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Congress should block effort to reintroduce death penalty in the Philippines
By FIDH and the World Coalition, on 5 December 2016
…Davao Legal Aid Office (Philippines) 10. Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (Canada) 11. Centro de Investigación Drogas y Derechos Humanos (CIDDH) (Peru) 9. Bernice C.Mendoza, Lawyer (Philippines) 12. Charles Hector, Human…
2016
Philippines
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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
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Philippines: House of Representatives must uphold international law obligations ahead of first death penalty vote
By Amnesty International & other organisations, on 19 February 2017
Ahead of the first vote on the proposed legislative amendments to reintroduce the death penalty in the Philippines, the undersigned organizations are calling on the country’s lawmakers to uphold its…
2017
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Philippines
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
…Philippines takes action. To counteract the adoption of the bill, the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines, in partnership with several organizations, has engaged in an awareness campaign. The…
2017
Philippines
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Philippines’ Major Setback as Abolitionist Leader in South-East Asia
By Dinda Royhan, on 23 January 2020
In 2006, the Philippines abolished the death penalty for all crimes. A year later, the country gained the reputation of a regional leader in the campaign against death penalty for…
2020
Philippines
Article(s)
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
Article(s)
Despite recent setbacks, the trend towards the universal abolition towards the death penalty remains
By Elise Guillot, on 8 February 2017
…Philippines and Turkey. The latter two states have a similar profile: they abolished the death penalty and now consider to re-establish it. According to Raphaël Chenuil-Hazan, it is necessary to…
2017
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
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)
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)
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)
Violations of the Right to Life in the Context of Drug Policies
By International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), Corporación ATS Acción Técnica Social, IDPC Consortium, Washington Office on Latin America, non-governmental organizations in special consultative status, Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN); Capital Punishment Justice Project (CPJP); Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation (CDPE); Cornell Centre on the Death Penalty Worldwide; Eleos Justice - Monash University; Instituto RIA, AC; Iran Human Rights (IHR); World Coalition Against the Death Penalty., NGO(s) without consultative status, also share the views expressed in this statement, on 10 August 2021
…(Re-)introducing the death penalty. Reintroduction of capital punishment for drug offences is discussed in the Philippines and included in a bill recently approved in the lower house of Parliament.(14) This…
2021
Death Row Conditions
Drug Offenses
Fair Trial
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ADPAN network reinforces its strength in Asia
By Jessica Corredor, on 22 August 2017
…President of Reprieve Australia, “the Philippines have had 10 000 extrajudicial executions since Duterte came to power. If the bill passes through the Senate, the Philippines will become the world’s…
2017
Malaysia
Article(s)
Asia develops into hub of abolitionist dialogue
By Emile Carreau, on 6 November 2014
…who claim the alleged deterrent effect, tell them that they are barking up the wrong tree.” Watch her speech below. The Philippines has abolished the death penalty but is surrounded…
2014
Cambodia
India
Indonesia
Japan
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Viet Nam
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)
The shared responsibility of capital punishment
on 27 September 2011
…to fight drugs if doing so could lead to executions, possibly of their own citizens? This is not an abstract conundrum. The Philippines, for example, which abolished the death penalty…
2011
Australia
Bhutan
Colombia
Drug Offenses
Indonesia
Italy
Mozambique
Nepal
Niue
Pakistan
Philippines
South Africa
State of Palestine
Sweden
Taiwan
Terrorism
Thailand
Article(s)
ADPAN network keeps up abolitionist fight
By Anti-Death Penalty Asian Network (ADPAN), on 10 October 2012
…years, four Asia-Pacific countries abolished the death penalty for all crimes; Bhutan and Samoa in 2004, the Philippines in 2006 and the Cook Islands in 2007. Many retentionist countries have…
2012
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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
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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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Europe launches diplomatic offensive against the death penalty
on 10 October 2008
…remarked that all the organisation’s member states have abolished the death penalty, except Russia which has implemented a moratorium. He added: “Two of our observer states – Canada and Mexico…
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)
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)
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)
Death penalty and the “war on drugs” discussed during the 60th U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs annual meeting.
