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…12-year analysis of “Women and the Death Penalty in Iran”, which provides further information and background on this issue.   Positive key facts to keep in mind For thefirst time…

…drug offences. Though 32 countries or territories (Taiwan and the Hamas-administration in Gaza) prescribe the death penalty for drugs in law, the reality is that very few of these countries…

…Statute. They highlighted the incompatibility between the retention of the death penalty for some offenses and the fact that the ICC’s Statute, which does not provide for capital punishment for…

…of the Protocol’, convened meetings with the authorities, sent reports to the UN and official letters to the President and Parliament. That was the case in November 2009, when the…

…the way states consider their local death penalty legislation. An opportunity to debate the death penalty “If the Supreme Court rules that this method is illegal, those states that use…

…these cases in order to support the abolitionist cause. The participants to the 5th World Congress against Death Penalty, who gathered in Madrid, Spain until June 15th, are raising the…

…sheer number of abolitionist actors that have mobilized to prevent their executions shows that these cases illustrate the inutility of the death penalty. On 25 November, the European Parliament adopted…

…UN General Assembly in favour of an international moratorium on the use of the death penalty”. The Jordanian government has argued that rising crime rates justified fresh executions. “The crime…

…be carried out. The proceedings were concluded with the provision to reopen the petition in the event that attempts are made to resume executions in the future.  Counsel for the…

…had abolished the death penalty in law or practice. 108 countries, a majority of the world’s states, had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes and 144 countries had abolished the…

…providing total abolition of death penalty. Total and irreversible abolition of the death penalty The ratification of the Second Optional Protocol is one more proof of the general trend for…

…the death penalty for all crimes or for ordinary crimes, including 19 member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. Convinced that the abolition of the death penalty contributes to…

…penalty, reducing the number of death penalty provisions and exploring the abolition of capital punishment through constitutional interpretation. The right person to deliver the message Piers Bannister of Amnesty International…

…Abolition of the Death Penalty in Africa. The abolition of the death penalty has been enshrined in the Ivorian legislation: Article 3 of the new Constitution states that “the death…

…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…

…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….

…and political institutions. The Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP) organised a vigil in front the Capitol, the seat of democratic power in the state, while the inmate…

…from different African countries to participate in the continental training. It was an opportunity for various actors from countries that have abolished the death penalty in their legislation, those respecting…

…with parliamentarians to abolish the death penalty. Produced in the context of the second phase of the project on “Contributing to the abolition of the death penalty in sub-Saharan Africa”,…

…again, Hubert said. Both journalists explained that anti-death penalty campaigners should also organise their discourse in the inverted pyramid format used in the media, starting with the most important information…

…Penalty (MCADP) – Mauritanian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CMCPM) – Nigerien Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CONICOPEM-Niger) – Tunisian Coalition Against the Death Penalty – Colegio de Abogados y…

…with the Islamic Republic contingent on a complete halt on drug-related executions”. They have announced the start of a mass international campaign in this regard. The death penalty or state…

…civil society from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, the media, and members of the international donor community (the European Union and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office). The aim of the…

The representatives of the European institutions who had gathered for the 5th World Congress against death penalty said they were satisfied with the resolution on Belarus which had been approved…

…basis.” He therefore acknowledges and purposely attempts to avoid international criticism in light of the March Kyoto Congress and the hosting of the summer Olympics. In the U.S., the Biden…

…impossible to cross-examine them, and the defense presented no evidence of its own. Even so, the court convicted the men and sentenced them to death. Unlike Aftab, however, Moctar and…

…When the UN was founded in 1945 only eight of the then 51 UN member states had abolished the death penalty. Today, 103 of 193 member states have abolished the…

…than 200 of them are currently facing the death penalty overseas, much to the dismay of their fellow citizens back home. Indonesians abroad facing execution In response, the Ministry of…

…resolutions on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, to reduce the number of offences for which the death penalty may be applied. Amnesty International is calling on…

…inter alia that: “Considering that the use of the death penalty undermines human dignity, and convinced that a moratorium on the use of the death penalty contributes to the enhancement…

…(Together Against the Death Penalty – ECPM) under the sponsorship of Spain, Norway, Switzerland and France and in partnership with the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. The 5th World…

Together Against the Death Penalty, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, the International Federation of ACAT (FIACAT) and Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture in the Central…

…a Protocol on the death penalty in Africa was considered. In these circumstances propitious to progress in abolishing the death penalty throughout the world, FIACAT especially welcomes the following statements…

