Clare Algar, executive director of Reprieve said: "If Linda is not granted a new hearing, she faces the death penalty based on lies extracted by prosecutors desperate to secure an execution at any cost.
The country was a grim and medieval place — I witnessed a public execution at a Kabul stadium.
Mr. Cruz awaits execution at a time when there is growing opposition across the country to the execution of the mentally retarded.
Meanwhile, other local newspaper reports noted that an alternative theory suggested they were not vampires, but victims of an execution at a known nearby gallows.
Somehow, we seem to have lost the capacity for long-range planning and execution — at a time when, arguably, foresight and patience are more essential than ever before.
Mr. Wo is awaiting execution at a prison hospital in Beijing and could be put to death as early as Thursday.
Naoto Kan, the man at present on the inside of the revolving door, only stayed there by promising at the beginning of June to step down soon, in return for a stay of execution at a parliamentary no-confidence vote.
There being no prisons in Iceland, the condemned woman had been held for the winter before her execution at a farm where she'd lived as a young girl, guarded by the farmer's wife and daughters.
Ms. Chen, a graduate student in Berkeley, is not sure when she will bury her father, Wo Weihan, who is awaiting execution at a prison hospital in the capital.
A report last year by the United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, detailed some abuses by Nigerian troops in Sierra Leone, including the summary execution of an 8-year-old boy for possessing a pistol, an execution at a major hospital and other "summary executions of alleged rebels or rebel sympathizers".
