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Amnesty International - Report 2021

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Executions on the rise, but progress toward abolition in 2021 

By Amnesty International, on 9 June 2022

…had abolished the death penalty in law or practice. 108 countries, a majority of the world’s states, had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes and 144 countries had abolished the

2022

Death Row Conditions 

Trend Towards Abolition

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ACAT-CI commits to the ratification of OP2 in Côte d’Ivoire

By N'guettia Yves Arsene Kouadio - ACAT Côte d'Ivoire, on 4 January 2017

…Abolition of the Death Penalty in Africa. The abolition of the death penalty has been enshrined in the Ivorian legislation: Article 3 of the new Constitution states that “the death

2017

Côte d'Ivoire

Public Opinion 

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Spot opportunities and focus on education, abolitionists are told

on 24 February 2010

penalty, reducing the number of death penalty provisions and exploring the abolition of capital punishment through constitutional interpretation. The right person to deliver the message Piers Bannister of Amnesty International…

2010

Ghana

South Africa

Switzerland

Taiwan

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Nicaragua makes abolition irreversible

on 4 March 2009

…providing total abolition of death penalty. Total and irreversible abolition of the death penalty The ratification of the Second Optional Protocol is one more proof of the general trend for…

2009

Nicaragua

Nicaragua

World Coalition Against the Death Penalyt

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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

the death penalty for all crimes or for ordinary crimes, including 19 member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. Convinced that the abolition of the death penalty contributes to…

2021

Lebanon

Moratorium

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Program Manager

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 15 October 2018

…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….

2018

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Outrage at Texas’s 400th execution

on 27 August 2007

…and political institutions. The Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP) organised a vigil in front the Capitol, the seat of democratic power in the state, while the inmate…

2007

Public Opinion 

United States

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Translations in Chinese

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 21 January 2013

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…

2013

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A Training on Advocacy for the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Abdoul Razak Ahmadou Youssoufou, on 29 July 2019

…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…

2019

Cameroon

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Justice Denied: A Global Study of Wrongful Death Row Convictions

By Death Penalty Worldwide, on 26 March 2018

…impossible to cross-examine them, and the defense presented no evidence of its own. Even so, the court convicted the men and sentenced them to death. Unlike Aftab, however, Moctar and…

2018

Cameroon

Indonesia

Innocence

Jordan

Malawi

Nigeria

Pakistan

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EU regrets difficulties in dialogue with Belarus

By Tiziana Trotta, on 16 June 2013

The representatives of the European institutions who had gathered for the 5th World Congress against death penalty said they were satisfied with the resolution on Belarus which had been approved…

2013

Belarus

Belarus

Public Opinion 

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Protest Against Executions Ordered by Minister of Justice Yoshihisa Furukawa

By Center for Prisoner Rights and Japan Innocence and Death Penalty Information Center, on 23 December 2021

…basis.” He therefore acknowledges and purposely attempts to avoid international criticism in light of the March Kyoto Congress and the hosting of the summer Olympics. In the U.S., the Biden…

2021

Japan

Legal Representation

Moratorium

Statment Iran signatories - april 2024

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Call for joint action to stop drug-related executions in Iran

on 3 May 2024

…with the Islamic Republic contingent on a complete halt on drug-related executions”. They have announced the start of a mass international campaign in this regard. The death penalty or state…

2024

Drug Offenses

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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Progressing towards abolition in East Africa

on 7 August 2011

…civil society from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, the media, and members of the international donor community (the European Union and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office). The aim of the

2011

Death Row Conditions 

Fair Trial

Kenya

World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

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World Coalition elects new Steering Committee and Executive Board for two years

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 September 2021

Penalty (MCADP) – Mauritanian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CMCPM) – Nigerien Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CONICOPEM-Niger) – Tunisian Coalition Against the Death Penalty – Colegio de Abogados y…

2021

Juveniles

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Working with journalists to expose the death penalty’s flaws

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 30 June 2014

…again, Hubert said. Both journalists explained that anti-death penalty campaigners should also organise their discourse in the inverted pyramid format used in the media, starting with the most important information…

2014

Public Opinion 

Puerto Rico

How to work with parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty

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Publication of a New Guide on Working with Parliamentarians to Abolish the Death Penalty

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 October 2021

…with parliamentarians to abolish the death penalty. Produced in the context of the second phase of the project on “Contributing to the abolition of the death penalty in sub-Saharan Africa”,…

