a miscarriage of the Jordanian justice system that led to the execution of a man wrongly convicted of murder in 2000 had become a new reason to abolish the death penalty in the Kingdom, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
Read everythingBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair said he "strongly" opposed the death penalty but warned it was wrong to equate the human rights situtation in the US with that in countries such as China simply on the grounds of the number of executions carried out.
Read everythingCalifornia prison officials executed Stanley Tookie Williams, 51, the ex-leader of the Crips convicted of killing four people in 1979, early in the morning a day after top courts and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rejected final appeals to spare his life.
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