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Article(s)
Statement on executions in the USA
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 21 June 2019
As of 21 June 2019, 106 countries worldwide have abolished the death penalty for all crimes, 8 other countries have abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes and 28 countries…
2019
United States

Article(s)
Increase in the number of executions, but clear progress toward abolition in 2022
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 18 September 2023
…Central African Republic – abolished the death penalty for all crimes and two countries – Equatorial Guinea and Zambia – had abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes only. In…
2023
Trend Towards Abolition

Article(s)
Death Sentences and Executions in 2017
By Amnesty International, on 12 April 2018
…the end of 2017, 106 countries had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes and 142 countries had abolished the death penalty in law or practice. These figures…
2018

Article(s)
A Moratorium acts as a “truce” for the death penalty
on 23 August 2012
…State of Connecticut abolished the death penalty in April 2012, and Illinois abolished it in March 2011. In Oregon, the Governor declared a moratorium on all executions in November 2011….
2012
Benin
Burundi
Ethiopia
Ghana
Guinea
Latvia
Maldives
Mauritania
Mongolia
Moratorium
Morocco
Myanmar
Nigeria
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
South Africa
Suriname
Uganda
United States
Zambia

Article(s)
Adoption of Bill Allowing the Imposition of the Death Penalty for a New Crime.
By Grace Keane O'Connor , on 30 April 2021
…Philippines. An educational and advocacy brochure titled “Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines” has recently been finalized in 13 languages, including 11 local languages of the Philippines and…
2021
Drug Offenses
Philippines

Article(s)
The Status Quo of China’s Death Penalty and the Civil Society Abolitionist Movement
By China Against the Death Penalty, on 15 February 2022
…scale to continue to promote legal aid for individual cases. Around 108 countries around the world have completely abolished the death penalty and 144 countries have abolished the death penalty…
2022
China
Legal Representation
Article(s)
Teng Biao: Olympics an opportunity to put pressure on the Chinese authorities”
on 13 February 2008
…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…
2008
China
Innocence
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Europe launches diplomatic offensive against the death penalty
on 10 October 2008
…Yade welcomed the global trend towards abolition, remarking that four countries have abolished the death penalty since October 10, 2007. “France is determined to make that process irreversible”, she said….
2008
Lebanon
Uganda

Article(s)
Mid-terms: A first half of 2023 marked by multiple abolitions
By Nellia Halimi, on 9 October 2023
…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…
2023
Ghana
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Kenya
Malaysia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Trend Towards Abolition
United States
Uzbekistan

Article(s)
Despite recent setbacks, the trend towards the universal abolition towards the death penalty remains
By Elise Guillot, on 8 February 2017
…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…
2017

Article(s)
How far is China ready to reduce its use of the death penalty?
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 25 November 2013
…one of the key measures to be implemented in the short term, the offences for which the death penalty will be abolished are still unclear. Non-violent crimes such as counterfeiting…
2013
China
Clemency
Drug Offenses
Terrorism
Article(s)
Capital punishment now part of Togo’s history
on 24 June 2009
“The adopted legislation states that the death penalty is now abolished in our country and that crimes previously punished by death are now punishable by life in prison”, said Ganyo…
2009
Togo
Togo
Article(s)
High-Level Remote Panel on the Moratorium Resolution
By Louis Linel, on 6 November 2020
…Stefanile, Deputy Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations, who took part in this high-level panel, mentioned that the Grand Duchy of Tuscany had abolished capital punishment in 1786…
2020
Algeria
Belgium
Democratic Republic of the Congo
France
Italy
Moratorium
Morocco
Switzerland

Article(s)
Suriname and Haiti to lead abolitionist way in the Caribbean
By Thomas Hubert (in San Juan, Puerto Rico), on 27 June 2014
…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…
2014
Barbados
Haiti
Jamaica
Puerto Rico
Suriname
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago

Article(s)
Executions on the rise, but progress toward abolition in 2021
By Amnesty International, on 9 June 2022
…had abolished the death penalty in law or practice. 108 countries, a majority of the world’s states, had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes and 144 countries had abolished the…
2022
Death Row Conditions
Trend Towards Abolition

Article(s)
Death penalty: Global abolition closer than ever as record number of countries vote to end executions
By Amnesty International, on 17 December 2018
…When the UN was founded in 1945 only eight of the then 51 UN member states had abolished the death penalty. Today, 103 of 193 member states have abolished the…
2018
Moratorium

