Capital Punishment | search
Click here to view Capital Punishment news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share- Growing global trend calling for an end to capital punishmentIn 2007, the call by the General Assembly for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty launched a trend for the abolition of the capital punishment. Today, some 160 countries have abolished the death penalty or no longer practice it. “In countries that do allow for capital punishment, there remain too many cases of people being put to ...
- HC: Death penalty should be abolished in the 21st centuryIn short, the death penalty is, in our common experience, an atavistic relic from the past that should be shed in the 21st century. “. Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human Rights. The African region is working hard to shed this relic, according to Idrissa Sow, Chairperson of the Working Group on Death Penalty, Extrajudicial, Summary or ...
- SINGAPORE’S SUBMISSION TO THE OFFICE OF THE UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR ...Support for Families of Inmates (including Persons Awaiting Capital Punishment) 11. Singapore has measures in place to support the families and children of incarcerated persons, including those sentenced to capital punishment. 12. Through interviews conducted upon the inmate’s incarceration, the
- Death penalty incompatible with right to life | OHCHREspañol. The infliction of the death penalty is incompatible with the right to life and is difficult to reconcile with the right to live free of torture. The UN has historically opposed it and works towards its worldwide abolition. And progress has been made: the death penalty has been abolished in approximately 170 countries so far.
- UN experts call for universal abolition of the death penaltyGENEVA (9 October 2023) – The UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Alice Jill Edwards, reiterated their call for the complete abolition of the death penalty. Ahead of the 21st World Day Against the Death Penalty, they issued the ...
More
