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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FEBRUARY 10, 2025LouisianaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Louisiana. Executions to resume, Gov. Jeff Landry announces
After 15 years
FEBRUARY 7, 2025North CarolinaDEATH PENALTYUSA - North Carolina. Hasson Bacote's death sentence overturned ‘on racial grounds’
Other cases may follow
- FEBRUARY 6, 2025FranceDEATH PENALTY
FRENCHMAN ATLAOUI RETURNS TO PARIS AFTER REPRIEVE FROM DEATH ROW IN INDONESIA
A Frenchman reprieved after 18 years on death row in Indonesia for alleged drug offences landed back in France on February 5, 2025, an airport source said.
FEBRUARY 5, 2025IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SUPREME COURT ACQUITS MUMBAI RAPE-MURDER CASE CONVICT ON DEATH ROW SINCE 2015
The Supreme Court of India has acquitted a man who had been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in 2014.
FEBRUARY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hasani transferred to political prisoners’ ward
Following extensive domestic and international protests
JANUARY 31, 2025CaliforniaDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Death row population decreased by 63 in 2024
Without any executions
- JANUARY 29, 2025ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
ZIMBABWE BEGINS RESENTENCING OF DEATH ROW INMATES AFTER ABOLISHING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Zimbabwe has started the process of resentencing prisoners who were on death row after officially abolishing the death penalty, the Global South World reported on January 22, 2025.
JANUARY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 53rd Week of Hunger Strikes in 34 Prisons
Year 2 of “No to Execution Tuesdays”
JANUARY 24, 2025TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Texas Death Penalty Declining in Use — 2024 in Review
JANUARY 24, 2025MontanaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Montana. Death penalty bill HB 205 moves forward in Legislature
JANUARY 24, 2025DEATH PENALTYUSA - Former death row prisoners may be heading to Florence, Colorado
The ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’
- JANUARY 21, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Supreme Court Makes Historic Decision
Rules in Favor of Woman on Death Row, Confirming Admission of Prejudicial, Gendered Evidence Can Violate Due Process Rights
JANUARY 20, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Agrees to Use of Disputed Confession for Life Sentence
Accused 9/11 Mastermind
- JANUARY 16, 2025TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN EXECUTES DEATH ROW INMATE CONVICTED IN 2013 MURDERS
Taiwan on January 16, 2025 executed a death row inmate convicted in a 2013 double murder, marking the country's first execution since President Lai Ching-te took office last year.
JANUARY 14, 2025United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Agofsky and Davis can't legally object to Biden's death row commutations
DOJ argues
JANUARY 9, 2025DEATH PENALTYIRAN - List of 54 Political and Security Prisoners on Death Row
- JANUARY 7, 2025DEATH PENALTY
USA - Two death row inmates reject Biden’s clemency
Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis
- JANUARY 6, 2025DEATH PENALTY
USA - Why Does the United States Bother to Impose Death Sentences?
Editorial by Professor Austin Sarat, Amherst College
DECEMBER 31, 2024DEATH PENALTYUSA - North Carolina. Clemency for 15 death row prisoners
- DECEMBER 23, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA: Biden commutes 37 of 40 federal death sentences
President Joe Biden announced on December 23 that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment.
DECEMBER 23, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - List of 37 commuted by Biden
DECEMBER 19, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - “The Death Penalty in 2024: Year End Report”
25 executions, 26 new death sentences
- DECEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saman Mohammadi Khiareh at Imminent Risk of Execution
Kurdish political prisoner
- DECEMBER 9, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Pope Francis and many others urge Biden to commute all federal death sentences
DECEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pakhshan Azizi has been denied visitation rights for the past 150 days.
Kurdish political prisoner on death row
NOVEMBER 27, 2024IdahoDEATH PENALTYUSA - Idaho. Supreme Court rejects Creech cruel and unusual punishment argument
Creech survived his 1st execution attempt in February
NOVEMBER 27, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Biden Contemplates Federal Commutation Requests
Clemency to the 40 men currently on federal death row
NOVEMBER 15, 2024TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Judge Arturo Nelson Declares Melissa Lucio to be “Actually Innocent,”
Recommends Texas CCA Overturn Conviction and Death Sentence
NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 more people executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on 13 November
Jafar Rahsepari, Iraj Ahadi, Sajad Shoja
NOVEMBER 11, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump wants to expand death penalty
For child rapists, immigrants who kill U.S. citizens, human traffickers and drug dealers