2021

Women

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Death penalty: Global abolition closer than ever as record number of countries vote to end executions

By Amnesty International, on 17 December 2018

…When the UN was founded in 1945 only eight of the then 51 UN member states had abolished the death penalty. Today, 103 of 193 member states have abolished the

2018

Moratorium

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Briton’s death sentence puts Indonesians at risk

By KontraS, on 31 January 2013

…than 200 of them are currently facing the death penalty overseas, much to the dismay of their fellow citizens back home. Indonesians abroad facing execution In response, the Ministry of…

2013

Drug Offenses

Indonesia

Moratorium

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Opportunity to end US lethal injections

on 15 November 2007

…C. Bowling, about the consitutionality of the lethal injection method – the only mandatory one in the US. The lawyers for the two Kentucky men argue that “the chemicals or…

2007

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Moratorium

United States

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Joint statement from 48 coalitions, networks and human rights organizations from 12 Arab countries

By The Arab Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 6 January 2016

…ensuring of the right to life, and signing of the United Nations Declaration moratorium on the death penalty pending the effective abolition of the death penalty from national legislation, have…

2016

Saudi Arabia

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Publishing the final words of the executed to restore their humanity

By Thomas Hubert, on 16 October 2014

…people on both sides of the debate. Marc Asnin: The people who read these final words should come out of it with an emotional connection. In the US, for the

2014

Public Opinion 

United States

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Taiwan abolitionists remind their government of its promise

on 13 March 2011

…government will work to reduce the application of the death penalty”. “Anyone sentenced to death shall have the right to seek pardon or commutation of the sentence” On the eve…

2011

Clemency

Death Row Conditions 

Taiwan

Taiwan

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Abolition on the agenda of the National Assembly in DR Congo

on 6 November 2010

…bill to be examined as a preliminary to the debate on the implementation of the Rome Statute. The next day, the chair of the Assembly rubberstamped it and put the

2010

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Saudi Arabia: why are foreigners losing their heads?

on 26 March 2008

World Coalition members Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT-France) and Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), members of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, have launched…

2008

Fair Trial

Juveniles

Legal Representation

Saudi Arabia

Women

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FIACAT: abolition “is part of the mission of the Churches”

on 16 December 2009

…a Protocol on the death penalty in Africa was considered. In these circumstances propitious to progress in abolishing the death penalty throughout the world, FIACAT especially welcomes the following statements…

2009

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Juveniles

Saudi Arabia

Sudan

Yemen

World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

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Abolition of the death penalty in the Central African Republic

By ECPM, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, the International Federation of ACAT (FIACAT) and Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture in the Central African Republic (ACAT CAR), on 2 August 2021

Together Against the Death Penalty, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, the International Federation of ACAT (FIACAT) and Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture in the Central…

2021

Central African Republic

Moratorium

World Coalition Against the Death Penalyt

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Wild flaws in judicial systems leading to death sentences: Iraq and Singapore

By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 24 February 2025

…KRG Directorate of Corrections. Singapore Human Right Wath alerts on the continued use of the death penalty in Singapore as “The home minister intensified the crackdown on anti-death penalty activists,…

2025

Fair Trial

Iraq

Singapore

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A significant step towards universal abolition

on 15 November 2007

…inter alia that: “Considering that the use of the death penalty undermines human dignity, and convinced that a moratorium on the use of the death penalty contributes to the enhancement…

2007

Moratorium

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World Congress Against the Death Penalty

By Thomas Hubert & Tiziana Trotta, on 12 June 2013

…(Together Against the Death Penalty – ECPM) under the sponsorship of Spain, Norway, Switzerland and France and in partnership with the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. The 5th World…

2013

Spain

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Death penalty proposals put lives at risk

on 23 May 2013

…resolutions on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, to reduce the number of offences for which the death penalty may be applied. Amnesty International is calling on…

2013

Papua New Guinea

Women

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Death penalty in 2019: Facts and figures

By Amnesty International, on 22 April 2020

…end of 2019, 106 countries (a majority of the world’s states) had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes, and 142 countries (more than two-thirds) had abolished the

2020

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Kirghizstan definitively outlaws death penalty

on 18 February 2010

The parliament of Kirghizistan ratified the UN Protocol on the abolition of the death penalty on February 11, making the re-establishment of the death penalty illegal. The French ministry of…

2010

Kyrgyzstan

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Liberia illegally restores the death penalty

on 28 July 2008

the death penalty, by way of accession. The Protocol commits its members to three main obligations: it forbids them to resort to executions, asks that members abolish the death penalty

2008

Liberia

Liberia

Terrorism

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Vietnam considers reduction in scope of death penalty

on 9 February 2009

penalty, sentence of death may be imposed only for the most serious crimes”. However, Vietnam has not ratified the Second Optional Protocol aiming at the abolition of the death penalty….

