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Foreign Nationals on Death Row

By The University of Oxford Death Penalty Research Unit, led by Professor Carolyn Hoyle, along with a network of human rights NGOs, including The Death Penalty Project, Eleos Justice, Harm Reduction International, Justice Project Pakistan, Project 39a, and ADPAN, on 8 December 2022


2022

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The University of Oxford Death Penalty Research Unit, led by Professor Carolyn Hoyle, along with a network of human rights NGOs, including The Death Penalty Project, Eleos Justice, Harm Reduction International, Justice Project Pakistan, Project 39a, and ADPAN, have cooperated on a mapping project of foreign nationals at risk of capital punishment in Asia and the Middle East, initially funded by the ESRC.
These regions have a disproportionate number of migrants and others without citizenship detained for capital offences, including those convicted for drug crimes. Building on research, knowledge and expertise within the network, this collaborative database aims to collate and make available information on foreign nationals executed or under sentence of death.

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Leaflet – 14th World Day

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

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The 2016 World Day leaflet provides information about the countries that have the death penalty for terrorism and presents 10 things you should know about the death penalty for terrorism as well as arguments against the death penalty.

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Joint Statement of UN Independent Experts

By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) / Agnès Callamard, on 1 January 2019


2019

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Joint statement of UN Independent Experts: Agnès Callamard, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Michel Forst, Nils Melzer, Anaïs Marin, Philip Alston, E. Tendayi Achium, Dainius Puras, Ahmed Shaheed, Javaid Rehman, Yuval Shany.

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Application form – Call for Actions in the Maldives and Turkey (18th World Day)

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

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Call for actions on the World Day in the Maldives and Turkey

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  • Themes list Death Penalty,

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Application form – Call for actions in Sub-Saharan Africa (18th World Day)

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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Call for actions on 2020 World Day in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE INDIAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM AND COURT HIERARCHY

By MARY KOZLOVSKI / Asian Law Centre, on 1 January 2019


2019

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India


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This paper provides an introduction to the Indian judicial system and court hierarchy, outlining the jurisdiction of constitutional and statutory courts and tribunals and the appointment, tenure and removal of judges. It describes forms of alternative dispute resolution that have emerged in recent decades, partly to combat delays in the court system, and informal dispute resolution bodies that mediate family disputes, such as Sharia courts. The paper concludes by discussing the contentious issues of delay in the court system, public interest litigation, and appointments to the Supreme and High Courts of India.

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  • Countries list India

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Just Mercy

By Destin Daniel Cretton / Gil Netter / Asher Goldstein / Michael B. Jordan, on 1 January 2019


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United States


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A powerful and thought-provoking true story, “Just Mercy” follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Jordan) and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley (Larson). Bryan becomes embroiled in a labyrinth of legal and political maneuverings and overt and unabashed racism as he fights for Walter, and others like him, with the odds—and the system—stacked against them.

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  • Countries list United States
  • Themes list Death Penalty,

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Poster – 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Black and White)

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

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17th World Day Against the Death Penalty Poster in black and white

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Declaration on Malaysia

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty / International Association of Lawyers, on 1 January 2019


2019

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Malaysia


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Declaration on Malaysia adopted by acclamation in Brussels on 1st March 2019

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  • Countries list Malaysia
  • Themes list Moratorium , Trend Towards Abolition, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

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Poster – 16th World Day against the Death Penalty

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

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Poster of the 16th World Day against the Death Penalty dedicated to living conditions on death row. Dignity For All.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,

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FINAL DECLARATION – 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty

By Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) / World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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FINAL DECLARATION7TH World Congress Against the Death PenaltyBrussels, 1st March 2019

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Detailed factsheet on living conditions on death row

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018


2018

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Detailed factsheet on living conditions on death row

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Mobilisation Kit

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018


Campaigning

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Produced to guide organisers, the kit suggests action and provides information about World Day and the theme chosen. For example, the section called “10 things you can to do on 10.10” suggests 10 activities to carry out within the framework of World Day such as participation in an art project, organisation of an event, or writing to those sentenced to death. It also suggests 10 tips for successful action.

