World Coalition

Statement on Executions in the USA

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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Following the botched execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma on 29 April, the United Nations called on the United States to suspend executions in the face of potential international law violations. The World Coalition supports this call.




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