Amnesty International to protest at Bush's use of the death penalty
Members of Amnesty International in New Zealand are planning a protest against George W Bush.
They are protesting against the "heinous use" of the death penalty by US president George W Bush while he was Governor of Texas.
Spokeswoman Rebecca Linehan says a small group plans to picket the US embassy in Wellington on Tuesday.
President Bush was elected Governor of Texas in 1995. In his five years in the position he is reported to have approved 116 executions - more than any other US governor in modern times.
Since the US Supreme Court lifted a national death penalty ban in 1976, 225 of the 654 executions carried out in the US have been in Texas.
Speaking in a television interview with NBC last February, President Bush - then Governor of Texas - said he was confident every person that had been put to death in Texas under his watch had been guilty of the crime charged.
He said he had reviewed "every case that's come across my desk".
