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…World Day against the Death Penalty on 10 October 2018, the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Penal Reform International and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty are publishing…

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty strongly condemns the increase in juvenile executions in Iran. According to reports by the World Coalition’s Steering Committee member, Iran Human Rights (IHR),…

…death row. In the wake of the executions in Edo last year, this Judgment cements a step in the move to firmly establish respect for fundamental human rights in the…

Wednesday, March 1st , the House of representatives passed the House Bill 4727 on the death penalty, on second reading, in a viva voce vote. The initial bill was amended…

The institute, named after the landmark 1995 case that abolished the death penalty in South Africa, was developed through the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, which became the…

…the 24th abolitionist state in Africa and the 111th in the world. The adoption of this law allows the CAR to join the majority of countries in the world that…

On the programme for 2007: major mobilisation for the World Day Against the Death Penalty around the theme of “China in the context of the 2008 Olympic Games”; a campaign…

…more friendly to human rights.” What will this mean for the death penalty in Taiwan?” (…) “The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP) has observed that, “all the…

…Reform International (PRI), the Swedish Institute of Alexandria and the Arab Centre for the Independence of the Judiciary and Legal Profession. The conference focused on the death penalty in the…

…leaning towards skepticism the fair application of the death penalty. After the Gallup Crime Survey has asked for opinions about the fairness of the death penalty application, the results show…

…the move” Listen to the interview with Lievin Ngondji, co-ordinator of the Congolese Coalition Against the Death Penalty and member of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (in French)….

…as Puerto Rico’s day against the death penalty to commemorate the anniversary of the abolition of capital punishment there in 1929 is another proposal in the hands of the governor….

…intentions of abolishing the death penalty, to take the necessary steps quickly and join the growing camp of those who recognize the death penalty as being contrary to our values.”…

…order to ingrain gender into the discussion on capital punishment. In 2021, the theme of the 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty will be on gender and the death…

…with the view of preventing irreparable damage being caused to the victims while the African Commission inquires about the veracity of the Complaint. The appeal is particularly pertinent in respect…

…in the Americas that continues to conduct executions. Federal executions are contrary to the promising progress the United States made in 2019 after New Hampshire abolished the death penalty and…

As we mark the 17th World Day against the Death Penalty, a year after the government of Malaysia announced the revision of the country’s laws to fully abolish the death…

…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…

…humanly, sincerely, without hesitation, and to discuss about the death penalty. Lindy Lou, the main protagonist in this documentary, was juror on a murder case in Mississippi. In 1994, its…

…relatives of persons sentenced to death. A workshop on the subject was held during the day, raising the question of the needs of the first persons concerned by the death…

…restricts the use of the death penalty to the most serious crimes. This has been accepted at the international level to mean crimes that result in the death of a…

Together against the death penalty, the Mauritanian Association for Human Rights, The Advocates for Human Rights and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty welcome the adoption of the report…

…is tied to the extraordinary work of Uzbek abolitionists, and particularly the movement Mothers Against the Death Penalty, founded by Tamara Chikunova (photo). The group was closely involved in the…

…view to abolish the death penalty in Iran and urge the international community to support the growing abolition movement in Iran. * The “No Death Penalty Tuesdays” hunger strikes were…

…the West Bank. The letter then notes the differences in the application of the death penalty in Gaza and the West Bank and requests the government withdraw the mandate and…

“The death penalty was re-introduced (…) in 2004 with the stated objectives of deterrence and retribution, particularly in light of the security situation the country was then facing from armed…

…“These inhuman conditions increase a prisoner’s anxiety and anguish and in many cases push prisoners over the edge and into a state of mental illness,” said James Welsh. The report…

…the abolition of the death penalty, inclusive of creating a culture of promotion and protection of human rights”. Stop Crime, not Lives On the eve of the creation of the…

…of capital punishment gains popularity among the public. The death penalty – the most serious infringement on the right to life, the first of every human right – is now…

…bill making armed robbery, terrorism and hijacking capital offenses if they result in death, despite Liberia’s accession to the UN Protocol on the abolition of the death penalty in 2005….

…Mexican soil to track down the families of those facing the death penalty in the US and help them obtain visas and funding to visit them in prison, he added….

