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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty
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Official channel for Amnesty International Canada’s Campaign Against the Death Penalty. Part of our global campaign for abolition. Re-posts are not necessarily endorsements.
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · Apr 8
Over 1,500 people were executed across 15 countries in 2024. Excluding the thousands of people in China believed executed. Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia were responsible for 91% of the recorded executions. Authorities are weaponizing the death penalty 2 instil fear & control the population:
Global: Recorded executions hit their highest figure since 2015
Global executions hit their highest figure since 2015, as over 1,500 people were executed across 15 countries in 2024, said Amnesty International today as
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · 1d
Via @sisterhelen.org on twitter: “Texas is planning (again) to execute Robert Roberson for a non-existent crime.”
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Urge Gov. Abbott to Stop Robert Roberson’s Execution
Mr. Roberson would be first person in the U.S. executed based on the discredited shaken baby syndrome hypothesis. Act now.
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · 2d
Press Release / Media Quote: Singapore: Unlawful execution of Malaysian for drug offence must be halted

Pannir Selvam Pranthaman could be executed Wednesday by Singapore, in violation of international law.
Singapore: Unlawful execution of Malaysian for drug offence must be halted
6 October 2025
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · 3d
Singapore may be about to violate international law, again, by executing Pannir on Wednesday. Take action now to help stop this execution.
AICES: Death Penalty Abolition (@dpabolition)
We have learned today that the Singaporean Authorities have set Wednesday 8 October 2025, just days away, as the execution date for Pannir Selvam Pranthaman. Please continue to take action calling on ...
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · 3d
Lance Shockley may be executed in days despite inadequate representation at his trial and serious misconduct by the jury foreman. Take action now to help halt this execution.
AICES: Death Penalty Abolition (@dpabolition)
Lance Shockley may be executed in less than ten days. Please take action to stop this execution. Lance Shockley’s death sentence has continued despite strong claims of inadequate trial representation ...
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · 6d
Today is International Wrongful Conviction Day! We must recognise that even the most careful and thorough legal system will get things wrong. Abolishing the death penalty is an important step in protecting the innocent, but also for protecting human rights for everyone.
11th Annual International Wrongful Conviction Day is Today
2 Oct 2025
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · 8d
SINGAPORE: CRUEL AND UNLAWFUL DRUG-RELATED EXECUTION OF MALAYSIAN MAN RENEWS URGENCY FOR MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS
SINGAPORE: CRUEL AND UNLAWFUL DRUG-RELATED EXECUTION OF MALAYSIAN MAN RENEWS URGENCY FOR MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS
27 September 2025 | ACT 50/0341/2025
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · 8d
Iran: Over 1,000 people executed as authorities step up horrifying assault on right to life
Iran: Over 1,000 people executed as authorities step up horrifying assault on right to life
26 September 2025
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · 8d
Amnesty International Condemns Trump’s Renewed Push for Federal Executions
Amnesty International Condemns Trump’s Renewed Push for Federal Executions
September 26, 2025
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · 24d
See also www.amnesty.my/2024/10/10/g... for an online petition
Malaysian government must support commutation of death sentence of Pannir Selvam in Singapore - Amnesty Malaysia
Pannir Selvam Pranthaman is one of several Malaysian nationals currently on death row in Singapore. In 2017, aged 29, he was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty for importing just over 50g of dia...
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · 24d
Urgent Action - Singapore: Further information: Risk of execution after appeal denied: Pannir Selvam Pranthaman
Singapore: Further information: Risk of execution after appeal denied: Pannir Selvam Pranthaman
11 September 2025 | Index Number: ASA 36/0281/2025
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · 26d
Part 7 of this informative series on the death penalty will be on Saturday 20 September at 12:30 EDT. Register here!
Webinar: Capital Punishment and the Iranian Legal System
Please join us on Saturday, September 20, at 9:30 PDT, 10:30 CST, 12:30 EDT, 1:30 ADT for the seventh webinar in this ongoing series on the abolition of
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · Aug 30
Trump’s death-penalty pledge for Washington DC is ugly racial politics | Austin Sarat
Trump’s death-penalty pledge for Washington DC is ugly racial politics | Austin Sarat
The president’s unconstitutional vision would bring a racist practice back to a city that has banned it for decades
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · Aug 22
Saudi Arabia: Deplorable execution exposes broken promise to halt death penalty for juveniles
Saudi Arabia: Deplorable execution exposes broken promise to halt death penalty for juveniles
22 August 2025
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · Aug 20
Business Leaders Against the Death Penalty is an association of prominent business leaders taking an ethical stand against capital punishment. Find out more here:

