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Article(s)
WANTED: Program and Admin Assistant
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 19 August 2016
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is looking for an intern for a period of 6 months, starting mid-September.
2016
Document(s)
Death Row in the USA: Death Penalty Cases and Statistics by State
By Legal Defense Fund , on 13 May 2024
2024
Academic report
Death Row Conditions
United States
More details See the document
LDF issues a quarterly report entitled Death Row USA that contains death penalty information, death row populations by state, and other capital punishment statistics in the United States.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Death Row Conditions
Article(s)
United Nations headed for new moratorium resolution
on 15 November 2010
A proposed United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for a global suspension of executions has gained the support of two more countries pending a plenary vote next month.
2010
Bhutan
Kiribati
Maldives
Mongolia
Moratorium
Togo
Article(s)
Campaigning through forgiving
on 24 February 2010
A former death row inmate and the grandson of a murder victim explain why compassion – not the death penalty – is the way to heal wounds.
2010
Murder Victims' Families
Public Opinion
Switzerland
United States
Document(s)
Facts and Figures 2022
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 24 June 2022
2022
World Coalition
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Find the main facts and figures regarding the death penalty worldwide in 2021 and early 2022.
- Document type World Coalition
- Available languages Faits et chiffres 2022
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Member(s)
Coalizione italiana contro la pena di morte
on 30 April 2020
The Italian Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (ICADP) was established to form a network between both Italian and foreign groups, associations, movements, and individuals that oppose capital punishment, and to coordinate their work and efforts. The ICADP holds talks about the death penalty around the world, spreads information and promotes campaigns. It is especially […]
2020
Italy
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Member(s)
Project 39A
on 13 September 2022
Project 39A is a criminal justice initiative, based in the National Law University, Delhi – a prestigious public university in New Delhi. Inspired by Article 39-A of the Indian Constitution, Project 39A’s work furthers the intertwined values of equal justice and equal opportunity. Project 39A uses empirical research to re-examine policies on various criminal justice […]
2022
India
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Member(s)
Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC)
on 30 April 2020
The Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) is registered as a private, non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit making organization based in Tanzania, East Africa. The LHRC works to create legal and human rights awareness among the public, in particular the underprivileged section of the society of Tanzania, through legal and civic education, provision of legal aid, […]
2020
United Republic of Tanzania
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Member(s)
European Association for Human Rights
on 30 April 2020
The European Association for Human Rights mainly promotes the welfare of prisoners. Its work is especially focused on taking care for death row prisoners and their children, and abolishing the death penalty. Many people on death row are dismissed in their search for help and support from the established human rights organizations. There is a […]
France
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Member(s)
Culture pour la Paix et la Justice (CPJ)
on 30 April 2020
The association Culture for Peace and Justice (CPJ) was founded in Kinshasa at the end of 1990s by a lawyer, Liévin Ngondji, and a law student, Molisho Ndarabu Eulethère. At a time of war, they wanted to fight against the practice of the Military court, an exceptional court established in 1997 that pronounced numerous death […]
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Member(s)
International Organization for Diplomatic Relations
on 30 April 2020
The International Organization for Diplomatic Relations (IODR), also known as “Correspondants Diplomatiques” intends to promote alliance and cultural cooperation through the exchange of documents, the organization of conferences, concerts, and events of various kinds, and publications. It promotes solidarity between people and individuals and the full realization of the basic rights of man, as inspired […]
Malta
Article(s)
Iran ignores nearly 100,000 signatures against child executions
on 23 November 2009
The World Coalition delegation carrying 90,708 signatures against juvenile executions in the world was not admitted to the embassies of Iran and Saudi Arabia, in contrast to those of Sudan and Yemen.
