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In this new fourth edition of HRI’s ‘Global Overview’ series, HRI updates its previous research on the death penalty for drugs worldwide, and it considers critical developments on the issue. While the report notes that there still are a troubling number of governments with capital drug laws, in practice very few states execute people for drugs. The number of people killed for drug-related offences is high because China, Iran and Saudi Arabia are aggressive executioners. Those governments that kill for drugs are an extreme fringe of the international community.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Drug Offences,

It was created to help all abolitionists answer the deterrent argument. It gives a definition of the deterrent theory, concrete reasons why academic studies have failed to prove the deterrent effect of the death penalty and compares figures about criminal rates in relation to abolition. It does not provide simple and easy answers, but explain, step by step, what to answer to those who believe that the death penalty has a deterrent effect.

• Document type Arguments against the death penalty
• Themes list Deterrence ,
• Available languages Comment répondre à l'argument de l'effet dissuasif

This document has been developed to support you in getting behind and amplifying the World Day and launch of the report ‘The Death Penalty for Drug Offences Report – Global Overview 2015’ via social media on 8 October 2015.

• Document type Campaigning
• Themes list Drug Offences,
• Available languages Kit Réseaux sociaux

The Law Commission of India examines the status of the death penalty in the country. Even if Report No. 262 still considers appropriate to maintain the death penalty for terrorism related crimes, it marks an historic shift insofar it recommends India to move towards the abolition of the death penalty. The Law Commission thinks that abolitionism does not constitute a risky experiment anymore, since the Indian socio-economic and cultural environment has greatly changed.

• Document type Government body report
• Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Most Serious Crimes, Death Penalty,

The summer issue of International Foreign Affaires focuses on the topic of capital punishment around the world. It collects articles and interviews dealing with the issues of death penalty, the path towards abolition, and the situation of capital punishment in the world.

• Document type International law - Regional body
• Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Conditions, Death Penalty,

PRI has witnessed the death penalty’s abolition in a majority of the world’s nations, but it continues to be used in most Muslim countries. One of the main reasons for this is the justification that it is permitted by the Quran, the Islamic holy book. In many Islamic countries which continue to carry out executions, the death penalty has become a taboo subject. Governments frequently use Sharia to justify why they retain and apply capital punishment, and this can seem to close discussion on the subject. However, Sharia law is not as immutable on the death penalty as many scholars or states say. Among the misconceptions about Sharia law is the belief that there is a clear and unambiguous statement of what the punishments are for particular offences. In fact, there are several different sources referring to punishments, and different schools of Sharia law give different weight to them.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Religion , Methods of Execution,

Annexes of the 2014 World Day Report

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list Mental Illness, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages Annexes au Rapport Journée Mondiale 2014

This report presents the theme of 2014 World Day, facts on the death penalty and all the actions and media coverage for the 12th World Day on the progress made and challenges ahead.

• Document type Multimedia content
• Themes list Mental Illness, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages Rapport Journée Mondiale 2014

Up-to-date information on the application of death penalty around the world in 2014 and 2015

• Document type World Coalition
• Themes list Drug Offences, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
• Available languages HECHOS Y DATOS 13° Día Mundial contra la pena de muerteFaits Et Chiffres 2015

How are prison guards affected by overseeing prisoners on death row or even participating in executions? What effects does it have in the short and the longer term?This short paper draws on research and interviews with prison guards to outline the psychological impact that guards who have worked with prisoners for many years on death row can experience when a prisoner is put to death.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,