Ryan Pardons Two Men sentenced to death.    (EN)

Iran stops stoning of women adulterers and could abolish this kind of executions.   (IT-EN)

Parliament approves European Protocol on human rights and death penalty.   (IT)

Execution halted for DNA testing. Bush rapped on stay of death.   (IT-EN)

Commutation Granted to a Mentally retarded man on death row.   (EN)

180 death sentences were commuted.   (IT)

Appeals Court commuted 2 death sentences. (EN)

Divided Florida Supreme Court Overturns Teen's Death Sentence.  (EN)

S.C. saves 4 from death penalty. (EN)

Court Blocks Execution of man with severe mental illness. (EN)

She runs away and escapes from stoning. (IT)

A man was saved by the victim's mother, just before execution. (IT)

Court overturns death sentence of a Jordanian-American citizen. (EN)

Ariz. Court Overturns Death Sentence.  (EN)

Court overturns death sentence of a Christian leader.   (IT-EN)

First step toward the abolition for juveniles.    (EN)

Court overturns death sentence of a Christian leader.    (IT)

Court grants Gerald Murray new trial � again.   (EN)

Bush stays the execution of Aileen Wuornos.  (EN)

Turkish Court Lifts Death Sentence on Ocalan.  (IT-EN)

New trial for William Kelley, after 18 years on death row.  (EN)

President Arroyo stays all the executions. Colosseum is lit up for Philippines.  (IT-FR)

Federal district judge declares death penalty law unconstitutional. (IT-EN-ES)

Two death sentences overturned in Alabama and Nevada. (IT-EN)

The death sentence of Spanish citizen Julio Mora, 75, was overturned.  (ES)

President Arroyo deferred the execution of three rapists by 3 months.   (EN)

Illinois prisoner review board will tackle all death cases in four days.   (EN)

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stays the esecution of a mentally retarded man.  (EN)

The execution of Daniel Basile stayer at the last minute.  (IT-EN)

Supreme Court removes 107 convicts from death row.  (EN)

Supreme Court orders removal of 12 minors from death row.  (EN)

Larry Osborne,22, is the 102nd  death row inmate freed.  (EN)

Parliament abolishes the death penalty. The Colosseum lits up 2 days.  (IT-EN)

Guatemala Heeds Pope's Plea on Death Penalty. Then the abolition?   (IT-EN)

6 men convicted to death for theft, were pardoned and got a life sentence.   (IT)

Stay of execution: Wallace Fugate.    (EN)  

Parliament abolishes death penalty. (EN)

Only juries can impose death penalty, again Supreme Court rules. (IT-EN)

Supreme Court bars executing mentally retarded - Press Review  (IT-EN-FR-ES-DE)

Supreme Court bars executing mentally retarded. (IT-EN)

Judge confirmed: new trial for C. Burdine, whose lawyer slept during first trial. (IT-EN)

Zafran Bibi, who was sentenced to death by stoning, was exonerated by Court. (EN)

Amina Lawal is free until 2004. On July 8th the new sentence. (IT-EN-ES)

C. V. Burdine,   Whose Lawyer Slept at Trial, Gets New Trial. (IT-EN)

Missouri Supreme Court delays Christopher Simmons execution to June 5. (EN) 

Henry Dunn was granted a reprieve by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, only few hours before the execution.  (IT-EN) (see our urgent appeal)

The death sentence for 2 young men was commuted into 12 years sentence, thanks to the intervention of the Association "Mothers against death penalty".  (IT)

Gov. Glendening Declares Death Penalty Moratorium. (EN)

Brian Edward Davis, 33, mentally retarded, got a stay from US Supreme Court, few hours before the execution. (EN)

Thomas H. Kimbell is the 101st former death row inmate who was exonerated and freed. (EN)

Council of Europe Rule Out Death Penalty even in Wartime.US and Japan invited to cease the cruel punishment. (IT-EN)

Gholam Ramazanifar, was granted a stay of the execution and then a commutation, on request of the victim�s family, when the rope was already on his neck.   (IT)

Supreme Court halts execution of Curtis Moore, 34,mentally retarded.   (IT-EN)

UN Human Rights Commission approved resolution for the abolition of death penalty presented by EU. (IT-EN)

Another Florida Execution Stayed by Supreme Court

�This is a judicially imposed moratorium on the death penalty in Florida," said death penalty opponent Michael Radelet, a sociology professor and leading authority on capital punishment in Florida

Legislative updates in some States

Federal Appeals Court commuted death sentence of Benjamin Wai Silva

Supreme Court overturned the death sentence to Spanish man Julio Mora, 75 years old

Va. Death Row Inmate May Get Retrial

Supreme Court suspends execution of Amos King

Hafsatu Abubakar, 18, was acquitted and released  

Saved just bifore the execution: the victim family forgives him, when rope is already on his neck  

De Facto Moratorium on Executions in Cuba is a success. Now The Commission on Human Rights and Reconciliation wants the commutatipons for the 50 inmates on death row  

Prime Minister Yilmaz: Turkey Sees End to Death Penalty  

Some of the 98 abolitionist parliamentarians protest against the Ministerof Justice   

Florida Capital City Passes Death Penalty Moratorium Resolution   

High Court to Rule on Challenge to Death Penalties in 9 States and 800 death sentences  

Supreme Court Overturns a South Carolina Death Penalty 

N.C. Gov. Commutes Death Sentence 

Legislature abolished a law that required the death penalty some violent crimes 

In Louisiana in 2001 no executions 

Juan Roberto Melendez  was Freed After 18 Years on Death Row. He is the 99th person to be exonerated from death row since 1973 

The Chicago Tribune calls for an extension on the moratorium on executions 

Churches of Uganda ask for commutations of all death sentences 

Abolitions, commutations, moratoria, ...   2001