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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

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How Likely Is the Return of the Death Penalty in Israel?
By World Coalition against the Death Penalty, on 22 May 2023
…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…
2023
Israel

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Recontextualizing the threat of death penalty for homosexuality in Uganda
By Méline Szwarcberg, on 2 May 2023
…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…
2023
Gender
Uganda

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A Very Moving and Inspiring Closing Ceremony
By Dunia Schaffa, on 30 January 2023
…order to declare that the death penalty has been formally abolished.” “To all of us, fellow abolitionists, and especially to the younger ones: we have the power to put an…
2023
Trend Towards Abolition

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Advocacy Seminar Held in Berlin for French-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa Members
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 26 January 2023
…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…
2023
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo
Côte d'Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Guinea
Madagascar
Mali
Niger
Senegal
Togo

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Calling on international bodies to condemn drug executions in Saudi Arabia and seek to stop them
By European Saudi Organization for Human Rights, on 1 December 2022
…including 20 member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, have abolished the death penalty. But Saudi Arabia is still one of the largest executors in the world. The organisations…
2022
Drug Offenses
Saudi Arabia

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Burundi: Promising advocacy workshop for the ratification of the abolitionist treaty
By Sarah Saint-Sorny, on 10 June 2022
…death penalty was abolished from the Burundi domestic legal system by a 2009 law that reformed the penal code. It remains a legal sanction in the military code, but in…
2022
Burundi

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Public opinion supportive of the abolition
By Sarah Saint-Sorny, on 10 June 2022
…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. …
France
Japan
Public Opinion
United States

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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

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2007 Campaign : developing the world abolitionist movement
on 1 May 2007
…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…
2007

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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 49th session
By Aurelie Placais, staff, on 3 May 2022
…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….
2022

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Papua New Guinea: one step away from full abolition of the death penalty
By Aurélie Plaçais, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 21 January 2022
…followed suit. Papua New Guinea is one of the few countries that had previously abolished the death penalty in 1970 before reinstating it in 1991. The last execution took place…
2022
Moratorium
Papua New Guinea

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Executions and Death Sentences Near Record Lows in 2021 in the USA
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 13 January 2022
…a majority of states have now abolished the death penalty (23) or have a formal moratorium on its use (3). An additional ten states have not carried out an execution…
2022
Public Opinion
United States

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Statement on the occasion of the adoption of the upr report of Lebanon
By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), on 2 August 2021
…1 woman, are reportedly being held in Lebanese prisons. The death penalty is not justice, it has no deterrent effect. The universal trend is towards abolition: 115 States have abolished…
2021
Lebanon
Moratorium

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Statement on the occasion of the adoption of the upr report of Mauritania
By Together against the death penalty, the Mauritanian Association for Human Rights, The Advocates for Human Rights and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 2 August 2021
…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…
Mauritania
Moratorium

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Sierra Leone abolishes the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty , on 2 August 2021
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…
Public Opinion
Sierra Leone

19th World Day Against the Death Penalty – Women and the death penalty, an invisible reality
on 10 June 2021
…of death-row statistics by gender. In 2020, amongst the 483 individuals who were executed, 16 were women located in Egypt, Iran, Oman and Saudi Arabia. 108 countries have abolished the…
2021
Women

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Editorial: Amnesty International releases annual report
By Amnesty International, on 27 May 2021
…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,…
2021
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions
Public Opinion

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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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Recapping the UN Crime Congress in Kyoto
By Teppei Ono, CPR, on 15 March 2021
…Kyoto Congress should include the global abolition of the death penalty and a moratorium on executions until it was abolished. Unlike the UN Human Rights Council, the chances of the…
2021
Public Opinion

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Abolition of the death penalty must be an integral part of crime prevention programmes and criminal justice reforms
By Amnesty International, on 5 March 2021
…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…
2021
Public Opinion