Article(s)
Death Sentences and Executions in 2016
By Amnesty International, on 11 April 2017
…and Saudi Arabia remained among the top executioners • Two countries abolished the death penalty for all crimes (Benin and Nauru); Guinea abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes only….
2017

Just One More Step: Ratifying International and Regional Protocols
on 28 March 2022
…the death penalty. 2024: UN Protocol 35th anniversary of the adoption of the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. 2025: American Protocol…
2022
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo
Fiji
Ghana
Marshall Islands
Samoa
Sierra Leone
Suriname
Zambia

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Makwanyane Institute Is Launched at Cornell Law School
By Sherrie Negrea, Cornell Law School, on 17 July 2017
The institute, named after the landmark 1995 case that abolished the death penalty in South Africa, was developed through the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, which became the…
2017
Legal Representation

Article(s)
UN High Level Panel on the death penalty and limitation to the most serious crimes
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 14 March 2023
…Central African Republic (May 2022) and Equatorial Guinea (September 2022). Mr. Sow highlighted the undeniable progress made on the African continent where twenty-six states have fully abolished the death penalty…
2023
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Teaching abolition in Taiwan
on 9 December 2009
…agree that death penalty could be abolished. To a human rights defender, and now a junior high school teacher, I truly think that it is the insufficiency of school and…
2009
Public Opinion
Taiwan
Taiwan

Article(s)
New Hampshire: 21st State to Abolish the Death Penalty in the USA
By Aurelie Placais, on 12 June 2019
…Death Penalty. A Growing Trend Over the last 10 years, 7 states in the USA have abolished the death penalty, either by the legislature voting for a bill (New Hampshire…
2019
United States

Article(s)
Death penalty 2018: Dramatic fall in global executions
By Amnesty International, on 10 April 2019
…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….
2019

Article(s)
Debunking narratives for a return of the death penalty
By Venus Aves, on 13 November 2023
…population of people who inject drugs than countries that have abolished capital punishment for drug offenses.2 Best practice: Under the Duterte administration in the Philippines, several bills were filed to…
2023
Drug Offenses
Maldives
Philippines
Public Opinion
Sri Lanka
Trend Towards Abolition
Turkey
Ending the Death Penalty in Africa
on 10 June 2022
…Union member States, 26 have abolished the death penalty in law, 15 are applying a long-term moratorium on executions while 15 retain capital punishment. Chad abolished the death penalty in…
2022
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo
Côte d'Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Madagascar
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Togo
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Article(s)
Death penalty: UN General Assembly human rights committee renews call for a moratorium on executions
By Amnesty International, on 23 November 2016
…UN was founded in 1945 only eight of the then 51 UN Member States had abolished the death penalty. Today, 103 Member States have abolished the death penalty for all…
2016
Moratorium
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The death penalty at the heart of ACHPR debates
on 18 May 2012
…the ACHPR in November 2011. On April 19, 2012, at its 51st session, the ACHPR launched this study during a ceremony attended by FIACAT, FIDH, and the World Coalition. Strategic…
2012
Angola
Burundi
Gabon
Moratorium
Rwanda
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Togo
Article(s)
Second Optional Protocol: An irreversible mechanism for abolishing the death penalty” – Denys Robiliard
on 7 September 2020
…death penalty. Cambodia is an abolitionist country and there is no reason why a dispute regarding international criminal law should delay ratification of Protocol 2. Liberia has abolished the death…
2020
Afghanistan

Article(s)
ADPAN network keeps up abolitionist fight
By Anti-Death Penalty Asian Network (ADPAN), on 10 October 2012
…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….
2012

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Justice ministers meet as Colosseum lights up to say yes to life
By Community of Sant'Egidio, on 10 December 2012
…U.S. state to have abolished the death penalty in April this year. Over the years such conferences of justice ministers have been unique opportunities for the development of strategies to…
2012
Benin
Burundi
Central African Republic
France
Gabon
Italy
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Mongolia
Public Opinion
Switzerland
Togo
United States
Uzbekistan
Zimbabwe