…bill to be examined as a preliminary to the debate on the implementation of the Rome Statute. The next day, the chair of the Assembly rubberstamped it and put the…

World Coalition members Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT-France) and Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), members of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, have launched…

…people on both sides of the debate. Marc Asnin: The people who read these final words should come out of it with an emotional connection. In the US, for the…

…ensuring of the right to life, and signing of the United Nations Declaration moratorium on the death penalty pending the effective abolition of the death penalty from national legislation, have…

…government will work to reduce the application of the death penalty”. “Anyone sentenced to death shall have the right to seek pardon or commutation of the sentence” On the eve…

…C. Bowling, about the consitutionality of the lethal injection method – the only mandatory one in the US. The lawyers for the two Kentucky men argue that “the chemicals or…

…end of 2019, 106 countries (a majority of the world’s states) had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes, and 142 countries (more than two-thirds) had abolished the…

…the nation’s death sentences. The number of states with the death penalty declined this year as Connecticut joined 16 other states that have repealed the death penalty. Illinois abolished the…

…the death penalty, by way of accession. The Protocol commits its members to three main obligations: it forbids them to resort to executions, asks that members abolish the death penalty…

…Asia. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mangala Samaraweera, recalled on that occasion that the death penalty had already been abolished in the past in Sri Lanka and that “the vast…

…penalty, sentence of death may be imposed only for the most serious crimes”. However, Vietnam has not ratified the Second Optional Protocol aiming at the abolition of the death penalty….

The parliament of Kirghizistan ratified the UN Protocol on the abolition of the death penalty on February 11, making the re-establishment of the death penalty illegal. The French ministry of…

About The Death Penalty Project The Death Penalty Project (DPP) is a legal action charity based in London. Our main purpose is to promote and protect the human rights of…

…number of countries recommending that China ratifies the Second Optional Protocol, reduces the scope of the death penalty and, more generally, work towards the complete abolition of the death penalty….

…the Malian authorities to: • abolish the death penalty for all crimes and ratify the United Nations’ Protocol on the abolition of the death penalty; • co-sponsor the Resolution calling…

In association with the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, the Death Penalty Project launched a report on the death penalty in Taiwan on 5 June 2014. The event,…

…in Washington, DC. The French embassy’s Senior Counsellor Laurent Delahousse set up the meeting on behalf of the French presidency of the European Union to hear US death penalty abolition…

…states that maintain the death penalty to: – Respect international standards that provide safeguards guaranteeing the protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty, in particular the minimum…

At the request of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, the World Coalition and the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network sent a mission to Taipei in June. American law…

…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. The World…

…member of the World and Congolese Coalitions against the death penalty. The prosecutor’s office sent the file to the military prosecutor’s office, which has refused to provide the campaigners with…

…it doesn’t seem that in this case the Chinese authorities did so.” “The UK, the EU and the rest of the world should continue to press the Chinese government to…

…of the death row prisoners in Nigeria are pending in court, to the knowledge of the prison authorities and the government who participated in the high court proceedings before the…

…death sentence. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, charged with interpreting the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), has stated that, “If there is…

The legislation is the result of a bi-partisan initiative in the state’s legislature and means that New Mexico became the 15th US state to abolish the death penalty. Richardson described…

…The reasons behind the reinstatement of the death penalty are ill founded and purely a political one. Numerous studies and analyses have concluded that death penalty does not deter crime….

…of the fight against the death penalty. Its ultimate objective is to obtain the universal abolition of the death penalty. To achieve its goal, the World Coalition advocates for a…

…with support from the international Death Penalty Project. According to the Death Penalty Project, “a key underlying factor behind the decision to commute the sentences of all those on death…

…abolition of the death penalty for political reasons”. Last August, the reform of the Military justice code led to the deletion of all references to the death penalty for military…

…the death penalty. Uzbek President Islam Karimov (photo) signed the ratification into law on December 12, according to the Interfax news agency. The documents have yet to be filed with…

…of the victims’ families who want to mourn and not wait out the years of the various appeals and then the final execution, which to compound matters is the focus…

…inmates wait for years in solitary confinement without knowing the date of their execution. Their lawyers say many of them become insane. And, unlike in the US, they cannot make…

Executions and extrajudicial killings Regarding the use of the death penalty in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the PCHR is particularly concerned about the lack of guarantees of…

…the Cameroonian society and encouraging the development of a Cameroonian Coalition against the Death Penalty.  The conference gathered officials from the government of Cameroon, political parties, judges and lawyers as…

…to support the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran at the 46th session of the Human Rights Council….

