Article(s)
Nicaragua makes abolition irreversible
on 4 March 2009
Nicaragua became the 71th state to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant for Civil and Politic Rights on 25 February 2009.
2009
Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Article(s)
Saudi Arabia slammed over child executions, discrimination
on 21 February 2009
United Nations agencies, governments and NGOs criticised Saudi Arabia’s death penalty record at the UN’s universal periodic review of human rights.
2009
Juveniles
Saudi Arabia
Article(s)
Indonesian activists face upward death penalty trend
on 10 February 2009
Indonesia-based researcher Dave McRae finds that a core group of abolitionists are battling a rise in the number of executions, death sentences and death row inmates in the country.
2009
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Drug Offenses
Indonesia
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Vietnam considers reduction in scope of death penalty
on 9 February 2009
Vietnamese Justice Minister Ha Hung Cuong has proposed a reduction in the number of capital offences – a demand put forward by the World Coalition’s demands on World Day Against the Death Penalty.
2009
Drug Offenses
Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Article(s)
Can the US move towards abolition under Obama?
on 20 January 2009
The new president’s nominee for the post of attorney general opposes the death penalty and the number of executions and sentences is falling in the US.
2009
United States
Article(s)
Jamaica vote illustrates retentionist trend in the Caribbean
on 9 January 2009
Jamaican lawmakers voted to keep capital punishment and the government seems determined to use it. Caribbean abolitionists are battling similar moves across the region.
2009
Jamaica
Public Opinion
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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
Document(s)
DO EXECUTIONS LOWER HOMICIDE RATES?: THE VIEWS OF LEADING CRIMINOLOGISTS*
By Michael L. Radelet / Tracy Lacock / The journal of criminal law and criminology, on 1 January 2009
2009
Article
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85 More details See the document This study is about the question of whether the death penalty is a more effective deterrent than long-term imprisonment has been debated for decades or longer by scholars, policy makers, and the general public. In this Article the authors report results from a survey of the world’s leading criminologists that asked their expert opinions on whether the empirical research supports the contention that the death penalty is a superior deterrent.
- Document type Article
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- Themes list Deterrence ,
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Document(s)
Death Penalty in the US Quiz
By The Advocates for Human Rights, on 1 January 2009
Campaigning
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85 More details See the document Test your knowledge of human rights and the death penalty in the U.S. with our downloadable quiz.
- Document type Campaigning
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- Themes list Country/Regional profiles,
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Document(s)
Towards the abolition of the death penalty in Lebanon
By LACR / National Campaign for the Abolition of Death Penalty in Lebanon, on 1 January 2009
Campaigning
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85 More details See the document Educational booklet compiling testimonies, arguments, legal and historical facts about the path towards abolition in Lebanon.
- Document type Campaigning
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- Themes list Public opinion, Public debate, Trend Towards Abolition,
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