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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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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
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Women
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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…
2021
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Sierra Leone
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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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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…
Lebanon
Moratorium
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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
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Public Opinion
United States
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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
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Moratorium
Papua New Guinea
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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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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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Joint statement for the 71st Ordinary Session of the African Commission
By ECPM, FIACAT, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 9 June 2022
…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…
2022
Congo
Côte d'Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kenya
Liberia
Malawi
Niger
Uganda
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Public opinion supportive of the abolition
By Sarah Saint-Sorny, on 10 June 2022
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…
2022
France
Japan
Public Opinion
United States
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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…
Burundi
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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
…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…
2022
Drug Offenses
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Saudi Arabia
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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…
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Benin
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo
Côte d'Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Guinea
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Madagascar
Mali
Niger
Senegal
Togo
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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
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Trend Towards Abolition
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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
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Uganda
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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
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Israel
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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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Advocating for the Adoption of the Draft Protocol by the African Union: A Step in the Right Direction for Abolition in Africa
By Florence Venunye Ayivor-Vieira and Hervé Nsambimana, on 15 December 2023
…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,…
2023
Trend Towards Abolition
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Progress and impediments on path to abolition in U.S.
By Russ Feingold & Christopher Wright Durocher, on 3 April 2024
…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…
2024
United States
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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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Coalition of Somali Human Rights Defenders CSHRD
on 24 July 2024
…believes the right to life and therefore, death penalty should be abolished. Here’s an overview of its mission, actions, and activities: Mission 1. Protection and Advocacy: CSHRD aims to protect…
2024
Somalia
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The death penalty in the DRC: an illusory means of combating impunity in the face of human rights implementation
By Mr Olivier LUNGWE FATAKI of Pax Christi Uvira, absl, on 30 August 2024
…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…
2024
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations Human Rights Council 54th session
on 30 August 2024
…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…
Trend Towards Abolition
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81st Ordinary Session of the African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights: In- Person, Advocating Against the Death Penalty
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 12 December 2024
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…
2024
Angola
Burkina Faso
Ethiopia
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Mauritius
Trend Towards Abolition
Member(s)
Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (GFADP)
on 31 January 2025
…grassroots, statewide movement which opposes individual executions; supports legislative initiatives aimed at reducing the application of the death penalty until it is ultimately abolished; protects the humanity of individuals on…
2025
United States