2009
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Juveniles
Sudan
Document(s)
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2022
on 24 March 2023
2023
NGO report
China
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Drug Offenses
Indonesia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Malaysia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Viet Nam
More details See the document
Harm Reduction International has monitored the use of the death penalty for drug offences worldwide since our first ground-breaking publication on this issue in 2007. This report, our twelfth on the subject, continues our work of providing regular updates on legislative, policy and practical developments related to the use of capital punishment for drug offences, a practice which is a clear violation of international standards. As of December 2022, Harm Reduction International (HRI) recorded at least 285 executions for drug offences globally during the year, a 118% increase from 2021, and an 850% increase from 2020. Executions for drug offences are confirmed or assumed to have taken place in six countries: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, plus in China, North Korea and Vietnam – on which exact figures cannot be provided because of extreme opacity. Therefore, this figure is likely to reflect only a percentage of all drug-related executions worldwide. Confirmed death sentences for drug offences were also on the rise; with at least 303 people sentenced to death in 18 countries. This marks a 28% increase from 2021.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list China / Democratic People's Republic of Korea / Indonesia / Iran (Islamic Republic of) / Malaysia / Saudi Arabia / Singapore / Viet Nam
- Themes list Drug Offenses
Document(s)
(Not) Talking about Capital Punishment in the Xi Jinping Era
By Tobias Smith, Matthew Robertson and Susan Trevaskes, on 1 September 2022
2022
Academic report
China
More details See the document
An investigation into the death penalty in the People’s Republic of China in the Xi Jinping era (2012–) shows that unlike previous administrations, Xi does not appear to have articulated a signature death penalty policy. Where policy in China is unclear, assessing both the quality and frequency of discourse on the topic can provide evidence regarding an administration’s priorities.
This article was first published in Crime Justice Journal: https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/issue/view/119
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list China
Article(s)
Research Assistant
By Death Penalty Worldwide, Cornell Law School and World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 February 2016
Death Penalty Worldwide of Cornell University Law School and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty invite applications for a five-month internship placement in Paris from March to July 2016.
2016
Article(s)
UN receives five million signatures in favour of a moratorium on executions
on 8 November 2007
A delegation of World Coalition member organisations has handed over the petition to United Nations General Assembly president Srgjan Kerim.
2007
Moratorium
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Member(s)
Comité des Observateurs des Droits de l’Homme (CODHO)
on 30 April 2020
On 1 July 1997 a group of lawyers, economists and political scientists from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) held a meeting following the massacre of children by militiamen in North Kivu in the east of the country. Revolted by this unspoken tragedy, they decided to set up the Committee of Human Rights Monitors (Codho). […]
2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Member(s)
Union Chrétienne pour le Progrès et la Défense des Droits de l’Homme
on 30 April 2020
The Christian Union for Progress and Human Rights (UCPDHO) is a Christian-inspired association founded in Uvira, South Kivu (Democratic Republic of the Congo). The UCPDHO’s aim is to contribute to the restoration of peace in DRC, combat human rights’ violations, inform on death penalty laws and promote human rights in rural areas. Its objectives include […]
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Member(s)
Mouvement contre le Racisme et pour l’Amitié entre les Peuples (MRAP)
on 30 April 2020
The Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Nations (MRAP) has its origins in the French Resistance: it emerged from the National Movement against Racism, founded secretly in 1941 to save Jewish children from deportation and to thwart the racist ideology of the Vichy regime. Since then the MRAP has taken action against other forms […]
France
Article(s)
200 executions in Texas under Rick Perry
on 8 June 2009
On June 2, 2009, the 200th execution authorized by governor Rick Perry took place in Texas. Protests were scheduled from Huntsville to Paris to denounce the death penalty situation in the southern US state.
2009
Clemency
Innocence
Mental Illness
United States
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Article(s)
Executions and Death Sentences Near Record Lows in 2021 in the USA
By Death Penalty Information Center, on 13 January 2022
Virginia’s historic abolition of the death penalty highlighted a year in which public opinion polls, executions, and new death sentences all signaled continued erosion of support for capital punishment across the United States.
2022
Public Opinion
United States
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Article(s)
“Unknown Assailants: A Threat to Human Rights”
By Legal Human Rights Centre, on 4 May 2018
So is named The Tanzania Human Rights Report of 2017 released by the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC).This report was published on April 25th, 2018 and it enlights for the fifteenth time the major human rights violations in Tanzania. This report, while it deals with human rights violation in Tanzania concerning civil and politial rights, freedom of violence, freedom of expression, also presents the death penalty as an issue in the coutnry and called the President for its abolition.
