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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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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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:
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I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.
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It’s time to abolish the death penalty for good.
Read our new report, Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Death, and Wrongful Convictions in full.
Read our new report, Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Death, and Wrongful Convictions in full.
Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Race, and Wrongful Convictions | American Civil Liberties Union
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November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It’s time to abolish the death penalty for good.
Read our new report, Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Death, and Wrongful Convictions in full.
Read our new report, Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Death, and Wrongful Convictions in full.
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Our new report highlights how wrongful convictions are a common feature of the death penalty. Black people are more likely to be wrongfully convicted and executed despite their innocence.
New Report Highlights the 'Fatal Flaws' Behind Wrongful Capital Convictions
The ACLU found official misconduct, perjury, and predominantly white juries to be leading contributors to exonerated death sentences.
www.texasobserver.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Our new report highlights how wrongful convictions are a common feature of the death penalty. Black people are more likely to be wrongfully convicted and executed despite their innocence.
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NEW: We released a report exposing how death penalty cases are often plagued with errors and misconduct that lead to wrongful convictions.
Black defendants are more likely to be sentenced to death for a crime they didn’t commit because of the systemic racism baked into the death penalty.
Black defendants are more likely to be sentenced to death for a crime they didn’t commit because of the systemic racism baked into the death penalty.
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
NEW: We released a report exposing how death penalty cases are often plagued with errors and misconduct that lead to wrongful convictions.
Black defendants are more likely to be sentenced to death for a crime they didn’t commit because of the systemic racism baked into the death penalty.
Black defendants are more likely to be sentenced to death for a crime they didn’t commit because of the systemic racism baked into the death penalty.
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The death penalty grew out of this country’s brutal practice of lynching.
When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative.
No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.
When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative.
No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The death penalty grew out of this country’s brutal practice of lynching.
When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative.
No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.
When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative.
No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.
Urgent Action: Algeria: Poet and Activists could face death sentence based on their peaceful activism and private online communications advocating for political reforms. Please Take Action!
ALGERIA: ACTIVISTS & POET COULD FACE DEATH SENTENCE: MOHAMED TADJADIT
18 November 2025 | Index Number: MDE 28/0491/2025
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November 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Urgent Action: Algeria: Poet and Activists could face death sentence based on their peaceful activism and private online communications advocating for political reforms. Please Take Action!
Our former Secretary General Alex Neve gave the 2025 Massey Lectures on human rights. The series is now available on CBC to listen for free.
2025 CBC Massey Lectures: Alex Neve on renewing human rights in a fractured world | CBC Radio
Universality was supposed to be the promise of human rights. Yet it’s been broken countless times. So how can we still fulfill it? Canadian human rights lawyer Alex Neve explores that question in this...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Our former Secretary General Alex Neve gave the 2025 Massey Lectures on human rights. The series is now available on CBC to listen for free.
Bangladesh: Justice for victims of the 2024 massacre are not served by the death sentence against Sheikh Hasina
Bangladesh: Justice for victims of 2024 massacre not served by death sentence against Sheikh Hasina
17 November 2025
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November 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Bangladesh: Justice for victims of the 2024 massacre are not served by the death sentence against Sheikh Hasina
Bangladesh's ousted PM Hasina sentenced to death for student crackdown - www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Bangladesh's ousted PM Hasina sentenced to death for student crackdown - www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Nigeria: Government must clear names of executed activists Ogoni Nine #deathpenalty #Shell #COP30 @amnesty.org @amnesty.ca
Nigeria: Government must clear names of executed activists Ogoni Nine
10 November 2025
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November 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Nigeria: Government must clear names of executed activists Ogoni Nine #deathpenalty #Shell #COP30 @amnesty.org @amnesty.ca
MALAYSIA: ANNOUNCED REVIEW OF DEATH PENALTY MUST BE FIRST STEP TO ABOLISH IT ONCE AND FOR ALL
MALAYSIA: ANNOUNCED REVIEW OF DEATH PENALTY MUST BE FIRST STEP TO ABOLISH IT ONCE AND FOR ALL
13 November 2025 | Media Quote
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November 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
MALAYSIA: ANNOUNCED REVIEW OF DEATH PENALTY MUST BE FIRST STEP TO ABOLISH IT ONCE AND FOR ALL
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The shift towards requiring courts to impose the death penalty against Palestinians is a dangerous and dramatic step backwards and a product of ongoing impunity for Israel’s system of apartheid and its genocide in Gaza. It did not occur in a vacuum.
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Israel must immediately halt legislation of discriminatory death penalty bill
In response to the passing of the first reading of a controversial new amendment to the Israeli Penal Law making it mandatory for Israeli courts to
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November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The shift towards requiring courts to impose the death penalty against Palestinians is a dangerous and dramatic step backwards and a product of ongoing impunity for Israel’s system of apartheid and its genocide in Gaza. It did not occur in a vacuum.
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Israel must immediately halt legislation of discriminatory death penalty bill
Israel must immediately halt legislation of discriminatory death penalty bill
11 November 2025
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November 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Israel must immediately halt legislation of discriminatory death penalty bill
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7 veterans have already been executed, 5 were in Florida, where the next 2 of veterans are. Veterans will make up nearly a quarter of the executions this year.
What a betrayal — to execute those who once served their country, especially under a governor who is himself a veteran.