  • Document type Campaigning
  • Themes list Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,
  • Available languages Kit de mobilisation

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Leaflet – 16th World Day

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

Multimedia content

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The 2018 World Day leaflet provides information about living conditions on death row.

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Datos y Cifras 2018

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018


2018

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Documento de antecedentes sobre el uso de la pena de muerte en todo el mundo para 2017 y principios de 2018.

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Leaflet on the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Abolition of the Death Penalty

By FIACAT, on 1 January 2017


2017

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To supplement and strengthen the provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Article 66 of the Charter authorises the adoption of Protocols or special agreements. It is on this basis that the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) – the African Union (AU) authority responsible for promoting and protecting human rights in Africa – proposed that the AU adopt a specific Protocol on the abolition of the death penalty that specifies that “the right to life is the foundation of all the other rights” and that “the abolition of the death penalty is vital for the effective protection” of this right.

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In May 2020, While the World May Be Under a Lockdown, the Death Penalty is Not!

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2020


2020

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Statement from the World Coalition calling for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty during the COVID-19 pandemics.

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2014 World Day Report

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2015


2015

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This report presents the theme of 2014 World Day, facts on the death penalty and all the actions and media coverage for the 12th World Day on the progress made and challenges ahead.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Themes list Mental Illness, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,
  • Available languages Rapport Journée Mondiale 2014

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Detailed Fact Sheet – Death Penalty and Drug Crimes

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

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Detailed information on the death penalty and drug crimes.

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Leaflet – 13th World Day

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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The 2015 World Day leaflet provides information on the issues surrounding drug crimes and the death penalty. It also gives arguments against the death penalty.

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Poster – 13th Wold Day against the death penalty

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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Poster of the 13th Wold Day against the death penalty dedicated to drug crimes: the death penalty doesn’t stop drug crimes

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Supreme Court of India ruling in Shatrughan Chauhan & Anr. Versus Union of India & Ors.

By P. Sathasivam / Supreme Court of India / Ranjan Gogoi / Shiva Kirti Singh, on 8 September 2020


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India


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The Court (pictured) ruled in favour of two prisoners who petitioned for a commutation of their death sentences to life imprisonment, claiming “the unconscionably long delay in deciding the mercy petition has caused the onset of chronic psychotic illness”. It acknowledged the “unbearable mental agony after confirmation of death sentence” and added that in some cases “death-row prisoners lost their mental balance on account of prolonged anxiety and suffering experienced on death row”.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list India
  • Themes list Mental Illness, International law, Death Row Conditions, Death Row Phenomenon,

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Flyer-The Death Penalty in the Context of Public Security: Neither Right, Nor Effective

By Greater Caribbean For Life, on 1 January 2013


2013

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Trinidad and Tobago


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Flyer for the Caribbean Conference – The Death Penalty in the Context of Public Security: Neither Right, Nor Effective organised to celebrate the 11th World Day Against the Death Penalty dedicated to the Greater Caribbean, by local civil society in Trinidad and Tobago on October, 1st. 2013

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list Trinidad and Tobago
  • Themes list Deterrence ,

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Oral Statement from the Quaker United Nations Office during the Panel on Children of Parents Sentenced to the Death Penalty or Executed, Human Rights Council, 24th Session.

By Quaker United Nations Office, on 1 January 2013


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Oral Statement from the Quaker United Nations Office during the Panel on Children of Parents Sentenced to the Death Penalty or Executed, Human Rights Council, 24th Session.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Themes list Juveniles, International law, Death Penalty,

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The right to life: A guide to the implementation of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights

By Council of Europe / Douwe Korff / Directorate General of Human Rights, on 1 January 2006


2006

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This Handbook deals with the right to life, as guaranteed byArticle 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and with the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights under that article.