By Lorène du Crest, on 31 March 2017
…of the IDPC expressed her concern regarding the reintroduction of the death penalty in Philippines. On that subject, Leni Robredo, Vice-president of the Philippines gave her opinion in the opening…
2017
Drug Offenses
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Drug policy reform, harm reduction movement and the death penalty abolition movement have much in common
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 26 June 2019
…or re-implementation of the death penalty, while governments in the Philippines and United States (among others) pointed to capital punishment as an essential tool to confront drug trafficking or public…
2019
Drug Offenses
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Singapore must stop targeting HR defenders and media
By Aliran et al (Malaysiakini), on 20 February 2020
…Capital Punishment, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum), India, Dutch League For Human Rights, Empower Foundation Thailand, Families of Victims of Involuntary Disappearance (Find) – Philippines, German Coalition to Abolish the…
2020
Singapore
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
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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 56th session
on 30 August 2024
…that Jordan has neither abolished the death penalty, not continued its moratorium on executions, nor respected the threshold of “most serious crimes” for offenses punishable by death. They also denounced…
2024
Trend Towards Abolition
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
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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)
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)
The death penalty at the heart of ACHPR debates
on 18 May 2012
…regional legally binding instrument which they will be more inclined to ratify. Out of the 16 African States that have abolished the death penalty in Africa, only eight have ratified…
2012
Angola
Burundi
Gabon
Moratorium
Rwanda
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Togo
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)
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)
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)
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
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
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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
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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,…
2012
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
Article(s)
Justice ministers meet on the eve of Cities Against the Death Penalty
By Elizabeth Zitrin (World Coalition vice-president), in Rome, on 1 December 2013
…keeping the heart beating so that the organs can be sold openly for transplantation. He cited Pope Francis in calling on the assembly to be “rebels against global indifference”. Europe…
2013
Afghanistan
Belarus
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Italy
Philippines
Senegal
Switzerland
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)
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)
Kazakh criminal law reform could add capital crimes
By Thomas Hubert, on 15 February 2013
…criminal code. “Constant work is needed to keep the number of capital crimes low or abolish the death penalty,” she said. Moratorium President Nursultan Nazarbayev (photo, right, with EU foreign…
2013
Kazakhstan
Moratorium
Public Opinion
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)
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
…Director Elsy Sainna called upon all organizations present to keep up the fight for human rights in Africa by pushing for the abolition of the death penalty on the entire…
2023
Kenya
Trend Towards Abolition
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)
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)
Article(s)
Hands Off Cain holds moratorium conference in Gabon
on 11 December 2007
…10 to discuss the prospect of a global moratorium on the death penalty. Italy’s ambassador to Gabon Raffaël de Bénedictis said that “it is necessary to keep raisning awareness on…
2007
Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gabon
Gabon
Mali
Moratorium
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
Article(s)
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
Article(s)
Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 51st session
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 24 October 2022
…occasion, representatives of the members of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty from Ghana, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan and Bahrain were present to inform the debate. PARALLEL ADVOCACY ACTIVITIES…
2022
Trend Towards Abolition
Article(s)
Call for actions on World Day in the Philippines
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 July 2020
…for the 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty, the World Coalition and its partners would like to grant targeted financial support to local civil society organizations in the Philippines…
2020
Philippines
Article(s)
International mobilisation saves the life of Filipina maid
on 12 December 2007
…Philippines, organising demonstrations in support for the woman on World Day Against the Death Penalty last October. International support Connie Bragas-Regalado, chairperson of Migrante International and organiser of the Save…
2007
Kuwait
Philippines
Women
Article(s)
Recapping and video recordings of the side events of the 2021 General Assembly
By Elise Garel, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 27 September 2021
…part of the project conducted since 2018 on three countries at risk – the Philippines, Turkey and the Maldives. Participants were invited to reflect and exchange on what constitutes a…
2021
Juveniles
Legal Representation
Women
Article(s)
Joint Declaration on the Death Penalty and Women’s Rights
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 October 2021
…Cameroon Femmes for Freedom Algemeen Focal Commissioner for Women’s Human Rights and the Anti-Death Penalty Campaign Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines Foundation for Elimination of Violence Against Women…
2021
Women
Article(s)
Call for tenders for an external final evaluation
