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Article(s)
Texas maintains distance from abolitionist trend after 500th execution
By Léa Macarez, on 4 July 2013
52 year-old black woman Kimberly McCarthy was executed on 26 June and became the 500th prisoner put to death since Texas restored the death penalty in 1982.
2013
United States
Women
Article(s)
200 executions in Texas under Rick Perry
on 8 June 2009
On June 2, 2009, the 200th execution authorized by governor Rick Perry took place in Texas. Protests were scheduled from Huntsville to Paris to denounce the death penalty situation in the southern US state.
2009
Clemency
Innocence
Mental Illness
United States
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Article(s)
“Unknown Assailants: A Threat to Human Rights”
By Legal Human Rights Centre, on 4 May 2018
So is named The Tanzania Human Rights Report of 2017 released by the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC).This report was published on April 25th, 2018 and it enlights for the fifteenth time the major human rights violations in Tanzania. This report, while it deals with human rights violation in Tanzania concerning civil and politial rights, freedom of violence, freedom of expression, also presents the death penalty as an issue in the coutnry and called the President for its abolition.
2018
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
United Republic of Tanzania
Article(s)
China acknowledges death row organ trafficking
on 29 August 2009
The World Coalition and its members have been criticizing illegal organ transplants after executions. Beijing promises to tackle the problem.
2009
China
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
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Article(s)
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
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Article(s)
Progressive abolition of the death penalty and alternative sanctions
By PRI - FHRI, on 15 February 2013
World Coalition member organisations PRI and FHRI launch a small grants programme for local NGOs on the abolition of the death penalty and humane alternative sanctions in nine countries.
2013
Article(s)
Activists and diplomats slam political executions in Iran
on 1 February 2010
The Islamic Republic finds itself more isolated than ever after it hanged to dissidents and threatened many more with execution.
2010
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Fair Trial
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Article(s)
Geneva 2010: organising for stronger campaigning
on 7 February 2010
The programme of the World Congress Against the Death Penalty is intended to give abolitionists an opportunity to reflect on their joint actions, including campaigns coordinated by the World Coalition.
2010
Benin
France
Italy
Spain
Switzerland
Article(s)
Europe and Japan share “Reflections on life”
on 8 December 2009
Speaking at a symposium on the death penalty organised in Tokyo by the Swedish presidency of the European Union, a Japanese minister expressed his commitment for abolition.
2009
Innocence
Japan
Moratorium
Public Opinion
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Article(s)
Africa : 3 abolitions of the death penalty in one year
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 20 October 2022
After Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea has adopted a new Penal Code that abolishes the death penalty for ordinary crimes.
2022
Central African Republic
Equatorial Guinea
Sierra Leone
Article(s)
The Last Day of a Condemned Man/Autopsy of fear
on 24 February 2010
Geneva’s Théâtre de la Comédie was filled to the seams Wednesday evening for the première of an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel that plunges theatre goers into the mind of a man destined for the guillotine.
2010
Switzerland
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Article(s)
Abolitionist Challenges for 2013 in Puerto Rico
By Puerto Rican Coalition against the Death Penalty, on 7 March 2013
This annual report covers the situation of death penalty cases involving Puerto Ricans who face death penalty proceedings in the federal jurisdiction, as well as in those states of the US where such punishment is strictly upheld, and one case of petition for extradition.
2013
United States
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Article(s)
Annual report on the death penalty in Iran 2017
By Iran Human Rights (IHR) - Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), on 22 March 2018
The report shows that in 2017 at least 517 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This number is comparable with the execution figures in 2016 and confirms the relative reduction in the use of the death penalty compared to the period between 2010 and 2015.
2018
Drug Offenses
Fair Trial
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Chinese death penalty targets minorities
on 19 November 2009
The recent execution of several Uyghurs and Tibetans after ethnic clashes in China was met with severe international criticism.