  • Document type Working with...
  • Themes list International law,

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Poster – 14th Wold Day against the death penalty

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

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The sleeping voice

By Benito Zambrano, on 1 January 2011


2011

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Spain


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  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Countries list Spain
  • Themes list Women, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,

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Joint Statement: The death penalty for drug-related offences

By Harm Reduction International, on 1 January 2015


2015

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Joint Statement signed by Amnesty International, Anti Death Penalty Asia Network, Harm Reduction International, International Drug Policy Consortium, Penal Reform International and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty to highlight to Member States of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the preparatory Board of the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs the continued use by some countries of the death penalty for drug-related offences despite clear restrictions set out in international law.

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  • Themes list Drug Offences,

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Annexes 2014 World Day Report

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2015


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Annexes of the 2014 World Day Report

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Mobilisation Kit

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 January 2018


2018

Campaigning

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Produced to guide organisers, the kit suggests action and provides information about World Day and the theme chosen. For example, the section called “10 things you can to do on 10.10” suggests 10 activities to carry out within the framework of World Day such as participation in an art project, organisation of an event, or writing to those sentenced to death. It also suggests 10 tips for successful action.

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Provisional Budget – 18th World Day

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

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Small Grants 2020 provisional budget

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Application form – Call for Actions in the Philippines (18th World Day)

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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Philippines


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Call for actions in the Philippines

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  • Countries list Philippines
  • Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,

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Leaflet – World Coalition Presentation

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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Presentation of the World Coalition’s activities

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Application form – Call for Actions in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean States (18th World Day)

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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Call for actions on World Day in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean States

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  • Themes list World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Death Penalty,

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The Arts and Human Rights: Introducing the “Sweet Destiny” Album and Film

on 25 August 2021


2021

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Iran (Islamic Republic of)


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Iran Human Rights (IHR); August 25, 2021: Pioneering Iranian alternative rock band, Kiosk have released a new musical film and album titled “Sweet Destiny.” Based on a historic 1853 photograph of a public execution by cannon fire in Iran, it is the first professional Farsi language album or film of its kind to be dedicated to the subject of the death penalty.

The story is narrated by the photographer who has been summoned to photograph the scene of the execution as proof and questions the defendant’s crime. Divided into 14 acts, the imagined story of the execution is layered with cultural and political metaphors and references. Kiosk’s rich and poignant songs create context, take the viewers through the history of Iran since 1853 and highlight the critical issues around the death penalty and human rights breaches in Iran. Using historical photographs, paintings and animation, Sweet Destiny is visually mesmerising and thought provoking with sprinkles of satire that masterfully cross cultural boundaries. The film is subtitled in English.  

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  • Countries list Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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German : Poster – 15. Welttag gegen die Todesstrafe

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


2020

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Malay : Poster – 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (Malay)

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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German : Poster – 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty (German)

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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: Résolution des barreaux sur la peine de mort

By Paris Bar / International Association of Lawyers, on 8 September 2020


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Résolution des avocats sur la peine de mort et les conditions de détention et de traitement des condamnés à mort Resolution of lawyers on the death penalty and conditions of detention and treatment of persons sentenced to deathResolución sobre la pena de muerte y cas condiciones de detención y el trato a las personas condenadas a muerte

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  • Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Death Row Conditions, Legal Representation, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty,

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Italian : Poster – 16° Giornata mondiale contro la Pena di morte

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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Italian : Poster – 15° Giornata mondiale contro la Pena di morte

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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German : Poster – 14. Welttag gegen die Todesstrafe

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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Italian : Poster – 14° Giornata mondiale contro la Pena di morte

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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German : Poster – 13° Welttag gegen die Todesstrafe

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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Italian : Poster – 13° Giornata mondiale

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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Poster – 13° Giornata mondiale contro la Pena di morte: La pena di morte non uccide il traffico di droga

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Call for tenders for printing, design and layout services – Annex

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2020


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Viêt Namese : Liệu Hình phạt Tử hình Có Tác dụng Ngăn chặn Tội phạm Giết người ở Nhật Bản?

