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…and possible waiting-for-death phenomena, Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty conducted comprehensive interviews with all people currently on death row in Taiwan. The research team has issued an interim…

…Against the Death Penalty has been committed to promoting the concept of abolition of the death penalty in China, providing legal aid to those facing the death penalty, organizing death…

…the World Day Against the Death Penalty on October the 10 2018, which focused on the conditions of detention and treatment of death row prisoners worldwide. In this perspective, PRDH’s…

…and trend in Africa Organized by the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, the East African Coalition Against the Death Penalty and Reprieve, the event “Abolition of the Death…

…death penalty. They called for the government to adopt a de jure moratorium on the use f the death penalty and the commuting of all death sentences.Watch the intervention here. …

…a death row prisoner in the Urmia Central Prison claimed: “The case of prisoners sentenced to death in Urmia goes well, and most of the death sentences have been commuted…

…the injustices of the death penalty and pressing Parliamentarians for change. Being one of the few countries around the world to still retain the use of the death penalty in…

…and provides a key tool for securing abolition of the death penalty worldwide: once a State ratifies the Protocol, there is no going back, the death penalty is irrevocably abolished…

…the death penalty On the occasion of this 56th session, several members of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty presented oral statements on the death penalty.  During the adoption…

…international consensus that the death penalty amounts to torture or other cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment (CIDT).  With the theme, “Death Penalty: An Irreversible Torture,” World Day 2023 aimed to…

10 SENTENCED TO DEATH BECAUSE DELAY OF COMING INTO FORCE LAW THAT ABOLISHES MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING Abolish Death Penalty We, the 44 undersigned organisations, groups and trade…

With the theme “Women sentenced death: an invisible reality”, the 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty aimed to highlight the issues faced by women who are sentenced to death,…

…the intersession period: 46 member States have abolished the death penalty (23 in law and 23 in practice). The president expressed his concerns about Tunisia, which sentenced to death dozens…

…Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide – Cornell Law School, CrimeInfo – a member organization of Anti Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN), Death Penalty Action, Death Penalty Alternatives for…

…statement calling onto the State to commute the death sentences of all individuals currently on death row, diminish the number of crimes resulting in a death sentence and ratify the…

…waning of the death penalty in the United States is becoming too hard to ignore. The fact that executions and death sentences are “unusual” has become undeniable.   Executions and death…

…death penalty as a form of torture; essentially in understanding the relationship between psychological torture and the threat of death.  Death threats, and methods such as mock executions – when…

…against the Death Penalty recently published artwork by people on death row, and Abdorrahman Boroumand Center released a collection of stories from death row, a punishment that “doesn’t end at…

…death penalty to fight terrorism. Commissioner of the International Commission against the Death Penalty, Tsakhia Elbegdorj outlined the 3 lessons in his experience of abolishing the death penalty in Mongolia…

…LGBTQIA+ individuals sentenced to death, executed, or whose death sentences have been commuted or pardoned. We recommend that governments in countries that still retain the death penalty: Abolish the death…

…row inmates in Pakistan (particularly in the Punjab region) reports weekly deaths in custody due to poor sanitary conditions, including regular deaths of people on death row. Next, specific training…

…of the death penalty in ongoing efforts. UN ECOSOC AND UNODC’S WORK AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY The UN unequivocally opposes the death penalty and ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies have…

…death row survivors can successfully reintegrate into society and for some of them, advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. Death row survivors against the death penalty Death row…

…death penalty since 2000.  Because the mandatory death penalty violates the right to a fair trial and access to justice, the Supreme Court of Malawi struck down the mandatory death…

…the Death Penalty (Republic of the Congo) Cornell Center on Death Penalty Worldwide (USA/ International) Death Penalty Focus- DPF (USA) Ditshwanelo- The Botswana Centre for Human Rights (Botswana) Droits et…

Every October 10th, the World Coalition against the death penalty and its members celebrates the World Day against the Death penalty. In 2024 and 2025, the abolitionist movement will focus…

…since the organization first began campaigning for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty in 1977. Since this landmark moment, countries that use the death penalty have become an increasingly…

…world’s population. But the death row population is over one-fourth of the world’s population on death row. 8,186 people are believed to be under a death sentence in South Asia…

…demonstrated its inefficiency. 2000 people were on Rwandan death row when the country abolished the death penalty in 2007. Today, the former prisoners have reintegrated society and obtained a second…

…been sentenced to death in Iran in connection with the protests and that “dozens more have been charged with or face offences carrying the death penalty.” She called onto the…

…all.” At the end of 2018, 106 countries had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes and 142 countries had abolished the death penalty in law or practice….