2018
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
United Republic of Tanzania
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Member(s)
The Rights Practice
on 30 April 2020
The Rights Practice works to promote and strengthen the protection of human rights. Our work is currently based in China in three programme areas: improving access to justice, strengthening public participation in decision making and promoting dignity of the person. We believe that the death penalty violates the right to life and is the ultimate […]
2020
United Kingdom
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Article(s)
FIACAT and ACAT Benin congratulate Benin on having removed the death penalty from its criminal legislation
By FIACAT, on 6 June 2018
Cotonou, Paris, 6 June 2018 – On 5 June, Benin’s National Assembly adopted a new Penal Code removing all references to the death penalty from the law.
2018
Benin
Article(s)
Geneva 2010: organising for stronger campaigning
on 7 February 2010
The programme of the World Congress Against the Death Penalty is intended to give abolitionists an opportunity to reflect on their joint actions, including campaigns coordinated by the World Coalition.
2010
Benin
France
Italy
Spain
Switzerland
Article(s)
Activists and diplomats slam political executions in Iran
on 1 February 2010
The Islamic Republic finds itself more isolated than ever after it hanged to dissidents and threatened many more with execution.
2010
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Fair Trial
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Document(s)
Facts and Figures 2011
By World Coalition against the death penalty , on 10 October 2011
2011
Campaigning
Trend Towards Abolition
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Facts and Figures 2011
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition
- Available languages Faits et chiffres 2011
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Article(s)
Texas maintains distance from abolitionist trend after 500th execution
By Léa Macarez, on 4 July 2013
52 year-old black woman Kimberly McCarthy was executed on 26 June and became the 500th prisoner put to death since Texas restored the death penalty in 1982.
2013
United States
Women
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Article(s)
Abolitionist Challenges for 2013 in Puerto Rico
By Puerto Rican Coalition against the Death Penalty, on 7 March 2013
This annual report covers the situation of death penalty cases involving Puerto Ricans who face death penalty proceedings in the federal jurisdiction, as well as in those states of the US where such punishment is strictly upheld, and one case of petition for extradition.
2013
United States
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Member(s)
Human Rights and Democracy Media Center (SHAMS)
on 30 April 2020
Human Rights and Democracy Media Center “SHAMS” is a Palestinian non-governmental non-profit organization, established in 2003 in Ramallah by a group of academicians, educated, advocates and human rights activists .“SHAMS” Center holds Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations “SHAMS” Center believes that dissemination and generalization of human […]
2020
State of Palestine
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Member(s)
League of Women Lawyers of Tajikistan
on 30 April 2020
The League of Women Lawyers of Tajikistan aims at improving the legal consciousness of citizens of the Republic of Tajikistan, the protection of civil, social, economic and cultural rights of women in Tajikistan, gender equality, improving women’s status in society lawyer, as well as assisting in the preparation of legal training among young girls. League […]
Tajikistan
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Article(s)
Annual report on the death penalty in Iran 2017
By Iran Human Rights (IHR) - Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), on 22 March 2018
The report shows that in 2017 at least 517 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This number is comparable with the execution figures in 2016 and confirms the relative reduction in the use of the death penalty compared to the period between 2010 and 2015.
2018
Drug Offenses
Fair Trial
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Public Opinion
Document(s)
Issues and recommendations to raise with the government of Malawi
By Reprieve, Sant'egidio, WCADP, on 27 May 2021
2021
NGO report
Malawi
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Overview
This document has been prepared by the Community of Sant’Egidio, Reprieve and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty to assist the Commissioners ahead of the 2nd/3rd periodic report of the Government of Malawi that covers the reporting period of 2015-2019.
- Document type NGO report
- Countries list Malawi
Article(s)
The Last Day of a Condemned Man/Autopsy of fear
on 24 February 2010
Geneva’s Théâtre de la Comédie was filled to the seams Wednesday evening for the première of an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel that plunges theatre goers into the mind of a man destined for the guillotine.
2010
Switzerland
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Article(s)
Improved access to unique global death penalty library
By Thomas Hubert, on 10 July 2014
The World Coalition has redesigned its online library to help visitors find the documents they need in its multilingual database of resources and campaigning tools on capital punishment.