By David T. Johnson / Asian Law Centre, on 8 September 2020


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Japan


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Không giống như ở Mỹ, nơi tràn ngập các nghiên cứu về tử hình và tác dụng răn đe của hình phạt này, có rất ít nghiên cứu về hình phạt tử hình và tác dụng răn đe của nó ở Nhật Bản. Mặc dù vậy, người dân và các quan chức nước này vẫn đưa ra những nhậnđịnh đầy tự tin đối với chủ đề này. Trên thực tế, tác dụng răn đe được xem là “điểm tranh cãi chủ chốt giữa các lập luận ủng hộ và phản đối” hình phạt tử hình ở Nhật Bản. Khó khăn trong việc thu thập các số liệu chuẩn mực về tội phạm từ Chính phủ Nhật Bản đã khiến cho việc tiến hành một nghiên cứu nghiêm túc về đề tài này gần như là bất khả thi. Bài viết này sử dụng các số liệu thống kê hàng tháng về tội phạm giết người và tộiphạm giết người cướp mà trước không thể tiếp cận được để xem xét liệu việc tuyên và thực thi án tử hình ở Nhật Bản có tác dụng ngăn chặn những tội phạm kể trên trong giai đoạn từ năm 1990 đến 2010 hay không. Và phát hiện chính của nghiên cứu này là hình phạt tử hình không có tác dụng răn đe tội phạm giết người và tội phạm cướp của giết người trong giai đoạn nói trên. Cần phải có thêm nghiên cứu về đề tài này, tuy nhiên, tại thời điểm hiện tại Chính phủ Nhật Bản không có bất cứ căn cứ chắc chắn nào để tiếp tục khẳng định nước này cần duy trì hình phạt tử hình vì hình phạt này giúp ngăn chặn tội phạm có tính đặc biệt nghiêm trọng.

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  • Countries list Japan

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Oral Statement from Penal Reform International during the Panel on Children of Parents Sentenced to the Death Penalty or Executed (Human Rights Council, 24th Session)

By Penal Reform International, on 1 January 2013


2013

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Oral Statement of Penal Reform International during the Panel on Children of Parents Sentenced to the Death Penalty or Executed, Human Rights Council, 24th Session.

  • Document type Multimedia content
  • Themes list Juveniles, International law, Death Penalty,

Article(s)

World Coalition takes part in UN death penalty report launch

on 30 May 2010

The World Coalition held a side event to accompany the presentation of the 8th Quinquennial Report of the UN Secretary General on capital punishment in Vienna on May 19.

2010

Death Row Conditions 

Innocence

Juveniles

Legal Representation

Article(s)

The Greater Caribbean for Life rejects the call for the resumption of the death penalty

By Leela Ramdeen, on 9 November 2017

The Greater Caribbean for Life (GCL), an independent, not-for-profit regional civil society organization working towards the abolition of the Death Penalty in the region, rejects the recommendation for the resumption of the death penalty.

2017

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Significant but fragile progress in the Great Lakes region

on 1 May 2007

Rwanda and Burundi are apparently close to abolishing the death penalty; in the Democratic Republic of Congo, all references to capital punishment have been removed from the text of the constitution. The death penalty is on borrowed time in these countries scarred by conflicts. For the first time, the region’s abolitionists met in Paris and called for the creation of a regional coalition.

2007

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Public Opinion 

World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

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75th UN General Assembly High-Level Event Focuses on the Gender Dimension of the Death Penalty

By Gia Tongson, on 6 October 2020

On September 24th, the UN Permanent Mission of Italy, the European Union, and Amnesty International, in cooperation with the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) and UN Women, held a high-level virtual event that shed light on the gender dimension of the death penalty. The webinar was conducted as part of […]

2020

Death Row Conditions 

Fair Trial

Women

Article(s)

The Rights of Children Whose Parents Are Sentenced to Death – The Case of Tunisia

By Lisa Borden, volunteer with The Advocates for Human Rights, on 30 October 2019

I joined Bronwyn Dudley of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, and Choukri Latif of the Coalition tunissiene contre la peine de mort (a Tunisian anti-death penalty NGO), to address the committee regarding Tunisia’s failure to implement the rights of children whose parents have been sentenced to death or were executed.

