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…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…

…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…

…offenders who were under 18 years old at the time of the crime. 2009 also saw a decrease in the number of death sentences, and the number of executions is…

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…

…Provisional Authority in 2003 and there was no reference to the death penalty in the provisional constitution. However, beginning on August 8, 2004, the Interim Iraqi Government, headed by Iyad…

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…

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

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

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

…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…

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

…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…

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

…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…

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 31st Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice of the ODC took place in Vienna from the 16th to the 20th of May 2022. At this…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

…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…

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

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

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

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