…members of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (World Coalition) conducted research to document the situation of women on death row in their countries. WOMEN ARE ON DEATH ROW…

…the death penalty, especially for non-violent drug crimes. During the discussion of the human rights situation in Myanmar, the need to immediately reinstate the moratorium on the death penalty was…

…a mandatory death sentence. The first bill, namely the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Bill 2023 (DR 7) abolished the mandatory death penalty for all 12 offences which previously carried…

…the Asia-Pacific region have abolished the death penalty for all crimes; Fiji has abolished it for ordinary crimes only, 10 are abolitionist in practice and 13 retain the death penalty….

…on 10 October. Strong testimonies from exonerated death row prisoners Practical workshops focused on key issues in the current fight against the death penalty – cases of innocence on death…

…for drug-related offenses. It is estimated that more than 60 defendants are on death row…I urge the government to impose a moratorium on the death penalty, especially for non-violent drug…

…ECPM – Together Against the Death Penalty Harm Reduction International MADPET– Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty World Coalition Against the Death Penalty…

…death penalty for alleged child offenders for certain crimes, prosecutors can seek the death penalty against children for crimes such as murder. Abdullah al-Huweiti has been on death row since…

…to death. As research from the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide highlights, the primary motive for women’s death sentences is the crime of murder, often linked to gender-based…

…links between the death penalty and gender discrimination. At the 8th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, new angles of thinking between gender and the death penalty were addressed, emphasizing…

…abolition of the death penalty and freedom of belief. The death penalty was also an issue of concern during the General Debate on Human Rights Situations that Require the Council’s…

The death penalty in the Congolese legislation Whereas the death penalty is enshrined in the legislation, its implementation has been challenged. Through the 2003 de facto moratorium on the death…

…and recommendations from speakers Amy Bergquist of The Advocates for Human Rights, Chelsea Halstead of Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide (CCDPW), Chow Ying Ngeow of Anti-Death Penalty Asia…

…fair and accurate assessment. The Supreme Court, currently under renovation, is conducting life or death debates in a death penalty case. Photo credit: Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty…

TheDeath Penalty Information Center’s 2020 annual report highlights the continuing trend toward abolition in the US and the resumption of federal executions in a challenging COVID-19 context. The Death Penalty…

…World Coalition Against the Death Penalty presented oral statements on the death penalty.  As the Biennial High-level Panel on the death penalty brought together panelists from various legal and governmental…

…the death penalty: the Congress re-introduced the capital punishment in 1993 after the Constitution had abolished it in 1987. In 2006, the death penalty had been anew abolished. However, William…

…possibility of reviewing the sentences of some 1,320 people sentenced to death. Ms. Said explained that while the death penalty has not been completely abolished in Malaysia, the abolition of…

…progress in this direction and eventually abolish the mandatory death penalty. The death penalty in the Caribbean was the focus of World Day Against the Death Penalty 2013. Mental health…

The World Coalition and its local member, the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP), have been highlighting the abuses linked to the use of the death penalty as…

…but continued to hand down death sentences. A member of the Tunisian Coalition Against the Death Penalty regretted that her country had not abolished capital punishment while adopting a new…

…clearly stated that “to implement the policy of gradual abolition of the death penalty and achieve the ultimate goal of death penalty abolition, the Ministry of Justice is planning to…

…Death Penalty Focus, explains “why the California vote matters” and recalls that California has the largest death row in the US, with 749 prisoners. While the abolition of the death…

Addressing living conditions on death row In the wake of the World Day against the Death Penalty, living conditions on death row in sub-Saharan Africa was at the heart of…

…the death penalty and that for a seven year period the govern observed a de facto moratorium on the implementation of the death penalty. Our organisations and institutions, listed below,…

…Coalition Against the Death Penalty, and Choukri Latif of the Coalition tunissiene contre la peine de mort (a Tunisian anti-death penalty NGO), to address the committee regarding Tunisia’s failure to…

…in which the topic of torture and its link to the death penalty were investigated under the banner, “The Death Penalty: A Road Paved with Torture”. World Day falls under…

…U.S. Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional in 1972. It was the seventh year in a row that fewer than 100 death sentences were imposed nationwide. “The Death Penalty…

…and more scholars agree to abolish the death penalty step by step. But my opinion is that it should be abolished at once, without condition. How did you form this…

…first one was dedicated to the death penalty and poverty, the theme of the next World Day Against the Death Penalty, in which intervened Shreya Rastogi, Center on the Death…