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Call to end flawed Caribbean death penalty
By Thomas Hubert, on 10 December 2012
…“A populist measure to keep the electorate happy” “While Central and Southern American countries are mostly abolitionists, with Venezuela being the first modern state to have done so in 1863,…
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Dominica
Fair Trial
Grenada
Guyana
Intellectual Disability
Jamaica
Mental Illness
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
Document(s)
Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Ilokano)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
2021
Campaigning
Drug Offenses
Philippines
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UPR 36th Session Debriefed on Facebook Live
By Louis Linel, on 17 November 2020
…Human Rights, a member organization of the World Coalition, facilitated Facebook live debriefings to cover the review of States that have not yet abolished capital punishment. A Unique State-Driven Process…
2020
Belarus
Jamaica
Liberia
Libya
Malawi
Maldives
United States
Document(s)
Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Bicolano)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
2021
Campaigning
Drug Offenses
Philippines
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Document(s)
Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Cebuano)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
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Drug Offenses
Philippines
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Document(s)
Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (English)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
Campaigning
Drug Offenses
Philippines
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Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Hiligaynon)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
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Philippines
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Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Tagalog)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
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Drug Offenses
Philippines
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Document(s)
Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Kapampangan)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
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Drug Offenses
Philippines
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Document(s)
Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Pangasinense)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
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Drug Offenses
Philippines
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Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Tausug)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
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Philippines
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Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Waray)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
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Philippines
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Article(s)
10 years with no hanging in the Caribbean
By Greater Caribbean for Life, on 19 December 2018
…penalty should be commuted to life imprisonment. To date 142 countries – more than two thirds of the world’s countries – have abolished the death penalty in law or practice….
2018

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East African Seminar on Best Practices in Kenya: A Key Gathering for the Abolitionist Movement on the Continent
By Wendy Adouki, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 August 2023
…International Federation of ACATS) organized a seminar for English-speaking African members from 19-26 June, 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya. ICJ Kenya, a human rights organization based in Nairobi and member of…
2023
Kenya
Trend Towards Abolition

Article(s)
Iran’s brave human rights defenders and their struggle against the death penalty
By Amnesty International, on 5 March 2018
…isolated minority. In fact, as of September 2017, more than two-thirds of the countries around the world have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. However, as the world…
2018
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Document(s)
Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Marano)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
2021
Campaigning
Drug Offenses
Philippines
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Article(s)
Morocco’s death penalty takes centre stage at Marrakesh forum
By Thomas Hubert (in Marrakesh, Morocco), on 28 November 2014
…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…
2014
Morocco

Article(s)
Kazakh criminal law reform could add capital crimes
By Thomas Hubert, on 15 February 2013
…articles referencing the death penalty, then it was 18, now 20,” Saule Mektepbayeva, regional director for Penal Reform International (PRI) Central Asia. There are currently two crimes punishable by death…
2013
Kazakhstan
Moratorium
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Hands Off Cain holds moratorium conference in Gabon
on 11 December 2007
…of the death penalty is currently considered, met officials from African countries that have ended capital punishment, such as Djibouti. Gabon itself abolished the death penalty on September 13, 2007….
2007
Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gabon
Gabon
Mali
Moratorium
Article(s)
From Italian prisons to Texas death row
on 27 March 2008
…am determined to live until it is abolished!” Dave Atwood’s talk prompted many questions from the floor, as did that by Arianna Balotta, president of the Italian Coalition. She told…
2008
Death Row Conditions
Italy
United States
Article(s)
Can the US move towards abolition under Obama?
on 20 January 2009
…of lethal injection protocols and helped keep the number of executions down. The moratorium did not stop death sentences from being handed down but their number, too, fell sharply. “In…
2009
United States
Article(s)
Indonesian activists face upward death penalty trend
on 10 February 2009
…the preceding decade, and the Constitutional Court rejected a challenge to the method of execution. Despite those setbacks, a small group of dedicated Indonesian abolitionists keep up their campaign. Some…
2009
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Drug Offenses
Indonesia
Public Opinion

Article(s)
75th Ordinary Session of the African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights
By Wendy Adouki, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 August 2023
…periodic report was studied along with Senegal –abolished the death penalty in December 2022. Additionally, Honorable Idrissa Sow announced that the 2011 study on the death penalty in Africa would…
2023
Trend Towards Abolition

Article(s)
US Federal Executions Resume
By Louis Linel, on 28 July 2020
…moratorium, however, ended in July. Attorney General William Barr ordered the resumption of federal executions beginning July 25th, 2019 – the first ones to be carried out since 2003. Just…
2020
Moratorium
United States
Article(s)
Petition against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 October 2011
139 nations have already abolished the death penalty. In December 2012, the United Nations’ General Assembly will vote on a resolution calling for a worldwide halt to its use….
2011

