Death Rows worldwide

Reprieve assists British nationals facing the death penalty or on death row anywhere in the world, as well as European nationals on death row in the USA; we are currently assisting more than 70 people who are facing the death penalty and we have worked in 16 different countries.

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Please read about current and former Reprieve cases below. You can also read about Reprieve’s investigations into specific death penalty issues, such as Europeans facing death row around the world, police torture in Pakistan, the global trade in lethal injection drugs, and the link between British counter-narcotics funding and executions for drug offences.

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Avram Nika

Reprieve’s EC Project is assisting on the case of Serbian national Avram Nika. Avram, a beloved brother and uncle, was sentenced to death in Nevada in 1995.
Edmund Zagorski

Reprieve has successfully pursued a judicial review in the UK on behalf of Edmund Zagorski. This prisoner who was set to be executed in Jaunary 11th 2011 with drugs imported from Britain was granted a stay of execution.
Grant Cameron, Karl Williams and Suneet Jeerh

On 10 July 2012, Grant Cameron (25) and Karl Williams (25), both from London, and Suneet Jeerh (25), from Essex were arrested while on holiday in Dubai. The three men say that they were tortured by Dubai police. Eight months on from their arrest they are still awaiting trial.
Ivan Teleguz

Reprieve's EC project is assisting in the case of Ivan Teleguz, a Ukrainian sentenced to death in Virginia in 2006. Since then, new information suggesting his innocence has come to light.
Joshua French

Dual British/Norwegian national Joshua French was sentenced to death by firing squad in 2009 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), along with Norwegian national Tjostolv Moland.
Joshua French (norsk)

Norsk-britiske Joshua French, har saman med Tjostolv Moland, blitt dømd til døden ved skyting i Den demokratiske republikken Kongo.
Joshua Komisarjevsky

Joshua Komisarjevsky's co-defendant Steven Hayes was convicted of murder after a home invasion that resulted in the death of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters.
Kenny Gay

Born in Swindon, 50-year-old Kenny Gay has been on death row in California since 1985 despite a bizarre trial process and dubious case against him.
Khadija Shah

Khadija Shah, a British mother from Birmingham, is facing the death penalty in Pakistan.
Krishna Maharaj

Convicted of a murder that was almost certainly carried out by the Medellín drug cartel, 74 year old Krishna Maharaj is the victim of poor representation and prosecution misconduct.
Linda Carty

After a catastrophically flawed trial, British grandmother Linda Carty was sentenced to death in February 2002 by a Texan court and is now dangerously close to execution.
Lindsay Sandiford

Lindsay Sandiford is a British grandmother sentenced to death in Bali, Indonesia.
Mark Lawlor

Reprieve’s EC Project is assisting on the case of Mark Lawlor who was recently sentenced to death in Virginia in March 2011.
Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman

After more than seven years in prison without trial and having suffered brutal torture at the hands of the police, Naheem Hussain and Rehan Zaman are currently facing execution in Pakistan.
William Morva

William Morva is a Hungarian citizen currently facing the death penalty in Virginia, USA. Born in 1982, Will is one of the youngest prisoners on death row at Virginia's Sussex I State Prison.
Yuri Kadamovas

Reprieve’s EC project team is assisting on the case of Lithuanian national Yuri Kadamovas. Yuri, a talented artist and musician, was sentenced to death in 2007.

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