…the end of 2017, 106 countries had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes and 142 countries had abolished the death penalty in law or practice. These figures…

…American Convention to Abolish the Death Penalty. The report takes into account the standards developed within the Inter-American human rights system to restrict the application of the death penalty over…

…for a moratorium and ultimately for the abolition of the death penalty in India in the coming months. Errors and arbitrariness The study of the courts highlights some of the…

…intellectual disability in relation to the death penalty. Yet the challenges remain so large in protecting intellectually disabled people from the death penalty that Dr Greenspan thinks the best solution…

The project objective is to strengthen the moratorium on the death penalty, and the emergence of a new jurisprudence on the rights of those facing the death penalty, based on…

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty strongly condemn the resumption of public executions in Iran and the surge in the executions in 2022, which goes against the international trends…

…the rights of those facing the death penalty, including through strengthened application of international safeguards in the use of the death penalty”. The UK, Germany and Austria specifically called for…

…new death sentences in 2014 is the lowest number in the modern era of the death penalty, dating back to 1974. Executions and sentences have steadily decreased, as Americans have…

…the efforts made in country to raise the debate on the issue of the death penalty and the Regional Congress recently organized in Rabat by ECPM, OMDH and the Moroccan…

…(in 2011 and 2015). The state had abolished the death penalty in 1990. From a legal perspective, the ratification of OP2 makes the resumption of the death penalty impossible in…

What are Benin’s plans regarding the abolition of the death penalty for the coming months? Victor Tokpanou: The president found this issue to be important in the promotion of human…

…capital punishment. After a brief campaign marred by partisan violence, the new constitution, including the abolition of the death penalty, was approved by referendum. Opposition parties contested the referendum results,…

…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 Death Penalty Information Center’s 2018 End-of-Year report confirms decline despite strong lasting inequalities. The abolitionist movement keeps gaining ground in the US In 2018, the abolition movement gained important…

…term remain unclear, affecting the interpretation of survey results. Furthermore, the level of public knowledge about the death penalty varies, potentially influencing survey responses. Reevaluation of Death Penalty Policy While…

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty warmly congratulates the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on the adoption of Resolution A/RES/75/183 for a moratorium on the use of the death…

…against the death penalty on June 30. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) invited submissions from the public on the proposed regulations, either in writing on during the…

…Penalty and the French Institute there. Members of the Iraqi Coalition Against the Death Penalty are looking for a strategy to counter the sharp increase in the use of capital…

…of the Protocol and the “presence of the death penalty in the Penal Code despite its abolition in the Constitution”. The Commission therefore recommended that the Ivory Coast ratify and…

…in the state of Lagos encouraged the repeal of the death penalty. However, abolitionists know they face strong opposition: the same week, a Senate committee recommended the introduction of capital…

…of the lack of transparency in the Iranian judicial system. Why is it so hard to come up with statistics on the death penalty in Iran? The victims executed for…

…site to empower themselves. This association also fights against the death penalty, being the first one to organize interventions, marches and demonstrations on this topic in the country. Working there…

…the very best of human behavior.” The Puerto Rican Coalition Against the Death Penalty (photo), representing the people of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, received the Lighting the Torch Award….

…the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (OP2-ICCPR). The Protocol was highlighted by the United Nations Secretary General this year, as…

…row inmates, visible instances of discrimination in the judicial system and studies into the prohibitive cost of the death penalty system in a crisis-stricken country have led many Americans to…

…to abolish the death penalty ” and encouraged the President of the Assembly “to include it in the agenda of the October 2014 session”. In light of Madagascar’s Universal Periodic…

…the French and Iranian Human Rights Leagues. The event was one of the initiatives launched all over the globe for the World Day Against the Death Penalty. “I experienced this…

…of the World Coalition is to strengthen the international dimension of the fight against the death penalty. Its ultimate objective is to obtain the universal abolition of the death penalty….

…as did the Director of the association Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), who had described these executions as shame and cynicism. The Tunisian Coalition Against the Death Penalty…

…trends in the last decade in Iran. The results will be presented in the near future. Commenting on the present analysis Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the international spokesperson of IHR says: “The…

…countries around the world have already abolished the death penalty in law or in practice, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty works to ensure that this treaty becomes the…

…the death penalty is strategic”. Drugs and the death penalty relate to all abolitionist states whether they have citizens on death row for drugs abroad or whether they give money,…

…the application and scope of the death penalty. We hope this decision will be adopted in other countries in East and West Africa where the mandatory death penalty is still…

…US. The ICDP delegation met diplomats from countries that retain the death penalty. During the discussion, they highlighted steps taken by their Governments to reduce the scope of the death…

…the state secret on all death penalty related information. The abolition of the death penalty has now become a universal and irreversible trend, as was recognized with the recent adoption…

…new regime. The Singapore Working Group on the Death Penalty, which includes the organisations We believe in Second Chances, Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign and World Coalition member Think Center Singapore,…