2009
China
Fair Trial
Legal Representation
Article(s)
International mobilisation saves the life of Filipina maid
on 12 December 2007
A Filipina woman sentenced to death in Kuwait for the murder of her employer has seen her sentence commuted to life imprisonment after joint action by migrant and abolitionist groups.
2007
Kuwait
Philippines
Women
Article(s)
Devising a strategy to support ratifications of the UN protocol
on 10 July 2009
The World Coalition organised a round table on action to be taken to support the ratification of the UN’s protocol on the abolition of the death penalty, as part of International CURE’s conference in Geneva in June.
2009
Kazakhstan
Terrorism
Article(s)
Pressured Indian firm stops exporting lethal drugs
on 8 April 2011
The decision of Kayem to stop supplying the US with execution drugs may well have been influenced by a campaign organized by World Coalition member Reprieve.
2011
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
India
United States
Article(s)
World Coalition worried by the current situation in Iraq and Tibet (China)
on 19 May 2009
Alerted by local members, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty recently sent protest letters to the Chinese and Iraqi authorities.
2009
China
Fair Trial
Iraq
Article(s)
World Coalition welcomes the success of its 15th General Assembly
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2017
More than 50 member organisations of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty gathered for three days on 22-24 June 2017 in Washington DC for the General Assembly of the World Coalition.
2017
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Article(s)
Global Prison Trends 2018 4th Edition
By Penal Reform International, on 6 June 2018
Global Prison Trends 2018 is the fourth edition in PRI’s annual flagship Global Prison Trends series, which identifies topical developments and challenges in criminal justice and prison policy and practice. It is published in collaboration with the Thailand Institute of Justice, and features a foreword by the Rt Hon Helen Clark, Member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Former Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme.
2018
Death Row Conditions
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Article(s)
Responsible Business Initiative on the Death Penalty
By Louis Linel, on 19 July 2019
On the occasion of the meeting of its Steering Committee on Friday 28 June and Saturday 29 June 2019, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty has invited the director of Responsible Business Initiative Against the Death Penalty, Ms. Celia Ouellette, to present the involvement of companies against the capital punishment alongside with traditional activists.
2019
Article(s)
Crime and populism prevent abolition in the Caribbean
on 28 February 2010
The region has the highest crime rate in the world. Whether it is gratuitous violence, domestic violence, ethnic tensions or drug-related violence, people want solutions faced to the accumulation of crime.
2010
Colombia
Drug Offenses
Jamaica
South Africa
Article(s)
Internship opportunity at Centre on the Death Penalty, NLU Delhi
By NLU Delhi, on 1 April 2016
The Centre on the Death Penalty is keen to develop a robust and rewarding internship programme that will provide meaningful exposure to the complexities and nuances, in particular, of the administration of the death penalty and the criminal justice system in India more generally, therefore the centre introduces internship program where they accept interns on rolling basis.
2016
India
Article(s)
Preventing exports of lethal drugs from Europe to the US
on 22 January 2011
High-profile civil society organizations have signed a submission appealing to the European Commission to control the exportation, from Europe, of the drugs that are used in US executions.
2011
United States
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Article(s)
China’s “efforts to gradually reduce the application of the death penalty”
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 30 October 2014
Following a decision by the Communist Party’s Central Committee in November 2013 to “gradually reduce the number of crimes punishable by death”, a draft amendment to China’s criminal law was submitted for initial review to the country’s National People’s Congress this week.
2014
China
Article(s)
Executions and secrecy in Japan
on 15 April 2008
The World Coalition condemns the acceleration of executions in Japan andt the continued secrecy surrounding them.
2008
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Japan
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Article(s)
Critical expansion of the use of the death Penalty in India in 2018
By Project 39A, on 6 February 2019
In 2018 India followed a particularly repressive path by sentencing 162 people to death.
