FINAL DECLARATION – 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty

By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) / World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020

21st World Day Against the Death Penalty – The death penalty: An irreversible torture

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. […]