2019

Juveniles

Tunisia

Article(s)

Legal Officer – The Death Penalty Project

By The Death Penalty Project, on 23 January 2018

The Death Penalty Project recruits a Legal Officer.

2018

United Kingdom

Article(s)

Web-Editor

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 17 October 2016

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is recruiting a Web-editor for its website.

2016

Article(s)

Research Assistant

By Death Penalty Worldwide, Cornell Law School and World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 February 2016

Death Penalty Worldwide of Cornell University Law School and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty invite applications for a five-month internship placement in Paris from March to July 2016.

2016

Document(s)

American Death Penalty Exceptionalism, Then and Now

By Jordan Steiker, California Western International Law Journal , on 1 February 2024


2024

Academic Article

United States


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Published in October 2023.

The most commonly observed fact of American capital punishment is its present outlier status: the United States (U.S.) is the only developed Western democracy that retains the death penalty, and it does so not simply as a matter of law, but as a matter of practice, conducting numerous executions every year. This “exceptionalism” with respect to the death penalty is noteworthy, but focusing on present-day American retention obscures many additional aspects of American death penalty exceptionalism. This Keynote will trace several ways in which the American death penalty was an outlier at its founding and throughout its subsequent history, as well as the varied aspects of its exceptionalism today. I will conclude by predicting that U.S. exceptionalism will soon come to an end–with an “exceptional” form of death penalty abolition, traceable to the distinctive path of the American death penalty

  • Document type Academic Article
  • Countries list United States

Member(s)

The Advocates for Human Rights

on 30 April 2020

The mission of The Advocates for Human Rights is to implement international human rights standards in order to promote civil society and reinforce the rule of law. By involving volunteers in research, education, and advocacy, The Advocates build broad constituencies in the United States and select global communities. In 1991, The Advocates adopted a formal […]

2020

United States

Document(s)

REPORT ON THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

By Bar Human Rights Committee, on 1 January 2003


2003

NGO report


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The purpose of the Report is to assist the Honourable Court by describing the criminal justice process in Trinidad as it applies to those accused of murder. As a criminal defence and constitutional law attorneys in Trinidad, we have been asked to address, in particular, some of the shortcomings apparent in the Trinidadian criminal justice system and certain related constitutional issues. The Report deals with the following issues: a. The constitutional history and sources of law in Trinidad; b. The law of murder in Trinidad; c. An overview of criminal procedure; d. The stages of the criminal process in murder cases; e. The mandatory death penalty; f. The prerogative of mercy.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Networks,

Document(s)

Intiatives World Day 2005

By World coalition against the death penalty , on 10 October 2005


2005

Campaigning

Trend Towards Abolition

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Intiatives World Day 2005

Document(s)

Leaflet – World Day 2023

on 12 June 2023


2023

Campaigning

World Coalition

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Leaflet for the 21th World Day against the death penalty (2023), on torture and the death penalty.

Document(s)

Capital punishment and implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty

By United Nations , on 26 May 2021


2021

United Nations report

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Summary

In its resolution 1745 (LIV) of 16 May 1973, the Economic and Social Council invited the Secretary-General to submit to it, at five-year intervals starting from 1975, periodic updated and analytical reports on capital punishment. The Council, in its resolution 1995/57 of 28 July 1995, recommended that the quinquennial reports of the Secretary-General continue to cover also the implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty.

In the same resolution, the Council requested the Secretary-General, in preparing the quinquennial report, to draw on all available data, including current criminological research. The present report, which is the tenth quinquennial report, contains a review of the use of and trends in capital punishment, including the implementa tion of the safeguards during the period 2014–2018.

