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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…

…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…

…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….

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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….

…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…

…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…

20th World Day against the Death Penalty On this 20th anniversary of the World Day Against the Death Penalty dedicated to the link between torture and the use of the…

…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…

“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…

…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…

…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….

…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…

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…

…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….

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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….

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…matter of time before the death penalty will be fully abolished globally. Global trend towards abolition in 2024 Developments in 2024 confirmed that the use of the death penalty is…

The National Conference on 20 Years of Reformasi: Crime & Punishment in Human Rights Discourse in Indonesia was held in Jakarta on May 8-9th, 2018, organized in partnership by Together…

Today is the 20th anniversary of the adoption of Protocol No. 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, concerning the abolition of the death…

…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…

On December 15, 2009, the UN Protocol to abolish the death penalty celebrates its 20th anniversary. 72 States have ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil…

The 48th session of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR) took place from the 20th to the 31st of January 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland. It showcased the increasing international…

…“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,…

…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….

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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….

…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…

…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…

…voted in favor, marking a meaningful shift in global support.  The year ended on an even more positive note as, on 31 December 2024, Zimbabwe abolished the death penalty in…

…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…

…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…

…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,…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…(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…

…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….

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…

…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…

…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….

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…

…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…

…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…

  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….

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

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…

…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….

…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…

…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,…

…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…

The Death Penalty Information Center’s 2018 End-of-Year report confirms decline despite strong lasting inequalities. The abolitionist movement keeps gaining ground in the US In 2018, the abolition movement gained important…

…the beginning of the 21st century in over 15 languages, as well as key documents from the 20th century such as international treaties. The new search engine allows you to…

…fond memories of the fervent abolitionist demonstrations that took place in the late 20th century. “That struggle on the street will need to resume at the right moment,” she said,…

On December 20th 2012 the UN General Assembly voted in favor of its fourth resolution for a “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty” following previous resolutions in 2007,…

…squad. The Second Optional Protocol turns 20 The Second Optional Protocol entered into force on the 11 July 1991 and to mark its 20th anniversary Belgium is organising a side-event…

…the Rights of the Child, on 20 November, 2009 in the morning. Although the diplomatic representations of Sudan and Yemen received each a quarter of the petitions received to date…

…Aurélie Plaçais told them that, after two years of research and campaign design, the time was right to kick-start lobbying efforts as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Protocol….

…to the ICCPR aiming at the abolition of the death penalty will mark its 20th anniversary. WCADP is hopeful that by that date support for the protocol, in terms of…

…In this regard, we commend Chad for resisting this distraction and for abolishing the death penalty on 20th May 2020. We would like to take the opportunity of having his…

For this occasion, we wanted to give the floor to our founding member organizations. 20 years of memories, meetings, activism and fight with the hope to see one day a…

Take action now! The 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty is an excellent opportunity to publicly oppose the use of this inhumane punishment and to support those who are…

…suffered for 20 years, the stress, the untreated diseases, and the poor hygiene.” 10 October 2022 marked the 20th anniversary of the World Day Against the Death Penalty (World Day)…

…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…

…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…

…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….

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…abolitionists, and putting more pressure on those countries that keep capital punishment in their legislation. Equally, the Coalition aims to create a network of abolitionist players and to support them. …

…January Supreme Court decision according to which it is unconstitutional to keep a person on death row for more than three years. The court argued that any longer term would…

…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…