Article(s)
The shared responsibility of capital punishment
on 27 September 2011
…the world’s countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. Yet a minority continue to carry out executions and an extreme fringe of this group executes people for…
2011
Australia
Bhutan
Colombia
Drug Offenses
Indonesia
Italy
Mozambique
Nepal
Niue
Pakistan
Philippines
South Africa
State of Palestine
Sweden
Taiwan
Terrorism
Thailand

Article(s)
Death penalty in 2019: Facts and figures
By Amnesty International, on 22 April 2020
…end of 2019, 106 countries (a majority of the world’s states) had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes, and 142 countries (more than two-thirds) had abolished the…
2020

Article(s)
Second Optional Protocol: Frequently Asked Questions
By Pierre Desert, on 27 June 2008
…obliges a country in all circumstances to ensure it exposes no one to the real risk of execution. Would the death penalty be abolished definitely in a State party? Is…
2008

Article(s)
Joint Open Letter to the Minister of Justice of Malawi on the abolition of the death penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 26 July 2024
…many advances in the abolitionist movement at the global level. This abolitionist momentum is particularly evident on the African continent. In recent years, fourteen African States have abolished the death…
2024
Malawi

20th World Day Against the Death Penalty – Death penalty: a road paved with torture
on 10 June 2022
…PENALTY IN PRACTICE (Statistics from Amnesty International) 110 States have abolished the death penalty for all crimes 7 States have abolished the death penalty for common law crimes 27 States…
2022
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions

Article(s)
After more than 20 years without executions, a trend toward an official moratorium?
By Clémentine Etienne, on 27 June 2018
…informative event on the death penalty, taking the example of various countries that had abolished this practice. Following the meeting, Lee Sung-ho, (NHRC) reported that South Korean President Moon Jae-in…
2018
Republic of Korea
Article(s)
Mali: is abolition in sight?
on 4 June 2008
…population and where the President abolished the death penalty without provoking a crisis or losing the confidence of the voters who subsequently re-elected him. First attempt adjourned Activists are redoubling…
2008
Innocence
Mali
Mali
Moratorium

Article(s)
A decrease in the number of countries with the death penalty worldwide, despite an increase in executions
By World Coalition against the death penalty , on 20 June 2024
…ever-increasing isolation of retentionist countries. Close to three quarters of the countries in the world have now abolished the death penalty in law or practice. As of 31 December 2023,…
2024

22nd World Day Against the Death Penalty – The death penalty protects no one.
on 12 June 2024
…Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Traditional Chinese, Urdu, and Yoruba. THE DEATH PENALTY IN PRACTICE (Statistics from Amnesty International) 112 States have abolished the death penalty for all crimes 9…
2024
Public Opinion
Trend Towards Abolition

Article(s)
Marc Bossuyt: “Countries that have not signed up to the Protocol should feel isolated”
By Pierre Désert, on 27 June 2008
…Protocol was adopted in 1989, most States still retained the death penalty and now, almost 20 years later, we have progressively reached a situation where a large majority have abolished…
2008

Article(s)
African human rights body targets death penalty
on 16 May 2011
…abolition in Africa, where where capital punishment was abandoned in 16 countries. 20 others have not carried out executions in more than 10 years. Kenyan representatives argued that public opinion…
2011
Algeria
Botswana
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Mauritania
Public Opinion
Somalia
Sudan
Article(s)
30 countries gather in Rome to oppose capital punishment
on 21 May 2010
…at the global level. The death penalty is “remote from humanity” Angola’s Justice Minister Guilhermina Prata said that her country abolished the death penalty in 1992 after it became a…
2010
Italy
Article(s)
Campaigners and political leaders unite against the death penalty
on 24 February 2010
…penalty regulations in California. “As the letter from our member in Togo, which had abolished the death penalty just a few days before, was read in French in the capital…
2010
Belarus
France
Italy
Mongolia
Norway
Qatar
Senegal
Spain
Switzerland
Viet Nam
Article(s)
Benin on track to achieve abolition
on 7 February 2010
…and political will on the other hand. We are in the same situation as France when it abolished the death penalty with President Mitterrand and Minister Badinter. Some people are…
2010
Benin
Benin
Public Opinion

Article(s)
The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines launches a campaign against the reinstatement of the death penalty in the country
By Thalia Gerzso, on 26 October 2017
…criminality. Indeed, although the Parliament abolished the death penalty in 1987, capital punishment was reintroduced under Republic Act 7659 in 1993. Abolitionists had to wait until 2006 to see a…
2017
Philippines
Public Opinion

