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Majority of Capital Juries in 2025 Rejected Death Sentences

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Innocence / Public Opinion
• Available languages

• Document type Article
• Countries list India

• Document type United Nations report
• Themes list Moratorium
• Available languages A-HRC-60-L12 - العربيةA-HRC-60-L12 - españolA-HRC-60-L12 - françaisA-HRC-60-L12 - русскийA-HRC-60-L12 - 中文

• Document type United Nations report
• Themes list Moratorium
• Available languages تقرير الأمين العامInforme del Secretario GeneralRapport du Secrétaire généralДоклад Генерального секретаря秘書長報告

• Document type Arguments against the death penalty
• Countries list Bahrain
• Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

• Document type NGO report

The Death Penalty Statistics Report 2025, jointly published by the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) and Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), offers an updated national overview of Pakistan’s death row population and provides insights into developments that signal a gradual shift towards reform and human-rights based approach in the death penalty landscape. Drawing on verified data from all provinces as well as AJK and GB, it covers the period from 2024 to 2025. The report is part of a broader initiative to make death row data publicly accessible and to inform evidence-based policymaking on the use of the death penalty in Pakistan.

• Document type NGO report
• Countries list Pakistan

This report, by Dr Amelia Inglis, challenges the argument that the death penalty serves the needs of victims of crime and their families. Her research asks: How are victims and their families impacted by the death penalty? How and why might their views on capital punishment change over time? The author’s original empirical research finds that the death penalty can in fact retraumatise victims and suggests their perspectives on capital punishment are not universally shared or static.

• Document type NGO report

This report marks the 40th anniversary of the adoption of the ‘abolitionist de facto’ (ADF) category in the UN’s quinquennial reports on the death penalty. Today, 42 states fall under the category of ADF – countries where no executions have taken place for at least a decade, but where the death penalty remains in law. Though an absence of executions must be commended, many ADF states still impose death sentences and, ultimately, sustain the legal infrastructure of capital punishment, with all the risks and harms this entails.

• Document type NGO report

The report shows that wrongful death-penalty convictions in the United States are often the result of systemic racism, human error and official misconduct — including false testimony, unreliable forensics, and biased jury selection — disproportionately affecting Black and other marginalized defendants.

• Document type NGO report