2014
Clemency
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Death Row Conditions
Drug Offenses
Fair Trial
Innocence
Intellectual Disability
Juveniles
Legal Representation
Mental Illness
Moratorium
Murder Victims' Families
Public Opinion
Terrorism
Women
Document(s)
22nd World Day Against the Death Penalty – FACTS AND FIGURES
By World coalition against the death penalty, on 8 July 2024
2024
Campaigning
World Coalition
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- Document type Campaigning / World Coalition
- Available languages 22e Journée mondiale contre la peine de mort - Faits et chiffres
Article(s)
Devising a strategy to support ratifications of the UN protocol
on 10 July 2009
The World Coalition organised a round table on action to be taken to support the ratification of the UN’s protocol on the abolition of the death penalty, as part of International CURE’s conference in Geneva in June.
2009
Kazakhstan
Terrorism
Article(s)
World Congress ends with words of hope
on 28 February 2010
Powerful words by the speakers of the solemn ceremony that concluded the 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty gave hope to the participants as they prepared to head home.
2010
Switzerland
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)
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
Document(s)
Facts and Figures 2013
on 10 October 2013
2013
Campaigning
Trend Towards Abolition
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Facts and Figures world day against the death penalty 2013
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition
- Available languages Faits et chiffres 2013PENA DE MUERTE HECHOS Y DATOS
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Article(s)
Release of the Death Penalty India Report
By Marion Gauer, on 20 May 2016
A report describing the socio-economic profiles of death row inmates in India was recently released by the National Law University’s Death Penalty Research Project (based in New Delhi).
2016
India
Article(s)
World Coalition worried by the current situation in Iraq and Tibet (China)
on 19 May 2009
Alerted by local members, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty recently sent protest letters to the Chinese and Iraqi authorities.
2009
China
Fair Trial
Iraq
Article(s)
Crime and populism prevent abolition in the Caribbean
on 28 February 2010
The region has the highest crime rate in the world. Whether it is gratuitous violence, domestic violence, ethnic tensions or drug-related violence, people want solutions faced to the accumulation of crime.
2010
Colombia
Drug Offenses
Jamaica
South Africa
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Article(s)
Responsible Business Initiative on the Death Penalty
By Louis Linel, on 19 July 2019
On the occasion of the meeting of its Steering Committee on Friday 28 June and Saturday 29 June 2019, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty has invited the director of Responsible Business Initiative Against the Death Penalty, Ms. Celia Ouellette, to present the involvement of companies against the capital punishment alongside with traditional activists.
2019
Article(s)
Europe and Japan share “Reflections on life”
on 8 December 2009
Speaking at a symposium on the death penalty organised in Tokyo by the Swedish presidency of the European Union, a Japanese minister expressed his commitment for abolition.
2009
Innocence
Japan
Moratorium
Public Opinion
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Member(s)
National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
on 30 April 2020
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is an association dedicated to the need for basic and progressive change in the structure of the US political and economic system. It seeks to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers of America in an organization that shall function as an effective political and social force […]
2020
United States
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Article(s)
Global Prison Trends 2018 4th Edition
By Penal Reform International, on 6 June 2018
Global Prison Trends 2018 is the fourth edition in PRI’s annual flagship Global Prison Trends series, which identifies topical developments and challenges in criminal justice and prison policy and practice. It is published in collaboration with the Thailand Institute of Justice, and features a foreword by the Rt Hon Helen Clark, Member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Former Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme.
2018
Death Row Conditions
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Article(s)
China’s “efforts to gradually reduce the application of the death penalty”
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 30 October 2014
Following a decision by the Communist Party’s Central Committee in November 2013 to “gradually reduce the number of crimes punishable by death”, a draft amendment to China’s criminal law was submitted for initial review to the country’s National People’s Congress this week.
2014
China
Article(s)
Preventing exports of lethal drugs from Europe to the US
on 22 January 2011
High-profile civil society organizations have signed a submission appealing to the European Commission to control the exportation, from Europe, of the drugs that are used in US executions.
2011
United States
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Article(s)
Critical expansion of the use of the death Penalty in India in 2018
By Project 39A, on 6 February 2019
In 2018 India followed a particularly repressive path by sentencing 162 people to death.
2019
India
Article(s)
International mobilisation saves the life of Filipina maid
on 12 December 2007
A Filipina woman sentenced to death in Kuwait for the murder of her employer has seen her sentence commuted to life imprisonment after joint action by migrant and abolitionist groups.
