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After more than 20 years without executions, a trend toward an official moratorium?
By Clémentine Etienne, on 27 June 2018
…informative event on the death penalty, taking the example of various countries that had abolished this practice. Following the meeting, Lee Sung-ho, (NHRC) reported that South Korean President Moon Jae-in…
2018
Republic of Korea

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Death sentences and executions in 2015
By Amnesty International, on 10 April 2016
The global figures on the use of the death penalty in 2015 revealed two starkly divergent developments. On one hand, four countries abolished the death penalty, reinforcing the long-term trend…
2016

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US Federal Executions Resume
By Louis Linel, on 28 July 2020
…in the Americas that continues to conduct executions. Federal executions are contrary to the promising progress the United States made in 2019 after New Hampshire abolished the death penalty and…
2020
Moratorium
United States

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DPIC’s Report on the 2020 Death Penalty Usage in the US
By Louis Linel, on 6 January 2021
…Governor Jared Polis stated when announcing the commutations. Two thirds of the US States have now either abolished the death penalty in law or not carried out executions in at…
2021
United States

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Marc Bossuyt: “Countries that have not signed up to the Protocol should feel isolated”
By Pierre Désert, on 27 June 2008
…under 18 and pregnant women from this punishment (in paragraph 5) and they recommended that it be abolished by stipulating (in paragraph 6) that none of the provisions in paragraph…
2008

Helping the World Achieve a Moratorium on Executions
on 20 December 2022
…2007, however, the momentum was different because a trend towards the universal abolition had begun. Two-thirds of the world’s countries had abolished the death penalty or ceased to apply it,…
2022
Moratorium
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Campaigners and political leaders unite against the death penalty
on 24 February 2010
…penalty regulations in California. “As the letter from our member in Togo, which had abolished the death penalty just a few days before, was read in French in the capital…
2010
Belarus
France
Italy
Mongolia
Norway
Qatar
Senegal
Spain
Switzerland
Viet Nam
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30 countries gather in Rome to oppose capital punishment
on 21 May 2010
…at the global level. The death penalty is “remote from humanity” Angola’s Justice Minister Guilhermina Prata said that her country abolished the death penalty in 1992 after it became a…
2010
Italy

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African human rights body targets death penalty
on 16 May 2011
…was against abolition because of high crime rates, but Kayitesi replied that many countries had abolished capital punishment without support from public opinion, thanks to their leaders’ political will. Algerian…
2011
Algeria
Botswana
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Mauritania
Public Opinion
Somalia
Sudan
Article(s)
Benin on track to achieve abolition
on 7 February 2010
…and political will on the other hand. We are in the same situation as France when it abolished the death penalty with President Mitterrand and Minister Badinter. Some people are…
2010
Benin
Benin
Public Opinion

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Second Optional Protocol: Frequently Asked Questions
By Pierre Desert, on 27 June 2008
…obliges a country in all circumstances to ensure it exposes no one to the real risk of execution. Would the death penalty be abolished definitely in a State party? Is…
2008
Article(s)
Mali: is abolition in sight?
on 4 June 2008
…population and where the President abolished the death penalty without provoking a crisis or losing the confidence of the voters who subsequently re-elected him. First attempt adjourned Activists are redoubling…
2008
Innocence
Mali
Mali
Moratorium

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Abolitionists of Central Africa met in Kinshasa
By Amina Jacquemin with CPJ and ECPM, on 12 April 2012
…the death penalty, 20 have abolished entirely and 21 no longer use it. The question of the death penalty is still very sensitive in the region, which recorded 42 executions…
2012
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kenya
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania

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Organisation of American States considers moratorium
By Tiziana Trotta, on 15 March 2013
…focus this year’s World Day Against the Death Penalty (10 October) on the Caribbean owes nothing to chance. While most states in the region have abolished the death penalty in…
2013
Argentina
Brazil
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Guatemala
Mexico
Moratorium
Panama
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
United States

18th World Day Against the Death Penalty: Access to Counsel – A Matter of Life or Death
on 18 September 2020
…protection of either avoiding the sentence or appealing the verdict. The Death Penalty in Practice • 106 countries abolished the death penalty for all crimes; • 8 countries abolished the…
2020
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Petition against the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 October 2011
139 nations have already abolished the death penalty. In December 2012, the United Nations’ General Assembly will vote on a resolution calling for a worldwide halt to its use….
2011
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Support grows for Davis as his execution is stayed
on 26 October 2008
…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…
2008
United States

