Threat level : Moderate risk

There is a moderate risk of a return to the death penalty in your country.

In this case, the Executive branch or Members of Parliament may have already called for the resumption of executions or for the legal reinstatement of the death penalty by using public opinion support for the death penalty in an attempt to boost their popularity. Civil society organizations are repressed or obstructed. The rule of law is not always respected. However, no concrete steps have been taken to reinstate the death penalty.

What you can do!

  1. Your country has not ratified any international and/or regional treaties to abolish the death penalty, so this is the first step to take to ensure your country’s abolitionist commitments are locked in place. To do so, join our campaign! Check if your country is not already a target country, then contact us to join forces.
  2. Make sure that you and your organization are safe and check our tool on “Helpful Hints and Advice on Online Harassment”
  3. Create an informal network of local activists interested in working on the death penalty and regularly monitor the situation. You may use safe technologies such as a Signal group or an emailing list hosted by a secure platform to coordinate your discussions. This will be really helpful if the risk becomes higher in the future.
  4. Monitor international commitments not to reinstate the death penalty taken by your country and make sure that the Executive and the Legislative Branches are aware of it.
  5. Get in touch with international NGOs to get support and coordinate international advocacy
21st World Day against the death penalty poster

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

 Moratorium poster

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. […]