2007
Kuwait
Philippines
Women
Document(s)
Facts and Figures 2010
By World Day against the death penalty , on 10 October 2010
2010
Campaigning
Trend Towards Abolition
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Facts and Figures 2010
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition
- Available languages Faits et chiffres 2010
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Article(s)
7th World Day Against the Death Penalty: teaching abolition
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 27 July 2009
On 10 October 2009, World Day Against the Death Penalty, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty wishes to teach abolition to all citizens around the world, especially to teenagers aged 14 to 18.
2009
Public Opinion
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Article(s)
Progressive abolition of the death penalty and alternative sanctions
By PRI - FHRI, on 15 February 2013
World Coalition member organisations PRI and FHRI launch a small grants programme for local NGOs on the abolition of the death penalty and humane alternative sanctions in nine countries.
2013
Article(s)
“Academics can enable activists with technology”
on 28 February 2010
Luis Arroyo Zapatero is the head of the Institute for European and International law at the University of Castilla-La-Mancha. In 2009, he kick-started the foundation of the International Academic Network for the Abolition of Capital Punishment.
2010
Moratorium
Women
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Article(s)
Sierra Leone abolishes the Death Penalty
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty , on 2 August 2021
On Friday 23rd July 2021, Sierra Leone’s Parliament unanimously abolished the death penalty by passing the Abolition of the Death Penalty Act.
2021
Public Opinion
Sierra Leone
Page(s)
Support us
on 11 September 2020
Abolitionist countries and institutions Political support Join the “Friends of the Protocol” group and support our ratification campaign. Contribute to the World Day Against the Death Penalty on 10 October by mobilizing your diplomatic network in countries that still impose the death penalty. Financial support Make universal abolition of the death penalty a reality by […]
2020
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Article(s)
Armenia ratifies international treaty for irreversible abolition of the death penalty
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 25 March 2021
Armenia ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on 18 March 2021.
2021
Armenia
Article(s)
World Coalition welcomes the success of its 15th General Assembly
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 September 2017
More than 50 member organisations of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty gathered for three days on 22-24 June 2017 in Washington DC for the General Assembly of the World Coalition.
2017
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Article(s)
World Coalition participates in Marrakesh Human Rights Forum
By Thomas Hubert (in Marrakesh, Morocco), on 27 November 2014
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is taking an active part in the World Human Rights Forum in Marrakesh until November 29 in Marrakesh, Morocco.
2014
Morocco
Document(s)
Anniversary tool – 20th World Day
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 8 July 2022
2022
World Coalition
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Anniversary tool for the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty.
This tool traces 20 years of struggle for the abolition of the death penalty. Rediscover the different themes addressed and the achievements of the World Day.
- Document type World Coalition
- Available languages أداة الذكرى السنوية - اليوم العالمي العشرينOutil anniversaire - 20e Journée mondiale
Article(s)
“We are the future” – Kids Against the Death Penalty
on 28 February 2010
The teenage nephews of an American death row inmate started an anti-death penalty organization that has grown into a pillar of the Texas abolitionist community.
2010
Innocence
Switzerland
United States
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Article(s)
Iran: 16-Year Prison Sentence For Peaceful Human Rights Activism
By Iran Human Rights, on 29 May 2016
An Iranian Court has sentenced the prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi to 16 years in prison. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison for her peaceful anti-death penalty activities with the Campaign “LEGAM” (Step by step for abolition of the death penalty). Iran Human Rights (IHR) calls for immediate international reactions. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the spokesperson of IHR, said: ” Despite President Rouhani’s promises of respecting civil rights, Iranian authorities’ tolerance for peaceful civil activities is record low”.
2016
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Article(s)
Hands Off Cain names Jean Ping “Abolitionist of the Year”
on 27 July 2010
World Coalition member organisation Hands Off Cain will on July 31present Jean Ping, the chairman of the African Union Commission, with its 2010 award.
2010
Italy
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Article(s)
The World Coalition gathers in Oslo
By Federica Merenda, on 30 June 2016
On the occasion of the 6th World Congress Against the Death Penalty held on 21-23 June this year, the World Coalition gathered in Oslo, with about 150 delegates attending the Congress representing more than 50 member organizations.
