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Facts and Figures 2009
By World Coalition against the death penalty , on 10 October 2009
2009
Campaigning
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Article(s)
Sweden and Amnesty International raise death penalty issue in New York
on 7 October 2009
Upcoming United Nations resolutions for a moratorium on executions and progress towards abolition across Africa were among the subjects discussed on the fringe of the UN General Assembly in New York.
2009
Moratorium
Sweden
United States
Article(s)
Africa moving towards regional abolition treaty
on 5 October 2009
The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights organised its first regional conference on the death penalty in Africa in late September.
2009
Moratorium
Rwanda
Article(s)
Brasilia accedes to the UN’s protocol on the abolition of the death penalty
on 29 September 2009
On September 25, Brazil became the 72nd state party to the international treaty that abolishes the death penalty without any possibility of reinstating it.
2009
Brazil
Article(s)
US activists turn spotlight on executed innocent man
on 28 September 2009
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.
2009
Innocence
United States
Article(s)
African Commission urges Gaddafi not to kill Nigerian convicts
on 20 September 2009
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.
2009
Libya
Moratorium
Nigeria
Article(s)
Japan executes mentally ill people and pushes prisoners over the edge
on 11 September 2009
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.
2009
Death Row Conditions
Japan
Mental Illness
Article(s)
Resumption of executions in Thailand criticised
on 3 September 2009
The Thai government has attracted widespread condemnation from the global abolitionist movement after it had two drug traffickers executed.
2009
Drug Offenses
Thailand
Article(s)
Pardons and commutations in Nigeria
on 29 August 2009
Shortly after Kenya commuted thousands of death sentences, the Nigerian state of Lagos took similar steps and moved closer to abolition.
2009
Clemency
Nigeria
Nigeria
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.
China
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
