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…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

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…

…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,…

…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…

…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…

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…

…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 –…

…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…

…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….

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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,…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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,…

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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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. …

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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,…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…several retentionist states aiming to influence the draft text of the resolution. In the final resolution, the Council called upon States that have not yet abolished the death penalty to…

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…

…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…