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…country in good stead to abolish the death penalty. Countries like Malawi that have made the transition to democracy increasingly see abolition of the death penalty as a necessary step…

…for “a global parliamentary platform against the death penalty”. The session “The death penalty and the rule of law” was coordinated by Italian Senator Marco Perduca, vice president of the…

…achievements in the fight against the death penalty, to share good practices but more importantly  to offer support and legal assistance to the countries where the death penalty is still…

…the result but satisfied that the Californian death penalty debate has changed radically after 53% of voters cast a ballot against the initiative and 47% in favour. The difference between…

…World Day against the Death Penalty on 10 October 2018, the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Penal Reform International and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty are publishing…

…age”. This trend is buttressed by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) which prohibits the use of the death penalty for offences committed by a person…

…behalf thus restraining the government from executing her, pending the accelerated hearing of her case. In its final judgment, the presiding judge, Justice Hansine Donli, declared that pronouncing the death…

The institute, named after the landmark 1995 case that abolished the death penalty in South Africa, was developed through the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, which became the…

The President of the Central African Republic promulgated the law abolishing the death penalty on June 27 2022, one month after the National Assembly passed the law. CAR is now…

On the programme for 2007: major mobilisation for the World Day Against the Death Penalty around the theme of “China in the context of the 2008 Olympic Games”; a campaign…

…the death penalty. Ghana and Zambia have abolished the death penalty since the last vote in 2022. In Kenya, Liberia and Morocco, debates for abolition are ongoing.  Uganda which had…

…Death Penalty, has pointed out that none of the KMT lawmakers who attacked the DPP over the abolition of the death penalty have been reelected. For her, “this congress is…

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty has launched the updated version of its report: “Fighting against the Death Penalty in the Arab World” during the conference organised by Penal…

…leaning towards skepticism the fair application of the death penalty. After the Gallup Crime Survey has asked for opinions about the fairness of the death penalty application, the results show…

…the move” Listen to the interview with Lievin Ngondji, co-ordinator of the Congolese Coalition Against the Death Penalty and member of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (in French)….

…as Puerto Rico’s day against the death penalty to commemorate the anniversary of the abolition of capital punishment there in 1929 is another proposal in the hands of the governor….

Unexpected news came from West Africa at the end of February when Gabon announced the legal abolition of the death penalty in the country. The action, apparently the culmination of…

…order to ingrain gender into the discussion on capital punishment. In 2021, the theme of the 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty will be on gender and the death…

…of the imprisoned Nigerians, whom the Complainant alleges that they await the death penalty,” Bahame Tom Mukirya Nyanduga, the acting chairperson of the Commission, wrote to Gaddafi. He added that…

…death penalty in March, making it the 22nd State to repeal capital punishment. The way federal executions resumed does echo to the 2020 World Day Against the Death Penalty, which…

As we mark the 17th World Day against the Death Penalty, a year after the government of Malaysia announced the revision of the country’s laws to fully abolish the death…

…death sentences overturned by the ICJ. The Mexican embassy to the US’s legal counselor Víctor Uribe explains how his country (which abolished the death penalty in 2005) is responding to…

…stages they went through before pronouncing the death sentence. In reality, as the documentary and the meetings that follow, the film is based more on “the twenty years that followed,…

…relatives of persons sentenced to death. A workshop on the subject was held during the day, raising the question of the needs of the first persons concerned by the death…

…restricts the use of the death penalty to the most serious crimes. This has been accepted at the international level to mean crimes that result in the death of a…

Together against the death penalty, the Mauritanian Association for Human Rights, The Advocates for Human Rights and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty welcome the adoption of the report…

…country to eliminate the death penalty after the approval of the moratorium on the part of the U.N. General Assembly on 18 December. Extraordinary work of Uzbek abolitionists The move…

…view to abolish the death penalty in Iran and urge the international community to support the growing abolition movement in Iran. * The “No Death Penalty Tuesdays” hunger strikes were…

…the West Bank. The letter then notes the differences in the application of the death penalty in Gaza and the West Bank and requests the government withdraw the mandate and…

…the principle that desperate times call for desperate measures. True to the government’s claims, the “vast majority of death sentences carried out since the re-introduction of the death penalty and…

…if their government will put them to death. For those who have completed the legal process, death could come at a few hours’ notice. Each day could be their last….

…the abolition of the death penalty, inclusive of creating a culture of promotion and protection of human rights”. Stop Crime, not Lives On the eve of the creation of the…

…its section dedicated to the death penalty, the OCTT called for major legislative, health and humanitarian reforms that would allow for the immediate and definitive abolition of the death penalty…

…Rice said. The report to the UN Human Rights Council states that “the World Coalition is deeply concerned by the reinstatement of the death penalty and by the possible resumption…

…Mexican soil to track down the families of those facing the death penalty in the US and help them obtain visas and funding to visit them in prison, he added….

