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Article(s)
7th World Congress LIVE on Twitter!
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 26 February 2019
Follow the 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty taking place in Brussels from 26 February to 1st March 2019 on Twitter: #7congressECPM
2019
Public Opinion
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Saudi Arabia’s false promise on the use of the death penalty
By European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights, on 6 February 2019
With 149 executions in 2018, one of the highest rates since the 1990’s, the Saudi Kingdom seems to be locking itself into a violent authoritarian drift
2019
Saudi Arabia
Article(s)
Critical expansion of the use of the death Penalty in India in 2018
By Project 39A, on 6 February 2019
In 2018 India followed a particularly repressive path by sentencing 162 people to death.
India
Article(s)
2018 confirms a long-term decline of the death penalty in the US
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 28 January 2019
The Death Penalty Information Center’s 2018 End-of-Year report confirms decline despite strong lasting inequalities.
2019
United States
Article(s)
10 years with no hanging in the Caribbean
By Greater Caribbean for Life, on 19 December 2018
The Greater Caribbean for Life (GCL) notes that 19 December, 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the hanging of Charles la Place in St Kitts and Nevis. He was the last person who was hanged in the English-speaking Caribbean.
2018
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
A record number of States – 121 out of 193 member states – voted in favour of a moratorium on the death penalty at the United Nations General Assembly on December the 17th. A world without the death penalty may become a reality according to Chiara Sangiorgio, Amnesty International’s Death Penalty Expert.
2018
Moratorium
Article(s)
No mention of death row prisoners in Mandela rules
By Nordine Drici (Planète Réfugiés) & Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner (ECPM), on 30 November 2018
Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 2018 is an opportunity to question the effectiveness of civil and political rights, but also economic, social and cultural rights, in the context of an increasingly globalized world that ostracizes, excludes, sentences to death and continues to execute.
2018
Death Row Conditions
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Death penalty is torture, says expert
By Nicolas Chua & FIACAT, on 29 November 2018
In celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ 70th anniversary, the 20th EU-NGO Forum was held in Brussels on 21-22 November 2018, during which a session on “International Actions against Death Penalty and Torture” took place. World Coalition Director Aurélie Plaçais was invited to participate in the panel discussion, alongside representatives from Coalition member organizations ECPM and FIACAT.
2018
Death Row Conditions
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3+4: Death Penalty Cases Now Jury Cases
By Nicolas Chua, on 23 November 2018
On 24 April 2018, ‘The People’s Jury Law’ established a new judicial framework to deal with serious criminal cases, including death penalty cases. As of its enactment, death penalty cases in China are now jury cases.
2018
China
Article(s)
NGO Forum & The ACHPR: A broad overview of African prisons amidst tensions
By Jessica Corredor, on 16 November 2018
The NGO Forum, preceding the ACHPR session, was held from 20 to 23 October 2018, with “The Fight against Corruption” as its main topic.
2018
Death Row Conditions
Legal Representation