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Importance of understanding phases of abolition: the danger of ‘abolitionist in practice’
By Venus Aves, Bronwyn Dudley, and Shahindha Ismail, on 6 November 2023
…religious pushback than political Maintaining an unofficial moratorium is a low-risk but high-reward choice for governments that wish to keep capital punishment as a political tool at home while winning…
2023
Moratorium

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Notes on the Supreme Court Trial in the Chen Fu-hsiang Case: Life or Death Debates in the Style of ChatGPT
By Lin Tzu-Wei (Legal Director of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty), on 14 July 2023
…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…
2023
Taiwan

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How the Death Penalty is Politicized: A Reflection on the 8th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
By Dunia Schaffa, on 27 January 2023
…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…
2023
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
United States

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Death Penalty in Iran: Sharp Increase in Executions
By Anissa Aguedal, on 10 June 2022
…12-year analysis of “Women and the Death Penalty in Iran”, which provides further information and background on this issue. Positive key facts to keep in mind For thefirst time…
2022
Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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Over 8,000 people on death row in South Asia
By Aurelie Placais, staff, on 3 May 2022
…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…
2022
Bangladesh
Death Row Conditions
India
Maldives
Mental Illness
Pakistan
Sri Lanka

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Groundbreaking Survey Reveals Iranians’ Attitudes Towards the Death Penalty
By GAMAAN Institute / World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 23 October 2020
…of the WCADP “Iranian authorities, eager to keep the death penalty, are quick to point out that they are carrying out the will of the people, claiming that the death…
2020
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Public Opinion
Document(s)
Executing the Insane Is Against the Law of the Land. So Why Do We Keep Doing It?
By Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones, on 1 January 2015
2015
Article
United States
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Article(s)
World Day campaign launched!
on 13 August 2007
…the World Day Against the Death Penalty a grass-roots event, with educational and militant actions being prepared worldwide. Just keep an eye on the World Day section on this site…
2007
Moratorium
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Youths must stand up against the death penalty!
on 17 September 2007
…is up to the youth to stand up and protest when countries keep using the death penalty. Today’s youth is a bit selfish, young people tend to focus on issues…
2007
Belgium
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Abolition in the US: what role for overseas activists?
on 3 February 2008
…doing business with a state, keep human rights issues in mind. Legal, financial and lobbying efforts The delegates also discussed the importance of the international community in stressing that the…
2008
Clemency
Public Opinion
United States
Article(s)
1,700-mile “Walk4Life” across the US
on 13 March 2008
…join forces and take action. Watch Capital-“X” explain the reasons behind Walk4Life on Onloq.com Keep track on the Walk4Life blog Visit Capital-“X”‘s MySpace page Watch the Walk4Life launch video below…
2008
Drug Offenses
United States
Article(s)
What now for Mumia?
on 28 April 2008
…An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer on April 2, 2008, that the “courts have altered the rules just to keep Abu-Jamal…
2008
Fair Trial
United States

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Regarding the execution in Japan of seven people
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 July 2018
…safe from judicial error and innocent people are likely to be sentenced to death. – It is inefficient and does not keep society safe. It has never been conclusively shown…
2018
Japan
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State-sponsored report finds California’s death penalty is “dysfunctional”
on 9 July 2008
…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…
2008
Innocence
United States

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U.S. sees second fewest death sentences and executions in 25 Years
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 22 March 2018
…death,” said Robert Dunham, DPIC’s Executive Director. “Across the political spectrum, more people are coming to the view that there are better ways to keep us safe than executing a…
2018
United States

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The Supreme Court of Kenya declares the mandatory death penalty unconstitutional
By Thalia Gerzso, on 23 January 2018
…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….
2018
Kenya

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NGOs join forces to tackle capital punishment at Iran’s rights review
By Thomas Hubert, on 30 October 2014
…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…
2014
Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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“Iran kills for possession of less than 50g of drugs”
By Thomas Hubert, on 9 April 2013
…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…
2013
Drug Offenses
Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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Highest execution numbers in Iran in 10 years
By Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, on 13 March 2012
…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…
2012
Drug Offenses
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Juveniles
Women

