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Article(s)
The new Tunisia and the death penalty
on 16 May 2011
The revolution in Tunisia and the resulting changes in the political landscape may offer unprecedented new opportunities for abolitionist organizations
2011
Public Opinion
Tunisia
Article(s)
African human rights body targets death penalty
on 16 May 2011
The abolition of the capital punishment figured prominently at the 49th session of the African Commission of Human and People’s Rights.
Algeria
Botswana
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Mauritania
Public Opinion
Somalia
Sudan
Document(s)
Prison Conditions in Jamaica
on 19 April 2011
2011
NGO report
Death Row Conditions
Jamaica
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In criminal justice matters, Jamaica has been rightly praised for its de-facto abolitionist
stance on the death penalty: nobody has been executed on the island since 1988.
However, the alternative to death is imprisonment. For many years, NGOs, the UN
Human Rights Committee, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and
various independent and internal reports have expressed serious concern about the
conditions in which Jamaica detains its prisoners.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Jamaica
- Themes list Death Row Conditions
Article(s)
Country-by-country death penalty data now available
By Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law, on 19 April 2011
A new statistic and legal database designed by Northwestern University in partnership with the World Coalition offers a unique view of the use of capital punishment in more than 90 states.
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)
Will Arab revolutions bring new hope for abolition?
on 4 April 2011
The winds of change have brought fresh air to the abolitionist cause in countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa, with new faces in power reigniting a stalled debate.
2011
Algeria
Egypt
Lebanon
Mauritania
Moratorium
Morocco
Public Opinion
Syrian Arab Republic
Terrorism
Tunisia
Yemen
Article(s)
Amnesty 2010 stats: retentionist countries increasingly isolated
on 28 March 2011
Countries which continue to use the death penalty are being left increasingly isolated following a decade of progress towards abolition, Amnesty International has said in its new report Death Sentences and Executions in 2010.
2011
China
Drug Offenses
Egypt
Fair Trial
Indonesia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Juveniles
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Libya
Malaysia
Moratorium
Pakistan
Sudan
Thailand
United Arab Emirates
United States
Yemen
Article(s)
The future of the death penalty in the United States
on 27 March 2011
Governor Pat Quinn’s signing abolition into law last week in Illinois has reopened the debate on the death penalty throughout the country. Several states are currently considering abolition.
2011
Public Opinion
United States
Article(s)
An uncertain future for the infamous San Quentin prison
on 26 March 2011
The death row facility of California at San Quentin finds itself at the center of a fierce debate over the future of a hugely expensive and increasingly unpopular death penalty system.
2011
Death Row Conditions
Public Opinion
United States
Article(s)
Taiwan abolitionists remind their government of its promise
on 13 March 2011
After fresh executions, the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty has been campaigning to save the lives of five condemned prisoners, recalling the government to its commitments to human rights.
2011
Clemency
Death Row Conditions
Taiwan
Taiwan