Further information on UA: 57/10 Index: MDE 12/014/2010 Issue Date: 12 March 2010

Amnesty International has just learnt that Atef Rohyum Abd El Al Rohyum was executed by hanging on 11 March. His family were not informed of his execution until they were asked to pick up the body. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 27/10 Index: AMR 51/017/2010

Martin Grossman, aged 45, was executed in the US state of Florida shortly after 6pm on 16 February for a crime committed when he was 19 years old. He was convicted of murder in 1985, and had been on death row for nearly a quarter of a century.
Martin Grossman was sentenced to death for the murder of Margaret Park, a 26-year-old woman employed as a wildlife officer by the Florida Game and Fish Commission. She was shot dead while on patrol on 13 December 1984. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 20/10 Index: ASA 13/004/2010 Issue Date: 1 February 2010

No further action is requested. Many thanks to all who sent appeals.

Five men found guilty of killing Bangladesh’s first president were executed in Dhaka Central Jail in the early hours of 28 January, 13 hours after the final judicial review of their sentences.
Syed Farooq-ur Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Mohiuddin Ahmed, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Bazlul Huda were hanged one by one soon after midnight on 28 January 2010. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further Information on UA: 10/07 Index: AFR 54/002/2010

Six of seven men sentenced to death in 2006 for their alleged involvement in riots at a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Sudan were executed on 14 January 2010. A seventh man had his conviction for murder overturned on appeal. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA:240/09 Index: AMR51/002/2010

Kenneth Mosley was executed on the evening of 7 January in Texas. Mosley, a 51-year-old African American man, had spent 12 years on death row for the murder of a white police officer, David Moore, during an attempted bank robbery in the Dallas suburb of Garland. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA 284/09 ( ASA 17/001//2010)

Akmal Shaikh was put to death by lethal injection on 29 December, in a prison in Urumqi.

Akmal Shaikh's execution highlights the injustice and inhumanity of the death penalty, particularly as it is implemented in China. Much information about the death penalty is considered a state secret, but what is known of Akmal Shaikh's treatment is consistent with what is known from other cases: he received a short, almost perfunctory trial, where not all the evidence was presented and investigated. [ Lire la suite » ]

No further action is requested from the UA network. Many thanks to all who sent appeals.

Akmal Shaikh was put to death by lethal injection on 29 December, in a prison in Urumqi.
Akmal Shaikh's execution highlights the injustice and inhumanity of the death penalty, particularly as it is implemented in China. Much information about the death penalty is considered a state secret, but what is known of Akmal Shaikh's treatment is consistent with what is known from other cases: he received a short, almost perfunctory trial, where not all the evidence was presented and investigated. [ Lire la suite » ]

First execution under Ohio’s new protocol

Kenneth Biros was executed in the US state of Ohio on 8 December. He was sentenced to death for the murder of Tami Engstrom in 1991.
Kenneth Biros received a single-drug lethal injection shortly after the US Supreme Court denied a request from his lawyers to stay his execution. His lawyers had sought a stay on the grounds that the new untested method had never been used in “any other civilized country” and would amount to an “impermissible human experimentation”. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 164/09 Index: MDE 23/035/2009 Issue Date: 07 December 2009

A 22-year-old man, Muhammad Basheer bin Sa'oud al-Ramaly al-Shammari, was beheaded in the Saudi Arabian city of Hail on 7 December. His body was later crucified.

Crucifixions in Saudi Arabia take place after the beheading; the body along with the separated head are placed on a pole in a public square to act as a deterrent. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 317/09 Index: AMR 51/123/2009 Issue Date: 04 December 2009

Bobby Wayne Woods was executed in the US state of Texas on the evening of 3 December. He was sentenced to death in 1998 for the murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1997.
Bobby Woods received a lethal injection shortly after the US Supreme Court denied a request from his lawyer to stay his execution. His lawyer had sought a stay on the grounds that Bobby Woods had mental retardation. His last words were: “Bye, I’m ready.” [ Lire la suite » ]