2019
India
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Article(s)
Closing ceremony of the project « My pencil for abolition » at the French Ministry of foreign affairs
By Marion Gauer, on 27 May 2016
On May 23rd, 2016, the closing ceremony of the project “My pencil for abolition” took place at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This project was organized by the team of “Educating and Raising Awareness on Abolition” in the association Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM): it consisted in involving a few middle and high school’s classes, from Lorraine, Belfort and the Parisian region, in the elaboration of articles and cartoons in order to create a magazine committed to the abolition of the death penalty, known as the Abolition Mag.
2016
Public Opinion
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Article(s)
7th World Day Against the Death Penalty: teaching abolition
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 27 July 2009
On 10 October 2009, World Day Against the Death Penalty, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty wishes to teach abolition to all citizens around the world, especially to teenagers aged 14 to 18.
2009
Public Opinion
Article(s)
“Academics can enable activists with technology”
on 28 February 2010
Luis Arroyo Zapatero is the head of the Institute for European and International law at the University of Castilla-La-Mancha. In 2009, he kick-started the foundation of the International Academic Network for the Abolition of Capital Punishment.
2010
Moratorium
Women
Article(s)
“We go to the prisoner’s village to question the witnesses”
on 28 February 2010
Caroline Muchuma, contributor to the round table on the vital role played by lawyers in defending those sentenced to death, describing her role as a lawyer and campaigner in Uganda.
Legal Representation
Uganda
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Article(s)
World Coalition participates in Marrakesh Human Rights Forum
By Thomas Hubert (in Marrakesh, Morocco), on 27 November 2014
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is taking an active part in the World Human Rights Forum in Marrakesh until November 29 in Marrakesh, Morocco.
2014
Morocco
Article(s)
“We are the future” – Kids Against the Death Penalty
on 28 February 2010
The teenage nephews of an American death row inmate started an anti-death penalty organization that has grown into a pillar of the Texas abolitionist community.
2010
Innocence
Switzerland
United States
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Article(s)
The World Coalition gathers in Oslo
By Federica Merenda, on 30 June 2016
On the occasion of the 6th World Congress Against the Death Penalty held on 21-23 June this year, the World Coalition gathered in Oslo, with about 150 delegates attending the Congress representing more than 50 member organizations.
2016
Fair Trial
Legal Representation
Norway
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Hands Off Cain names Jean Ping “Abolitionist of the Year”
on 27 July 2010
World Coalition member organisation Hands Off Cain will on July 31present Jean Ping, the chairman of the African Union Commission, with its 2010 award.
2010
Italy
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Article(s)
Iran: 16-Year Prison Sentence For Peaceful Human Rights Activism
By Iran Human Rights, on 29 May 2016
An Iranian Court has sentenced the prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi to 16 years in prison. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison for her peaceful anti-death penalty activities with the Campaign “LEGAM” (Step by step for abolition of the death penalty). Iran Human Rights (IHR) calls for immediate international reactions. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the spokesperson of IHR, said: ” Despite President Rouhani’s promises of respecting civil rights, Iranian authorities’ tolerance for peaceful civil activities is record low”.
2016
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Article(s)
Regional Congress against the Death Penalty Live!
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 12 June 2015
Follow the Asia Regional Congress against the Death Penalty organised by ECPM in partnership with ADPAN on 11-12 June 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2015
Malaysia
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Article(s)
Entry into force of Armenia’s ratification of the European Protocol for abolition in all circumstances
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 22 March 2024
In February 2024, Armenia’s ratification of Protocol No. 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms concerning the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances entered into force. Armenia was already abolitionist for all crimes and a State Party to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, aiming at […]
2024
Armenia
Trend Towards Abolition
Article(s)
Behind the scenes with those who support Foster
on 31 August 2007
Kenneth Foster, who was sentenced to death in Texas for having driven a murderer in his car, saw his sentence commuted on August 30 – thanks to unprecedented mobilisation.