2009

Drug Offenses

Viet Nam

Viet Nam

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Sri Lanka: the death sentences of 60 prisoners commuted

By Elise Guillot, on 17 February 2017

…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…

2017

Sri Lanka

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American death penalty area shrank further in 2012

By Thomas Hubert, on 20 December 2012

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

2012

United States

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“Look at us with a merciful eye”

By Human Rights Watch, on 5 March 2013

death sentence. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, charged with interpreting the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), has stated that, “If there is…

2013

Juveniles

Yemen

Yemen

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Bad press for China after Briton’s execution

on 10 January 2010

…it doesn’t seem that in this case the Chinese authorities did so.” “The UK, the EU and the rest of the world should continue to press the Chinese government to…

2010

China

Mental Illness

United Kingdom

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Fighting to establish the unconstitutionality of the death penalty in the DRC

on 1 May 2008

…member of the World and Congolese Coalitions against the death penalty. The prosecutor’s office sent the file to the military prosecutor’s office, which has refused to provide the campaigners with…

2008

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Web-Editor

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

…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 World…

2016

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Taiwan visit raises hopes of local abolitionists

on 9 July 2008

At the request of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, the World Coalition and the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network sent a mission to Taipei in June. American law…

2008

Public Opinion 

Taiwan

Taiwan

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LEDAP condemns the killing of three death row prisoners in Nigeria

By Chino Obiagwu - LEDAP National Coordinator, on 28 December 2016

…of the death row prisoners in Nigeria are pending in court, to the knowledge of the prison authorities and the government who participated in the high court proceedings before the

2016

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Nigeria

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EU diplomats team up with US activists to co-ordinate efforts against the death penalty

on 18 December 2008

…in Washington, DC. The French embassy’s Senior Counsellor Laurent Delahousse set up the meeting on behalf of the French presidency of the European Union to hear US death penalty abolition…

2008

Innocence

Public Opinion 

United States

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New study shows Taiwan death penalty violates human rights standards

By The Death Penalty Project, on 8 June 2014

In association with the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, the Death Penalty Project launched a report on the death penalty in Taiwan on 5 June 2014. The event,…

2014

Taiwan

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Malian opinion leaders meet to discuss death penalty abolition

on 6 October 2014

the Malian authorities to: • abolish the death penalty for all crimes and ratify the United Nations’ Protocol on the abolition of the death penalty; • co-sponsor the Resolution calling…

2014

Mali

Mali

Public Opinion 

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Death sentence in the Palestinian Territories

on 18 April 2008

…states that maintain the death penalty to: – Respect international standards that provide safeguards guaranteeing the protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty, in particular the minimum…

2008

Moratorium

State of Palestine

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Project officer – The Death Penalty Project

By The Death Penalty Project, on 23 January 2018

About The Death Penalty Project The Death Penalty Project (DPP) is a legal action charity based in London. Our main purpose is to promote and protect the human rights of…

2018

United Kingdom

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3+4: Death Penalty Cases Now Jury Cases

By Nicolas Chua, on 23 November 2018

…number of countries recommending that China ratifies the Second Optional Protocol, reduces the scope of the death penalty and, more generally, work towards the complete abolition of the death penalty….

2018

China

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Abolition in New Mexico hailed around the world

on 19 March 2009

The legislation is the result of a bi-partisan initiative in the state’s legislature and means that New Mexico became the 15th US state to abolish the death penalty. Richardson described…

2009

United States

Logo members Joint letter sent to Member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council

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Widespread and systematic violations of human rights in Iran

By Impact Iran, on 12 March 2021

…to support the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran at the 46th session of the Human Rights Council….