#VeteransDay
What a betrayal — to execute those who once served their country, especially under a governor who is himself a veteran.
#VeteransDay
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
7 veterans have already been executed, 5 were in Florida, where the next 2 of veterans are. Veterans will make up nearly a quarter of the executions this year.
What a betrayal — to execute those who once served their country, especially under a governor who is himself a veteran.
#VeteransDay
What a betrayal — to execute those who once served their country, especially under a governor who is himself a veteran.
#VeteransDay
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🪖This Veterans Day, we honor those who served — but we must also face a painful truth.
2025 is among the deadliest years for veterans on death row. 💔
2025 is among the deadliest years for veterans on death row. 💔
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🪖This Veterans Day, we honor those who served — but we must also face a painful truth.
2025 is among the deadliest years for veterans on death row. 💔
2025 is among the deadliest years for veterans on death row. 💔
Our 2025 Write For Rights writeathon is coming! Find out more about our cases and find a local free event you can attend here: amnesty.ca/write-for-ri... @amnesty.ca
Write for Rights | Amnesty International Canada
Every year, Amnesty supporters write for rights by sending letters and emails in support of people at risk of human rights abuses.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Our 2025 Write For Rights writeathon is coming! Find out more about our cases and find a local free event you can attend here: amnesty.ca/write-for-ri... @amnesty.ca
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States’ death penalty policies are heading in sharply different directions. Colorado is among states that have abolished the death penalty.
From @stateline.org
From @stateline.org
States’ death penalty policies are heading in sharply different directions | Colorado Newsline
States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty. Colorado is among states that abolished it.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
States’ death penalty policies are heading in sharply different directions. Colorado is among states that have abolished the death penalty.
From @stateline.org
From @stateline.org
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Israel’s parliament has advanced a controversial bill that would allow the death penalty for ‘terrorists,’ seen as targeting Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis.
Far-right Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was seen carrying sweets in the Knesset chamber after the vote.
Far-right Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was seen carrying sweets in the Knesset chamber after the vote.
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Israel’s parliament has advanced a controversial bill that would allow the death penalty for ‘terrorists,’ seen as targeting Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis.
Far-right Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was seen carrying sweets in the Knesset chamber after the vote.
Far-right Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was seen carrying sweets in the Knesset chamber after the vote.
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Israel's Ben Gvir hands out sweets after death penalty bill for Palestinians advances - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ben-gvir-distributes-sweets-after-preliminary-approval-prisoner-execution-law
Israel's Ben Gvir hands out sweets after death penalty bill for Palestinians advances
Legislation passes first of three parliament readings by a majority of 39 members out of 120
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November 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Israel's Ben Gvir hands out sweets after death penalty bill for Palestinians advances - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ben-gvir-distributes-sweets-after-preliminary-approval-prisoner-execution-law
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Veterans are overrepresented on death row across the United States. The Death Penalty Information Center's new report explores the cases of veterans sentenced to death and the injustices they face in the criminal legal system.
Forgotten Service, Lasting Wounds: Military Veterans and the Death Penalty | Death Penalty Information Center
**Executive Summary** - Though the Supreme Court has recognized the importance of military service in capital mitigation, the legal...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Veterans are overrepresented on death row across the United States. The Death Penalty Information Center's new report explores the cases of veterans sentenced to death and the injustices they face in the criminal legal system.
A short personal piece on Canada's last military execution in WWII and those executed in WWI under British military law at the time. The death penalty remained on Canada's National Defence Act as an available punishment until 1998, though had not been used since 1945.
Shot At Dawn: Canada’s Military Death Penalty
On the eve of Remembrance Day, a personal note about our last Canadian Military Execution
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November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A short personal piece on Canada's last military execution in WWII and those executed in WWI under British military law at the time. The death penalty remained on Canada's National Defence Act as an available punishment until 1998, though had not been used since 1945.
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Facts About the Death Penalty – Execution of Prisoners with Severe Mental Illness
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Facts About the Death Penalty – Execution of Prisoners with Severe Mental Illness | Death Penalty Information Center
In 2002, a Gallup poll found that 75% of Americans opposed executing individuals who have severe mental illnesses. Many people believe that the...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Facts About the Death Penalty – Execution of Prisoners with Severe Mental Illness
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Florida is responsible for the single highest number (117) of death-sentenced veterans in any state — accounting for roughly 15% of all veterans nationwide who have received death sentences.
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Florida is responsible for the single highest number (117) of death-sentenced veterans in any state — accounting for roughly 15% of all veterans nationwide who have received death sentences.
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42 states, the federal government, and the military have sentenced more than 800 veterans to death since 1972.
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
42 states, the federal government, and the military have sentenced more than 800 veterans to death since 1972.
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New DPI Report Reveals Military Veterans are Overrepresented on Death Row and Juries Often Do Not Hear Critical Evidence of Military Service #deathpenalty #military #veteransday deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/new-dpi...
New DPI Report Reveals Military Veterans are Overrepresented on Death Row and Juries Often Do Not Hear Critical Evidence of Military Service | Death Penalty Information Center
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New DPI Report Reveals Military Veterans are Overrepresented on Death Row and Juries Often Do Not Hear Critical Evidence of Military Service #deathpenalty #military #veteransday deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/new-dpi...