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…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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,…

…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,…

…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…

…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…

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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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,…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…that the resumption of executions puts dozens of people at risk of imminent execution, including the Jordanian citizen Hussein Abu al-Khair, who was arbitrarily arrested and sentenced to death and…

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…

…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…

…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…

…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….

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

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…

…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?”…

…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…

…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…

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…

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…

…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…

…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….

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

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…

…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…

…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…

…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.”…

…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…

…of sentence. The death penalty was widely applied during the rule of Saddam Hussein to control political opposition and terrorize the Iraqi people. Its use was suspended by the Coalition…

…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…

…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…

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…

…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…

…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 –…

…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….

…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…