UA: 189/10 Index: AMR 51/078/2010 Issue Date: 27 August 2010

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 10 SEPTEMBER 2010.
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Cal Brown, a 52-year-old man, is scheduled to be executed in Washington State, USA, on 10 September after over 16 years on death row. This would be the state’s first execution for nine years, its first “non-consensual” execution since 1994, and only its fifth execution since 1963. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 151/10 Index: AMR 51/075/2010 Issue Date: 24 August 2010

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 SEPTEMBER 2010. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

The Ohio Parole Board has voted against clemency for Kevin Keith, a 46-year-old African American man who is facing execution on 15 September. He maintains that he did not commit the three murders for which he was sentenced to death. The Ohio Governor will now consider his petition for clemency. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 44/10 Index: AFR 24/012/2010 Issue Date: 24 August 2010

José Abeso Nsue, Manuel Ndong Anseme, Alipio Ndong Asumu and Jacinto Michá Obiang were sentenced to death on 21 August and executed, apparently within one hour of the sentence being delivered. Their trial was unfair. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 347/09 Index: MDE 13/086/2010 Issue Date: 23 August 2010

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 September 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

Journalist and human rights defender Shiva Nazar Ahari appears to have been charged with moharebeh (enmity with God), which can carry the death penalty. Her next hearing is scheduled for 4 September 2010. She is a prisoner of conscience, held solely for the peaceful exercise of her rights to freedom of expression and association. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 183/10 Index: MDE 13/084/2010 Issue Date: 20 August 2010.

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 1 OCTOBER 2010 .
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Juvenile offender Ebrahim Hamidi, now aged 18, has been sentenced to death for allegedly sexually assaulting a man two years ago, when he was 16. He has retracted his “confession”, saying he made it under coercion. He is at risk of execution and currently without a lawyer. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 44/10 Index: AFR 24/011/2010 Issue Date: 20 August 2010

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 1 October 2010.
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Four refugees abducted in Benin in January were tried by a military court in Equatorial Guinea from 14 to 16 August on charges of attempting to assassinate the President, and treason. If found guilty, they face the death penalty. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 180/10 Index: AMR 51/073/2010 Issue Date: 19 August 2010

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 9 SEPTEMBER 2010. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

Holly Wood, a 50-year-old African American man who has significant mental impairments, is due to be executed in Alabama on 9 September. Four federal judges on three courts have concluded that he was denied adequate legal representation at the sentencing stage of his 1994 trial. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 181/10 Index: AMR 51/074/2010 Issue Date: 19 August 2010

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 23 SEPTEMBER 2010 .
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Teresa Lewis, a woman assessed as having "borderline mental retardation", is scheduled for execution in Virginia, USA, on 23 September as the “mastermind” of the murder of her husband and stepson. The men who carried out the killing received life prison sentences. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 179/10 Index: ASA 28/012/2010 Issue Date: 18 August 2010

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 29 SEPTEMBER 2010 .
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All legal appeals have been exhausted for Timhar and Nurrie Ong, a Filipino couple facing the death penalty in Malaysia. The couple were found guilty in November 2006 of trafficking dangerous drugs and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2007 the prosecution successfully appealed against their sentence and the high court sentenced them to death by hanging that year. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA 140/10 index :AMR 51/072/2010

Jeffrey Matthews received a 60-day stay of execution from a federal judge on 17 August, a few hours before he was due to be put to death. This was his third stay of execution in three months. [ Lire la suite » ]