2007
United States
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Article(s)
Pressure mounts on Lundbeck to halt supply of execution drugs
on 27 May 2011
Thanks to a campaign by Coalition Member Reprieve and others, Danish chemicals company Lundbeck is feeling the heat from all sides for selling execution drugs to US prisons.
2011
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Denmark
Article(s)
San Francisco hosts World Coalition AGM
on 31 May 2010
For the first time, a major international abolitionist event will take place on US soil on June 12 when World Coalition members converge on California for their general meeting and a public conference. Register now for access!
2010
United States
Article(s)
MEPs call on Guatemala not to reinstate capital punishment
on 25 February 2008
Members of the European Parliament Hélène Flautre and Raimon Obiols have called on Guatemala to maintain its moratorium on the death penalty after the Central American country passed dangerous legislation.
2008
Clemency
Guatemala
Moratorium
Article(s)
Death penalty and mental illness: “Double Tragedies”
on 7 July 2009
Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights and the National Alliance on Mental Illness slam the use of capital punishment against mentally ill people in the United States.
2009
Mental Illness
Murder Victims' Families
United States
Article(s)
Geneva 2010: day 2 of intense working sessions
on 25 February 2010
National political leaders, activists, representatives of international organisations and many others have made it: a wide variety of abolitionist actors are now gathered in Geneva for the 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty.
2010
Switzerland
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Article(s)
8th World Day Against the Death Penalty: USA
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 10 May 2010
On 10 October 2010, the 8th World Day Against the Death Penalty is dedicated to the USA which executed 52 people and handed down 106 death sentences in 2009.
2010
United States
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Article(s)
6th World Day Against the Death Penalty: open your eyes on Asia
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 4 August 2008
On 10 October 2008, World Day Against the Death Penalty, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty calls on all citizens around the world to take action to end executions in Asia.
2008
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Article(s)
Federal Justice orders the prison administration to immediately provide African-American journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal with treatment
By French Collective "Free Mumia", on 18 January 2017
On the 3rd January of this year, a Federal judge ordered Pennsylvania’s prison administration to immediately provide Mumia Abu-Jamal with medication to treat his hepatitis C infection, justifying his decision in these terms: “budgetary constraints cannot outweigh the Eighth Amendment’s constitutional guarantee of adequate medical care.”
2017
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
United States
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Article(s)
Washington State Abolishes Death Penalty
By Nicolas Chua, on 26 October 2018
On 11 October 2018, Washington became the 20th US state to abolish the death penalty: the court ruling, written by Chief Justice Mary E. Fairhurst, cited the “arbitrary and racially biased manner” in which the death penalty was applied as a violation of the state’s constitutional prohibition of “cruel punishment”.
2018
United States
Article(s)
Activists uncover secret executions in Nigeria
on 9 January 2008
Research by Amnesty International and a group of Nigerian NGOs has revealed that covert executions have been taking place in Nigeria’s prisons.
2008
Nigeria
Nigeria
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Article(s)
India should join nations abolishing the death penalty
By Navkiran Singh, Lawyers For Human Rights International, on 27 September 2012
The debate has recently been growing in India, with former President Pratibha Patil commuting the death sentence of 35 convicts in a few years and 14 former judges challenging death penalties confirmed by the Supreme Court.
Although India has not executed anyone since 2004, more than 400 people are on death row and the courts hand down fresh death sentences every year. Navkiran Singh, general secretary of World Coalition member organisation, Lawyers For Human Rights International, explains why he believes there is a positive move in his country.
2012
India
Article(s)
Japanese lawyer indignant after her client is executed without notice
on 23 June 2008
On June 17, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Shinji Mutsuda and Yoshio Yamazaki were executed in Japan. Lawyer Maiko Tagusari, who defended one of the three men, denounces the rising number of executions in her country.
2008
China
Japan
Legal Representation
Taiwan
Article(s)
World Coalition elects new decision-making bodies
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 21 June 2013
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty has elected a new Steering Committee and a new Executive Board to serve for two years.
