On the European and World Day against the Death Penalty, the EU issued a declaration reaffirming its firm opposition to capital punishment at all times and in all circumstances.
The legislature doesn’t want capital punishment, the executive branch can’t obtain execution drugs, and
Nebraska prosecutors have moved forward this year with the pandemic-delayed capital sentencing trials of two defendants separately convicted of a murder out of a voyeuristic true-crime novel. The state, writes Associated Press reporter Grant Schulte in a May 9, 2021 analysis, is “still wedded to the idea of executing prisoners, just not the practical part of doing it” and appears “caught in a law vs. reality netherworld.”
Three defendants have been sentenced to death in Nebraska since
Governor Pete Rickets bankrolled a 2016 voter referendum that prevented the legislature’s repeal of the state’s death penalty the year before from going into effect. Two more
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Amnesty International today published new evidence of the misuse of tear gas by security forces in several countries in the second half of 2020, including during protests around the election in Uganda, the Black Lives Matter movement in the USA, and in the repression of protesters in Lebanon.Â
The organizationâs interactive website
Tear Gas: An Investigation has now been updated to include new cases of police committing human rights violations against peaceful protesters around the world. The ongoing misuse of tear gas by police forces around the world is reckless and dangerous Patrick Wilcken
Since first launching the site in June 2020, Amnesty International has verified recent incidents of tear gas misuse in several countries, including France, Guatemala, India, Mali, Nigeria, Peru, Serbia and Tunisia.
Abuse of Protesters and Prisoners Highlights Urgent Need to Regulate Torture Tools
December 10, 2020
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The world must act urgently to prohibit the global trade in equipment designed to inflict excruciating pain and injury, Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation said today, ahead of a high-level UN meeting on the ‘torture trade’. In a new report,
“More than three decades after torture was outlawed internationally, people continue to be tortured, often to death, in prisons and detention centers all over the world. It is nonsensical to ban torture while allowing the trade in sinister equipment specifically designed for torture, like spiked batons and leg irons, to continue,” said Patrick Wilcken, Amnesty International’s Head of Business, Security and Human Rights.
Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
11 December 2020
Excellencies, Colleagues,
Greetings. In a very challenging context for human rights, the Global Alliance for Torture-Free Trade has been a strong and welcome initiative – a framework for practical steps to profoundly improve respect for people s dignity and rights around the world
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My Office was honoured to contribute to the Secretary-General s report earlier this year to the General Assembly examining the feasibility, scope and parameters for international standards regarding the import, export and transfer of goods for use in capital punishment or torture. The report, which came in follow-up to the General Assembly s resolution 73/304, drew on on contributions from some 40 States from diverse regions of the world.