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Community of Sant’Egidio Calls for Universal Abolition with Cities for Life, Cities Against the Death Penalty
By Louis Linel, on 8 December 2020
…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…
2020
Italy
Malaysia
Public Opinion
United States
Document(s)
Death Penalty in Liberia. When will it be abolished?
By FIACAT, on 1 January 2019
2019
Arguments against the death penalty
More details See the document
- Document type Arguments against the death penalty
Document(s)
Sentenced to death without execution: Why capital punishment has not yet been abolished in the Eastern Caribbean and Barbados
By Death Penalty Project, on 1 January 2020
2020
NGO report
More details See the document
- Document type NGO report
- Themes list Legal Representation, Mandatory Death Penalty,
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ICC paves the way for justice without killing
on 18 July 2009
…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…
2009
Democratic Republic of the Congo

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TAEDP Withdraws from Ministry of Justice’s Task Force to Research the Gradual Abolition of the Death Penalty
By TAEDP, on 30 April 2020
…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…
2020
Taiwan

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7th World Day Against the Death Penalty: teaching abolition
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 27 July 2009
Today, 139 countries from all regions of the world have abolished the death penalty in law or in practice and ‘only’ 25 countries carried out executions in 2008. According to…
2009
Public Opinion

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If I do not accept that a terrorist kills me, I do not accept either to kill a terrorist
By Tiziana Trotta, on 18 October 2016
…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…
2016
Lebanon
Murder Victims' Families
Terrorism

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The United Nations Human Rights Council votes in favor of a new resolution on the death penalty
By Jessica Corredor, on 4 October 2017
…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….
2017
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

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Gambia and Madagascar commit to irreversible abolition
By Aurelie Placais, on 22 September 2017
…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…
2017
Gambia

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Sri Lanka: the death sentences of 60 prisoners commuted
By Elise Guillot, on 17 February 2017
…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…
2017
Sri Lanka

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ACAT-CI commits to the ratification of OP2 in Côte d’Ivoire
By N'guettia Yves Arsene Kouadio - ACAT Côte d'Ivoire, on 4 January 2017
…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…
2017
Côte d'Ivoire
Public Opinion

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Towards the abolition of the death penalty in DRC: advances to be confirmed
By Olivier LUNGWE FATAKI - Pax Christi Uvira, on 13 December 2016
…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…
2016
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Moratorium
Public Opinion

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Pardon Prisoners On Death Row
By Lucy Peace Nantume, on 8 November 2016
…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…
2016
Clemency
Kenya

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Irreversible abolition of the death penalty in Togo and the Dominican Republic
By Guillaume Colin and Aurélie Plaçais, on 27 September 2016
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…
2016
Dominican Republic
Togo

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The Greater Caribbean for Life rejects the call for the resumption of the death penalty
By Leela Ramdeen, on 9 November 2017
…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…
2017

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Event on the UNGA resolution for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty at the World Congress
By Federica Merenda, on 27 June 2016
…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?”…
2016
Moratorium

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Congo’s Presidential Election Strengthens the Controversial New Constitution that Abolished Capital Punishment
By Delphine Lourtau and Marion Gauer, on 20 April 2016
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…
2016
Congo

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African Commission adopts draft Protocol on abolition
By Maria Donatelli, on 24 April 2015
…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…
2015

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Capital punishment abolished in Suriname
By Parliamentarians for Global Action, on 6 March 2015
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…
2015
Suriname
Suriname

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Applause for Pennsylvania’s death penalty moratorium
By Death Penalty Focus, "Free Mumia!" French Support Group, on 23 February 2015
…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…
2015
Moratorium
United States

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Fiji abolishes death penalty for all crimes through amendment to military law
By Auréie Plaçais, on 23 February 2015
…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…
Fiji

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UN: freeze funding of Iran counter-narcotics efforts
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 17 December 2014
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…
2014
Drug Offenses
Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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Guatemala abolishes the death penalty for ordinary crimes
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 31 October 2017
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…
2017
Guatemala