2016
Fair Trial
Legal Representation
Norway
Public Opinion
Document(s)
Facts and Figures 2009
By World Coalition against the death penalty , on 10 October 2009
2009
Campaigning
Trend Towards Abolition
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Facts and Figures 2009
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition
- Available languages Faits et chiffres 2009
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Article(s)
Closing ceremony of the project « My pencil for abolition » at the French Ministry of foreign affairs
By Marion Gauer, on 27 May 2016
On May 23rd, 2016, the closing ceremony of the project “My pencil for abolition” took place at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This project was organized by the team of “Educating and Raising Awareness on Abolition” in the association Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM): it consisted in involving a few middle and high school’s classes, from Lorraine, Belfort and the Parisian region, in the elaboration of articles and cartoons in order to create a magazine committed to the abolition of the death penalty, known as the Abolition Mag.
2016
Public Opinion
Article(s)
Behind the scenes with those who support Foster
on 31 August 2007
Kenneth Foster, who was sentenced to death in Texas for having driven a murderer in his car, saw his sentence commuted on August 30 – thanks to unprecedented mobilisation.
2007
United States
Article(s)
Asia between an abolitionist trend and populist politics
on 28 February 2010
At least 76% of executions worldwide take place in Asia. Despite these impressive figures, Bikramjeet Batra, and indian lawyer with Amnesty International, is optimistic and explains that “the asian trend is toward abolition”.
2010
Public Opinion
Taiwan
Article(s)
San Francisco hosts World Coalition AGM
on 31 May 2010
For the first time, a major international abolitionist event will take place on US soil on June 12 when World Coalition members converge on California for their general meeting and a public conference. Register now for access!
2010
United States
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Article(s)
Pressure mounts on Lundbeck to halt supply of execution drugs
on 27 May 2011
Thanks to a campaign by Coalition Member Reprieve and others, Danish chemicals company Lundbeck is feeling the heat from all sides for selling execution drugs to US prisons.
2011
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Denmark
Page(s)
The Death Penalty Worldwide
on 22 June 2020
Navigate the list of countries below to get country-by-country information on the laws and practices associated with the use of the death penalty. This information is taken from the Death Penalty Worldwide database, which also offers an advanced search function (capital crimes, prison conditions, appeal procedures, legal representation…) in English and in French. Database execution figures are sourced […]
2020
Article(s)
Death penalty and mental illness: “Double Tragedies”
on 7 July 2009
Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights and the National Alliance on Mental Illness slam the use of capital punishment against mentally ill people in the United States.
2009
Mental Illness
Murder Victims' Families
United States
Article(s)
MEPs call on Guatemala not to reinstate capital punishment
on 25 February 2008
Members of the European Parliament Hélène Flautre and Raimon Obiols have called on Guatemala to maintain its moratorium on the death penalty after the Central American country passed dangerous legislation.
2008
Clemency
Guatemala
Moratorium
Article(s)
“We go to the prisoner’s village to question the witnesses”
on 28 February 2010
Caroline Muchuma, contributor to the round table on the vital role played by lawyers in defending those sentenced to death, describing her role as a lawyer and campaigner in Uganda.
2010
Legal Representation
Uganda
Article(s)
Internship opportunity at Centre on the Death Penalty, NLU Delhi
By NLU Delhi, on 1 April 2016
The Centre on the Death Penalty is keen to develop a robust and rewarding internship programme that will provide meaningful exposure to the complexities and nuances, in particular, of the administration of the death penalty and the criminal justice system in India more generally, therefore the centre introduces internship program where they accept interns on rolling basis.
2016
India
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Article(s)
8th World Day Against the Death Penalty: USA
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 10 May 2010
On 10 October 2010, the 8th World Day Against the Death Penalty is dedicated to the USA which executed 52 people and handed down 106 death sentences in 2009.
2010
United States
Article(s)
Geneva 2010: day 2 of intense working sessions
on 25 February 2010
National political leaders, activists, representatives of international organisations and many others have made it: a wide variety of abolitionist actors are now gathered in Geneva for the 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty.
2010
Switzerland
Document(s)
21st World Day – Facts and Figures 2023
By the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 12 June 2023
2023
Campaigning
World Coalition
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Find the main facts and figures regarding the death penalty worldwide in 2022 and early 2023.