2021

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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Video about the death penalty in the Palestinian Territories

By Federica Merenda, on 9 March 2016

Executions and extrajudicial killings Regarding the use of the death penalty in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the PCHR is particularly concerned about the lack of guarantees of…

2016

State of Palestine

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In Cameroon, the abolitionist network grows

By Nestor Toko and Jessica Corredor, on 28 October 2016

the Cameroonian society and encouraging the development of a Cameroonian Coalition against the Death Penalty.  The conference gathered officials from the government of Cameroon, political parties, judges and lawyers as…

2016

Cameroon

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Abolition as seen by police and justice practicioners

on 28 February 2010

…of the victims’ families who want to mourn and not wait out the years of the various appeals and then the final execution, which to compound matters is the focus…

2010

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Public Opinion 

United States

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Uzbekistan becomes the 70th state party to the UN’s Second Optional Protocol

on 17 December 2008

the death penalty. Uzbek President Islam Karimov (photo) signed the ratification into law on December 12, according to the Interfax news agency. The documents have yet to be filed with…

2008

Clemency

Uzbekistan

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Argentina definitively abolishes the death penalty

on 18 September 2008

…abolition of the death penalty for political reasons”. Last August, the reform of the Military justice code led to the deletion of all references to the death penalty for military…

2008

Argentina

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Universal abolition will happen when four key countries change sides

on 28 February 2010

…inmates wait for years in solitary confinement without knowing the date of their execution. Their lawyers say many of them become insane. And, unlike in the US, they cannot make…

2010

China

Death Row Conditions 

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Japan

Juveniles

Switzerland

United States

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The World Coalition welcomes the moratorium on executions in California

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 14 March 2019

…of the fight against the death penalty. Its ultimate objective is to obtain the universal abolition of the death penalty. To achieve its goal, the World Coalition advocates for a…

2019

Moratorium

United States

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Philippines: Do not revive the Death Penalty

By Ngeow Chow Ying, for the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN), on 15 January 2017

The reasons behind the reinstatement of the death penalty are ill founded and purely a political one. Numerous studies and analyses have concluded that death penalty does not deter crime….

2017

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

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4,000 death sentences commuted in Kenya

on 6 August 2009

…with support from the international Death Penalty Project. According to the Death Penalty Project, “a key underlying factor behind the decision to commute the sentences of all those on death

2009

Clemency

Kenya

Kenya

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FIDH report on Vietnam: an update on death penalty statistics

on 19 September 2010

…resolutions by reducing the number of crimes punishable by death. But the resolutions also request countries that maintain the death penalty to provide death penalty statistics to the UN General…

2010

Drug Offenses

Moratorium

Viet Nam

Viet Nam

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ADPAN welcomes Mongolia’s decision abolish death penalty in law

By ADPAN, on 18 December 2015

…to have abolished the death penalty for all crimes. For more information, read the blog piece from Amnesty Mongolia, which describes key moments from the campaign in the country: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2015/12/the-long-road-to-death-penalty-abolition-in-mongolia/…

2015

Article(s)

Event on the UNGA resolution for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty at the World Congress

By Federica Merenda, on 27 June 2016

The UNGA moratorium resolution The UNGA has adopted a resolution calling for a moratorium on executions with a view to abolish the death penalty for the first time in 2007,…

2016

Moratorium

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US Supreme Court revives “failed” death penalty

on 17 April 2008

the death penalty is deeply flawed. By allowing the continuation of the United States’ practice of “tinkering with the machinery of deaththe Court again leaves the United States out…

2008

Moratorium

United States

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European Union tightens rules on export of death drug

By Emile Carreau, on 20 January 2012

the spotlight squarely on Hospira Inc., the sole US manufacturer of the drug, the company decided to cease its production in early 2011 due to concerns that their product was…

2012

Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment

Denmark

United States

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The ACHPR Moves Online, along with Advocacy to End Capital Punishment

By Bronwyn Dudley, on 30 July 2020

…status, submitted an oral declaration regarding the death penalty on the African continent and the COVID-19 pandemic. While there were no panels planned during the sessions, as there usually are,…

2020

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All roads lead to Rome for world abolitionists

on 9 June 2009

The Community of Sant’Egidio, one of the founding members of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, has invited the Coalition’s 87 other members to its Rome headquarters on June…

2009

Italy

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Taiwan executions spark outrage

By Thomas Hubert, on 19 April 2013

…is to reduce the use of the death penalty. Executing six people is not part of a process of reducing the use of the death penalty,” a World Coalition representative…

2013

Taiwan

Taiwan

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Nations of the world to vote on fresh moratorium resolution

on 8 November 2008

Last year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling on all nations to establish a moratorium on the death penalty. The issue is once again on the agenda,…

2008

Moratorium

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ECPM takes social media campaign to the fair ground

