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How far is China ready to reduce its use of the death penalty?
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 25 November 2013
…compared to the rest of the world. China is more likely to keep it secret because it would look so bad at the international level. Implementation challenge It is also…
2013
China
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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
…election in 2016. The bill is aimed at strengthening the country’s drug prevention and control. Section 20 of the bill provides a mandatory penalty of death for a new crime…
2021
Drug Offenses
Philippines
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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,…
2012
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Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Ilokano)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
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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
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Gabon
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Youths must stand up against the death penalty!
on 17 September 2007
…is up to the youth to stand up and protest when countries keep using the death penalty. Today’s youth is a bit selfish, young people tend to focus on issues…
2007
Belgium
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World Day campaign launched!
on 13 August 2007
…the World Day Against the Death Penalty a grass-roots event, with educational and militant actions being prepared worldwide. Just keep an eye on the World Day section on this site…
2007
Moratorium
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Executing the Insane Is Against the Law of the Land. So Why Do We Keep Doing It?
By Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones, on 1 January 2015
2015
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Groundbreaking Survey Reveals Iranians’ Attitudes Towards the Death Penalty
By GAMAAN Institute / World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 23 October 2020
…of the WCADP “Iranian authorities, eager to keep the death penalty, are quick to point out that they are carrying out the will of the people, claiming that the death…
2020
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Public Opinion
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UPR 36th Session Debriefed on Facebook Live
By Louis Linel, on 17 November 2020
…keeps carrying out executions. Advice from Civil Society Organizations to Strengthen One Another The Universal Periodic Review allows Civil Society Organizations to get involved in international advocacy that can be…
2020
Belarus
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Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Bicolano)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
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Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Cebuano)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
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Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (English)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
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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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Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Pangasinense)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
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Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Kapampangan)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
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Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Marano)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
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1,700-mile “Walk4Life” across the US
on 13 March 2008
…join forces and take action. Watch Capital-“X” explain the reasons behind Walk4Life on Onloq.com Keep track on the Walk4Life blog Visit Capital-“X”‘s MySpace page Watch the Walk4Life launch video below…
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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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Keep the Death Penalty Abolished in the Philippines (Tausug)
By World Coalition Against Death Penalty, on 23 March 2021
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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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The Status Quo of China’s Death Penalty and the Civil Society Abolitionist Movement
By China Against the Death Penalty, on 15 February 2022
…actual number. Based on our experience as lawyers in China and interviews with lawyers, judges and prosecutors, we roughly estimate that in the more than 20 years up to 2007,…
2022
China
Legal Representation
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Over 8,000 people on death row in South Asia
By Aurelie Placais, staff, on 3 May 2022
…program or classes, there is no point. There is no purpose in going out [of the ward]. I just keep to myself. My family used to come for open visits…
2022
Bangladesh
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India
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Death Penalty in Iran: Sharp Increase in Executions
By Anissa Aguedal, on 10 June 2022
…executions in 2021 is significantly higher than the numbers recorded in 2020 (267 people executed), 2019 and 2018. The launch of the report raises awareness on Iran’s worrying situation and…
2022
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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How the Death Penalty is Politicized: A Reflection on the 8th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
By Dunia Schaffa, on 27 January 2023
…Rights). According to Amiry-Moghaddam, “the people in Iran might face a mass execution” for Iran to keep their political repression intact. As Jean Asselborn (8th World Congress participant, Minister of…
2023
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
United States
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Notes on the Supreme Court Trial in the Chen Fu-hsiang Case: Life or Death Debates in the Style of ChatGPT
By Lin Tzu-Wei (Legal Director of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty), on 14 July 2023
…and “sentencing illegality” keep coming up and has been a matter of discussion for a long time. As Taiwan gradually incorporates international human rights conventions into its laws, the fundamental…
2023
Taiwan
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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
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Abolition in the US: what role for overseas activists?
on 3 February 2008
…doing business with a state, keep human rights issues in mind. Legal, financial and lobbying efforts The delegates also discussed the importance of the international community in stressing that the…
2008
Clemency
Public Opinion
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
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From Italian prisons to Texas death row
on 27 March 2008
…end, how we witnessed our friends die”, said Michela Mancini. The local bishop also adressed the conference and reminded the audience of the need to “keep believing in life”. Following…
2008
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Statutes of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
on 26 June 2011
…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. …
2011
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10 years with no hanging in the Caribbean
By Greater Caribbean for Life, on 19 December 2018
…they said that: “The death penalty offers the tragic illusion that we can defend life by taking life.” Peace and non-violence will not become a reality if we keep baying…
2018
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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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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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Iran’s brave human rights defenders and their struggle against the death penalty
By Amnesty International, on 5 March 2018
…hope that public opinion on this issue may be gradually shifting and that the Iranian authorities will not be able to keep supressing demands for change indefinitely. Instead of maintaining…
2018
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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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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Morocco’s death penalty takes centre stage at Marrakesh forum
By Thomas Hubert (in Marrakesh, Morocco), on 28 November 2014
…constitution, but she vowed to keep up the fight. Abolitionists there are preparing to lobby newly elected MPs, especially with a new anti-terror billed tabled to come before parliament soon….
2014
Morocco
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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)
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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
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“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)
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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
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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
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167 Ugandan death row inmates saved from gallows
on 19 September 2010
…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…
2010
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Uganda
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Statement on executions in the USA
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 21 June 2019
…are abolitionist in practice. Of the 56 retentionist countries, 20 countries have carried out executions in 2018. According to Amnesty International, the USA was the 7th worst executioner in the…
2019
United States
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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
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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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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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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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Capital punishment now part of Togo’s history
on 24 June 2009
…penalty is still in use. Don’t give up! Even if you are a minority in your country, keep up the fight!”, he wrote in a message to World Coalition members….
2009
Togo
Togo
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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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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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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
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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
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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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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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Importance of understanding phases of abolition: the danger of ‘abolitionist in practice’
By Venus Aves, Bronwyn Dudley, and Shahindha Ismail, on 6 November 2023
…religious pushback than political Maintaining an unofficial moratorium is a low-risk but high-reward choice for governments that wish to keep capital punishment as a political tool at home while winning…
2023
Moratorium