- Document type Campaigning / World Coalition
- Available languages 21ème Journée Mondiale - Faits et chiffres 2023
Page(s)
Podcasts recomendations
on 14 March 2023
Podcasts or series of podcasts by our members Broken Law Podcast Hosted by the staff of the American Constitution Society. Episode 23: How the World Views the Death Penalty Released on: Nov. 09, 2021 Listen to Podcast ADPAN Podcasts Series of podcasts hosted by The Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network Listen to Podcast Other podcasts to […]
2023
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.
2009
China
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
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Article(s)
Washington State Abolishes Death Penalty
By Nicolas Chua, on 26 October 2018
On 11 October 2018, Washington became the 20th US state to abolish the death penalty: the court ruling, written by Chief Justice Mary E. Fairhurst, cited the “arbitrary and racially biased manner” in which the death penalty was applied as a violation of the state’s constitutional prohibition of “cruel punishment”.
2018
United States
Document(s)
Ghosts of Executions Past: A Case Study of Executions in South Carolina in the Pre-Furman Era
By John H. Blume, Samuel F. Leibowitz, on 1 September 2022
2022
Academic report
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
United States
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The protracted and (somewhat) ongoing debate over whether lethal injection—in some or all of its forms—is cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment is the newest variation on the question of whether a particular form of capital punishment is inhumane and cruel. The history of capital punishment in the United States over the last two centuries has been punctuated by attempts to find less painful and gruesome ways to kill persons society has condemned to die. Ironically, at least from a historical perspective, some recent executions have seen condemned inmates or their attorneys elect some of the older methods, i.e., electrocution, or offer, as a potentially less painful alternative, the firing squad or death by lethal gas. And some states, including the main subject of this article, have resurrected electrocution and the firing squad because of a claimed inability or difficulty in obtaining execution drugs. In this article, the authors trace the history of execution methods in the pre-modern era of capital punishment (before 1972), primarily in South Carolina, pointing out the often-intractable problems with their implementation process (including specific “botches”), and then address other aspects of executions that have relevance to the current debate about the wisdom and efficacy of retaining the “modern” American death penalty in the twenty-first century.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Document(s)
Facts and Figures 2007
By World Coaliton against the death penalty , on 10 October 2009
2009
Campaigning
Trend Towards Abolition
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Facts and Figures 2007
- Document type Campaigning
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition
- Available languages Faits et chiffres 2007
Document(s)
The Modern Federal Death Penalty: A Cruel and Unusual Penalty
By Hannah Freedman, on 1 September 2022
2022
Academic report
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
United States
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The federal death penalty today would be unrecognizable to the founders, who saw the ultimate penalty as a means of protecting sovereign interests and who therefore carefully guarded the practice at English common law of yielding national interests to local ones. Over the course of time, the geographic distribution and substantive basis for the penalty changed, but until the modern era, its underlying purpose did not. As the Trump era executions made painfully clear, however, the federal death penalty today is different. It is disproportionately imposed for crimes that could have readily been prosecuted by other jurisdictions and that have little obvious connection to federal sovereignty, and it is disproportionately imposed against non-white people. By any rational measure, it is vanishingly rare, and it serves no valid penological goal. Simply put, federal death sentences today are, in most cases, “cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.”
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
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Article(s)
Africa : 3 abolitions of the death penalty in one year
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 20 October 2022
After Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea has adopted a new Penal Code that abolishes the death penalty for ordinary crimes.
2022
Central African Republic
Equatorial Guinea
Sierra Leone
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Article(s)
India should join nations abolishing the death penalty
By Navkiran Singh, Lawyers For Human Rights International, on 27 September 2012
The debate has recently been growing in India, with former President Pratibha Patil commuting the death sentence of 35 convicts in a few years and 14 former judges challenging death penalties confirmed by the Supreme Court.
Although India has not executed anyone since 2004, more than 400 people are on death row and the courts hand down fresh death sentences every year. Navkiran Singh, general secretary of World Coalition member organisation, Lawyers For Human Rights International, explains why he believes there is a positive move in his country.
