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WASHINGTON, April 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- During 2005, at least 2,148 people were executed in 22 countries and at least 5,186 people were sentenced to death in 53 countries, Amnesty International disclosed today in its annual report on the death penalty worldwide. Across the world 20,000 people are scheduled to be killed by their own governments. With 60 executions carried out in 2005, the United States remains one of the top executing countries, along with China, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Together the four nations accounted for 94 percent of all executions worldwide.
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: AIUSA Press office, +1-202-544-0200 x302
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... Arizona law, Ring could not be sentenced to death, the statutory maximum penalty for first-degree mu... that authorizes the death penalty); Amnesty International Website Against the Death Penalty, F...
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WASHINGTON, April 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- During 2004, at least 3,797 people were executed in 25 countries and at least 7,395 were sentenced to death in 64 countries, according to an Amnesty International report released today. The United States' contribution to the worldwide total dropped from 65 the previous year to 59 in 2004. The United States remained one of the top executing countries, along with China, Iran, and Vietnam. Our report indicates that governments and citizens around the world have realized what the United States government refuses to admit-that the death penalty is an inhumane, antiquated form of punishment," said Dr. William F. Schulz, executive director, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA). "Thomas Jefferson once wrote that 'laws and institutions must go hand in hand w...
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It's a milestone that needs to be marked," said Scott Langley, Amnesty International's N.C. Death Penalty Abolition coordinator. "Reaching such an appalling milestone should cause us to examine the current status of the death penalty. It's time to say we've reached this level; we've reached this moment. It's time to say 'No More.' Tom Maher, the Chapel Hill attorney who is representing Boyd on appeal, said the killings were "completely out of character and inconsistent" with his client's past. Boyd "was someone who committed a tragic and devastating act, but also someone who loved his family, served his country, and was a contributing member of his community," Maher said. The murders Boyd committed "were the culmination of marital strain, a history of drinking, and Boyd's inability...
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: AIUSA media office, +1-202-544-0200 ext. 302, lspann@aiusa.org, or Brian Evans, +1-202-544-0200 ext. 496, +1-646- 853-9623 (cell), bevans@aiusa.org, both of Amnesty International
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Gov. [Joe Kernan] did receive the recommendation," [Jonathan Swain] said. "He is taking it under consideration. He hasn't set a timetable as to when he'll make a decision. "I think it will galvanize people here in Indiana to work harder to abolish the death penalty," said Karen Burkhart, who coordinates Amnesty International's efforts to abolish Indiana's death penalty. A conservative talk show host, who once served as a prosecutor, dismissed such optimism on the part of death-penalty opponents. "They see everything as a crack in the sidewalk," said Greg Garrison. "And it's not one," he said.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Dr. William F. Schulz, executive director, Amnesty International USA, released the following statement regarding the highly anticipated results of DNA evidence in the case of Roger Keith Coleman in Virginia: The future of the death penalty in the United States does not rest entirely on the outcome of DNA tests in the Roger Keith Coleman case. Regardless of the outcome of those tests, this antiquated practice should be abolished based on its appalling record of human error, prosecutorial misconduct, racial bias, mistakes made by crime labs and unreliable witness testimony. These failures played a role in sending 122 wrongfully convicted individuals to death row over the last 33 years -- individuals who would, in all likelihood, have shared Colema...
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Spread on the desk before me are news accounts of atrocities committed by the Iranian regime. Here's one from 2004: Amnesty International protested the death penalty carried out on 16-year- old Ateqeh Rajabi, in the northern province of Mazandaran, for "acts incompatible with chastity." Reports are sketchy, but it seems the mentally impaired Ateqeh had sex with a boy. The boy was punished by 100 lashes and released. Ateqeh was hanged in the main square after the Iranian Supreme Court upheld her sentence. The Guardian newspaper reports that hundreds of Tehran bus drivers who attempted to strike were beaten and arrested in July of 2007. Their families were targeted by plainclothes police, who burst into their homes and beat the women and children.
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Spread on the desk before me are news accounts of atrocities committed by the Iranian regime. Here's one from 2004: Amnesty International protested the death penalty carried out on 16-year- old Ateqeh Rajabi, in the northern province of Mazandaran, for "acts incompatible with chastity." Reports are sketchy, but it seems the mentally impaired Ateqeh had sex with a boy. The boy was punished by 100 lashes and released. Ateqeh was hanged in the main square after the Iranian Supreme Court upheld her sentence. The Guardian newspaper reports that hundreds of Tehran bus drivers who attempted to strike were beaten and arrested in July 2007. Their families were targeted by plainclothes police, who burst into their homes and beat the women and children.