2013
Article(s)
Madrid Declaration calls for immediate moratorium in Arab Countries
on 16 July 2009
National experts and civil society representatives from took part in a seminar in Madrid on 14 and 15 July 2009 at the invitation of Casa Arabe and the Spanish ministry for foreign affairs and cooperation.
2009
Moratorium
Spain
Article(s)
Victims of crime oppose the death penalty
on 26 February 2010
Parents and friends of those killed fill a growing space in the debate on the death penalty and, increasingly, this is to call for abolition rather than vengeance.
2010
Murder Victims' Families
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Article(s)
Zambia is the 25th African State to Abolish the Death Penalty
By Bronwyn Dudley, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 6 January 2023
On 23 December 2022, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema signed into law Penal Code (Amendment) Bill number 25, which bans the death penalty and the offence of criminal defamation of the president.
2023
Zambia
Article(s)
From moratorium to abolition: Africa wants to make the jump
on 28 February 2010
Five African icons in the struggle against the death penalty joined together to debate the transition from a moratorium on executions to full legal abolition.
2010
Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Togo
Uganda
Article(s)
International pressure on Iraq to stop executions
on 18 February 2010
Several UN member states taking part in Iraq’s UN human rights review have asked Bagdad to restore a moratorium on the use of the death penalty and to move towards abolition.
2010
France
Iraq
Iraq
Italy
Terrorism
United Kingdom
Article(s)
British sodium thiopental finds its way into Arizonian death chamber
on 2 November 2010
A shortage in one of the component of lethal injections has led to the drug being imported from Britain in violation of European law to carry out an execution in Arizona.
2010
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
United Kingdom
Article(s)
Anti-death penalty double bill in the Gaza Strip
on 3 April 2008
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), a Gaza-based NGO and a member of the World Coalition, organised two meetings on the death penalty in March.
2008
Public Opinion
State of Palestine
Article(s)
10.10.10 World Day Against the Death Penalty – USA special
on 6 August 2010
On 10 October 2010, the World Day Against the Death Penalty will focus on the USA. There are two months left to prepare and promote the events planned around the world on the big day.
2010
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
United States
Article(s)
Every voice counts to oppose the death penalty in California
on 24 June 2009
Abolitionists are given a unique opportunity to voice their position as Californian authorities seek comments from the public on the review of the lethal injection process.
2009
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
United States
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Article(s)
Papua New Guinea: one step away from full abolition of the death penalty
By Aurélie Plaçais, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 21 January 2022
Papua New Guinea’s National Parliament voted to repeal the death penalty on 20 January2022. The bill has now to be signed into law and to be published in the official gazette.
2022
Moratorium
Papua New Guinea
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Article(s)
7th World Congress – Closing ceremony
By World coaltion against death penalty, on 1 March 2019
The 7th World Congress is coming to an end, after four days of intense exchanges and debates to advance the cause of abolition. A look back at this last morning and the closing ceremony.
2019
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Togo on the path to abolition
on 8 January 2009
While the World celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the Togolese government decided to abolish the death penalty.
2009
Moratorium
Togo
Article(s)
Register now for the 4th World Congress
on 5 November 2009
The largest global abolitionist event will take place in Geneva next February. Participants are invited to register as soon as possible.
2009
Switzerland
Article(s)
Iran: Human rights and anti-death penalty activist Emmadeddin Baghi arrested
on 16 October 2007
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP) is greatly concerned with the arrest and imprisonment, on 14 October, of Iranian abolitionist Emmadeddin Baghi.
2007
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Legal Representation
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Article(s)
Japan death penalty at turning point
on 9 February 2012
After one year without executions, the Japanese government looks set to resume state killings. The Center for Prisoners’ Rights, a World Coalition member organisation, has launched an urgent petition to reverse the trend.
