The people on death row
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On death row live the people who have been sentenced and are waiting to be executed. The wait can last years or decades, often in isolation, with a date that arrives or is put off again and again. It is a punishment inside the punishment, and in many countries the number of people held there is the hardest figure of all to obtain.
This page collects the news on the people on death row, on the conditions they are held in, and on the numbers the association is able to document.
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- AUGUST 7, 2017MaldivesDEATH PENALTY
Maldives ready for executions in September, president declares
7 August 2017: the Maldives will be ready to carry out the first executions in more than 60 years next month, President Abdulla Yameen declared amid growing international concern over the reintroduction of the death penalty.
- JULY 26, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Sarmad Ali Advocate High Court said that according the Ministry of Interior of Pakistan, there are about 44 women on death row in Pakistan and one of them is about to be executed who is insane.
Sarmad Ali Advocate High Court said that according the Ministry of Interior of Pakistan, there are about 44 women on death row in Pakistan and one of them is about to be executed who is insane.
- JULY 18, 2017DEATH PENALTY
FLORIDA (USA): RALPH WRIGHT EXONERATED FROM DEATH ROW
Ralph Wright has been freed. He is Florida's 27th Exonerated Death Row Survivor. After 3 years spent on Florida's death row for a crime he did not commit, Wright has been freed.
- JULY 18, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Ralph Wright has been freed.
USA - Florida. Ralph Wright has been freed.
- JULY 13, 2017JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN EXECUTES PAIR ON DEATH ROW
Japan’s Ministry of Justice announced the execution of two male convicts on death row, reports the Sankei Shimbun.
- JULY 3, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. The state's death row population is down 27 since a year ago
USA - Florida. The state's death row population is down 27 since a year ago
- JUNE 22, 2017ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Arizona. U.S. District Judge Neil Wake Accepts Sweeping Reforms of Arizona Death Penalty Protocols.
USA - Arizona. U.S. District Judge Neil Wake Accepts Sweeping Reforms of Arizona Death Penalty Protocols.
JUNE 18, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: ORUMIYEH’S FEMALE DEATH-ROW PRISONERS IN HORRIBLE CONDITIONS
Women imprisoned in the women’s ward of the Central Prison of Orumiyeh are detained in deplorable conditions in overcrowded cells lacking the least sanitary needs.
- JUNE 7, 2017DEATH PENALTY
NEVADA (USA): HA'IM AL MATIN SHARIF RELEASED AFTER SPENDING 28 YEARS ON DEATH ROW
Ha'im Al Matin Sharif, 48, Black, was released from prison today, June 7, after spending more than 28 years on Nevada's death row.
- JUNE 7, 2017NevadaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Nevada. Ha'im Al Matin Sharif was released after spending 28 years on death row.
USA - Nevada. Ha'im Al Matin Sharif was released after spending 28 years on death row.
- MAY 18, 2017Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC: NORWEGIAN-BRITISH PRISONER RELEASED FROM DEATH ROW AMID GROWING HEALTH CONCERNS
Joshua French and his friend Tjostolv Moland were twice sentenced to death in 2009 and 2010 following convictions for numerous offences, including murder and espionage by a DRC military court in Kinshasa, charges which both prisoners denied.
- MAY 10, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - New Statistical Brief from the Bureau of Justice Statistics Documents U.S. Death Penalty Decline.
USA - New Statistical Brief from the Bureau of Justice Statistics Documents U.S. Death Penalty Decline.
- MAY 5, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - "Death Row USA Winter 2017" updated to January 1, 2017.
USA - "Death Row USA Winter 2017" updated to January 1, 2017.
- MAY 1, 2017IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: AT LEAST 90 PEOPLE ON DEATH ROW AGED UNDER 18, SAY UN EXPERTS
At least 90 people on death row in Iran are under the age of 18, says a group of UN experts who are calling for authorities in the Middle Eastern nation to immediately put an end to the execution of those aged who were under 18 at the time of sentencing.