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« A new Gambia » welcomes the 61st session of the ACHPR
By FIACAT and World Coalition against the Death Penalty, on 21 November 2017
…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…
2017
Gambia

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Kazakhstan Penal Code reform runs counter to abolitionist trend
By Anne Souléliac (Paris Bar), on 22 July 2014
…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…
2014
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Terrorism

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A Training on Advocacy for the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Abdoul Razak Ahmadou Youssoufou, on 29 July 2019
…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…
2019
Cameroon

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Sudan Repeals Capital Punishment for Homosexuality
By Louis Linel, on 31 July 2020
…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…
2020
Sudan

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Sentenced to death without execution: Why capital punishment has not yet been abolished in the Eastern Caribbean and Barbados
By The death penalty project, on 4 May 2020
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…
2020
Barbados

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Punishing Sex Crimes: The Evolution of the Death Penalty in India
By Hédia Zaalouni, on 21 April 2020
…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…
2020
India

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Joint Statement on Malaysia
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 October 2019
…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….
2019
Malaysia

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The Undercurrent: How we took part in the 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
By Wang Peiqi (Executive Secretary of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP)), on 7 October 2019
…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…
2019
Taiwan

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Armenia and Angola Commit to Irreversible Abolition
By Aurelie Placais, on 4 October 2019
…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…
2019
Angola
Armenia

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Joint Open Letter to the President of Sri Lanka on the Imminent Resumption of Executions
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 2 July 2019
…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…
2019
Sri Lanka

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No reason to delay commencement of DDAA 2017
By Charles Hector - Ngeow Chow Ying, on 4 April 2018
…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…
2018
Malaysia

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Awareness Building Workshop with African Union Members
By Bronwyn Dudley, on 14 May 2019
…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…
2019

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Kenya’s new taskforce to review death penalty laws
By Nicolas Chua, on 11 September 2018
…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…
2018
Kenya

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Experts analyse the relationship between poverty and the death penalty
By Dr. Lina M. Torres Rivera, on 18 June 2018
…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…
2018
Puerto Rico

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Parliamentarians from Francophone Africa meet in Kinshasa to discuss the abolition of the death penalty
By Parliamentarians for Global Action, on 12 June 2018
…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…
2018
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Public Opinion

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Burkina Faso has joined the global trend toward abolition of the death penalty in Africa
By International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), on 6 June 2018
…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…
2018
Burkina Faso

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Mandatory Death Penalty for Blasphemy in Mauritania
By World Coalition Against the death penalty, on 11 May 2018
…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…
2018
Mauritania
Public Opinion

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“It’s in Africa that we find the strongest dynamics towards abolition”
By Clémentine Etienne, on 24 April 2018
…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…
2018

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French youth event emboldens next abolitionist generation
By Bronwyn Dudley, on 22 October 2014
…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…
2014
France
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Morocco
United States

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New Hampshire one vote short of abolition
By Emile Carreau, on 25 April 2014
…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.”…
2014
United States
Article(s)
Fear of mass executions in Iraq
on 4 January 2010
…Today, 139 countries have abolished the death penalty in law or in practice. Of the world’s 58 retentionist countries, Iraq is one of 25 that are running executions on a…
2010
Clemency
Iraq
Iraq
Women
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Kyrgyzstan becomes 73rd country to pass irreversible abolition
on 17 December 2010
…was abolished in law with its removal from the Penal Code. At an international level Kyrgyzstan voted in favour of the United National General Assembly resolutions on a moratorium on…
2010
Kyrgyzstan
Moratorium

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Asia: Stop executions and unfair trials
By ADPAN, on 6 December 2011
…death sentence was delivered after an unfair trial, and in six of the cases conviction relied on confession extracted through torture. Over half of Asian countries have abolished the death…
2011