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Statutes of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
on 26 June 2011
…abolitionists, and putting more pressure on those countries that keep capital punishment in their legislation. Equally, the Coalition aims to create a network of abolitionist players and to support them. …
2011
Article(s)
167 Ugandan death row inmates saved from gallows
on 19 September 2010
…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…
2010
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Uganda
Article(s)
FIDH report on Vietnam: an update on death penalty statistics
on 19 September 2010
…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…
Drug Offenses
Moratorium
Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Article(s)
Taiwan activists battle in death penalty-triggered political crisis
on 19 March 2010
…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,…
2010
Moratorium
Public Opinion
Taiwan
Taiwan
Article(s)
World Congress ends with words of hope
on 28 February 2010
…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…
2010
Switzerland
Article(s)
Mongolian president calls for abolition
on 18 January 2010
…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…
2010
Clemency
Mongolia
Moratorium
Article(s)
Global outrage at Iranian juvenile execution
on 6 May 2009
…Human Rights denounced Iran’s unclear legislation on child executions and stated: “The widespread practice in Iran is to keep a minor convicted of a capital crime in prison until s/he…
2009
Innocence
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Juveniles
Article(s)
World Coalition calls on Canada to keep up its efforts against the death penalty
on 10 March 2009
On 4 March 2009, Canada’s Federal Court ordered the government to continue diplomatic action in favour of Ronald Smith, the only Canadian national on death row in the US (photo)….
2009
Canada
Canada
Clemency
United States
Article(s)
World Coalition hands 5 million signatures over to the UN
on 1 November 2007
…Assembly will consider a draft resolution calling for a global moratorium on executions. Angola, Albania, Brazil, Croatia, Gabon, Mexico, the Philippines, Portugal (for the EU) and New Zealand are presenting…
2007
Albania
Angola
Brazil
Croatia
Gabon
Mexico
Moratorium
New Zealand
Philippines
Portugal
Article(s)
Program Manager
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 October 2018
…Rights the NGO forum – Organisation of advocacy missions in target countries – Organisation of advocacy missions to the African Union Countries at risk (Maldives, Philippines, Turkey): – Training of…
2018
Document(s)
Capital Punishment in the Philippines
By Arlie Tagayuna / Southeast Asian Studies, on 1 January 2004
2004
Article
Philippines
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Document(s)
In Defense of the Right to Life: International Law and Death Penalty in the Philippines
By Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines , on 1 January 2017
2017
Academic report
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- Document type Academic report
- Themes list International law, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
Philippines: March 2018 National Survey on Public Perceptions on the Death Penalty
By Social Weather Stations (SWS), on 1 January 2018
2018
NGO report
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- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Public opinion, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,
Document(s)
IHR: Rights-Based Policing – Idealizing Human Rights in Law Enforcement in the Philippines
By Institute of Human Rights (IHR), on 8 September 2020
2020
Book
Philippines
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- Document type Book
- Countries list Philippines
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment,
Document(s)
Application form – Call for Actions in the Philippines (18th World Day)
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020
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Philippines
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- Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,
Article(s)
E Book review: a guidebook to the death penalty in Asia
on 10 March 2009
…punishment in Asia. A second part consists of “National Profiles” on the death penalty in Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and China. A final section draws lessons from the…
2009
China
Japan
Philippines
Republic of Korea
Taiwan
Viet Nam
Article(s)
Sweden and Amnesty International raise death penalty issue in New York
on 7 October 2009
…panellists from other abolitionist countries, including Rwanda and the Philippines. Carmen Hertz, director of human rights at the Chilean ministry of foreign affairs, announced that her country would soon repeal…
2009
Moratorium
Sweden
United States

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The Death Penalty in Human Rights Watch “World Report 2020”
By Majdoulin Sendadi, on 6 February 2020
The report assesses the situation of the death penalty in several countries: Angola; Belarus; Bahrain; Egypt; India; Iran; Iraq; Japan; Libya; Malaysia; Mauritania; Pakistan; Papua New Guinea; the Philippines; Qatar;…
2020

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Building a death penalty-free future in Asia
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 6 December 2012
…attended the meeting. These include representatives of organisations and individual members from Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand….
2012
Australia
Bangladesh
China
India
Indonesia
Japan
Malaysia
Mongolia
Moratorium
Pakistan
Philippines
Republic of Korea
Singapore
Taiwan
Thailand

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Moving away from the death penalty in Asia
By Sandra Babcock (DeathPenaltyWorldwide.org) in Bangkok, on 25 October 2013
…punishment. If Thailand abolishes the death penalty, it will become the fourth abolitionist nation in the region along with the Philippines, Cambodia, and Mongolia. Moving beyond the moratorium in Myanmar…
2013
Brunei Darussalam
China
Japan
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Moratorium
Myanmar
Public Opinion
Thailand

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Dialogue should make death penalty “a sentence of the past” – foreign ministers
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 9 October 2014
…Duly Brutus (Haiti), José Antonio Meade Kuribreña (Mexico), Luvsanvandan Bold (Mongolia), Børge Brende (Norway), Albert F. del Rosario (Philippines), Didier Burkhalter (Switzerland), Mevlüt Çavusoglu (Turkey), Philip Hammond (United Kingdom) Illustration:…
2014
Argentina
Australia
Benin
Burkina Faso
Haiti
Intellectual Disability
Mental Illness
Mexico
Mongolia
Norway
Philippines
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom

