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…program or classes, there is no point. There is no purpose in going out [of the ward]. I just keep to myself. My family used to come for open visits…

…Optional Protocol to the ICCPR aiming at the abolition of the death penalty and Kenyan judges keep issuing death sentences. That is why abolitionists’ work remains more important than ever….

…Rights). According to Amiry-Moghaddam, “the people in Iran might face a mass execution” for Iran to keep their political repression intact. As Jean Asselborn (8th World Congress participant, Minister of…

…The members of ImpactIran say increased coordination has helped them achieve a wider international reach and stronger impact through joint submissions to the UN – and they will keep up…

…keeping the heart beating so that the organs can be sold openly for transplantation. He cited Pope Francis in calling on the assembly to be “rebels against global indifference”. Europe…

…sentence, but she begged us to keep them secret and make sure he could not be identified because she had received threats that her other children would be targeted if…

…and “sentencing illegality” keep coming up and has been a matter of discussion for a long time. As Taiwan gradually incorporates international human rights conventions into its laws, the fundamental…

…executions in 2021 is significantly higher than the numbers recorded in 2020 (267 people executed), 2019 and 2018. The launch of the report raises awareness on Iran’s worrying situation and…

…January Supreme Court decision according to which it is unconstitutional to keep a person on death row for more than three years. The court argued that any longer term would…

…signal to abolitionist countries that might consider the struggle against the death penalty as a thing of the past. April 3, 2009 update: The World Coalition also wrote to Montana’s…

…Mongolia could not keep using a punishment that “degrades human dignity”. He referred to the global trend towards abolition, including at the United Nations, and said: “The State of Mongolia…

…international community puts pressure on one specific case, the authorities give up on that case, because individual cases do not matter to them: as long as they keep the number…

…protest for Amnesty International France, urges the public to keep signing the petition addressed to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, “even though it had turned a blind…

…the largest population on death row, with 670 inmates. The CCFAJ found that the average delay between sentence and execution was over 20 years. “Just to keep cases moving at…

…these stories, raise awareness among people. Let’s keep this flame alive after we leave here, let’s unite in our various projects.” Message from Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia: “As the Head…

…was reaffirmed by our Supreme Court this past week.  Snyder v. Louisiana, No. 06-10119, 2008 WL 723750, at *4 (Mar. 19, 2008).” The judge concluded that everyone “is entitled to…

…Ma on March 12. American law professor and World Coalition treasurer Speedy Rice, who visited President Ma two years ago and was told that Taiwan would keep moving towards abolition,…

…in 2009. Even though the government intends to keep the death penalty there are positive signs that it is moving away from capital punishment. Vietnam has shown positive action towards…

…itself as the death penalty was last applied in 1930 and was abolished for all crimes in 1979. However, the 1987 National Constitution states, in its article 23, that “the…

…times of peace . Death penalty is now abolished in the Italy, for every crime, under any circumstances, including war, and for ever. Click here to read an analysis of…

…demands on World Day Against the Death Penalty, which focused on Asia on October 10, 2008. In Vietnam, 29 offences are punishable by death, including non-violent crimes such as drug…

Algerian MP Ali Brahimi (photo) filed a bill aimed at abolishing the death penalty on December 6. The text was sponsored by 20 other lawmakers and states: “The death penalty…

…Abuja, Nigeria in November 2008.  The text notes that “27 State Parties to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights  have already in law or de facto abolished the…

…10 of which have considered similar measures in the pas year. Since New Jersey abolished the death penalty in 2007, far-reaching commissions have recommended a similar course of action in…

…takes place every year on the anniversary of the day Tuscany abolished the death penalty in 1786. It was the first time a state decided to do away with capital…

…stressed that the death penalty in itself could not be abolished according to Islamic law. A legal scholar explained that capital punishment is enjoined in the Koran by the word…

…ECPM board member, “The international community considers that Morocco has abolished the death penalty in practice; it is a country that deserves abolition”. Each of the speakers then justified abolition…

…Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Currently, 29 states which have abolished the death penalty in law have not yet ratified the Second Optional Protocol, the…

…20 February 2007 by the first criminal chamber of the Rabat Appeals Court. These new sentences go against the statement by the President of the Moroccan Consultative Human Rights Council…

…to have the death penalty abolished, alongside other national organisations, appears set to bear fruit: under pressure from the United Nations, a bill to abolish the death penalty has recently…

…opposes death penalty.” On Dec 2007, the UN General Assembly adopted at a large majority a resolution to introduce a moratorium on executions that requires states that already abolished the…

…at regional level. A second press conference took place in Porto Rico on 4 October. Although it abolished the death penalty in 1929, the country, which is administratively associated with…