In accordance with resolutions 1745 (LIV) and 1990/51, of 24 July 1990, of the Economic and Social Council, as well as its decision 2005/247 of 22 July 2005, the present report is submitted to the Council at its substantive session of 2020, and will also be before the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its twenty-ninth session and the Human Rights Council at its forty-fourth regular session.

The report on the 2014–2018 quinquennium confirms the trend documented in previous reports towards abolition and restriction of the use of capital punishment in most countries. The number of States that have abolished the death penalty in law and in practice continued to grow. This is reflected in the increased number of States bound by treaty obligations not to implement the death penalty. The quinquennium also witnessed some years of dramatic increases in the number of executions, which were carried out by a small number of States. The situation stabilized at the end of the survey period, and the number of recorded executions in the final year, 2018, was the lowest in many years. The safeguards guaranteeing the protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty apply to States that retain capital punishment. It is of concern, however, that the death penalty continued to be imposed on persons below 18 years of age at the time of commission of the offence, and that death sentences were imposed in cases where the “most serious crimes” standard was not met and in cases of trials that did not comply with international standards.

Document(s)

The death penalty in Egypt: Ten year after the uprising

By Jeed Basyouni - Reprieve, on 10 August 2021


2021

NGO report

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Death Row Conditions 

Egypt

Fair Trial


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Reprieve wrote this report about the use of the death penalty in Egypt.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Countries list Egypt
  • Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment / Death Row Conditions  / Fair Trial

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Debunking the deterrence theory

By World coalition against the death penalty, on 9 July 2024


2024

Campaigning

World Coalition

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Maldives – Committee Against Torture (LOIPR) – Death Penalty – June 2022

By The Maldivian Democracy Network (MDN) , on 21 July 2022


2022

NGO report

World Coalition

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Maldives


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This report addresses the Maldives’ compliance with its human rights obligations with respect to the death penalty. Despite its long-standing, de facto moratorium on executions, the Maldives sentenced two people to death in 2019, after sentencing no one to death in 2018.[1] At the end of 2019, there were 19 people on death row in the Maldives – three of whom had exhausted their appeals and five of whom were juveniles when the crime was committed.[2] The Maldives sentenced another individual to death in 2022, which represented the first time the country sentenced a foreign national to death.[3] The continued use of the death penalty in sentencing is particularly concerning given evidence of due process violations, including the use of torture to obtain confessions, the lack of effective and accessible complaint mechanisms for detained individuals, the lack of an independent judiciary, and the use of the death penalty as a sentence for crimes committed by juveniles.

  • Document type NGO report / World Coalition
  • Countries list Maldives
  • Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Document(s)

Initiatives World Day 2006

By World Coalition against the death penalty , on 10 October 2006


2006

Campaigning

Trend Towards Abolition

fr
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Initiatives World Day 2006

Article(s)

United Nations panel hears from innocent sentenced to death

By Maria Donatelli, on 4 July 2013

World Coalition members and a man who spent 18 years on death row for murders he did not commit joined UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon for a debate on capital punishment.

2013

Innocence

United States

21st World Day against the death penalty poster

21st World Day Against the Death Penalty – The death penalty: An irreversible torture

on 12 June 2023

2023

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Death Row Conditions 

20th World Day Against the Death Penalty - Death penalty: a road paved with torture

20th World Day Against the Death Penalty – Death penalty: a road paved with torture

on 10 June 2022

As the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty is marked around the world, now is a time to consider and celebrate the gains the abolitionist movement has made over the past 20 years. Now, more than ever, abolitionist actors need to continue working towards the complete abolition of the death penalty worldwide, for all […]

2022

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Death Row Conditions 

Document(s)

Efforts towards abolition of the death penalty: Challenges and prospects

By Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU), University of Oxford, on 5 February 2024


2024

Academic Article

Trend Towards Abolition


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Published in December 2023.

