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A report into executions has found capital punishment decreased by a third over the past decade worldwide, but spiked last year in the Middle East and North Africa.

Amnesty International found 20 countries carried out 676 executions least year, an increase of 78 per cent, with nearly 19,000 people currently on death row.

The report found the majority of those executions were in the Middle East, with the rate rising by almost 50 per cent last year to 558.

Methods of execution used included beheading, hanging, lethal injection and shooting.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-27/capital-punishment-drops-by-a-third/3914994

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Amnesty International says there was a surge in the number of executions carried out worldwide in 2011, mainly centred in the Middle East.

In an annual report, the group said Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia were most responsible for the increase.

But it also noted that China executed more people than the rest of the world put together.

Overall however, fewer countries now practise the death penalty, the group noted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17520053

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While countries that carried out executions in 2011 did so at an alarming rate, those employing capital punishment have decreased by more than a third in the last decade.

Our latest global survey on the use of the death penalty in 2011 shows that only 10 percent of all countries - 20 out of 198 - carried out executions last year. Watch this short animation for a quick round-up of our findings....

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food and drug admin for death...

 

SAN FRANCISCO) — Gov. Jerry Brown has ordered prison officials to explore using a single drug for lethal injections instead of three, in the state's latest attempt to restart long-stalled executions in California.

The governor's order was disclosed in an appeal of a Marin County judge's decision to toss out California's newly developed lethal injection regulations.


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The new procedures called for prisoners to be put to death through the use of sodium thiopental, which may no longer be available in the United States, and two other drugs.

A federal judge in March barred the use of sodium thiopental purchased outside the country. There is no domestic maker of the product, and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has been ordered to turn over its foreign-bought drug to the Food and Drug Administration.


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500 death in texas...

The US state of Texas has executed its 500th convict since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, a record in a country where capital punishment is in decline elsewhere.

Kimberly McCarthy, 52, was declared dead by lethal injection at 6:37pm (local time) in the Walls Unit, a red brick prison in the small town of Huntsville, prison officials said.

After 14 years on death row, time stopped for the former drug addict who was condemned to death for the savage murder of 71-year-old retired college professor Dorothy Booth in 1997.

McCarthy, who is black, received two last-minute reprieves in January and April due to allegations of racial discrimination during the selection of what became her all-white jury.

But after a Texas appeals court refused to reopen the case, she ran out of both options and time.

"If there was something to appeal, I would," her attorney Maurie Levin said shortly before the execution.

"For procedural reasons, the claims were never reviewed on the merits."

Some 1,336 people have been executed across the United States since the Supreme Court lifted a moratorium on the use of the death penalty in 1976.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-27/texas-executes-500th-inmate-since-death-penalty-reinstated/4784884

the death penalty does not work...

 

An inmate put to death in the US state of Arizona took nearly two hours to die, prison officials said, in the latest controversy to hit America's lethal injection execution regime.

The attorney representing Joseph Wood, convicted in 1989 of the murders of his girlfriend and her father, said his client died an agonising death after being injected with a cocktail of medications that were supposed to quietly end his life.

"It took Joseph Wood two hours to die, and he gasped and struggled to breathe for about an hour and 40 minutes," attorney Dale Baich said in a statement released after the execution.

Wood finally died at 3:49pm local time - almost two hours after officials began injecting him with drugs that should have taken his life in a matter of minutes, prison officials said.

His attorney said he had been injected with a mixture of two drugs - midazolam combined with hydromorphone - an experimental cocktail that "failed".

Wood, 55, was sentenced to die for the 1989 shooting deaths of his 29-year-old former girlfriend Debbie Dietz and her father Gene, 55.

He had filed a court challenge to his execution, demanding to know more about the state's lethal injection method, the executioner's qualifications and the manufacturer of the lethal drugs.

Wood's final legal recourse, the US Supreme Court, on Tuesday refused to hear his appeal, clearing the way for officials in Arizona to proceed with his execution.

Wood is one of several inmates to resort to the courts to seek greater transparency about the method being used to put them to death, amid concern about the efficacy of the lethal drug protocol, especially following a recent botched execution in Oklahoma which saw an inmate appear to suffer before he died.

The Death Penalty Information Centre charged that the Supreme Court's decision "allows drug secrecy to continue".

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-24/arizona-inmate-takes-nearly-two-hours-to-die-in-execution/5620430

 

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When students of the US death penalty look back on the year 2014 they are likely to remember it as one of the most grotesque on record, punctuated by a series of botched executions in which prisoners writhed, gasped and groaned for lengthy periods on the gurney.

But the Death Penalty Information Center, a leading chronicler of capital punishment trends in the US, notes in its annual review published on Thursday that the year was also marked by the onward decline of the controversial practice. The 35 executions carried out in 2014 marked a 10% decline compared with the previous year, and a dramatic slump from the peak of 98 judicial killings in 1999.

Though many people around the world think of the death penalty as being an American foible, the annual report points out that it has receded into a rump of hardline states. All 35 executions were carried out by just seven states, and of those 80% were accounted for by just three states – Texas, Missouri and Florida.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/18/execution-deaths-more-gruesome

Meanwhile a 14 year old kid who was sent to death by the courts 70 years ago has been proven not guilty recently...

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end of US death penalty?...

US Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to the scheduling of federal executions amid growing concerns regarding the treatment of inmates, with a review underway into department policies and procedures.

The federal stay on new executions is an “important step forward,” and the president supports AG Garland on the issue, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki announced Friday.

“The president felt it so important that it was a part of his discussion with the attorney general when he interviewed him and talked to him about the job. Now, the attorney general has announced that there will be a halt in executions while there is an important review. And the president feels that’s an important step forward,” Psaki said, speaking to reporters in Washington.

Asked to comment on pressure on the government to commute federal death sentences, Psaki said she couldn’t “speak to that” while a review is underway.

 

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https://sputniknews.com/us/202107021083294561-white-house-supports-ags-halt-to-federal-executions-amid-pressure-to-end-death-penalty-for-good/

 

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