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Sharing best practices on ratifying the UN treaty to abolish the death penalty
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 25 September 2011
…the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said: “About 140 of the 192 States Members of the United Nations are believed to have abolished the death penalty or…
2011
Belgium
Mongolia
Moratorium
Russian Federation

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Opening up the debate in countries with the death penalty
By Penal Reform International, on 19 September 2011
…evolving standards and values that indicate that the death penalty has no place in civilised society.” While two-thirds of the world’s states have already abolished the death penalty in law…
2011
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Public Opinion
Syrian Arab Republic
United Kingdom

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South Korea’s 5,000th day without an execution an opportunity for abolition
By Martin Carbonell with ADPAN and MVFHR, on 8 September 2011
…reality. Out of the 41 countries from Asia and the Pacific, 27 have abolished the death penalty in law and in practice. Of the 14 countries that still retain the…
2011
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Moratorium
Republic of Korea

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India asked to maintain the moratorium on executions
By Emile Carreau, on 28 July 2011
…have already abolished the death penalty, and at a minimum, to maintain the de facto moratorium”. Cruel, inhuman and degrading Courts in India have previously commuted death sentences for delayed…
2011
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Drug Offenses
India
Moratorium

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Amnesty 2010 stats: retentionist countries increasingly isolated
on 28 March 2011
A total of 31 countries abolished the death penalty in law or in practice during the last 10 years but China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the USA and Yemen remain amongst…
2011
China
Drug Offenses
Egypt
Fair Trial
Indonesia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Juveniles
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Libya
Malaysia
Moratorium
Pakistan
Sudan
Thailand
United Arab Emirates
United States
Yemen
Article(s)
Puerto Rico hosts a week of World Coalition events
on 16 February 2011
…World Coalition must recognize the importance of victims’ rights. We are against the death penalty, but we also are against impunity.” US federal executions Although it has been abolished locally,…
2011
Murder Victims' Families
Public Opinion
Puerto Rico
United States
Article(s)
Strong support for US abolitionists on World Day
on 11 October 2010
…death penalty and to work to educate the public to bring about the end of its use. By 2009, 139 countries in the world had abolished the death penalty in…
2010
Juveniles
Mental Illness
Public Opinion
United States

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Ratification of abolition treaties gathers pace in 2012
By Aurelie Placais, on 20 March 2012
…ground, Latvia abolished the death penalty for all crimes on 1st January 2012 and ratified Protocol No. 13 to the European Convention for Human Rights on 5 January 2012. On…
2012
Angola
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Cambodia
Honduras
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Mongolia
Poland
Article(s)
EU-NGO forum: death penalty is a priority
on 6 August 2010
The European Union (EU) invited partner NGOs, including the World Coalition, to a joint forum in Brussels on July 12. Many abolitionist organizations were present, in keeping with the EU’s…
2010
Innocence
Japan
Murder Victims' Families
Article(s)
Japan executions “a step backward for Asia”
on 30 July 2010
…people to decide, if after various discussions the majority of public opinion is for the death penalty to be abolished,” she said, according to Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper. The executions –…
2010
Japan
Moratorium
Public Opinion
Taiwan
Article(s)
2009 Amnesty statistics: at least 714 executions… excluding China
on 30 March 2010
…countries that have removed capital punishment entirely from their laws rose to 95 as Burundi and Togo abolished the death penalty for all crimes. For the first year since Amnesty…
2010
Belarus
Burundi
China
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Fair Trial
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Togo
United States
Article(s)
From moratorium to abolition: Africa wants to make the jump
on 28 February 2010
…like to cite the examples of Burundi and Togo who both abolished capital punishment in 2009. The different abolitionist movements, including the African Commission for Human Rights, have numerous tools….
2010
Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Togo
Uganda
Article(s)
Spot opportunities and focus on education, abolitionists are told
on 24 February 2010
…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…
2010
Ghana
South Africa
Switzerland
Taiwan
Article(s)
Kirghizstan definitively outlaws death penalty
on 18 February 2010
…months after a debate started there on the reinstatement of capital punishment, which was abolished in 2007. In 2009, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev commissioned a report on the death penalty from…
2010
Kyrgyzstan
Article(s)
US death sentences hit new low in 2009
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 7 January 2010
…considered for repeal,” DPIC’s report noted. New Mexico abolished the death penalty last year, and legislatures in ten other states considered similar moves, often citing cost as an issue. Some…
2010
Mental Illness
United States

