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Mar 14, 2024 · The use of the death penalty is not consistent with the right to life and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. There is growing consensus for universal abolition of the death penalty. Some 170 States have abolished or introduced a moratorium on the death penalty either in law or in practice.
Oct 9, 2023 · GENEVA (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 ...
Jan 31, 2024 · 31 January 2024. The infliction of the death penalty is profoundly difficult to reconcile with human dignity, the fundamental right to life, and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, said UN Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk. “The use of the death penalty is egregious against any human ...
May 12, 2022 · Health and disability. GENEVA (12 May 2022) – UN human rights experts* today called on the Government of Singapore to immediately impose a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, and said its continued use of capital punishment for drug-related crimes ran contrary to international law.
• Sandra Babcock, Capital punishment, mental illness, and intellectual disability: The failure to protect individuals with mental disorders facing execution 128 2.3 Other cases of the death penalty against International Law 140 • Saul Lehrfreund and Roger Hood, The inevitability of arbitrariness:
Apr 3, 2023 · In 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 ...
Capital punishment may only be carried out pursuant to a final judgement rendered by a competent court after legal process which gives all possible safeguards to ensure a fair trial, at least equal to those contained in article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, including the right of anyone suspected of or charged with a crime for which capital punishment may be ...
Although Article 6 of the ICCPR permits the use of the death penalty in limited circumstances, it also provides that “nothing in this article shall be invoked to delay or to prevent the abolition of capital punishment by any State Party to the present Covenant.”. Safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death ...
Mar 1, 2022 · 01 March 2022. The Committee on Human Rights today concluded its review of the initial periodic report of Qatar on measures taken to implement the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, with Experts commending legislative revision efforts and asking about the State's stance on the death penalty and capital punishment.
Mar 27, 2014 · OHCHR calls for their immediate release. Growing global trend calling for an end to capital punishment. In 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.
