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…established. The mandatory death penalty for drug kingpins and traffickers still remains. In Malaysia, The Attorney-General is also considering removing the compulsory death penalty for drug mules. In March this…

…point the finger: “Sixteen countries in Asia apply the death penalty for drug-related offences. As many countries in the region do not make information on the death penalty available, it…

…them with the general prison population.” Founded in 1988, Death Penalty Focus is one of the largest non-profit advocacy organisations in the US dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment….

…in favour of the death penalty”. The film also deals with the influence of corruption and brutality on Chinese society, including the judiciary. Night Train was shown at the 2007…

“Considering the death penalty as torture in international law would not be another step, it is the ultimate step to establish that the death penalty is illegal all the time,…

…Human Rights Commission) to strengthen their ability to advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. The participants attended a number of talks on the death penalty in Islam, Christianity…

…number of activists against the death penalty is rising every day, but he adds that “activists need solidarity”. He emphasizes the fact that the struggle against the death penalty accompanies…

Nazanin Afshin-Jam is Iranian-Canadian and works for Stop Child Execution. She is an outstanding speaker, who can, in a few words, describe the tragic situation of the use of the death…

…Penalty in Iran, revealing an alarming increase in the number of executions in 2022. At least 582 people were executed in 2022, compared to 333 in 2021, which represent a 75%…

…executions have been carried out since its independence in 1960. The death penalty was then removed from the Ivorian legislative framework in the 2000 Constitution, and, in 2015, life imprisonment…

…direction; however, the abolition of the death penalty is the end goal which aligns with the public’s opinion as the support for capital punishment decreased, according to the Gallup Crime…

…in the UN General Assembly mid-November. Abolitionist campaigners throughout the world have been lobbying their government to secure their backing in that vote. Individual stories The presence of Murder Victims’…

…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….

…knew they were serious. After they arrested me, they told me they had a tape in which I confessed to the murder.”I fact, his ex-wife turned him in. The tape…

…Day against the Death penalty, Iran Human Rights once again calls on the UNODC and countries who are funding UNODC projects in Iran to make their cooperation in the area…

…including that given by the courageous Kids Against the Death Penalty, inspired evident admiration among the listeners, as proved by the thunderous applause with which their intervention was met. The…

…the Rights of the Child, on 20 November, 2009 in the morning. Although the diplomatic representations of Sudan and Yemen received each a quarter of the petitions received to date…

…searching for information on the use of the death penalty. “We found that in the vast majority of retentionist states, there is a lively and serious debate about the merits…

…Amnesty International France on 2 July (the anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision in 1976 to resume executions in the United States). Inspired by the traditional sit-ins by pacifists,…

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty played an active role in the preparation of the Congress organised by ECPM (Together against the Death Penalty), both in developing the Congress’s…

…in the last five years, in line with the national trend. The current governor has also repeatedly defended Texas’s death penalty system, despite its many flaws. For example, strong arguments…

…for the 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty, the World Coalition and its partners would like to grant targeted financial support to local civil society organizations in the Maldives…

…people officially sentenced to death for their participation in the opposition “Green Movement”. Western diplomats slammed the executions amid existing tensions on Iran’s nuclear programme and its repeated violations of…

…Philippines, organising demonstrations in support for the woman on World Day Against the Death Penalty last October. International support Connie Bragas-Regalado, chairperson of Migrante International and organiser of the Save…

…these nations. Key findings include: Across these seven nations, 48 of the interviewees favoured retention of the death penalty (18 of them strongly) and 52 were in favour of its…

…pardons 61 death row inmates. This is a positive step towards abolition of death penalty in Tanzania in line with the growing worldwide trend against death penalty. Death penalty as…

…current information on capital punishment around the world and engages in the promotion of international human rights norms within the criminal justice process.  The Death Penalty Worldwide database was created…

…government to make available statistics and other factual information on the use of the death penalty (A/HRC/18/11, para. 95.15). The lack of transparency in relation to the scheduled executions therefore…

…state: Virginia comes second with 110 executions. “Texas’ 500th execution is sobering, but the movement to replace the death penalty is only speeding up. The death penalty is prohibitively expensive,…

…rules in international law. According to the report, the death penalty is above all a valuable political instrument for the Kingdom, increasingly used against women, human rights activists or certain…

…Union regrets that the executions mark the end of a near six year-long de facto moratorium on the use of the death penalty in Thailand,” the statement read. Thailand was…

On February 24, 2010, representatives from international organisations (UN, Francophonie, European institutions) and those states most advanced in the fight against the death penalty – including Switzerland, Spain, Italy and…

…organized by Reprieve, and an audit by the Indian government, Kayem announced that they would no longer be selling the drug to the USA. “In view of the sensitivity involved…”…

Mario Marazziti, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty: “Let’s give the kids of the new generation a world without death penalty. The Death Penalty is sick and weakened. Well, it…

…a significant increase in the number of death penalty cases or even one or several death sentences for the coming years in Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican Coalition against the…

…even though a majority of the country’s population still supports the death penalty. He also insisted in the risk of miscarriage of justice as a key argument to abolish the…

…man; rather he describes human vulnerability during the countdown period that precedes the execution: the suffering endured by waiting, the impossible indifference of time slipping past, the last days, the…

…the United States. Five states and the federal government carried out 11 executions in 2021, down from 17 executions in 2020. The 11 executions conducted this year were the fewest…

…largest Muslim country in the world) and executions. But the political temptation is there. “The government that pleads for death penalty using the Islamic pretext to gain public favour is…

…on the US. Two plenary sessions and four thematic debates will give participants a chance to discover or further explore the fields in which the battle against the death penalty…

What is the International Academic Network for the Abolition of Capital Punishment about? The idea is to bring together research projects and publications. You can find articles on the death…

…Resolution calling for a moratorium on the death penalty. “However, while strides have been made worldwide in the campaign for the abolition of the death penalty, progress in the Arab…

…and popular support for the death penalty and American influence in regional politics. Amnesty International’s death penalty coordinator Piers Bannister, made an implacable demonstration: “Behind the tourist picture of the…

Members of the conference welcomed news from the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice that the Nigerian Government has instituted a moratorium on the death penalty because…

…crime of a military nature committed during wartime”. The Protocol does not offer state parties the possibility to opt out. It therefore makes the abolition of the death penalty final…

…as protector of its citizens. Bellivier invited the participants to the Marrakesh Forum to join the debate during the sessions on death penalty issues scheduled during the event. Follow the…

…the immediate adoption of a moratorium, recalled that no study could prove that Death Penalty is efficient against re-offence. On the contrary, it is proved that the death penalty is…

The participants discussed several aspects of the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR. Former Amnesty International France president Denys Robiliard insisted on the irrevocable nature of the treaty, which state…

The submission, which was initiated by World Coalition member Penal Reform International, comes after the revelation that Jeffery Landgrin had been executed in Arizona using sodium thiopental that was produced…

…in the seven executions so far which have taken place using drugs from Lundbeck. Citing their “concern over the use of the drugs in U.S. executions”, the fund directors sold…

Although the last execution in Benin took place in 1987, the country’s courts continued to impose death sentences until 2012, when Benin acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the…

…of the death penalty. Live from the Congress To escape the death penalty: be rich and kill a foreigner Campaigners and political leaders unite against the death penalty Protecting vulnerable…

…the death penalty’s deterrent value and any miscarriage or failure of justice in the death penalty’s implementation is irreversible and irreparable”. There are 21 inmates on death row in Guatemala….

The Italian-based international abolitionist organization Hands Off Cain has chosen Jean Ping (photo) as its 2010 “Abolitinonist of the Year”. The chairman of the African Union Commission will receive the…

…that peaceful activities against the death penalty are sentenced to 10 years in prison shows that the Iranian authorities consider the death penalty as an important tool for their survival”. …

…least seven executions by hanging in the last two years. The revelation came just one month after a Nigerian government representative at the UN spoke about the death penalty in…

…including inside the prison. Abroad, Rome city council said they would illuminate the Colosseum in support of the condemned man, while French abolitionists gathered near the US embassy. “The Internet…

…death penalty by depositing the instruments of ratification with the United Nations Secretary General. Armenia became the 89th State Party to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,…

On the 24th of June at 9.30 am, members of the World Coalition met for their ordinary General Assembly at the written invitation of the President, in conformity with the…

…support for the forthcoming UNGA Resolution on the same issue in 2010. State secretary for international relations Angel Lossada introduced the seminar and described the ambition of the Spanish government…

…preparation of the World Day Against the Death Penalty that in 2016 will be focused on the death penalty and terrorism. The slogan of this year World Day is “Execution…

…mandatory death penalty remains the law. While the crime rate remains high in many of these countries, inadequacies in law enforcement and preventive measures hinder progress. There is a need…

…denouncing the large-scale organ trafficking network that feeds on China’s death row. In the lead up to the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the World Coalition printed in a public information…

…the abolition of the death penalty, its analysis raises fundamental questions about the obvious breaches of the judiciary system in India. This report thus provides an in-depth understanding of the…

…the footsteps of abolitionist movement in India by advocating alternative sentences, as well as preventive and rehabilitation penal measures and noting the bias or the ineffectiveness of the death penalty….

…during wartime. Drop in number of executions Although the reduction in death penalty crimes in China is not expected to greatly reduce the number of executions per year, a new…

…tragedy,” said MVFHR executive director Renny Cushing. “In the public debate about the death penalty and how to respond in the aftermath of violent crime, these are the voices that…

The increasing use of the death penalty was among the key issues raised at the Universal Periodic Review on human rights in Iraq at the UN Human Rights Council in…

…a large majority a resolution calling for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty worldwide. The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty calls upon the Japanese government to…

…•    Russia. For more information about the small grants programme, please download the Terms of Reference (in Arabic, English and Russian). The duration of the projects submitted to the programme…

…in drug-related executions in 2017, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, IHR’s Director and spokesperson, said: “We welcome the new amendments in the Anti-Narcotics law which, if implemented properly, will commute several thousand death…

Caroline Muchuma is Legal Officer with the “death penalty” project at the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI) in Uganda. She explains the different means lawyers employ to help those…

During its General Assembly held on the morning of the opening of the 5th World Congress against the Death Penalty in Madrid, the World Coalition elected 20 member organizations to…

…to the right to human life through the events it organised and those of the many organisations it gathers (more than 100, including the city of Paris). The mobilisation shall…

…sustainable development, exploring how the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders back into their communities can incorporate a broader developmental perspective, contributing to the goals set out in the 2030 Agenda…

…the state of the world they are living in: the severity, sometimes the cruelty, but also the beauty of the human rights ideal. Our aim is for them to acquire…

On Friday 23rd July 2021, Sierra Leone’s Parliament unanimously abolished the death penalty by passing the Abolition of the Death Penalty Act. Prior to this vote, the Deputy Justice Minister…

…Death Penalty on October 10, the online library contains the sources of information you need. It contains all the resources on the death penalty identified by the World Coalition since…

…involved in the human rights area, such as Lush Cosmetics and Virgin, whose representatives were invited to the 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty in February 2019 in Brussels,…

…no to the death penalty. The closing ceremony was also an opportunity for the World Coalition to read the final declaration of the Congress. Finally, to conclude this very beautiful…

…2007, it has conducted targeted research and advocacy on the death penalty for drug offences. The successful candidate will be an integral part of the Human Rights and Justice team,…

…there is a nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental, the anesthetic in the three-drug cocktail. The drug was rushed in from Britain for the execution. Landrigan’s lawyers raised questions over the…

…an extract from Gavin’s speech at the “Words of Victims” evening during the World Congress: Campaigning started within the family. “Grandpa is for the death penalty, but we are slowly…

The ruling was issued in the case of Allen Gregory, an African-American man sentenced to death for rape and murder: in the process of proving the death penalty’s unconstitutionality, the…

…with organizations. “If you’re sitting in Dakar and oppose the death penalty, how do you contact like-minded people?” he asked. With the Death Penalty Action Network, he hopes to make…

The USA is one of the few federalist countries which give the states the power to legislate on the issue of the death penalty. At present there are 15 abolitionist…

After Strasburg in 2001, Montreal in 2004 and Paris in 2007, Geneva will host the 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty between February 24-26, 2010. Together Against the Death…

Zambia has acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, which is the UN treaty aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, on 19 December 2024. One day…