…country where ethnic Tutsis used to use the death penalty to enforce their domination on Hutus. What is now the exact status of the death penalty in Burundi? The amendment…

…of the death penalty on the process to adopt a law to implement the Rome Statute in the DRC” with help from the French embassy in Kinshasa. The latest developments…

The prisoners became entitled to be resentenced in 2007, when the Constitutional Court ruled the mandatory death penalty unconstitutional on the grounds that it was inhuman and degrading punishment and…

…civilized world in abolishing the death penalty. But just before a speech or an interview, we gather together. We lend support to each other for the next small step in…

…President of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. FIDH and the World Coalition call upon the international community, in particular the United Nations, the African Union and the Economic…

…death penalty”,” the letter read. The Belarusian Helsinki Committee, which the World Coalition’s member organization in Belarus, helped publicise the letter in the country. Its chairperson Aleh Hulak described the…

…drug offences. Though 32 countries or territories (Taiwan and the Hamas-administration in Gaza) prescribe the death penalty for drugs in law, the reality is that very few of these countries…

…played an active part in campaigning against the death penalty in recent months, took part in an initiative entitled “Cities for life, cities against the death penalty”. ACAT Burundi’s commitment…

…of the death penalty. “The minority of states that continue to systematically use the death penalty were responsible for thousands of executions in 2010, defying the global anti-death penalty trend,”…

…to take measures tackling the secrecy that surrounds the death penalty in Japan. “Initiating the discussion ordisclosure of the information should have been done far earlier, not only after claiming…

…International began keeping records, no executions took place in Europe in 2009. Belarus is the only country in the region that continues to use the death penalty. Across the Americas,…

…also looked into the moratorium as a tool to fight the death penalty. Prof Carlson Anyangwe, a member of the African Commission’s Working Group on the death penalty, pointed out…

…the international dimension of the fight against the death penalty. Its ultimate objective is to obtain the universal abolition of the death penalty. The World Coalition is striving to achieve…

…in the classroom, in seminars, at conferences, all over the world. We think these stories have the power to effect real change and put the death penalty under the spotlight…

…Coalition members to identify good practices and obstacles encountered by civil society for the abolition of the death penalty in Africa and for the adoption of a protocol to the…

…the death penalty and also move away from the international trend towards the abolition of the death penalty. In a letter to India’s Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, the World Coalition…

…on execution, ratification of the UN Protocol on the abolition of the death penalty and even reforms towards eventual abolition of the death penalty. On the question of greater transparency…

…countries in the region came to take part in the debates. Over four days, plenary sessions and workshops targeted the death penalty in Africa and the means to achieve abolition….

…participation in the World Coalition and in the 5th World Congress Against the Death Penalty. Photo: Ogarit Younan leads a workshop on the abolition of the death penalty (source: deathpenaltylebanon.org)…

…members shocked by the news from Taiwan. “The execution of five people in Taiwan in one day is a step backwards from the growing global consensus against the death penalty,”…

The path towards the abolition of death penalty worldwide took one more step in 2012. The number of confirmed executions remained steady compared to the previous year, according to the…

…the death penalty in Cameroun at the core of the debate. The debate and information which has been circulated during this conference will be useful to build the alternative report…

…the poor provision of health services and rehabilitation programs, and the disproportionate handing of the death penalty for offenders. The number of individuals sentenced with the death penalty in relation…

…to vote in favour of the UN resolution calling for a global moratorium on the death penalty, which will be debated at the UN General Assembly in the coming weeks….

…of the 2017 Activity Report. The Steering Committee commends the efforts of the Executive Board as well as the staff of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and calls…

…become a symbol of the cruel and inhuman nature of the death penalty as activists prepare for events from Bagdad, Iraq to Brisbane, Australia, according to the International Committee Against…

…in 1999, and the Bahamas in 2000. GCL calls on our leaders in the region to accept that the restrictions placed by the ruling of the Judicial Committee of the…

…12-year analysis of “Women and the Death Penalty in Iran”, which provides further information and background on this issue.   Positive key facts to keep in mind For thefirst time…

…of the World Coalition is to strengthen the international dimension of the fight against the death penalty. Its ultimate objective is to obtain the universal abolition of the death penalty….

…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…

…the use of the death penalty in 2007 and 2008. Kyrgyzstan has also committed itself to voting in favour of the upcoming moratorium resolution in December 2010 and, as in…

…In Maryland too, the governor wants to repeal the death penalty. A Senate committee there narrowly rejected the proposal by a 5-5 vote last March. In Nebraska, the unicameral parliament…