…the end of 2017, 106 countries had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes and 142 countries had abolished the death penalty in law or practice. These figures…

…American Convention to Abolish the Death Penalty. The report takes into account the standards developed within the Inter-American human rights system to restrict the application of the death penalty over…

…the only remedy is to abolish the death penalty completely. The Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, a regional coalition of abolitionist organisations and activists, wil be using the report to campaign…

Mental disorders among people facing the death penalty are the focus of the 12th World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10, 2014, which is also World Mental Health…

The project objective is to strengthen the moratorium on the death penalty, and the emergence of a new jurisprudence on the rights of those facing the death penalty, based on…

…towards abolition of the death penalty. The World Coalition further condemn the arbitrary use of the death penalty and the violation of a number of international human rights standards: Iman…

…the rights of those facing the death penalty, including through strengthened application of international safeguards in the use of the death penalty”. The UK, Germany and Austria specifically called for…

…were 315. There were 79 death sentences last year. This is the fourth year in a row that there have been fewer than 100 death sentences. “The relevancy of the…

…moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty”. Five amendments seeking to weaken the strength of the resolution preceded the debate and the vote. The majority of…

What are Benin’s plans regarding the abolition of the death penalty for the coming months? Victor Tokpanou: The president found this issue to be important in the promotion of human…

…(in 2011 and 2015). The state had abolished the death penalty in 1990. From a legal perspective, the ratification of OP2 makes the resumption of the death penalty impossible in…

…capital punishment. After a brief campaign marred by partisan violence, the new constitution, including the abolition of the death penalty, was approved by referendum. Opposition parties contested the referendum results,…

On October 24, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta commuted the death sentences of all 2,747 convicts on death row to life sentences giving them a reprieve from the hangman’s noose. The…

…which is the lowest level since 2000 the DCIP’s report points out. The use of the death penalty remains discriminatory With 25 executions and 42 death sentences, 2018 is the…

…Singapore Residents’ Attitudes towards the Death Penalty conducted in 2021 (66%) of people agreed with the following statement: “The mandatory death penalty is appropriate as the punishment for…trafficking a significant…

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty warmly congratulates the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on the adoption of Resolution A/RES/75/183 for a moratorium on the use of the death…

…A rally gathering hundreds of death penalty opponents accompanied the hearing on the steps of the Capitol, the seat of the governor. Death Penalty Focus president, actor and author Mike…

…Penalty and the French Institute there. Members of the Iraqi Coalition Against the Death Penalty are looking for a strategy to counter the sharp increase in the use of capital…

…of the Protocol and the “presence of the death penalty in the Penal Code despite its abolition in the Constitution”. The Commission therefore recommended that the Ivory Coast ratify and…

…in the state of Lagos encouraged the repeal of the death penalty. However, abolitionists know they face strong opposition: the same week, a Senate committee recommended the introduction of capital…

…possession of less than 50g of drugs. If they support the Islamic Republic, the condition must be a moratorium on the death penalty. Moreover, we know from sources inside the…

…site to empower themselves. This association also fights against the death penalty, being the first one to organize interventions, marches and demonstrations on this topic in the country. Working there…

…the very best of human behavior.” The Puerto Rican Coalition Against the Death Penalty (photo), representing the people of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, received the Lighting the Torch Award….

…the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (OP2-ICCPR). The Protocol was highlighted by the United Nations Secretary General this year, as…

…remains one of the five countries that carry out the largest number of executions in the world, the past few years have seen significant change. The number of death sentences…

…Day Against the Death Penalty, by saying that a bill to abolish the death penalty was to be adopted during the current parliamentary session. The workshop, organized by the United…

…the French and Iranian Human Rights Leagues. The event was one of the initiatives launched all over the globe for the World Day Against the Death Penalty. “I experienced this…

…as did the Director of the association Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), who had described these executions as shame and cynicism. The Tunisian Coalition Against the Death Penalty…

…of the World Coalition is to strengthen the international dimension of the fight against the death penalty. Its ultimate objective is to obtain the universal abolition of the death penalty….

