Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve delivers justice and saves lives, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
on 16 March 2011
Danish pharmaceutical manufacturer Lundbeck is set to become the primary source of lethal injection drugs for Texas, the busiest executing state in the US, after the state changed its lethal injection procedure in response to a nationwide shortage of the anaesthetic sodium thiopental.
on 16 March 2011
The US Drug Enforcement Administration has seized the state of Georgia's supply of lethal injection drug sodium thiopental amid increasing fears that the British drug has caused excruciating pain to prisoners.
on 09 March 2011
Democratic Governor Pat Quinn has today signed into law a bill abolishing the death penalty in Illinois. The bill will take effect on July 1, making Illinois the 16th state of the USA to reject capital punishment.
on 08 March 2011
In a major setback for the legal and moral standing of the USA, President Obama has lifted the suspension of Bush-era military trials for prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay.
on 28 February 2011
The Karkh Criminal Court of Iraq this morning sentenced 31-year-old ex-soldier Danny Fitzsimons to life in prison for the murder of fellow security contractors Paul McGuigan and Darren Hoare in Baghdad’s Green Zone in August 2009.
on 24 February 2011
Reprieve is alarmed that the panel setting up the UK inquiry into torture complicity has refused to abide by international and domestic legal standards, claiming that it is bound only by what Prime Minister David Cameron has told it to do.
on 20 February 2011
A third American prisoner has suffered an excruciating death after an anaesthetic supplied by British drug company Dream Pharma apparently failed during the lethal injection procedure in Arizona.
on 20 February 2011
The Supreme Court of Iraq this morning adjourned the case of Danny Fitzsimons until 28th February in order to re-assess evidence of the British ex-soldier’s Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
on 16 February 2011
Hamidullah is a young Pakistani boy – only 14 years old at the time of his seizure – who was sent by his father from their home in Karachi to the ancestral family village in Waziristan in July 2008 to bring home some family belongings.
on 14 February 2011
Lord Ken Macdonald will chair an evidence hearing with the family of Brandon Rhode, who was executed with apparently faulty British drugs, and Dr Mark Heath, the leading US expert on lethal injections, at 10am this Tuesday; press conference will follow
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