Latest Death Penalty Report

Report for mid – July to mid – August

August 2026

We are pleased to attach the latest report with thanks to group member Lesley for the work in compiling it. The highlights in the report are

• Conditional pardon offered to Ruth Ellis who was the last person to be hanged in Britain
• In Lebanon a law has been passed abolishing the death penalty.  It will be the only country in the Middle East formally to end the penalty
• Florida continues with its spate of executions including two on one day and Governor DeSantis is busy signing fresh warrants
• Jermaine Wright, Delaware, becomes the 203^rd person exonerated since 1973 and is declared innocent after 34 years on death row.

As ever we note that there is no data from China – believed to execute more of its citizens than the rest of the world put together – because they are a state secret. It is another aspect of the persecution of the Uyghurs the subject of a series of posts elsewhere on this site.

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• Latest Death Penalty Report
• Uyghur campaign: letter
• Uyghur campaign – day 11
• Risks of University Partnerships with Arms Firms and Israel
• Obituary: Daphne White