International law - Regional body

Death penalty abolition, Death penalty as inhuman and degrading treatment

By European Court of Human Rights, on 1 January 2012


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Factsheet regarding cases concerning the Death Penalty

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Helping the World Achieve a Moratorium on Executions

In 2007, the World Coalition made one of the most important decisions in its young history: to support the Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty as a step towards universal abolition. A moratorium is temporary suspension of executions and, more rarely, of death sentences. […]