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• Document type Campaigning / Working with... / World Coalition
• Available languages Le mythe de la sécurité et la peine de mort Quelles nouveautés depuis 2024?

• Document type Working with... / World Coalition

• Document type Campaigning / World Coalition

• Document type Working with...
• Themes list Public Opinion
• Available languages Comment réagir face au risque d'un retour à la peine de mort ?

Twenty years after Roper v. Simmons ended the juvenile death penalty, new scientific and societal insights challenge the age-18 cutoff. This report introduces new DPI analysis of the trends in sentencing and executions of defendants age 18 to 20 based on twenty years of data, from the time of the Roper decision on March 1, 2005 through the end of 2024.

• Document type NGO report
• Countries list United States
• Themes list Clemency / Death Row Conditions / Drug Offenses / Innocence / Intellectual Disability / Juveniles / Mental Illness / Trend Towards Abolition

• Document type World Coalition
• Available languages Modèle budget FSTP_2025

• Document type World Coalition
• Available languages Soutien financier aux tiers - Consortium mondial pour l'abolition de la peine de mort - FORMULAIRE DE DEMANDE

In this submission in support of the Pan African Lawyers Union, the amici explain that the death penalty per se is an arbitrary deprivation of life, in violation of Article 4 of the African Charter, because the weight of the evidence shows that the death penalty is not necessary to achieve the stated purpose of reducing crime and as a penalty implicating human rights under the Charter it is disproportionate to the benefits it seeks to capture.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment / Drug Offenses / Fair Trial / Gender / Legal Representation / Moratorium / Murder Victims' Families / Terrorism / Trend Towards Abolition / Women

This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2024. Amnesty International’s monitoring shows an increase by 32% in recorded executions compared to 2023. This does not include the thousands of people believed to have been executed in China, as well as in North Korea and Viet Nam, also believed to have resorted to executions extensively. For the second consecutive year, executing countries reached the lowest number on record.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Clemency / Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment / Gender / Innocence / Intellectual Disability / Mental Illness / Moratorium / Terrorism / Trend Towards Abolition / Women
• Available languages أحكام وعمليات الإعدام2024 فيCondenas a muerte y ejecuciones 2024مجازات اعدام در خاورمیانه و آفریقای شمالی ۲۰۲۴Condamnations à mort et exécutions 2024

The report exposes how laws and policies disproportionately criminalise women due to their socio-economic status and vulnerabilities, and calls for urgent reforms to stop the criminalisation of women for poverty, survival strategies and gendered norms.

• Document type NGO report
• Themes list Death Row Conditions / Drug Offenses / Fair Trial / Gender / Intellectual Disability / Legal Representation / Mental Illness / Murder Victims' Families / Trend Towards Abolition / Women