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…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…

…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….

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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. …

…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…

…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…

…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,…

…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…

…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…

…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…

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)….

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

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;…

…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…

…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…

…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’…

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….

…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…

…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,…

…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:…

…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….

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty co-organized with ADPAN its General Assembly in Manila, the Philippines and online on 6-7 June 2025. Following ADPAN Regional Conference 2025: Re-Imagining a…

…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…

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…

…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…

…has been abolished in most countries in the world and that in India, it is often the result of botched investigations that affect mostly poor people. He withdrew the law…

…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….

…since they have already abolished the death penalty. Rather, they are working for others, spending time and money to help others, you just feel very grateful. Their work benefits the…

…crimes and has never carried out any executions. Armenia signed the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on 26 September. Angola abolished the death penalty in 1992 and in January…

…from different African countries to participate in the continental training. It was an opportunity for various actors from countries that have abolished the death penalty in their legislation, those respecting…

…the threshold of the “most serious crimes” to which the use of this punishment must be restricted in countries that have not yet abolished it.  State practice and decreasing figures…

…all executions until capital punishment can be legally abolished. A crucial tool in encouraging African governments to openly deal with the issue of the death penalty, the draft protocol once…

…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…

…des droits de l’homme (FIDH), i.e. that: “The death penalty is a discriminatory practice, often used against the most vulnerable people, and must be abolished. Poverty and the death penalty…

…abolished?” Furthermore, Prof. Raphaël Nyabirungu Mwene Songa, Criminal Law Professor and counsel to the International Criminal Court, underlined that “combatting the death penalty means improving DRC’s image throughout the world…

…1990, only Cape Verde had abolished the death penalty, today 40 of the 55 African Union member States are abolitionist in law or practice. Although Botswana and Sudan have both…

…trend. In particular, the ACHPR emphasized: “In those States which have not yet abolished the death penalty it is vital that it is used for only the most serious crimes…

…of sub-Saharan Africa will have abolished the death penalty”. Let us hope that the Regional Congress is only the beginning of an intergenerational and consensual gathering for the abolition of…

…Currently in Malaysia, even after the mandatory death penalty is abolished for drug trafficking, there still remains about 11 other offences that provide for the mandatory death penalty, while about…

…demonstrated its inefficiency. 2000 people were on Rwandan death row when the country abolished the death penalty in 2007. Today, the former prisoners have reintegrated society and obtained a second…

…the world has moved from retribution to restorative justice/rehabilitation. The fact that 141 countries in the world have abolished capital punishment in law or in practice indicate a trend that…

According to the judges of the highest court, the death penalty violates the Constitution and international conventions such as the American Convention on Human Rights. Thus, it abolished capital punishment…

…penalty is a discriminatory practice, often used against the poor, and should be abolished.” Amnesty International also made a statement congratulating Mongolia for the legislative abolition of the death penalty….

…Death Penalty. The final step for irreversible abolition in Madagascar Madagascar signed the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR in September 2012, during the UN Treaty Event and abolished the…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

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…

…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?”…

A controversial referendum led to abolition of the death penalty In October 2015, President Denis Sassou Nguesso announced his intention to hold a referendum on a new constitution. The proposed…

…in Africa in the last few years. Nowadays, 18 out of 54 African Union member states have abolished the death penalty in law, 19 have a moratorium and 17 retain…

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…

The United Nations agency charged with combating illicit drug trafficking should withdraw its support for counter-narcotics police operations in Iran until the death penalty for drug offenses is abolished, six…

…she was “pleasantly surprised with their interest” in the simulation. Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius and former Justice Minister Robert Badinter – who had the death penalty abolished in France…

…death penalty was abolished in two articles applicable to public officials in wartime: Article 380 (Article 448 in the new Criminal Code) on abuse of authority and Article 380-1 (Article…

…death penalty have been stalled by the Senate, it is clear to me that a group like this will not rest until it is abolished, and that is really encouraging.”…

…are, in fact, growing more and more isolated,” said Amnesty International’s Secretary General Salil Shetty. Although the number of countries that have abolished the death penalty in law for all…

…followed, in which many high-level representatives expressed their views. Namibia’s foreign affairs minister recalled that her country abolished the death penalty in 1990. The Brazilian minister in charge of human…

…However, he acknowledged that the death penalty would “not be abolished any time soon in Lebanon because of political, religious and legal considerations”. Preserving the moratorium In the short term,…

…death sentences overturned by the ICJ. The Mexican embassy to the US’s legal counselor Víctor Uribe explains how his country (which abolished the death penalty in 2005) is responding to…

…of the countries of the Caribbean. The IACHR expects that additional progress will be made in this direction until mandatory imposition of this punishment is abolished in all the countries…

…9.7% of respondents believe capital punishment has been abolished, 7.1% say death sentences have not been passed in many years, 5.5% that the country has signed a moratorium on capital…

…and firearms offences, which “would give strong support to those who believe that the death penalty could be abolished for both these offences without a public outcry,” Prof Hood wrote….

…of retentionist countries could be perfected in an ideal world, the death penalty would remain a form of torture that should be abolished. The Secretary General’s presence was an answer…

…the Council of Europe continues to monitor the capital punishment issue although all its member states have abolished it. It conducts a dialogue on a range of issues including the…

…interviewees came from the deprived Siliana region, which explains the title used for the Tunisian edition of the publication: “The Siliana syndrome: why the death penalty should be abolished in…

…that international law can be a useful tool to national leaders: in 2012, Mongolia abolished the death penalty by acceding to the UN Protocol on the death penalty – an…

…abolished under all circumstances”) and a “wide” retentionist one (“the death penalty is unavoidable in some cases”). Dr Sato then examined detailed results and conducted separate surveys using more neutral…

…two thirds of the countries in the world have abolished capital punishment. The time has come for Indonesia to lead the way for emerging global powers by abolishing the death…

…the nation’s death sentences. The number of states with the death penalty declined this year as Connecticut joined 16 other states that have repealed the death penalty. Illinois abolished the…

…death penalty as a necessary step to signal their commitment to human rights. In recent years two of Malawi’s neighbouring countries, South Africa and Mozambique have abolished the death penalty….

…Guatemala, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America and 19 have abolished it in…

…the compulsory death penalty for drug mules. In March this year, the Malaysian Bar unanimously passed a resolution at its annual general meeting calling for capital punishment to be abolished….

…main argument. Yet a comparison within the region shows that crime rates are in fact lower in those countries that have abolished capital punishment. In the Caribbean, 12 countries are…