By Bronwyn Dudley, on 16 September 2014

…starting with “I stand against the death penalty because…” followed by their reason, and having their picture taken holding it. The photo is then posted on their preferred social media…

2014

France

Intellectual Disability

Mental Illness

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NGOs join forces to tackle capital punishment at Iran’s rights review

By Thomas Hubert, on 30 October 2014

…advocacy, they believe Iran and the international community can do better at the new UPR session this Friday. Among the documents forming the basis the discussion, a detailed report submitted…

2014

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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Petition against the Death Penalty

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 1 October 2011

the death penalty worldwide in the belief that this penalty is inhumane:     * Whatever the method of execution, there is no humane way to kill     * Whatever the

2011

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Iranian World Coalition member receives Martin Ennals award

on 23 May 2009

their protection. “This is an important prize, with regards to the organisations awarding it, and of course in my viewpoint the spiritual value of the prize is very high”, Baghi…

2009

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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UN Protocol campaign harnesses diplomatic power

on 4 November 2009

…Rights Committee, the UN body monitoring the implementation of the Protocol. The event took place a few days after the World Day against the Death Penalty, and just one month…

2009

Brazil

El Salvador

Latvia

Spain

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Mobilisation gathers pace in Tunisia

on 7 April 2008

The petition for the abolition of the death penalty in Tunisia has received the support of 126 initial signatures, and 150 for the petition for Saber Ragoubi. The two texts…

2008

Fair Trial

Moratorium

Tunisia

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Hank Skinner’s execution stayed amid international action

on 25 March 2010

…As before each execution, Texas death penalty opponents had gathered around Huntsville prison. But this time, they were not alone: in Paris, Together Against the Death Penalty and the Free…

2010

Innocence

United States

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UN resolution: the abolitionist front gets stronger

on 19 December 2008

…towards the abolition of the death penalty”. A slight change can be seen in the Arab World. While Algeria voted in favour of the resolution for the second time, seven…

2008

Algeria

Bahrain

Chad

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Equatorial Guinea

Jordan

Kiribati

Mauritania

Moratorium

Oman

Seychelles

Article(s)

After abolition: what alternative to the death penalty?

By Thomas Hubert, on 15 June 2013

…Against the Death Penalty. Yet they acknowledged that abolitionists must also take into account the concerns of those who fear that abolishing the death penalty may lead to impunity. “With…

2013

Public Opinion 

Article(s)

World Coalition members hail abolition in Maryland

By Thomas Hubert, on 15 March 2013

Abolitionists worldwide celebrated on 15 March when Maryland delegates took a final vote to make their state the 18th to abolish the death penalty in the US. The abolition bill…

2013

Indonesia

United States

Article(s)

COVID-19: Calling for a Worldwide Moratorium on the Death Penalty During the Pandemic

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 18 June 2020

…Coalition Against the Death Penalty. In a statement released today, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and its member organizations call on all countries that still use the death

2020

Moratorium

Article(s)

World Coalition calls on Canada to keep up its efforts against the death penalty

on 10 March 2009

…letter to the prime minister, the World Coalition highlighted Canada’s efforts to oppose the death penalty internationally and the support lent to Ronald Smith over the past 25 years. It…

2009

Canada

Canada

Clemency

United States

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World Day campaign launched!

on 13 August 2007

the World Day Against the Death Penalty will coincide with the UN General Assembly’s schedule. Following a proposal by the European Union, delegates from the United Nations’ 192 member states…

2007

Moratorium

Article(s)

Call for Moratorium on Executions Gains Record-High Support at Committee Vote

By Amnesty International & Comunità di Sant'Egidio, on 16 November 2018

…that have abolished the death penalty in law or practice globally. A minority of countries, 36, voted against the proposal and 30 abstained at the vote. For the first time,…

2018

Moratorium

Article(s)

International support for abolition is continuing to grow – foreign ministers

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 9 October 2015

…Day against the Death Penalty, we, Foreign Ministers, jointly call for a world which respects human dignity. The death penalty, a complex issue, continues to question the fundamental values of…

2015

Argentina

Australia

Benin

Brazil

Burkina Faso

Costa Rica

Fiji

Haiti

Latvia

Madagascar

Mexico

Mongolia

Norway

Philippines

Poland

Spain

Switzerland

Turkey

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Corpses of doubtful origin banned from Paris exhibition

on 24 April 2009

…highlighting trafficking linked to the bodies of the executed and the authorities’ lack of transparency on the death penalty. May 5 update: The Paris Appeals Court confirmed the first ruling,…