2012
Clemency
Japan
Article(s)
Human Rights Coordinator – HRI
By Harm Reduction International, on 9 April 2019
Harm Reduction International is currently seeking to recruit a full-time Human Rights Coordinator to join its Human Rights and Justice team for a period of six months.
2019
Article(s)
Texas report released on 25th anniversary of lethal injections
on 12 December 2007
The Texas Coalition Against the Death Penalty released its report on the death penalty in the state in 2007 exactly 25 years after the first death American row inmate received a lethal injection.
2007
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
United States
Article(s)
Clever use of online tools could boost activism
on 28 February 2010
Kathy Brown, an English IT specialist, is not the typical anti-death penalty campaigner. She is not an NGO-registered lawyer nor a political science student. But through the internet, she has become active in the global abolitionist community.
2010
China
Drug Offenses
Mental Illness
Article(s)
167 Ugandan death row inmates saved from gallows
on 19 September 2010
Recent figures show that a January ruling by the Ugandan supreme court making it illegal to keep people on death row for more than three years has saved 167 lives.
2010
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Uganda
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Article(s)
Highest execution numbers in Iran in 10 years
By Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, on 13 March 2012
Iran Human Rights has published its annual report on the death penalty in Iran in 2011. IHR’s international spokesperson Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam says the Iranian authorities are keeping the number of executions high because they use the death penalty as a political tool.
2012
Drug Offenses
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Juveniles
Women
Article(s)
Take collective action: join the World Coalition
on 1 May 2007
Since 2002 about sixty non-governmental organisations, professional associations and public bodies working throughout the world in support of abolition of the death penalty have come together through the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
2007
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Article(s)
Take Action for World Day 2016!
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 3 October 2016
Check what you can do for 10 October. Browse the calendar of events and the map to prepare and promote the events planned around the world on the big day.
2016
Terrorism
Article(s)
Four Japanese executed in China
on 9 April 2010
A Japanese abolitionist organisation has criticised both the Chinese and the Japanese authorities after the series of executions.
2010
China
Drug Offenses
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Article(s)
Death sentences and executions in 2015
By Amnesty International, on 10 April 2016
This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2015. As in previous years, information is collected from a variety of sources, including: official figures; information from individuals sentenced to death and their families and representatives; reporting by other civil society organizations; and media reports. Amnesty International reports only on executions, death sentences and other aspects of the use of the death penalty, such as commutations and exonerations, where there is reasonable confirmation.
2016
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Article(s)
The Law Commission of India (Almost) calls for Abolition
By Elisa Belotti, on 15 September 2015
The Law Commission of India published in August 2015 a Report on death penalty in which it recommends India to move towards the abolition of death penalty, with an exception for terrorism related crimes.
2015
India
Article(s)
Talk: activists at the heart of action
on 12 February 2008
Italy’s Angeli Flegri association is organising a conference on Februay 22 about the role of prison activists in the struggle against the death penalty.
2008
Italy
United States
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Article(s)
Abolition of the death penalty in Guinea
By Marion Gauer, on 5 July 2016
Guinean Parliament put an end to Guinea’s de facto moratorium by abolishing the death penalty in law in this country.
2016
Guinea
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Abolition of death penalty is now complete in Italy
on 4 March 2009
Italy became the 41st state to ratify the 13th Protocol to the European Convention for Human Rights on 3 March 2009.
2009
Italy
Article(s)
US abolitionists are training for the long run
on 24 January 2010
The Annual Conference of the US National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty gathered more than 400 abolitionists from around the country around the theme: Training for the long run.”
2010
United States
Article(s)
Small Grant for Activities in the Caribbean
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 29 August 2019
Call for action on the abolition of the death penalty in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean States launched by the Greater Caribbean for Life and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
2019
Barbados
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
Article(s)
Live from death row
on 25 February 2010
The 180 members of the public who had gathered to view the film Manners of dying had an opportunity to witness a discussion between Mumia Abu-Jamal and his lawyer Robert Bryan.