…trends in the last decade in Iran. The results will be presented in the near future. Commenting on the present analysis Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the international spokesperson of IHR says: “The…

…next. Once the Senate passes the bill, and if it obtains the signature of the President, this text will become a law. It‘s important to recall that the death penalty…

…the death penalty is strategic”. Drugs and the death penalty relate to all abolitionist states whether they have citizens on death row for drugs abroad or whether they give money,…

…new constitution adopted by Kenyan voters on August 4 failed to abolish the death penalty. In their unanimous judgment, the Court of Appeal ruled that the automatic nature of the…

…US. The ICDP delegation met diplomats from countries that retain the death penalty. During the discussion, they highlighted steps taken by their Governments to reduce the scope of the death…

…the state secret on all death penalty related information. The abolition of the death penalty has now become a universal and irreversible trend, as was recognized with the recent adoption…

…new regime. The Singapore Working Group on the Death Penalty, which includes the organisations We believe in Second Chances, Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign and World Coalition member Think Center Singapore,…

…country where ethnic Tutsis used to use the death penalty to enforce their domination on Hutus. What is now the exact status of the death penalty in Burundi? The amendment…

…of the death penalty on the process to adopt a law to implement the Rome Statute in the DRC” with help from the French embassy in Kinshasa. The latest developments…

The prisoners became entitled to be resentenced in 2007, when the Constitutional Court ruled the mandatory death penalty unconstitutional on the grounds that it was inhuman and degrading punishment and…

…hard-boiled egg on Sundays, but that ended when the assistant warden caught one in the back of the head. Nice hit. It was almost worth the prisoners’ excitement over the…

…President of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. FIDH and the World Coalition call upon the international community, in particular the United Nations, the African Union and the Economic…

…death penalty”,” the letter read. The Belarusian Helsinki Committee, which the World Coalition’s member organization in Belarus, helped publicise the letter in the country. Its chairperson Aleh Hulak described the…

…to have the death penalty abolished, alongside other national organisations, appears set to bear fruit: under pressure from the United Nations, a bill to abolish the death penalty has recently…

…of the death penalty. “The minority of states that continue to systematically use the death penalty were responsible for thousands of executions in 2010, defying the global anti-death penalty trend,”…

…people to decide, if after various discussions the majority of public opinion is for the death penalty to be abolished,” she said, according to Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper. The executions –…

…countries around the world have already abolished the death penalty in law or in practice, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty works to ensure that this treaty becomes the…

…International began keeping records, no executions took place in Europe in 2009. Belarus is the only country in the region that continues to use the death penalty. Across the Americas,…

…also looked into the moratorium as a tool to fight the death penalty. Prof Carlson Anyangwe, a member of the African Commission’s Working Group on the death penalty, pointed out…

…the international dimension of the fight against the death penalty. Its ultimate objective is to obtain the universal abolition of the death penalty. The World Coalition is striving to achieve…

…in the classroom, in seminars, at conferences, all over the world. We think these stories have the power to effect real change and put the death penalty under the spotlight…

…the training Late April: Animation of the training session in Sub-Saharan Africa 30 April: Presentation of the final manual from the comments and feedback obtained during the session The application…

…the death penalty and also move away from the international trend towards the abolition of the death penalty. In a letter to India’s Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, the World Coalition…

…on execution, ratification of the UN Protocol on the abolition of the death penalty and even reforms towards eventual abolition of the death penalty. On the question of greater transparency…

…abolition” published by the World Coalition on World Day Against the Death Penalty, October 10, 2009. Part of the debates also focused on the role of religion in the region,…

…participation in the World Coalition and in the 5th World Congress Against the Death Penalty. Photo: Ogarit Younan leads a workshop on the abolition of the death penalty (source: deathpenaltylebanon.org)…

…members shocked by the news from Taiwan. “The execution of five people in Taiwan in one day is a step backwards from the growing global consensus against the death penalty,”…

The path towards the abolition of death penalty worldwide took one more step in 2012. The number of confirmed executions remained steady compared to the previous year, according to the…

…the participants and permitted to raise awareness on the necessary mobilization for the abolition of the death penalty. This training for local actors was relevant and replaced the issue of…

…the poor provision of health services and rehabilitation programs, and the disproportionate handing of the death penalty for offenders. The number of individuals sentenced with the death penalty in relation…

…law, she could therefore not use the Protocol to block it. “Such deviation by the President from the Constitution and an effective infringement on the prerogatives of the Legislature could…

…of the 2017 Activity Report. The Steering Committee commends the efforts of the Executive Board as well as the staff of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and calls…

…become a symbol of the cruel and inhuman nature of the death penalty as activists prepare for events from Bagdad, Iraq to Brisbane, Australia, according to the International Committee Against…

…in 1999, and the Bahamas in 2000. GCL calls on our leaders in the region to accept that the restrictions placed by the ruling of the Judicial Committee of the…