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Eager to learn more about the death penalty? Abolitionist civil society around the world answered your call!
By Elise Guillot, on 8 November 2016
…Malaysia and Singapore have continued to execute people in 2015. The situation is particularly worrisome in Indonesia, where death penalty is widely enforced for drug-related offenses, and in the Philippines,…
2016
Terrorism

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The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for a 6th resolution calling for a universal moratorium on executions
By Elise Guillot et Aurélie Plaçais, on 20 December 2016
…to abstention. The Philippines moved from a positive vote to abstention while the Maldives regrettably moved from abstention to a negative vote. A smaller but very active group of hard…
2016
Clemency
Moratorium

Article(s)
Child rights highlighted on the 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty
By Dinda Royhan, Majdoulin Sendadi, on 25 November 2019
…death in the country. Philippines’ civil society led by FLAG Task Force, used the opportunity to bring awareness of death penalty to senators and members of House of Representatives in…
2019
Juveniles

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Philippines: Do not revive the Death Penalty
By Ngeow Chow Ying, for the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN), on 15 January 2017
Reinstating the death penalty would violate Philippine’s international legal obligations, in particular, the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which the country has ratified….
2017
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Article(s)
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences, A Global Overview 2017
By Harm Reduction International, on 26 March 2018
…accused of using or selling drugs in the Philippines. Worrying signs that Indonesia may be adopting a similar violent response, and the explicit support for President Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’…
2018
Drug Offenses

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The 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty Highlights the Life-Saving Importance of Effective Legal Representation in Capital Cases
By Gia Tongson, on 18 November 2020
…of the death penalty. In the Philippines, two webinars were organized by local NGO Karapatan and the Commission on Human Rights, with the latter launching a research study titled “In…
2020
Australia
Belgium
Canada
Congo
Egypt
Fair Trial
France
Kazakhstan
Philippines
Portugal
Uganda
Document(s)
Incestuous Rape and the Death Penalty in the Philippines: Psychological and Legal Implications
By Seema Kandelia / Philippine Law Journal, on 1 January 2006
2006
Article
Philippines
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Reinforcing the Link Between Torture and the Death Penalty: 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty
By Venus Aves, on 17 November 2023
…Coalition Against the Death Penalty Philippines. With the support of our members, the World Coalition also organized an online discussion on the link between torture and the death penalty with…
2023
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Document(s)
Philippines – Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women – Death Penalty – June 2022
on 21 July 2022
2022
NGO report
Philippines
Women
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Document(s)
The Philippines – Universal Periodic Review – Death Penalty – March 2022
on 31 March 2022
2022
NGO report
World Coalition
Philippines
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Women Sentenced to Death Showcased on the 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty
By Elise Garel, on 3 December 2021
…as the National Human Rights Commission of Mexico and the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines, declared their opposition to the death penalty in statements issued on the World…
2021
Cameroon
Indonesia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Morocco
Nigeria
Pakistan
Sierra Leone
United States
Women
Document(s)
The war on drugs, forensic science and the death penalty in the Philippines
By Maria Corazon A.De Ungria and Jose M.Jose, on 10 August 2021
2021
Academic report
Drug Offenses
Philippines
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- Themes list Drug Offenses
Document(s)
Death in the time of Covid-19: Efforts to restore the death penalty in the Philippines
By Jose M.Jose and Maria Corazon A.De Ungria, on 10 August 2021
Academic report
Drug Offenses
Philippines
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Document(s)
Preventing the Reintroduction of the Death Penalty in the Philippines
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Mai Sato and Sara Kowal, on 10 August 2021
Campaigning
Philippines
Public Opinion
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Open Call for proposals – Financial Support to Third Parties – Global Consortium for Death Penalty Abolition
on 19 September 2024
…Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DRC, Fiji, Ghana, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Liberia, Malaysia, Malawi, Maldives, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Sri…
2024