…resolutions by reducing the number of crimes punishable by death. But the resolutions also request countries that maintain the death penalty to provide death penalty statistics to the UN General…

…to have abolished the death penalty for all crimes. For more information, read the blog piece from Amnesty Mongolia, which describes key moments from the campaign in the country: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2015/12/the-long-road-to-death-penalty-abolition-in-mongolia/…

…the death penalty is deeply flawed. By allowing the continuation of the United States’ practice of “tinkering with the machinery of death” the Court again leaves the United States out…

The UNGA moratorium resolution The UNGA has adopted a resolution calling for a moratorium on executions with a view to abolish the death penalty for the first time in 2007,…

…starting with “I stand against the death penalty because…” followed by their reason, and having their picture taken holding it. The photo is then posted on their preferred social media…

Last year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling on all nations to establish a moratorium on the death penalty. The issue is once again on the agenda,…

…is to reduce the use of the death penalty. Executing six people is not part of a process of reducing the use of the death penalty,” a World Coalition representative…

The Community of Sant’Egidio, one of the founding members of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, has invited the Coalition’s 87 other members to its Rome headquarters on June…

…status, submitted an oral declaration regarding the death penalty on the African continent and the COVID-19 pandemic. While there were no panels planned during the sessions, as there usually are,…

…the spotlight squarely on Hospira Inc., the sole US manufacturer of the drug, the company decided to cease its production in early 2011 due to concerns that their product was…

…advocacy, they believe Iran and the international community can do better at the new UPR session this Friday. Among the documents forming the basis the discussion, a detailed report submitted…

…the death penalty worldwide in the belief that this penalty is inhumane:     * Whatever the method of execution, there is no humane way to kill     * Whatever the…

…Coalition Against the Death Penalty. In a statement released today, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and its member organizations call on all countries that still use the death…

…Against the Death Penalty. Yet they acknowledged that abolitionists must also take into account the concerns of those who fear that abolishing the death penalty may lead to impunity. “With…

Abolitionists worldwide celebrated on 15 March when Maryland delegates took a final vote to make their state the 18th to abolish the death penalty in the US. The abolition bill…

…towards the abolition of the death penalty”. A slight change can be seen in the Arab World. While Algeria voted in favour of the resolution for the second time, seven…

…As before each execution, Texas death penalty opponents had gathered around Huntsville prison. But this time, they were not alone: in Paris, Together Against the Death Penalty and the Free…

…The petition for the abolition of the death penalty in Tunisia has received the support of 126 initial signatures, and 150 for the petition for Saber Ragoubi. The two texts…

…Rights Committee, the UN body monitoring the implementation of the Protocol. The event took place a few days after the World Day against the Death Penalty, and just one month…

…their protection. “This is an important prize, with regards to the organisations awarding it, and of course in my viewpoint the spiritual value of the prize is very high”, Baghi…

…the World Day Against the Death Penalty will coincide with the UN General Assembly’s schedule. Following a proposal by the European Union, delegates from the United Nations’ 192 member states…

…letter to the prime minister, the World Coalition highlighted Canada’s efforts to oppose the death penalty internationally and the support lent to Ronald Smith over the past 25 years. It…

…that have abolished the death penalty in law or practice globally. A minority of countries, 36, voted against the proposal and 30 abstained at the vote. For the first time,…

…Day against the Death Penalty, we, Foreign Ministers, jointly call for a world which respects human dignity. The death penalty, a complex issue, continues to question the fundamental values of…

…since then to ensure that the bill would gather enough support.  The Death Penalty Abolition Act (2024) not only abolishes the death penalty for all crimes, but it also allows…

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty held its General Assembly during the World Congress Against the Death Penalty on 26 February 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. More than 50 member…

…end of the meeting, they issued the “Alexandria Declaration calling upon the Arab countries to implement the UN Resolution 62/149 on the establishment of a moratorium on the death penalty”….

The Anti Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN) “is appealing to the Pakistan authorities to halt all executions and institute a formal moratorium on the death penalty” in a statement published…

…a letter to the prime minister, the president and the interior minister asking them to establish a moratorium on executions. In Mongolia, a conference on “Human rights and the death…

…who disagree with the use of the death penalty in the case of their loved ones. They are looking for individuals or organisations who could refer them to families fitting…

…the number of death sentences. The letter therefore called on the justice minister to “establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty”. > Download the…