…Presentation of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, an alliance of more than 160 NGOs, bar associations, local authorities and unions, was…

…of the prisoners on death row and declared that Kenya has taken measures regarding the death penalty. Recently, President Kenyatta commuted the death sentences of 2747 prisoners to “decrowd” death…

…what they had to say about the death penalty.   The Death Penalty and Terrorism Amnesty International released a report entitled 2016 World Day against the Death Penalty, focusing this…

…nitrogen gas in the United States reiterated its categorical opposition to death penalty everywhere in all circumstances. Australia welcomed Ghana and Malaysia’s progress towards abolishing the death penalty, but expressed…

…the death penalty “Despite the 23 year moratorium, it is difficult to get rid of the death penalty. The non-application of the death penalty is not a problem for the…

…by victim’s families, wrongfully convicted death row prisoners, and former members of law enforcement opposed to the death penalty. John Burton, chairman of the California Democratic Party, gave a special…

…“truce” for the death penalty, a time politically, procedurally, legislatively and civilly to discuss, reflect and prepare. South Africa, for example, abolished the death penalty after five years of moratorium”…

…hand down death sentences at a swift rate, with at least 14 people added to death row in 2008. With almost twice as many people on death row as have…

…to campaign for the end of the death penalty. The Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (MADPET) hopes “that there will be no more death penalty in Malaysia by the…

…on restorative rather than on retributive justice.” While 27 African countries have abolished the death penalty as of December 2023, others still use it for crimes such as murder, terrorism,…

…death penalty is an issue that every state has the right to decide on.” Death penalty high on the UN agenda in 2014 Several side events on the death penalty…

…in the reduction of the number of crimes punishable by death: “In 2015, China passed Amendment (IX) to the Criminal Law, under which the death penalty was abolished for nine…

…prisoners, including mentally disabled people and juveniles, are waiting for their executions on Pakistani death row.  These prisoners were convicted on one of the 27 grounds punishable by death, including…

…a glimpse of hope to the abolitionists. The death penalty reforms quickly disappointed abolitionists and international observers, however. Whereas the death penalty reforms aimed to amend the mandatory death penalty…

…the death penalty”. The regional trend against the death penalty is a reality: 17 AU Member States have enacted laws to abolish the death penalty , including four States in…

…continuing to sentence people to death. It is simply that in 2021, there happened to be no cases resulting in a death sentence. Might Taiwan abolish the death penalty in…

…France, recalled, those events support the growing consensus in favour of the universal abolition of the death penalty. To date, 105 States are abolitionist, 7 have abolished the death penalty…

…Zitrin of Death Penalty Focus updated the AGM on the campaign to abolish the death penalty in California. Watch her interview below: The death penalty to enforce terror in Irak…

…the death penalty/ still retain the death penalty: A) Abolish the death penalty for all offences, regardless of gender; B) Pending full abolition, we call on governments to: Eliminate the…

…World Day against the Death Penalty on 10 October 2018, the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Penal Reform International and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty are publishing…

…of prisoners sentenced to death: “We are convinced that the Human Rights Council is the appropriate place to discuss the death penalty.” Jan Wetzel, advocate on the death penalty with…

…the Paris-based NGO Together Against the Death Penalty added that the authorities of Haiti, which has abolished the death penalty, gave him assurances during a country visit in June that…

…also conducted by Prof Hood for the Death Penalty Project (DPP) with assistance from Dr Mai Sato, the study published on July 8 shows that popular support from the death…

…airport. See ADPAN’s statement. The discussions also focused on the case of foreign nationals sentenced to death around Asia and the importance of keeping up the fight against the death…

…orally.  Two resolutions on the death penalty were also passed. One championed by NGOs and the ACHPR’s working group on the death penalty, N°544 ‘Resolution on the Death Penalty and…

…around the world. “We are joined by death row family members, death row exonerees and other activists as we show the human face of the death penalty. Our mantra of…

…for Political Prisoners (AAPP) documentation, at least 114 death sentences have been imposed since February 2021. All these death sentences were imposed by military tribunals or, in one case, a…

…of Zambia affirmed his commitment to the abolition of the death penalty on May 24 by commuting 30 death sentences and submitting a death penalty abolition bill to Parliament. He…

…la Paix et la Justice (CPJ), Death Penalty Focus, German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (GCADP), Greater Caribbean for Life, Hands Off Cain, Japan Innocence & Death Penalty Information…

During these 2 days, several aspects of the death penalty were addressed in very relevant interventions, among which: the history of the death penalty in Algeria with the interventions of…