Article(s)
Abolitionists of Central Africa met in Kinshasa
By Amina Jacquemin with CPJ and ECPM, on 12 April 2012
…the death penalty, 20 have abolished entirely and 21 no longer use it. The question of the death penalty is still very sensitive in the region, which recorded 42 executions…
2012
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kenya
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania

Article(s)
Does one year of “double zero” mean the death penalty has been repealed? How close is Taiwan to abolishing capital punishment?
By Lin Hsin-yi, Executive Director of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, on 28 April 2022
…exclaiming, how could they have de facto abolished capital punishment? – and pushing for more capital sentences and executions. We are thus not hopeful about this milestone extending into 2022….
2022
Taiwan

18th World Day Against the Death Penalty: Access to Counsel – A Matter of Life or Death
on 18 September 2020
…protection of either avoiding the sentence or appealing the verdict. The Death Penalty in Practice • 106 countries abolished the death penalty for all crimes; • 8 countries abolished the…
2020
Public Opinion

Article(s)
São Tomé and Príncipe ratifies OP2 and approves total and definitive abolition of the death penalty
By Elise Guillot, on 18 January 2017
…(in 2011 and 2015). The state had abolished the death penalty in 1990. From a legal perspective, the ratification of OP2 makes the resumption of the death penalty impossible in…
2017
Sao Tome and Principe

Article(s)
Call for Moratorium on Executions Gains Record-High Support at Committee Vote
By Amnesty International & Comunità di Sant'Egidio, on 16 November 2018
…that have abolished the death penalty in law or practice globally. A minority of countries, 36, voted against the proposal and 30 abstained at the vote. For the first time,…
2018
Moratorium

Article(s)
ASEAN countries step back on the path towards abolition
By Tiziana Trotta, on 27 October 2016
…Philippines have abolished capital punishment, even if this latter, which abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 2006, is considering reinstating it as part of its war on drugs….
2016
Drug Offenses
Terrorism

Article(s)
Death sentences and executions in 2015
By Amnesty International, on 10 April 2016
The global figures on the use of the death penalty in 2015 revealed two starkly divergent developments. On one hand, four countries abolished the death penalty, reinforcing the long-term trend…
2016

Article(s)
ADPAN welcomes Mongolia’s decision abolish death penalty in law
By ADPAN, on 18 December 2015
…inhuman and degrading punishment” said Altantuya Batdorj, Executive Director of Amnesty International Mongolia. Three countries – Fiji, Madagascar and Suriname- have already abolished the death penalty this year. Earlier this…
2015

Article(s)
Statement delivered to ACHPR on its 68th Ordinary Session
By FIACAT, FIDH, WCADP, Avocats Sans Frontières, COJESKI-RDC, ECPM, RAL and Reprieve, on 12 May 2021
…states are abolitionist: 22 have abolished in law and 18 have a de facto moratorium on executions. This trend is confirmed by the increase in votes by African states in…
2021
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Article(s)
World Coalition raises mental health issues in administration of the death penalty
By Thomas Hubert (in San Juan, Puerto Rico), on 22 June 2014
…island, which is a commonwealth of the US, abolished the death penalty in its constitution in 1952 but remains under the threat of capital cases brought by US federal courts….
2014
Puerto Rico

Article(s)
International Conference Against the Death Penalty: abolistionists are united and determined
By Lorène du Crest, on 18 July 2017
…that in 15 years numerous countries have abolished the death penalty, including the most recent example of Mongolia which has brought the number of abolitionist countries to 141. This progress…
2017

Article(s)
Organisation of American States considers moratorium
By Tiziana Trotta, on 15 March 2013
…focus this year’s World Day Against the Death Penalty (10 October) on the Caribbean owes nothing to chance. While most states in the region have abolished the death penalty in…
2013
Argentina
Brazil
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Guatemala
Mexico
Moratorium
Panama
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
United States

Article(s)
DPIC’s Report on the 2020 Death Penalty Usage in the US
By Louis Linel, on 6 January 2021
…Governor Jared Polis stated when announcing the commutations. Two thirds of the US States have now either abolished the death penalty in law or not carried out executions in at…
2021
United States

Article(s)
Asian progress paves the way for new strategies
By Thomas Hubert, on 20 June 2013
Bhutan, Nepal, Cambodia and the Philippines are the four Asian countries which have abolished the death penalty in domestic law, with Mongolia in the process of following suit after it…
2013
India
Japan
Malaysia
Mongolia
Moratorium
Singapore