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UN High Level Panel on the Death Penalty and Deterrence
By Grace O'Connor, on 25 February 2021
…Commission on Human rights of the Philippines, the Centre of Global Nonkilling and Amnesty International. In Amnesty’s statement they condemned the use of the death penalty in all circumstances, highlighting…
2021
Public Opinion
Article(s)
World Day: everybody stands up against the death penalty!
on 27 September 2007
…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…
2007
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Germany
Morocco
Peru
Portugal
Puerto Rico
United States
Yemen
Article(s)
Paris activists lie down against US federal executions
on 10 July 2009
…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…
2009
Death Row Conditions
France
France
Innocence
United States
Article(s)
Abolition in New Mexico hailed around the world
on 19 March 2009
…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…
2009
United States
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“Ending the death penalty in Lebanon and worldwide”
on 5 November 2007
…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…
2007
Lebanon
Moratorium
Murder Victims' Families
Article(s)
800 cities light up for life
on 17 November 2008
…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…
2008
Italy
Public Opinion
Article(s)
US Supreme Court revives “failed” death penalty
on 17 April 2008
…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…
2008
Moratorium
United States
Article(s)
Activists celebrate abolition in Uzbekistan
on 7 January 2008
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…
2008
Moratorium
Uzbekistan
Article(s)
Four World Coalition members among NCADP award winners
on 3 February 2008
…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…
2008
United States
Article(s)
Abolition of death penalty is now complete in Italy
on 4 March 2009
…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…
2009
Italy
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Africa’s human rights body takes a stance against the death penalty
on 30 November 2008
…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…
2008
Fair Trial
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China refuses to consider 250,000-strong petition
on 16 June 2008
…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…
2008
China
Fair Trial
Innocence
Moratorium
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Liberia illegally restores the death penalty
on 28 July 2008
…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…
2008
Liberia
Liberia
Terrorism
Article(s)
Nicaragua makes abolition irreversible
on 4 March 2009
…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…
2009
Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Article(s)
Vietnam considers reduction in scope of death penalty
on 9 February 2009
…of public security also offered to reduce the number of capital offences “in keeping with a general, global trend”. In December 2007 and 2008, Vietnam abstained from the vote on…
2009
Drug Offenses
Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Article(s)
Thai seminars explore religious perspectives on the death penalty
on 4 August 2008
…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…
2008
Murder Victims' Families
Public Opinion
Thailand
Article(s)
Two days to discuss abolition in Morocco
on 27 October 2008
…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…
2008
Moratorium
Morocco
Article(s)
Algerian MPs want to abolish the death penalty
on 9 December 2008
…is abolished. No one shall be executed.” The bill seeks to replace capital punishment with life imprisonment in Algerian law. Once vetted by the Committee of Algeria’s National Popular Assembly,…
2008
Algeria
Moratorium
Article(s)
Flurry of initiatives against the death penalty at ACATs in the past year
on 7 August 2007
…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…
2007
Belgium
Burundi
Canada
Democratic Republic of the Congo
France
Luxembourg
Switzerland
United Kingdom

Article(s)
81st Ordinary Session of the African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights: In- Person, Advocating Against the Death Penalty
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 7 January 2025
The ACHPR (African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights) held its 81st Public Ordinary Session in Banjul, The Gambia, from 17 October – 6 November 2024. State delegations, international and…
2025
Angola
Burkina Faso
Ethiopia
Mauritius
Trend Towards Abolition
Article(s)
Death sentences in Morocco
on 9 May 2007
…well as the fact that the Minister of Justice has publicly expressed his personal conviction that the death penalty should be abolished in Morocco at the time when the Ministry…
2007
Morocco

Article(s)
Central African Republic Becomes 24th African State to Abolish the Death Penalty
By ACAT-RCA, ECPM, FIACAT, on 26 June 2022
…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…
2022
Central African Republic

Article(s)
The death penalty in the DRC: an illusory means of combating impunity in the face of human rights implementation
By Mr Olivier LUNGWE FATAKI of Pax Christi Uvira, absl, on 30 August 2024
…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…
2024
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Member(s)
Coalition of Somali Human Rights Defenders CSHRD
on 24 July 2024
…believes the right to life and therefore, death penalty should be abolished. Here’s an overview of its mission, actions, and activities: Mission 1. Protection and Advocacy: CSHRD aims to protect…
2024
Somalia

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What China’s report to the United Nations tells us about transparency and the death penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 28 June 2024
…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…
2024
China

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Progress and impediments on path to abolition in U.S.
By Russ Feingold & Christopher Wright Durocher, on 3 April 2024
…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…
2024
United States

Article(s)
Advocating for the Adoption of the Draft Protocol by the African Union: A Step in the Right Direction for Abolition in Africa
By Florence Venunye Ayivor-Vieira and Hervé Nsambimana, on 15 December 2023
…on restorative rather than on retributive justice.” While 27 African countries have abolished the death penalty as of December 2023, others still use it for crimes such as murder, terrorism,…
2023
Trend Towards Abolition

Article(s)
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: Understanding the link between the Death Penalty and Torture
By Wendy Adouki, on 26 June 2023
…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…
2023
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions