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…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…

…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…

…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….

…the evolution of Congolese law in relation to the death penalty. In his view, although the constitution has not formally abolished capital punishment, “the handing down of death sentences has…

…the use of the death penalty in 2007 and 2008. Kyrgyzstan has also committed itself to voting in favour of the upcoming moratorium resolution in December 2010 and, as in…

…In Maryland too, the governor wants to repeal the death penalty. A Senate committee there narrowly rejected the proposal by a 5-5 vote last March. In Nebraska, the unicameral parliament…

…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…

…itself as the death penalty was last applied in 1930 and was abolished for all crimes in 1979. However, the 1987 National Constitution states, in its article 23, that “the…

…even though it voted for the first time in favour of the abolition of the death penalty even though it voted for the first time in favor of the UN…

…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…

…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…

…within. The Belarusian activist declared that the main obstacle to abolition had nothing to do with the population’s alleged support of the death penalty, but rather with the absence of…

…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…

…was the village headman’s word, and at the time, the three men were embroiled in disputes over the village chieftainship and a property inheritance matter. The state granted no resources…

…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…

…it is inconsistent with the current government policy aimed at protecting Indonesian citizens abroad. In recent years, Indonesia has shifted away from the death penalty, in line with the global…

…for death penalty by hanging for crimes including treason, piracy with use of force and wilful (premeditated) murder. The death penalty violates the right to life as recognized in the…

…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…

…meant that this was not a good time to abolish the death penalty. Nonetheless, the abolition bill was an opportunity for unprecented debates on the death penalty in DR Congo’s…

…a campaign against the death penalty in Saudi Arabia. The ‘Saudi Arabia: why are foreigners losing their heads?’ campaign condemns the increasing number of executions in Saudi Arabia since the…

…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…

Reinstating the death penalty would violate Philippine’s international legal obligations, in particular, the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which the country has ratified….

Extract from Amnesty International article published on 21 April 2020. To read the article: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/04/death-penalty-in-2019-facts-and-figures/ Full report available here: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/1847/2020/en/ Amnesty International recorded 657 executions in 20 countries in 2019,…

…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…

…ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which states: “In countries which have not abolished the death penalty, sentence of death may be imposed only for the most…

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…

…to evaluate, the involvement of jurors in death penalty cases will undeniably affect the Chinese people’s stance towards the death penalty. In early November, China underwent the Universal Periodic Review…

…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…

…abolishing the death penalty was rejected by the national parliament during the text’s elaboration in 2005. Nevertheless, Congolese abolitionists see in the new constitution an opportunity to make the use…

…have an additional delusional psychosis”. World Coalition member Amnesty International said Shaikh’s execution “ highlight the injustice and inhumanity of the death penalty, particularly as it is implemented in China”….

…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…

…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…

…treaty that enshrines the irreversible abolition of the death penalty in international law. Secrecy remains The delegations taking part in Uzbekistan’s periodic review at the UN Human Rights Council on…

…penalty for a long time, and never thought he would change his mind: “I’m in favour of the death penalty in theory, but in practice, it does too much damage,…

…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…

…groups. These recommendations include the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the formulation of laws proposed by abolitionist parliamentarians, the invitation…

…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…

…Chiara Sangiorgio, Advisor on the Death Penalty at Amnesty International, stressed how the recent resumption of executions in countries that had engaged, at different levels, in a path towards the…

…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,…

…said. According to the World Coalition, the killings sent “the wrong message to the world community” from Taiwan. Independent international experts invited to examine the situation of human rights in…

…to reach 100 members covering 40 countries in 2009. Lobbying and teaching Following the campaign against the death penalty in China in the lead up to the Beijing Olympics, the…

…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,…

…to see a broad, catch-all provision to prevent any drugs from being used in capital punishment in order to ensure Europe is never again complicit in the death penalty.” “In…

…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…

…more than retribution. The main objections to the death penalty are well known. Despite popular belief, there is no evidence supporting the claim that executions deter or prevent crime, including…

…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…

…historic day. The death penalty in Maryland has been eliminated as it should be.” The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, too, issued an upbeat statement: “Maryland is the…

…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…

For the second time in less than two years, the execution of a US death row inmate likely to be innocent was stayed at the last moment following international outcry….

…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…

…will be targeted in later phases. “Once the majority of countries have ratified it, the Protocol will serve as the instrument that outlaws the death penalty in international law,” she…

…Watch, the International Federation of Human Rights, the World Organisation Against Torture, Front Line, the International Commission of Jurists, Human Rights First, the International Service for Human Rights, Diakonie Germany…

…of the IDPC expressed her concern regarding the reintroduction of the death penalty in Philippines. On that subject, Leni Robredo, Vice-president of the Philippines gave her opinion in the opening…

…the campaign to abolish the death penalty worldwide”, said Martin MacPherson, director of Amnesty International’s international law and organizations programme. The World Coalition is launching an international effort to support…

…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…

…previous votes voted in favor of the resolution: Ghana Liberia Uganda These changes in votes reflect ongoing debates in these countries to abolish the death penalty. In 2022, 29 countries…

…the National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers, Elizabeth Zitrin, member of the executive board of Death Penalty Focus. The delegation will meet the President of the General Assembly. The General…

…yet another indication that the world’s direction on the death penalty continues to be in favour of its eventual abolition. Since the adoption of the last UNGA moratorium resolution in…

…took place in 2005.  However, Amnesty International pointed out that “a new provision in the Defence Act introduced by the Death Penalty Abolition Act, 2024 allows for the reinstatement of…

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…

…highlight the failures of the death penalty system in the Arab world,  where “legislations prescribing death penalty are ambiguous and leave room for wide interpretation”. They state that “most of…

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…