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The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights organised its first regional conference on the death penalty in Africa in late September.

On September 25, Brazil became the 72nd state party to the international treaty that abolishes the death penalty without any possibility of reinstating it.

An official report and a feature in the New Yorker have confirmed that Todd Willingham was not guilty of the arson for which he was executed. Abolitionist campaigners are now targeting his case.

The African human rights watchdog has asked Libya not to execute 20 Nigerians on death row in the North African country after a Nigerian NGO highlighted their plight.

The Japanese government continues to execute prisoners with psychiatric illnesses and the conditions on death row provoke mental disorders among inmates, according to a new Amnesty International report.

The Thai government has attracted widespread condemnation from the global abolitionist movement after it had two drug traffickers executed.

Shortly after Kenya commuted thousands of death sentences, the Nigerian state of Lagos took similar steps and moved closer to abolition.

The World Coalition and its members have been criticizing illegal organ transplants after executions. Beijing promises to tackle the problem.

Kenya’s president has commuted all death sentences in the country in the wake of legal challenges brought by local and international activists.

The Japanese authorities hanged three death row inmates on July 28, attracting criticism throughout Asia and beyond.