…incredible atrocities took place, but they still cancelled the DP for all crimes. Some 20 years ago, only 16 countries had abolished the DP; today the number has increased to…

Uzbekistan abolished the death penalty on 1 January 2008 when the Supreme Court confirmed a presidential decree signed on 1 August 2005. The Community of Sant’Egidio and the Association of…

…Although Puerto Rico abolished the death penalty in 1929, the US federal government has been trying to reintroduce it on repeated occasions. Puerto Ricans have remained strong and have begun…

…the Hong Kong Legislative Council, stressed that Hong Kong has abolished the death penalty in 1993 and that the crime rate has been decreasing in the past ten years. “Changes…

…the United Nations General Assembly has called for a worldwide moratorium on executions and the State of New Jersey has abolished the death penalty. In the same time four more…

…join the 106 states around the world including 20 African states that have abolished the death penalty both in law and practice.” If the taskforce’s recommendations are adopted this coming…

…in the reduction of the number of crimes punishable by death: “In 2015, China passed Amendment (IX) to the Criminal Law, under which the death penalty was abolished for nine…

…and Peoples’ Rights who see the importance of a regional protocol for African nations who have abolished the death penalty. To support the adoption of the draft protocol at the…

…is coming to an end. It’s been over 20 years since the 1st one and our commitment to worldwide abolition of the death penalty is fully renewed. Over the last…

…penalty. For states that have not yet abolished capital punishment, the use of the death penalty, according to Article 6 of the ICCPR, is restricted to the « most serious…

…squad. However, Tobianski was later exonerated posthumously, highlighting the deep flaws of death penalty as an irreversible punishment. In 1954, the Knesset, abolished the death penalty for murder, but has…

…which have abolished death penalty in law or in practice. At the same time, the concept of torture has acquired a broader meaning throughout the past 20 years. Nowadays, a…

…and the biennial High Council on Penal Issues held on 28 February, 2023, by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), was ‘human rights violations’…

…sentences have been trending down since their historic highs in the late 1990s. In the past two decades, eleven states have abolished the death penalty, bring the total of non-death…

…not facing violent charges. However, on November 10, 2022, Saudi Arabia suddenly and without warning resumed executions for drug-related offences. On November 24, it announced 20 executions for drug offences….

…decided at the 124th ordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers held on 09 February, 2024, and made public in the circular note of the Minister of Justice and Keeper…

The United Nations Human Rights Council met for its 56th Regular Session from June 18 to July 12, 2024. If you missed it, here is what happened regarding the abolition…

 The United Nations Human Rights Council met for its 54th Regular Session from September 11 to October 13, 2023. If you missed it, here is what happened regarding the abolition…

…the death penalty. Ghana and Zambia have abolished the death penalty since the last vote in 2022. In Kenya, Liberia and Morocco, debates for abolition are ongoing.  Uganda which had…

…including 38 in the context of an attempted coup in 2024. He reiterated his concern over the lifting of a 20-year-old moratorium on executions in the DRC in March 2024….

…view to abolishing capital punishment, the Draft Constitution is currently before the National Assembly. Fiji: Call to Ratify OP2-ICCPR The country, which has abolished the death penalty for all crime…

…abolished the death penalty in 2022), and Myanmar from an abstention to a vote in favor. Disappointing votes of some countries where intense mobilization of civil society did not materialize…

On April 25, 2022, the Burundian Prison Observatory (BPO) organized a one-day advocacy workshop on the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political…

…matter of time before the death penalty is abolished globally. Amnesty International, Death Penalty: Majority of States Continue to Support UN Call for Moratorium on Executions at Committee Vote The…

On Friday 23rd July 2021, Sierra Leone’s Parliament unanimously abolished the death penalty by passing the Abolition of the Death Penalty Act. Prior to this vote, the Deputy Justice Minister…

…in the world. While it used to be the norm in criminal justice back in the 1970’s, when only 16 countries had abolished it, capital punishment is retained by only…

…countries that have abolished the death penalty or have become parties to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of…

…is going down and some states have suspended executions. This year, New Mexico abolished the death penalty and eight other states introduced similar bills. More and more exonerations of death…

…it was not until now that capital punishment was formally abolished. The expected next steps for Malawi will be the resentencing of current death row prisoners and any relevant statutes…

…penalty under international human rights law and standards continued to be violated in many countries. We also saw Chad and the US state of Colorado fully abolished the death penalty,…

…15: Framing and documentation phase August 15 – September 15: Consultation phase through remote interviews September 30, 2021: Deadline for submission of a preliminary summary October 15, 2021: Deadline for…

