Die Todesstrafe ist keine angemessene Antwort auf Mord und Kriminalität. Wo sich der Staat zum Richter über Leben und Tod aufschwingt, nimmt nicht Gerechtigkeit ihren Lauf, sondern Rache und Vergeltung.
Die Botschaft von Amnesty International lautet deshalb unmissverständlich: Staaten können nicht gleichzeitig die Menschenrechte achten und die Todesstrafe verhängen und vollstrecken.
Aus diesem Grund setzt sich Amnesty International seit über 30 Jahren gegen diese Strafe ein. Und dies mit zunehmendem Erfolg: Immer mehr Staaten schaffen diese Strafe ab. Dennoch bleibt noch viel zu tun, Jahr für Jahr werden tausende Menschen hingerichtet. (Amnesty International)
Siehe Fortetzung der Petitionsliste
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Marocco: Justice for Ali Aarrass
Spanish authorities suspected Ali of terrorism in 2006, but found no evidence against him. They imprisoned him in 2008 after Moroccan authorities asked for him to be extradited on fresh terrorism charges. He was kept in 
solitary confinement for almost three years. In December 2010 he was extradited to Morocco, where things quickly went from bad to worse.
Moroccan intelligence held Ali Aarrass in secret detention for 12 days during which he was allegedly beaten, burned, subjected to electric shocks, and suspended for long periods by his wrists. After his formal arrest and transfer to Salé II prison, other prisoners were shocked by Ali’s traumatized state and the torture marks on his body.
In November 2011, Ali Aarrass was convicted of illegal use of weapons and participation in a group intending to commit acts of terrorism. The only evidence was his forced „confession.“ His 15 year sentence was reduced to 12 years on appeal.
Please join Amnesty’s call for justice for Ali Aarrass.
Update, as of Aug. 3rd: Michael Worthington is scheduled for execution on August 6th in Missouri
Please contact the Governor of Missouri to stop the execution
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End Abuse of Prisoners with Disabilities
For nearly three years, HEARD has reported on systemic abuse of deaf, deaf-blind, blind, elderly and disabled prisoners in the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC). HEARD’s efforts have helped initiate a formal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice that as of the writing of this petition is still ongoing.
Tommy Zeigler in Florida droht unmittelbar die Todesstrafe
Timmy Zeigler, der seit mehr als 37 Jahren unschuldig im Todestrakt einsitzt, muss vor der Hinrichtung gerettet werden kann – von einer korrupten Justiz und einem Gouverneur, die alles unternehmen, dieses Justizverbrechen zu vertuschen.
Briefe auch an den neuen Governeur:
Office of Governor Rick Scott
State of Florida
The Capitol
400 S. Monroe St.
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001
USA
WFLA-TV News Reporter Keith Cate interviews a man who has spent nearly 37 years on death row trying to clear his name while the state of Florida has spent the same amount of time defending its decision to execute him. For now Tommy Ziegler’s death is on hold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQc3J4ocgsM
Grant death row inmate Gerald Marshall a new trial
Gerald Marshall (31) was convicted to death for capital murder in 2004 by the state of Texas. He claims his innocence like most death row inmates do. BUT: IN GERALD MARSHALL’S CASE IS EVIDENCE THAT HE WAS NOT THE MURDERER!
Razieh Ebrahimi was forced to become a child bride at 14 years of age, become a mother when she was only 15, and endure years of verbal and physical abuse from the man who married her. Ebrahimi killed her husband to escape the abuse when she was 17 — and now she could be hanged as early as this week.
Ebrahimi is facing execution even though international laws prohibit the death sentence for crimes committed by juveniles. Human rights lawyers around the world are calling for Iran to stop executions of juvenile offenders.
Ebrahimi told reporters that her husband would use any excuse to verbally and physically attack her. It is obvious that this woman took desperate action to escape from abuse.
Her husband’s family has the right to grant a pardon to her. Please sign this petition to ask them to practice compassion and forgive Razieh Ebrahimi.
Click On & Sign The Below Petition Asking The NYS Parole Board To Have 43 Year Black Panther/BLA Political Prisoner Jalil Abdul Muntaqim Granted His Release From The Infamous Attica Correctional Facility and back home to his family and community.
At the young age of 19 years old Black Panther/BLA Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaquim -aka- Anthony Jalil Bottom was captured as a result of his noble and committed decision to protect and defend the Black & Latino Community against the illegal and US Government supported police frame ups and murders of Black activists during the 70’s by the FBI’s notorious COINTELPRO & NEWKILL operations
Puerto Ricans march in the Bronx demanding ‘Free Oscar López!’
Mexico: Justice For Claudia, Tortured By Marines
ACLU: Demand a Moratorium on Executions in Florida
Clemency to Mr Marcus Wellons who is scheduled to be executed in Georgia on June 17th
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Burundi: Release human rights defender Pierre Claver Mbonimpa
For leading Burundian human rights defender Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, the colour green serves as a daily reminder of his ongoing incarceration. As the Burundian state intensifies its clampdown on civil society space, Mbonimpa’s detention illustrates the grave risks facing human rights defenders who speak out on the country’s escalating political crisis, said the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) today.
Since his arrest twelve days ago ago on baseless charges of endangering national security
Solidarity with Mahienour el-Masry and jailed activists
Revolutionary Socialist activist Mahienour el-Masry and 8 other activists saw their sentences upheld by a court in Alexandria on 20 May. They were sentenced to serve 2 years in jail for breaking Egypt’s repressive anti-protest laws last year.
Read more on the background to the case here.
http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.org/mahienour/
clemency to clemency to Charles Finney
On the afternoon of 16 January 1991, the body of Sandra Sutherland was found in her home in Tampa, Florida. She was bound and gagged and had been stabbed in the back 13 times. Charles Finney, who lived in the same apartment complex, was arrested on 30 January 1991 after he was found to have pawned the victim’s video recorder on 16 January. He was charged with 
capital murder and brought to trial in September 1992. Charles Finney testified that he did not kill Sandra Sutherland, but that he knew her as a neighbor and had been in her home several times when he did maintenance work at the complex (2 fingerprints of his were found in her apartment). He testified that he found the video recorder in a bag near the rubbish bins and decided to pawn it. The pawn shop owner confirmed that Charles Finney had also pawned a television (neither stolen nor belonging to Sandra Sutherland) on 15 January 1991, and that on both occasions he had provided his correct local address even though the driving license he used for identification still had a Georgia address on it.