- APRIL 27, 2017ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA HAS 168 MEN AND 2 WOMEN ON DEATH ROW
The Zambia Correctional Services says it has 170 inmates on death row.
- APRIL 24, 2017DEATH PENALTY
TEXAS (USA): PRISONS VIOLATE INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS
Prisons in Texas are in violation of international human rights standards and deny civil rights of its prisoners on death row kept in solitary confinement, a report released Monday by the Human Rights Clinic of the University of Texas School of Law conclu
- APRIL 24, 2017TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Texas Death Rows Violate Internationally Recognized Human Rights Standards
USA - Texas. Texas Death Rows Violate Internationally Recognized Human Rights Standards
- APRIL 17, 2017LouisianaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Louisiana. Rodricus Crawford was formally exonerated on April 17
USA - Louisiana. Rodricus Crawford was formally exonerated on April 17
APRIL 12, 2017IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDONESIA: GOVT REFUSES TO IMPLEMENT MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY
Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo indicated that Indonesia would continue to execute convicts when he confirmed that the government would not implement a moratorium on the death penalty despite mounting calls from human rights groups.
- APRIL 11, 2017IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: 325 DEATH ROW CONVICTS IN THE COUNTRY TILL 2016
As many as 325 death row convicts are lodged in different jails across the country till 2016, the Lok Sabha was informed.
APRIL 1, 2017TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA: BUNGE COMMITTEE TOUTS REVIEW OF DEATH PENALTY
The Parliamentary Committee on Constitution and Legal Affairs has advised the government to review death penalty laws to allow death row prisoners who have been in prison for a long time to have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment.
- MARCH 31, 2017DEATH PENALTY
MORE OHIO DEATH ROW PRISONERS EXONERATED OR REMOVED THAN EXECUTED
The 2016 volume of Attorney General Mike DeWine's "Capital Crimes Annual Report," released on Friday, said there have been 328 death sentences handed down in Ohio since 1981. Less than 20 % of those people have been put to death.
- MARCH 31, 2017OhioDEATH PENALTY
USA - Ohio. New report: More Ohio death row prisoners exonerated or removed than executed.
USA - Ohio. New report: More Ohio death row prisoners exonerated or removed than executed.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2017DEATH PENALTY
PENNSYLVANIA (USA): FEDERAL APPEALS COURT BARS AUTOMATIC SOLITARY CONFINEMENT FOR FORMER DEATH ROW PRISONERS
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit declared unconstitutional Pennsylvania's long-standing
- FEBRUARY 9, 2017PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Pennsylvania. Federal Appeals Court Bars Automatic Solitary Confinement for Former Death Row Prisoners.
USA - Pennsylvania. Federal Appeals Court Bars Automatic Solitary Confinement for Former Death Row Prisoners.
FEBRUARY 2, 2017Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: PRESIDENT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES OF 60 INMATES TO LIFE
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to commute the sentences of 60 prisoners in death row to life sentences prisoners on account of the 69th Independence Day on February 04.
- JANUARY 23, 2017AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Alabama judicial override safe from Supreme Court review.
USA - Alabama. Alabama judicial override safe from Supreme Court review.
- JANUARY 19, 2017DEATH PENALTY
DELAWARE (USA): ISAIAH MCCOY EXONERATED FROM DEATH ROW
Isaiah McCoy, 29, Black, a former Delaware death row inmate, was exonerated on January 19, 2017, when Kent County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Young acquitted him at a retrial.
- JANUARY 19, 2017DelawareDEATH PENALTY
USA - Delaware. Isaiah McCoy Exonerated from Death Row.
USA - Delaware. Isaiah McCoy Exonerated from Death Row.
JANUARY 7, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MILITARY COURTS ABOLISHED
Pakistan’s controversial military courts will no longer be functioning after completing their two-year term, officials said.