2012
India
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Member(s)
Hands Off Cain
on 30 April 2020
Hands Off Cain is a league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide. It was founded in Brussels in 1993. Hands Off Cain (HOC) is a non-profit organization and a constituent member of the Transnational Radical Party. The name “Hands Off Cain” is inspired by the Genesis. The first book […]
2020
Italy
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Member(s)
Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU)
on 30 April 2020
Active since 1987 as Italian Helsinki Committee, FIDU promotes the protection of human rights as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social in other relevant international documents. FIDU therefore intends to work to spread the knowledge of […]
Italy
Article(s)
Activists uncover secret executions in Nigeria
on 9 January 2008
Research by Amnesty International and a group of Nigerian NGOs has revealed that covert executions have been taking place in Nigeria’s prisons.
2008
Nigeria
Nigeria
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Member(s)
SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights (SALAM DHR)
on 30 April 2021
SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights (SALAM DHR) is an NGO that endeavors to preserve universal principles of dignity and respect by shielding democracy and human rights. SALAM DHR conducts monitoring and analysis, produces reports, develops recommendations on policy and legislation, organizes advocacy campaigns, conducts trainings, and builds effective coalitions. SALAM DHR is actively involved […]
2021
Bahrain
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Member(s)
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
on 30 April 2020
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty (PFADP) is a nongovernmental organisation whose mission is to educate and mobilise faith communities to act to abolish the death penalty in the United States. Founded in 1994 in North Carolina, PFADP focuses its programs on organising among faith communities in the Southern United States, where most executions […]
2020
United States
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Article(s)
Federal Justice orders the prison administration to immediately provide African-American journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal with treatment
By French Collective "Free Mumia", on 18 January 2017
On the 3rd January of this year, a Federal judge ordered Pennsylvania’s prison administration to immediately provide Mumia Abu-Jamal with medication to treat his hepatitis C infection, justifying his decision in these terms: “budgetary constraints cannot outweigh the Eighth Amendment’s constitutional guarantee of adequate medical care.”
2017
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
United States
Article(s)
Victims of crime oppose the death penalty
on 26 February 2010
Parents and friends of those killed fill a growing space in the debate on the death penalty and, increasingly, this is to call for abolition rather than vengeance.
2010
Murder Victims' Families
Article(s)
Madrid Declaration calls for immediate moratorium in Arab Countries
on 16 July 2009
National experts and civil society representatives from took part in a seminar in Madrid on 14 and 15 July 2009 at the invitation of Casa Arabe and the Spanish ministry for foreign affairs and cooperation.
2009
Moratorium
Spain
Article(s)
World Coalition elects new decision-making bodies
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 21 June 2013
The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty has elected a new Steering Committee and a new Executive Board to serve for two years.
2013
Article(s)
From moratorium to abolition: Africa wants to make the jump
on 28 February 2010
Five African icons in the struggle against the death penalty joined together to debate the transition from a moratorium on executions to full legal abolition.
2010
Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Togo
Uganda
Document(s)
Little Furmans Everywhere: State Court Intervention and the Decline of the American Death Penalty
By Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, on 1 September 2022
2022
Academic report
Trend Towards Abolition
United States
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This article retraces the evolution and recent decline of death peanlty in the United States, notablt through state court interventions. These dynamics between judicial and political action illuminate the importance of state court intervention in the story of the American death penalty’s precipitous decline, which has tended to foreground other institutional actors and to neglect the complex interactions among branches of government. State judicial rulings, though often highly technical and, therefore, less visible and accessible to the public, have been a pervasive and powerful force in the two-decade-long diminution of the practice of capital punishment across the United States.
- Document type Academic report
- Countries list United States
- Themes list Trend Towards Abolition
Document(s)
Anti–Death Penalty Advocacy: A Lawyer’s View from Australia
By Julian McMahon SC, on 1 September 2022
Article
Australia
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This article reviews the executions of Australians in the region and the Australian responses over the past two decades. Informed by the author’s legal defence role in death penalty cases in Singapore and Indonesia and other countries, the article explores developments in anti–death penalty advocacy since 2015: the parliamentary enquiry, the ‘whole of government’ strategy led by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the efforts made by Australia and Australians in Asia.
This article was first published in Crime Justice Journal: https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/issue/view/119
- Document type Article
- Countries list Australia