0948 GMT July 06, 2022
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The US Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer excoriated the Trump administration for carrying out its 13th and final federal execution days before the president leaves office.
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For the first time in history, the US government has carried out more executions in a year than those carried out by states that still conduct executions, according to an annual report on the death penalty released on Wednesday.
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The US Department of Justice examined using fentanyl in lethal injections as it prepared last year to resume executing condemned prisoners, a then untested use of the powerful, addictive opioid that has helped fuel a national crisis of overdose deaths.
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Amnesty International has denounced a rise in the use of the death sentence in South Sudan, urging the world’s youngest nation to “stop signing execution orders.”
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Amnesty International has expressed grave concern over pronunciation of death sentences and resumption of executions in Bahrain as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on pro-democracy campaigners in the country.
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The US state of Arkansas is scheduled to execute eight death-row inmates over the course of 10 days this month amid an outcry from death penalty opponents.
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Indonesian officials have started preparations for a new wave of executions in the country despite global outrage one year ago over Jakarta’s putting to death of several foreign drug convicts.
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Human rights group Amnesty International says the total number of known worldwide executions has reached its highest level since 1989.
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Switzerland has summoned Saudi Arabia’s charge d’affaires to express its dismay over Riyadh’s execution of 47 people, including prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
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Switzerland has summoned Saudi Arabia’s charge d’affaires to express its dismay over Riyadh’s execution of 47 people, including prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has warned Indonesia of a severe diplomatic response if Jakarta executes two convicted Australian drug smugglers.
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Brazil and the Netherlands have recalled their ambassadors in Indonesia after the Southeast Asian country brushed aside their last-minute appeals for clemency and executed their citizens for drug offenses.
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on Pakistan to put an end to executions and re-impose the country’s moratorium on the death penalty that was recently lifted.
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