Death Penalty

OPINION,
Death in the USA — a botched experimental execution
Alabama wanted to kill a man by making him breathe nitrogen, based on a film. Except officials didn’t know how to.
opinion by Clive Stafford Smith
Published On 23 Sep 2022
Equatorial Guinea abolishes the death penalty
Vice president lauds ‘unique’ moment for Equatorial Guinea, where the last execution occurred in 2014.
Published On 20 Sep 2022
OPINION,
Death by lethal injection: It is time for more transparency
An apparently botched execution in Alabama raises questions about the use of medicine as an arm of state power.
opinion by Joel Zivot
Published On 22 Aug 2022
Singapore executions under scrutiny as more hanged for drugs
Questions being asked over speed of executions, legal representation, and the ethnicities of the condemned.
Published On 5 Aug 2022

More than 70 political prisoners are on death row and analysts fear a desperate military regime could step up killings.

There is global outrage after Myanmar executed four pro-democracy prisoners.

Cambodia, the current chair of the regional grouping, says timing of the hangings ‘highly reprehensible’.

Tomohiro Kato was convicted of killing seven people in an attack on Tokyo’s popular Akihabara district.

Nazeri bin Lajim was hanged early on Friday morning for drug offences, the latest in a ‘relentless wave’ of executions.

Malaysia is one of only a few countries in the world to still impose a mandatory death sentence for certain crimes.

If death sentences against the two political opponents of the coup are carried out they will be the first since 1988.

Activist Kyaw Min Yu and National League for Democracy lawmaker Phyo Zeya Thaw had appeals against sentence rejected.

About 170 countries so far have abolished or introduced moratoria of death penalties in law or practice.

Human rights group also notes continued secrecy in China, and ‘alarming rise’ in use of death sentences in Myanmar.

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