Article(s)
More than 1,000 sentenced to death in Iraq in 8 years
By Dr Nasr Abbood, on 1 March 2012
…issue, most modern legal systems have included the death penalty. In Iraq, the provisional authority set up during the US occupation abolished capital punishment by ministerial decree No7 on 10…
2012
Drug Offenses
Iraq
Iraq
Terrorism

Article(s)
Migrant workers facing capital punishment show need for alternative sentences
By Think Centre, on 26 April 2012
…out in a fair and humane manner. The death penalty is not acceptable and should be abolished or a moratorium applied. A moratorium will give a chance to re-examine both…
2012
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Moratorium
Singapore

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Iraq’s frantic executions pace linked to serious human rights violations
By Thomas Hubert, on 27 March 2014
…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…
2014
Fair Trial
Iraq
Iraq
Terrorism

Article(s)
How to work with international bodies?
By Maria Donatelli, on 10 June 2013
…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…
2013

Article(s)
Top UN representatives take stance on death penalty at Human Rights Council
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 14 March 2014
…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…
2014
Afghanistan
Benin
Brazil
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Mongolia
Morocco
Myanmar
Namibia
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Sudan
United States

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National conference gives Lebanese abolitionist movement a boost
By Thomas Hubert, on 14 February 2014
…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,…
2014
Lebanon
Moratorium

Article(s)
Mexico fights on after Texas illegally executes one of its nationals
By Thomas Hubert, on 23 January 2014
…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…
2014
Mexico
United States

Article(s)
Events, strong words and hard facts to fight death penalty in the Caribbean
By Thomas Hubert, on 11 October 2013
…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…
2013
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Guatemala
Jamaica
Public Opinion
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Trinidad and Tobago

Article(s)
Divided opinions on death penalty in Belarus
on 8 October 2013
…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…
2013
Belarus
Belarus
Public Opinion

Article(s)
Malaysian popular support for mandatory death penalty overstated
By Thomas Hubert, on 10 July 2013
…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….
2013
Malaysia
Public Opinion

Article(s)
United Nations panel hears from innocent sentenced to death
By Maria Donatelli, on 4 July 2013
…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…
2013
Innocence
United States

Article(s)
Inside Tunisia’s death row
By Delphine Judith, on 4 June 2013
…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…
2013
Death Row Conditions
Tunisia

Article(s)
10 years, 132 members, 45 countries
By Florence Bellivier, on 30 June 2012
…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…
2012
Drug Offenses
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq
Jordan
Moratorium
Singapore
Taiwan

Article(s)
Study explores variety of national paths to abolition
By Thomas Hubert, on 3 May 2013
…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…
2013
Cambodia
Haiti
Mongolia
Norway
Public Opinion
Rwanda
Senegal
South Africa
United States

Article(s)
Japan in breach of international standards, opinion wavering – study
By Thomas Hubert, on 14 March 2013
…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…
2013
Japan
Public Opinion

Article(s)
Briton’s death sentence puts Indonesians at risk
By KontraS, on 31 January 2013
…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…
2013
Drug Offenses
Indonesia
Moratorium

Article(s)
American death penalty area shrank further in 2012
By Thomas Hubert, on 20 December 2012
…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…
2012
United States

Article(s)
Malawi – five years after abolishing the mandatory death penalty
By Emile Carreau, on 19 September 2012
…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….
2012
Malawi