date has been announced. He is held in Adelabad prison in Shiraz, southern Iran. Juvenile offenders have previously been executed without prior warning to their lawyers. [ Lire la suite » ]