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Business Leaders Against the Death Penalty
Business Leaders Against the Death Penalty brings together responsible company and corporate leaders in an unprecedented campaign to end capital punishment around the world. By using their voice, reso...
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · Aug 5
Take a moment to read these words by death penalty attorney Kelley Henry, about the killing of her longtime client, 69-year-old Byron Black.
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lauraburstein.bsky.social @lauraburstein.bsky.social · Aug 5
Atty Stmt re: the execution of #ByronBlack: “Today, the State of Tennessee killed a gentle, kind, fragile, intellectually disabled man in violation of the laws of our country simply because they could.” Read more here: tinyurl.com/bdhnc6de
Atty Stmt Re: Execution of Byron Black, a Person With Intellectual Disability.docx
Attorney Kelley Henry Statement on the Execution of Byron Black, a Person With Intellectual Disability August 5, 2025 “What happened here was the result of pure, unbridled bloodlust and cowardice....
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 8
The death penalty, "theoretically reserved for the worst of the worst" may in fact be "exploited by prosecutors for political advantage, even in cases where guilt is unclear," argues Elizabeth Bruenig:
‘I Need This to Be a Homicide’
Prosecutors who want to look tough on crime may be tempted to treat the death penalty as a political tool.
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · Aug 9
@amnesty.ca is accepting nominations for our 2025 Media Awards until 17 August! Find out more here: amnesty.ca/media-awards/
Amnesty International Media Awards
The Amnesty Media Awards celebrate excellence in human rights reporting. Submissions will be accepted until Thursday, July 30, 2025.
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · Aug 6
What on earth is to be gained by executing an intellectually disabled, elderly man in a wheelchair, and to do so causing such pain and horror…
Tennessee man noted intense pain during lethal injection without deactivating defibrillator
An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was in serious pain after the lethal injection started.
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · Aug 2
Please continue to take action for Pannir, who is facing execution in Singapore, contrary to international law on the death penalty.
URGENT ACTION - Singapore: Further information: Malaysian in Singapore seeks commutation: Pannir Selvam Pranthaman
24 April 2025, Index Number: ASA 36/9297/2025
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · Aug 2
USA/Alabama: Jury Voted For Life, Execution Scheduled

Urgent Action and statements on the planned nitrogen gas execution of David Roberts.
Jury Voted For Life, Execution Scheduled
David Roberts is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas on 21 August 2025
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · Jul 28
Happening today (just over an hour from now!)
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · Jul 26
Zoom webinar on Monday at 12:30pm - War & Capital Punishment - part of the Towards Abolition of the Death Penalty series (please share!)
WEBINAR MONDAY: War & Capital Punishment
The Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty webinar series continues Monday at 12:30PM Toronto time
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Amnesty Canada Campaign Against the Death Penalty @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social · Jul 26
Zoom webinar on Monday at 12:30pm - War & Capital Punishment - part of the Towards Abolition of the Death Penalty series (please share!)
WEBINAR MONDAY: War & Capital Punishment
The Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty webinar series continues Monday at 12:30PM Toronto time
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State Court Report @statecourtreport.org · Jul 15
NEW: Despite support for the death penalty declining, there have been more executions in 2025 than any year in the past decade, "and states are...killing people in ever more gruesome ways..." @kasiawolfkot.bsky.social spoke with attorney John Mills about his anti-death-penalty advocacy.
As Executions Rise, A Conversation with an Attorney Whose Clients Are Facing the Death Penalty 
John Mills, whose client on Oklahoma’s death row was granted a new trial by the U.S. Supreme Court this term, discusses his anti-death-penalty advocacy. 
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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · Jul 16
Your regular reminder that the existence of a death penalty is fundamentally incompatible with a civilized society.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jul 15
SCOTUS will not halt Florida's execution of Michael Bell. Sotomayor and Kagan dissent.

Two key trial witnesses against Bell later recanted—but took the Fifth when called to testify about it to avoid perjuring themselves. There was also suppressed evidence of police and prosecutorial misconduct.
CERTIORARI DENIED 25-5097 BELL, MICHAEL V. DIXON, SEC., FL DOC, ET AL. (25A57) The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. Justice Sotomayor and Justice Kagan would grant the application for stay and the petition for a writ of certiorari.
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · Jul 14
There are now 65 countries where homosexuality remains a criminal offence, punishable in some by the death penalty.
List of 65 countries where homosexuality is illegal
Homosexuality is no longer as widely criminalized as it used to be, but a total of 65 nations still have laws against homosexuality.
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