March 21
URGENT ACTION APPEAL
- From Amnesty International USA
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For a print-friendly version of this Urgent Action (PDF):
http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa08712.pdf
UA: 87/12
Issue Date: 21 March 2012
Country: Iran
EXECUTION FEARS FOR KU
March 21
CONNECTICUT:
Conn. committee passes death penalty repeal bill
A bill that would abolish the state's death penalty for all future cases and
replace the punishment with life imprisonment has passed its 1st round of votes
in the General Assembly despite a recent poll's finding
March 21
IRAN:
Jail, exile and death for young Arab prisoners
The Ahvaz Revolutionary Court has sentenced a number of Arab-minority political
prisoners to death and imprisonment.
Ahvaz human rights groups report that the prisoners faced “a year of detention
and torture” before thei
March 21
DELAWAREimpending execution//volunteer
Del. Death Row Inmate Faces April 20 Execution
A Delaware death row inmate who has waived his right to all further appeals of
his conviction and death sentence has been sentenced to die by lethal
injection.
A Superior Court judge set
Hi Friends,
Please take a moment to vote in this Hartford Courant poll about repeal:
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-death-penalty-poll,0,6302,post.poll
Sometime today the CT Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on the repeal
bill (SB 280). We
anticipate that the bill will be
March 21
UKRAINE:
Ukrainian communists propose reintroduction of capital punishment
The Communist Party of Ukraine has proposed the reintroduction of the death
penalty in Ukraine for especially grave crimes.
"After the events in Mykolayiv, and after my visits to Vinnytsia and
Khmeln
March 21
TEXAS:
Court Ruling Could Affect Texas Death Row Cases
Death row inmate Jesse Joe Hernandez, set to be executed next week for the 2001
death of a 10-month-old boy in Dallas, is hoping that a ruling Tuesday from the
U.S. Supreme Court could give him another chance to prove that
