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…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…

…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…

…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…

…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,…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…