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With this letter, you will be able to call upon the government officials of retentionist countries to request that thesocio-economic status of the defendants facing the death penalty is taken into account as a mitigating factor.
World Day 22nd World Day Against the Death Penalty – The death penalty protects no one.
Observed every 10 October, the World Day Against the Death Penalty unifies the global abolitionist movement and mobilizes civil society, political leaders, lawyers, public opinion and more to support the call for the universal abolition of capital punishment.
Helping the World Achieve a Moratorium on Executions
In 2007, the World Coalition made one of the most important decisions in its young history: to support the Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty as a step towards universal abolition. A moratorium is temporary suspension of executions and, more rarely, of death sentences. […]