Article(s)
71st Ordinary session of the African Commission: focus on torture and the death penalty
By Sarah Saint-Sorny, on 9 June 2022
The African Commission on Human Rights and People (ACHPR) once again met on Zoom for its 71st Ordinary session from April 21st to May 13th, 2022. The honorable Rémy Ngoy…
2022
Central African Republic
Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kenya
Malawi
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Sierra Leone
Tunisia
Zambia

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Philippines: one step forward in the reintroduction of the death penalty
By Lorène du Crest, on 3 March 2017
…was abolished in this country in 2006. Philippines had officially abolished capital punishment in 1987 but Fidel Ramos restored it in 1993. Nevertheless, with this last twist, the reintroduction of…
2017
Drug Offenses
Philippines

Helping the World Achieve a Moratorium on Executions
on 20 December 2022
…On 18 December 2007, the resolution was passed with the support of 104 UN members States, while 54 voted against and 29 abstained. In 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018,…
2022
Moratorium

21st World Day Against the Death Penalty – The death penalty: An irreversible torture
on 12 June 2023
…detailed factsheet, facts & figures sheet, and more! THE DEATH PENALTY IN PRACTICE (Statistics from Amnesty International) 112 States have abolished the death penalty for all crimes 9 States have…
2023
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions

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Regarding the execution in Japan of seven people
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 July 2018
…safe from judicial error and innocent people are likely to be sentenced to death. – It is inefficient and does not keep society safe. It has never been conclusively shown…
2018
Japan
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State-sponsored report finds California’s death penalty is “dysfunctional”
on 9 July 2008
…the largest population on death row, with 670 inmates. The CCFAJ found that the average delay between sentence and execution was over 20 years. “Just to keep cases moving at…
2008
Innocence
United States
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Support grows for Davis as his execution is stayed
on 26 October 2008
…protest for Amnesty International France, urges the public to keep signing the petition addressed to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, “even though it had turned a blind…
2008
United States
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What now for Mumia?
on 28 April 2008
…was reaffirmed by our Supreme Court this past week. Snyder v. Louisiana, No. 06-10119, 2008 WL 723750, at *4 (Mar. 19, 2008).” The judge concluded that everyone “is entitled to…
2008
Fair Trial
United States
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World Congress ends with words of hope
on 28 February 2010
…these stories, raise awareness among people. Let’s keep this flame alive after we leave here, let’s unite in our various projects.” Message from Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia: “As the Head…
2010
Switzerland
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World Coalition calls on Canada to keep up its efforts against the death penalty
on 10 March 2009
…signal to abolitionist countries that might consider the struggle against the death penalty as a thing of the past. April 3, 2009 update: The World Coalition also wrote to Montana’s…
2009
Canada
Canada
Clemency
United States
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Global outrage at Iranian juvenile execution
on 6 May 2009
…Human Rights denounced Iran’s unclear legislation on child executions and stated: “The widespread practice in Iran is to keep a minor convicted of a capital crime in prison until s/he…
2009
Innocence
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Juveniles
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Mongolian president calls for abolition
on 18 January 2010
…Mongolia could not keep using a punishment that “degrades human dignity”. He referred to the global trend towards abolition, including at the United Nations, and said: “The State of Mongolia…
2010
Clemency
Mongolia
Moratorium

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U.S. sees second fewest death sentences and executions in 25 Years
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 22 March 2018
…the 20 executions in 2016 were lower. Fourteen states and the federal government are projected to impose 39 new death sentences in 2017, the second lowest annual total since the…
2018
United States

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The Supreme Court of Kenya declares the mandatory death penalty unconstitutional
By Thalia Gerzso, on 23 January 2018
…Optional Protocol to the ICCPR aiming at the abolition of the death penalty and Kenyan judges keep issuing death sentences. That is why abolitionists’ work remains more important than ever….
2018
Kenya
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Taiwan activists battle in death penalty-triggered political crisis
on 19 March 2010
…Ma on March 12. American law professor and World Coalition treasurer Speedy Rice, who visited President Ma two years ago and was told that Taiwan would keep moving towards abolition,…
2010
Moratorium
Public Opinion
Taiwan
Taiwan
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FIDH report on Vietnam: an update on death penalty statistics
on 19 September 2010
…in 2009. Even though the government intends to keep the death penalty there are positive signs that it is moving away from capital punishment. Vietnam has shown positive action towards…
2010
Drug Offenses
Moratorium
Viet Nam
Viet Nam