This paper reflects on the role of international human rights treaties in promoting universal abolition and progressive restriction of the death penalty. It suggests that over the past quarter of a century a ‘new human rights dynamic’ has aimed to generate universal acceptance that however it is administered, the death penalty violates the human rights of all citizens exposed to it. Nevertheless, defences of capital punishment based on principles of national sovereignty are engrained in some parts of the world, particularly in Asia and the Middle East. The human rights project struggles to make inroads into such jurisdictions where political will is opposed to abolition, and trenchant protection of sovereignty threatens the very universality of these rights.

  • Document type Academic Article
  • Themes list Trend Towards Abolition

Article(s)

Towards the abolition of the death penalty in DRC: advances to be confirmed

By Olivier LUNGWE FATAKI - Pax Christi Uvira, on 13 December 2016

To date, the Democratic Republic of the Congo maintains the death penalty in its legislation. The proponents of the capital punishment argue that it remains an efficient tool for deterrence in general as well as a solution to the recurring criminal phenomenon hitting the country’s Eastern part.

2016

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Moratorium

Public Opinion 

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FIACAT and ACAT Benin congratulate Benin on having removed the death penalty from its criminal legislation

By FIACAT, on 6 June 2018

Cotonou, Paris, 6 June 2018 – On 5 June, Benin’s National Assembly adopted a new Penal Code removing all references to the death penalty from the law.

2018

Benin

14-United-Nations-Congress-on-Crime-Prevention-and-Criminal-Justice

on 23 April 2021

2021

Document(s)

Iraq – Committee Against Torture – Death Penalty – March 2022

on 18 March 2022


2022

NGO report

World Coalition

Iraq


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This report provides an update to the coauthors’ report at the List of issues stage and responds to the State party’s responses to the Committee’s questions in the List of issues that touch on the death penalty.

  • Document type NGO report / World Coalition
  • Countries list Iraq

Article(s)

Abolitionist movement shifts up a gear in Morocco

By Thomas Hubert, on 20 December 2013

Through engagement with members of Parliament, the publication of an unprecedented report on death row conditions and the launch of a new website, the Moroccan abolitionist movement is entering a new dimension.

2013

Mental Illness

Morocco

Article(s)

World Day: everybody stands up against the death penalty!

on 27 September 2007

The 5th World Day Against the Death Penalty takes place on Wednesday, 10 October 2007. Organised by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, it is marked by thousands of citizens and hundreds of organisations across the world who together, through hundreds of local initiatives, say ‘NO’ to capital punishment.

2007

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Germany

Morocco

Peru

Portugal

Puerto Rico

United States

Yemen

Article(s)

Program and Admin Assistant (Trainee)

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 31 March 2020

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is recruiting an intern for a period of 6 months going from mid-June to mid December 2020.

2020

Article(s)

Program and Admin Assistant (Trainee)

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 9 October 2018

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty recruits an intern for a period of 6 months starting in September 2019.

2018

Article(s)

Publishing the final words of the executed to restore their humanity

By Thomas Hubert, on 16 October 2014

Publisher Joshua Herman and photographer Marc Asnin want to issue thousands of American schools with a book presenting the final statements of executed prisoners in an attempt to remind supporters and opponents of the death penalty alike that it targets human beings.

2014

Public Opinion 

United States

Article(s)

Global outrage at Iranian juvenile execution

on 6 May 2009

Human rights organisations and governments worldwide have slammed the Iranian authorities for the illegal execution of Delara Darabi, a young woman convicted of a murder committed when she was 17.

2009

Innocence

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Juveniles

Article(s)

Can the US move towards abolition under Obama?

on 20 January 2009

The new president’s nominee for the post of attorney general opposes the death penalty and the number of executions and sentences is falling in the US.

2009

United States

Article(s)

What now for Mumia?

on 28 April 2008

On 27 March, a US federal appeals court overturned Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence, but not his conviction for murder. His lead counsel Robert R. Bryan gives his reaction to the ruling and the next steps in America’s most high-profile capital case.