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 June 2021
External Evaluation of the project “Preventing the risk of resurgence of the death penalty in three abolitionist countries” of 36 months in the Maldives, Philippines and Turkey Terms of Reference…
2021
Maldives
Philippines
Turkey
Article(s)
Discussion at the Human Rights Council of human rights violations related to the use of the death penalty
By Jessica Corredor, on 7 March 2017
…have abolished it” and emphasized on the obligation held by States to recognize the commitment both in terms of human rights principles and legal obligations once they have signed a…
2017
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Article(s)
9th Resolution for a moratorium on the death penalty: the trend is growing
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 20 December 2022
…row, the following countries confirmed their support for the resolution: Djibouti Jordan Lebanon South Korea Malaysia Philippines Also, Papua New Guinea moved from a vote against to an abstention (it…
2022
Moratorium
Trend Towards Abolition
Article(s)
Hope resonates globally on World Day against the Death Penalty
By Nicolas Chua, on 25 October 2018
…competition on the topic “Why should the death penalty be abolished?”, and member organization Greater Caribbean for Life (GCL) presented a paper at a conference organized by the EU delegation…
2018
Death Row Conditions
Article(s)
7th Congress – Preventing the resurgence of the death penalty
By Louis Linel, on 19 March 2019
…Philippines, the abolitionist movement is vacillating between victories and setbacks, with the death penalty having already been abolished twice, in 1994 and 2006. The recent presidential elections saw the death…
2019
Article(s)
UN Protocol on death penalty turns 20
on 15 December 2009
…countries around the world have already abolished the death penalty in law or in practice, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty works to ensure that this treaty becomes the…
2009
Armenia
Burundi
Côte d'Ivoire
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Mauritius
Poland
Article(s)
120 UN Member States Support the Moratorium at Committee Vote
By Louis Linel, on 18 November 2020
…South Korea which voted in favor of the the resolution for the first time. The Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Guinea, Nauru, the Philippines, and…
2020
Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Eswatini
Guinea
Lebanon
Mexico
Moratorium
Nauru
Philippines
Republic of Korea
Sierra Leone
Switzerland
Article(s)
International support for abolition is continuing to grow – foreign ministers
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 9 October 2015
…or use capital punishment, it also takes a firm stance in advocating that the death penalty should in fine be abolished everywhere. 2015 marks the 4th edition of this Joint…
2015
Argentina
Australia
Benin
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Costa Rica
Fiji
Haiti
Latvia
Madagascar
Mexico
Mongolia
Norway
Philippines
Poland
Spain
Switzerland
Turkey
Article(s)
Cities for Life 2016: Let’s stay vigilant
By Emmanuel Trépied, on 19 December 2016
…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…
2016
Public Opinion
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
Article(s)
US Federal Executions Resume
By Louis Linel, on 28 July 2020
…in the Americas that continues to conduct executions. Federal executions are contrary to the promising progress the United States made in 2019 after New Hampshire abolished the death penalty and…
2020
Moratorium
United States
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
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)
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)
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)
African human rights body targets death penalty
on 16 May 2011
…was against abolition because of high crime rates, but Kayitesi replied that many countries had abolished capital punishment without support from public opinion, thanks to their leaders’ political will. Algerian…
2011
Algeria
Botswana
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Mauritania
Public Opinion
Somalia
Sudan
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)
71st Ordinary session of the African Commission: focus on torture and the death penalty
By Sarah Saint-Sorny, on 9 June 2022
…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…
2022
Central African Republic
Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kenya
Malawi
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Sierra Leone
Tunisia
Zambia
Article(s)
Marc Bossuyt: “Countries that have not signed up to the Protocol should feel isolated”
By Pierre Désert, on 27 June 2008
…under 18 and pregnant women from this punishment (in paragraph 5) and they recommended that it be abolished by stipulating (in paragraph 6) that none of the provisions in paragraph…
2008
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…
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)
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)
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)
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
Article(s)
NGOs join forces to tackle capital punishment at Iran’s rights review
By Thomas Hubert, on 30 October 2014
…The members of ImpactIran say increased coordination has helped them achieve a wider international reach and stronger impact through joint submissions to the UN – and they will keep up…
2014
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Article(s)
“Iran kills for possession of less than 50g of drugs”
By Thomas Hubert, on 9 April 2013
…sentence, but she begged us to keep them secret and make sure he could not be identified because she had received threats that her other children would be targeted if…
2013
Drug Offenses
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Article(s)
Highest execution numbers in Iran in 10 years
By Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, on 13 March 2012
…international community puts pressure on one specific case, the authorities give up on that case, because individual cases do not matter to them: as long as they keep the number…
2012
Drug Offenses
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Juveniles
Women
Article(s)
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