2010
Switzerland
United States
Article(s)
China reduces the number of crimes punishable by death to 46, but keeps drug trafficking in the list
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 7 October 2015
China removes nine non-violent and rarely used criminal offenses from capital punishment.
2015
China
Drug Offenses
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Article(s)
Pakistan’s Supreme Court Repeals Death Penalty for people with intellectual disability
By Louis Linel, on 10 February 2021
By commuting two death sentences, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled that capital punishment cannot be carried out to people with serious mental health issues.
2021
Intellectual Disability
Pakistan
Article(s)
Video: China’s death penalty Olympic medal
on 8 April 2008
French organisation Together Against the Death Penalty seized the opportunity of the Olympic Torch relay in Paris to highlight China’s world record when it comes to executions.
2008
China
France
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Article(s)
Guatemala abolishes the death penalty for ordinary crimes
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 31 October 2017
On October 24, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala has abolished the death penalty in civil cases.
2017
Guatemala
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Article(s)
Take Action for World Day 2023!
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 20 September 2023
Take action now! The 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty is an excellent opportunity to publicly oppose the use of this inhumane punishment and to support those who are fighting for its abolition all over the world.
2023
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
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Article(s)
Gambia commits to full abolition of the death penalty
By Nicolas Chua, on 26 October 2018
On 28 September 2018, during the UN Treaty Event in New York, Gambia ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, aiming at the irreversible abolition of the death penalty, alongside the Convention Against Torture.
2018
Gambia
Article(s)
Call for actions in Barbados and Eastern Caribbean
By Greater Caribbean For Life and World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 10 July 2018
As part of a joint project which aims to create a platform for death penalty reform in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, the Greater Caribbean For Life (GCL) and the World Coalition are lanching a call for actions.
2018
Barbados
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Article(s)
European Protocol for full abolition turns 20
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 3 May 2022
Today is the 20th anniversary of the adoption of Protocol No. 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, concerning the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances.
2022
Armenia
Azerbaijan
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Article(s)
Nigeria resumes executions despite strong mobilization by local NGOs
By Léa Macarez, on 4 July 2013
After a seven-year moratorium, four men were hanged on 24 June and other executions are being planned.
2013
Nigeria
Nigeria
Article(s)
The Tuscany region against the death penalty
on 21 November 2007
The regional council will hold an abolitionist conference with speakers from various countries at the end of November.
2007
Benin
Côte d'Ivoire
Italy
Article(s)
Moroccan coalition highlights Mrini case
on 12 February 2008
The Moroccan Coalition Against the Death Penalty has been campaigning about the case of Amin Mrini, a Moroccan-born Dutch national sentenced to death in Salé whose appeal will he heard from February 13.
2008
Fair Trial
Morocco
Article(s)
Nie Shubin: a victim of the arbitrary in China
on 21 January 2008
In the lead up to the Beijing Olympics, the French coalition Collectif Chine JO 2008 highlights cases of human rights abuse in China on a weekly basis. This week, they focus on Nie Shubin, who was executed by mistake in 1995.
2008
China
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Women
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Article(s)
One in nine exonerations in new database is a capital case
By World Coalition, on 26 May 2012
A new online project listing 891 exonerated wrongful convictions in the US includes 101 death sentences.
2012
Innocence
United States
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Article(s)
Up-to-date country-by-country death penalty information
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 18 April 2013
The World Coalition is improving access to legal and statistical information on countries that retain the death penalty.
2013
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Article(s)
World Coalition elects new decision-making bodies
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 22 June 2015
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty has elected a new Steering Committee and a new Executive Board to serve for two years.
2015
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Article(s)
Latest Japan execution violates UN guidelines
on 16 September 2013
World Coalition member organisation Center for Prisoners’ Rights condemns the execution of an elderly prisoner in Tokyo on 12 September.
2013
Japan