2008

Fair Trial

United States

Jobs

ASIA PACIFIC

on 19 September 2024

Available grants are indicated below, with the specific target countries and the specific maximum amounts for each Worldwide Grant Grant Asia 1 All Asia Pacific countries Grant Asia 2 All Asia Pacific countries Grant Asia 3 All Asia Pacific countries Grant Asia 4 Bangladesh Grant Asia 5 Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa Grant Asia 6 […]

2024

Jobs

USA AND THE GREATER CARIBBEAN (UGC)

on 19 September 2024

Available grants are indicated below, with the specific target countries and the specific maximum amounts for each Worldwide Grant Grant UGC 1 Suriname Grant UGC 2 USA How to apply? Worldwide Grant 8 grants of maximum 1,000 EUR each on data collection gathering on intersectional discrimination faced by women and/or LGBTQIA+ people sentenced to death. […]

Jobs

SOUTH ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST (SAME)

on 19 September 2024

Available grants are indicated below, with the specific target countries and the specific maximum amounts for each Worldwide Grant Grant SAME 1 All South Asia and Middle East countries Grant SAME 2 Target country: Jordan How to apply? Worldwide Grant 8 grants of maximum 1,000 EUR each on data collection gathering on intersectional discrimination faced […]

Jobs

AFRICA

on 19 September 2024

Available grants are indicated below, with the specific target countries and the specific maximum amounts for each Worldwide Grant Grant Africa 1 Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Zambia Grant Africa 2 Cameroon and DRC Grant Africa 3 Kenya Grant Africa 4 Kenya Grant Africa 5 Target countries: Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda […]

instrumentalisation of the death penalty - 8th world congress pannel

Article(s)

How the Death Penalty is Politicized: A Reflection on the 8th World Congress Against the Death Penalty

By Dunia Schaffa, on 27 January 2023

During the 8th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, in Berlin Germany, the phrase “the death penalty is being used as a political tool” was used frequently – in panels, in round tables, in speeches, even amongst the participants getting a coffee in between Congress events.

2023

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

United States

Article(s)

Iran’s brave human rights defenders and their struggle against the death penalty

By Amnesty International, on 5 March 2018

As the world moves away from the death penalty, Iran continues to execute hundreds of people every year and comes second only to China in the number of executions carried out annually. Amnesty International recorded nearly 1,000 executions in Iran in 2015 and at least 567 in 2016.

2018

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Article(s)

10 years with no hanging in the Caribbean

By Greater Caribbean for Life, on 19 December 2018

The Greater Caribbean for Life (GCL) notes that 19 December, 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the hanging of Charles la Place in St Kitts and Nevis. He was the last person who was hanged in the English-speaking Caribbean.

2018

Article(s)

1,700-mile “Walk4Life” across the US

on 13 March 2008

American hip-hop artist Andre Latallade, also known as Capital-“X”, will walk 1,700 miles from New Jersey to Texas from March 31 to campaign against the death penalty.

2008

Drug Offenses

United States

Document(s)

Somebody’s Child: Amid the Lingering Trauma of Trump’s Executions, a New Project Brings Families to Federal Death Row

By The Intercept, on 15 February 2024


2024

Article

United States


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Published on February 11, 2024.

In 2002, Ra’id was arrested alongside several other suspects following a botched bank robbery that left two people dead and another paralyzed. His co-defendants pointed to him as the mastermind, which Ra’id adamantly denied. “I did not take part in that atrocity,” he told the court following his trial. “I did not shoot and kill anyone.”

Newson attended his father’s sentencing hearing, along with his mother, Jeannie Gipson-Newson. A death sentence would be “devastating to my child,” she remembered testifying. But it felt futile. The jurors seemed to have made up their minds. In 2004, Ra’id was sentenced to die.

  • Document type Article
  • Countries list United States

Article(s)

California ruling paves way for abolition of one of the world’s largest death rows

By Elizabeth Zitrin, on 18 July 2014

United States Federal District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush, a strong supporter of the death penalty, ruled on 16 July that California’s death penalty system violates the US Constitution.

2014

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

United States