Further information on UA: 12/12 Index: AMR 51/010/2012 Issue Date: 7 February 2012

Christi Cheramie was sentenced at the age of 16 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. She has been denied clemency by the Louisiana Board of Pardons and must wait seven years before she is permitted to submit a further application for clemency. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 36/12 Index: AMR 51/009/2012 Issue Date: 3 February 2012.

PLEASE SEND APPEALS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AND BEFORE 15 FEBRUARY 2012: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

A 65-year-old man is scheduled to be executed in the US state of Florida on 15 February for a murder committed in January 1980. He has been on death row for half of his life. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 5/12 Index: AMR 51/007/2012 Issue Date: 18 January 2012.

The Governor of the US state of Delaware has commuted the death sentence of Robert Gattis to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, three days before the prisoner was due to be executed after nearly 20 years on death row. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information UA: 5/12 Index: AMR 51/006/2012 Issue Date: 16 January 2012.

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 20 JANUARY 2012: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

The Delaware Board of Pardons has recommended that the state governor commute the death sentence of Robert Gattis to life imprisonment. The Governor has until 20 January, the day of the scheduled execution, to decide if he will accept the recommendation. [ Lire la suite » ]

FU on UA:308/11 Index: AMR 51/096/2011 Issue Date: 23 November 2011

The Governor of Oregon has blocked an imminent execution – which would have been the first in this US state since 1997 and only the third since 1962 – and said that he will allow no further executions while he is governor. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 325/11 Index: AMR 51/095/2011 Issue Date: 21 November 2011

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

On the morning of 18 November, the US state of Idaho carried out its first execution in 17 years, and only its second since 1957. Paul Rhoades, aged 54, was put to death by lethal injection after more than two decades on death row. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA 331/11 Index: AMR 51/093/2011 Issue Date: 16 November 2011

Reginald Brooks, a 66-year-old man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was executed in Ohio, USA on 15 November, after nearly three decades on death row. He was sentenced to death in November 1983 for killing his three sons in March 1982.

Ohio Governor John Kasich announced on 10 November that he was denying clemency to Reginald Brooks. [ Lire la suite » ]

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 » ]

UA: 325/11 Index: AMR 51/089/2011 Issue Date: 4 November 2011

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 18 NOVEMBER 2011. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

The US state of Idaho is scheduled to carry out its first execution since 1994, and only its second in more than half a century. Paul Rhoades is due to be put to death by lethal injection on 18 November. He has been on death row since March 1988. He is now 54. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on 225/11 Index AMR 51/084/2011 USA 30/09/2011

Manuel Valle, a 61-year-old Cuban national, was executed on the evening of 28 September in the US state of Florida.

Manuel Valle was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Raiford, Florida. He had been convicted of the murder of a police officer in 1978 and was 27 years old when first sent to death row. He had spent over three decades under the threat of execution. [ Lire la suite » ]