…make society safer. The universal trend is towards abolition. Today, 115 states have abolished the death penalty for all crimes or for ordinary crimes, including 19 member states of the…

…the death penalty. 64% of the French were in favor of the death penalty and only 28% were against it, yet the death penalty was abolished on October 9, 1981. …

…for approximately 20 offenses, including offenses that cannot be considered as belonging to the category of the most serious crimes under international law. Today, 82 people on death row, including…

…since 1988. The pandemic contributed to these historically low numbers, but the trend is clear: 2021 marked the seventh consecutive year where there were fewer than 50 death sentences and…

Papua New Guinea’s National Parliament voted to repeal the death penalty on 20 January2022. The bill has now to be signed into law and to be published in the official…

…Trade of Samoa, said Samoa had already abolished the death penalty and remained committed in its efforts to ratifying all core human rights treaties and its protocols in due course….

…have abolished the death penalty. – Brice Kevin Kakpayen, Chair of the Commission, “Institutions, Democracy, Judicial and Administrative Affairs.” This historic step is the culmination of intense advocacy work by…

…experiencing a growing trend of the abolition of the death penalty for several years. Three quarters of the member States of the African Union are abolitionists: 23 have abolished in…

…attack in 1995. The Aum Shinrikyo cult group released sarin gas in the Tokyo underground on 20 March 1995, killing 13 people and injuring more than 6,000. On 6 July…

…lawmaker in the US state of Illinois, who did not know the death penalty was abolished in Europe. “She thought the rest of the world was merrily executing away,” he…

…the evolution of Congolese law in relation to the death penalty. In his view, although the constitution has not formally abolished capital punishment, “the handing down of death sentences has…

A process initiated in 2009 in Togo Togolese MPs abolished the death penalty unanimously on 23 June 2009; the death penalty was then removed from the criminal laws of the…

In 2006, the Philippines abolished the death penalty for all crimes. A year later, the country gained the reputation of a regional leader in the campaign against death penalty for…

…penalty is abolished”. The Ivorian National Assembly might soon vote a bill foreseeing the ratification of OP2. To this end, a working group has been set up and is composed…

…France, recalled, those events support the growing consensus in favour of the universal abolition of the death penalty. To date, 105 States are abolitionist, 7 have abolished the death penalty…

…non-derogability of the right to life. The 2006 law n°06/018 has abolished the death penalty for charges of rape followed by death, replacing it by a life sentence, while the…

…murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey in New Delhi, Vinay Kumar Sharma, Pawan Gupta, Mukesh Singh and Akshay Thakur were executed by hanging on 20 March 2020, although the country had…

…death sentences brings Kenya closer to the growing community of nations, which have abolished the death penalty, calling it a cruel and inhuman form of punishment. Although Kenya last executed…

…that, “Regarding whether Taiwan’s death penalty should be retained or be abolished, the Ministry of Justice always upholds the principle of performing administrative duties according to law and has never…

…the waste crisis, so people are moving to these problems. WC. No execution has been registered since 2004, but Lebanon has not abolished the death penalty yet. Why? KG. I…

…UNGA moratorium and to set an example for other Asian countries, launching a clear message: “Mongolia abolished the death penalty. We have done it. Why don’t other countries join us?”…

…Asia. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mangala Samaraweera, recalled on that occasion that the death penalty had already been abolished in the past in Sri Lanka and that “the vast…

…but they were confirmed by the Constitutional Court and the new constitution was promulgated on November 6, 2015. Death penalty was historically little required in Congo, which made its abolition…

Extract from Death Penalty Project, publish on april 7. Click here To read the full study. This independent empirical study, which presents the views of 100 ‘opinion formers’, drawn from…

…renunciation of a religion – and gay sex. However, the latter remains a criminal offense punishable with prison sentences. Capital punishment was also abolished for children and persons over 70…

…or use capital punishment, it also takes a firm stance in advocating that the death penalty should in fine be abolished everywhere. 2015 marks the 4th edition of this Joint…

An official panel discussion on capital punishment in Africa took place at the ACHPR session on April 22, 2015. The debate organized by FIACAT, FIDH and the World Coalition Against…

Parliamentarians for Global Action welcomes the abolition of the death penalty  by the Parliament of Suriname on 3 March, 2015, in the framework of the discussions regarding the adoption of…

…addition to six states that have abolished the practice since 2007. In a public memorandum explaining his decition, Tom Wolf wrote that this was a campaign pledge, adding: “If the…

…2014, for the first time, Fiji voted in favour of the resolution entitled “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty”. Fiji abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in…

…retain the death penalty and those who have abolished it.” •    Welcome the publication by Amnesty International of research highlighting multiple layers of arbitrariness in the use of capital punishment….