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Document(s)
Ratification Campaign Update 21 – February 2017
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
2020
Academic report
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This document presents the recent evolution of the campaign. This update will be published every six months to give information about the campaign development (status of ratifications, actions taken by the World Coalition and its members) and suggest taking action in the target countries.
- Document type Academic report
- Themes list International law,
- Available languages Evolution de la campagne de ratification 21 - février 2017
Document(s)
The Death Penalty in 2016: trends confirm global movement toward restricted use of the death penalty
By Cornell Law School, on 8 September 2020
Article
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The number of abolitionist countries continued to grow in 2016, but national crises have created a political climate that heightens the risk that the death penalty will be reintroduced in a handful of abolitionist nations.The Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide assesses the evolutions of the worldwide situation of the death penalty in 2016.
- Document type Article
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Member organizations, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
Document(s)
Resolution 71/187 – Moratorium on the use of the death penalty
By United Nations General Assembly, on 8 September 2020
International law - United Nations
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United Nations General Assembly Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/484/Add.2] 71/187. Moratorium on the use of the death penalty.
- Document type International law - United Nations
- Available languages ١٨٧ - وقف العمل بعقوبة الإعدام /٧١Resolution 71/187 - Moratoria del uso de la pena de muerteRésolution 71/187 - Moratoire sur l’application de la peine de mortРезолюция 71/187 - Мораторий на применение смертной казни大会决议71/187 - 暂停使用死刑
Document(s)
Ratification Kit – Morocco
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Academic report
Morocco
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This Ratification Kit is designed for government decision-makers. It gives the procedure to ratify or accede to the Protocol and arguments to convince target countries to endorse it. Governments are not likely to have an expert understanding of the Second Optional Protocol. This document may contain answers to government concerns that will be addressed to you during your lobbying action.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list Morocco
- Themes list International law,
- Available languages Kit de ratification - MarocKit de ratificación - Marruecos
Document(s)
Indonesian : Kejaksaan Agung Kembali Akan Laksanakan Hukuman Mati
By Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA), on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
Indonesia
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Mengemukanya rencana kejagung untuk melaksanakan hukuman mati jilid ketiga mau tak mau memunculkan pro kontranya kembali.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Countries list Indonesia
- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
: Madam Eswari’s story
By Coalition for the Abolition of Death Penalty in ASEAN (CADPA), on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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CADPA invited filmmaker Dawn Mikkelsen to make 8 short videos for a series called ‘Say Yes to Life’. Dawn spoke with many of those intimately linked with people on death row to bring you their stories. “Madam Eswari’s story’ is the first of these.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Themes list Arbitrariness, Networks, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
German : Poster – 14. Welttag gegen die Todesstrafe
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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Poster für den Welttag gegen die Todesstrafe, im Bezug auf Terrorismus:Hinrichtungen sind die Waffe der Terroristen. Stoppt die Spirale der Gewalt.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Available languages Italian : Poster - 14° Giornata mondiale contro la Pena di mortePoster - 14th Wold Day against the death penaltyپوستر - رد روز جهانی علیه مجازات اعدام 2016плакат - Всемирный день 2016海報 - 世界反对死刑日 2016 繁體海報 - 世界反对死刑日2016 简化字Cartel - Día Mundial 2016Affiche Journée Mondiale 2016
Document(s)
Italian : Poster – 14° Giornata mondiale contro la Pena di morte
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
Multimedia content
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Poster del 14 ° Giornata Mondiale contro la pena di morte dedicato al terrorismo:Le esecuzioni sono l’arma dei terroristi. Interrompiamo il ciclo della violenza.
- Document type Multimedia content
- Available languages German : Poster - 14. Welttag gegen die TodesstrafePoster - 14th Wold Day against the death penaltyپوستر - رد روز جهانی علیه مجازات اعدام 2016плакат - Всемирный день 2016海報 - 世界反对死刑日 2016 繁體海報 - 世界反对死刑日2016 简化字Cartel - Día Mundial 2016Affiche Journée Mondiale 2016
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Courting Death – The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
By Carol S. Steiker / Jordan M. Steiker / Harvard University Press, on 8 September 2020
Book
United States
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While execution chambers remain active in several states in the United States, constitutional regulation has contributed to the death penalty’s new fragility. In the next decade or two, Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker argue, the fate of the American death penalty is likely to be sealed by this failed judicial experiment. Courting Death illuminates both the promise and pitfalls of constitutional regulation of contentious social issues.
- Document type Book
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Oregon’s death penalty disproportionately used against persons with significant mental impairments
By Fair Punishment Project, on 8 September 2020
NGO report
United States
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Although,by all functional measures, Oregonians have abandoned the death penalty, 35 condemned inmates remain on Oregon’s death row.What do we know about those people, and about the quality of justice that resulted in their death sentences? This report examines the cases of the condemned men and women in Oregon to see how they ended up there, and what patterns emerged.Here’s what we found: In Oregon, two-thirds of death row inmates possess signs of serious mental illness or intellectual impairment, endured devastatingly severe childhood trauma, or were not old enough to legally purchase alcohol at the time the offense occurred.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Mental Illness, Death Row Phenomenon, Intellectual Disability, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