2009

China

Fair Trial

France

France

Article(s)

Death Penalty and Terrorism

By Hand Off Cain, on 15 June 2018

…at least 24, the majority (21) for terrorism. As many were the death sentences pronounced during the year. At least 12 of the 24 executions took place under the authority…

2018

Somalia

Terrorism

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58th Extraordinary Session of the ACHPR: a strong commitment of African states to a treaty providing the abolition of the death penalty

By Guillaume Colin, on 14 April 2016

…of this draft African Protocol on the abolition of the death penalty and explained the reasons why the States should support it. It is about an African instrument of Human…

2016

Gambia

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7th Congress – The new challenges of the abolitionist movement

By Louis Linel, on 5 March 2019

Gathered for 3 days in Brussels on the occasion of the 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, abolitionists from all over the world shared their experiences to consolidate the

2019

Public Opinion 

Article(s)

Mental illness and the death penalty: a painful intersection

on 28 May 2008

…who disagree with the use of the death penalty in the case of their loved ones. They are looking for individuals or organisations who could refer them to families fitting…

2008

Mental Illness

Murder Victims' Families

United States

Article(s)

Activists oppose the death penalty across Asia

on 30 October 2008

…a letter to the prime minister, the president and the interior minister asking them to establish a moratorium on executions. In Mongolia, a conference on “Human rights and the death

2008

India

Japan

Mongolia

Pakistan

Public Opinion 

Republic of Korea

Taiwan

onnie Numbi of Foundation for Human Rights Initiative Uganda, Dr Anna Henga of Legal Human Right Center Tanzania, Damaris Kemunto of the Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya), and Méline Szwarcberg

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Advocating for the recognition of women sentenced to death in the fight for women’s rights

By World coalition against the death penalty, on 15 August 2023

…summit in Kigali, Rwanda. Throughout the summit, they advocated for the recognition of the reality of women on death row in the fight for women’s rights. They also organized an…

2023

Gender

Women

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The Arab civil society calls for a moratorium on capital punishment

on 6 June 2008

…end of the meeting, they issued the “Alexandria Declaration calling upon the Arab countries to implement the UN Resolution 62/149 on the establishment of a moratorium on the death penalty”….

2008

Egypt

Moratorium

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UAE use of death penalty raises “grave concerns”

on 7 May 2010

the number of death sentences. The letter therefore called on the justice minister to “establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty”. > Download the

2010

Fair Trial

Juveniles

United Arab Emirates

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Suspension of Pakistan executions not enough – ADPAN

By Thomas Hubert, on 22 August 2013

The Anti Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN) “is appealing to the Pakistan authorities to halt all executions and institute a formal moratorium on the death penalty” in a statement published…

2013

Moratorium

Pakistan

Pakistan

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The World Coalition elects its new governing bodies until June 2021

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 12 September 2019

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty held its General Assembly during the World Congress Against the Death Penalty on 26 February 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. More than 50 member…

2019

On 31 December 2024, Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the Death Penalty Abolition Bill into law.

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Zimbabwe Abolishes the Death Penalty

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 6 January 2025

…since then to ensure that the bill would gather enough support.  The Death Penalty Abolition Act (2024) not only abolishes the death penalty for all crimes, but it also allows…

2025

Zimbabwe

Article(s)

9th Resolution for a moratorium on the death penalty: the trend is growing

By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 20 December 2022

On 15 December 2022, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 9th resolution for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty with 125 votes in favor (2 more…

2022

Moratorium

Trend Towards Abolition

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World Coalition member in Bahrain fights for the lives of protestors

on 25 May 2011

The brutality of the Bahraini government’s response to several weeks of protests earlier this year had drawn criticism from many. Yet the story faded out of the news rather quickly….

2011

Bahrain

Article(s)

Small progress against the execution of minors

By Tiziana Trotta, on 14 June 2013

…last year even though their age at the time of the crime had not been properly established and despite the fact that the legislation clearly forbids the death penalty should…

2013

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Juveniles

Sudan

Yemen

Article(s)

California’s moratorium holds

on 11 October 2010

the first revised protocol in June. The day after the OAL adopted the protocol the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office obtained an execution date for Brown. Fortunately for Brown, numerous…

2010

Clemency

Mental Illness

Moratorium

United States