Mar 10, 2025 · There is a large and growing global majority against the death penalty led by important advancements in the Global South. The path towards abolition must be paved by legal reforms, judicial interventions, and policy shifts toward a more humane and just society.

Oct 16, 2018 · For those executed despite never having committed a crime, the death penalty is the ultimate injustice. What compounds it is that only poor people – denied access to legal safeguards that could have mitigated the punishment – are ever sentenced to death.

World Day Against the Death Penalty – Tuesday 10 October 2017 GENEVA (6 October 2017) – United Nations human rights experts* are calling for urgent action to end the disproportionate impact of the death penalty on people from poorer communities. They say imposing the death penalty as a result of discrimination constitutes an arbitrary killing and Governments must not …

Jan 14, 2025 · 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. Despite this …

Jan 31, 2024 · 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.

Out of a total of 108 individuals on death row (as of 3 December 2020), the JFBA received 69 valid responses.6 This is the JFBA’s third survey regarding the treatment of individuals on death row; the last two surveys were carried out in 2006 and in 2009/2010.

As the number of States with the death penalty on their statute books falls, still thousands of prisoners remain on death row. The UN Human Rights Office supports the United Nations in its campaign to end executions globally.

Oct 10, 2013 · The Human Rights Council, at its latest meeting in Geneva, has brought to the fore the human rights of children whose parents are on death row, urging States to provide appropriate protection and assistance.

A death-row prisoner is faced with numerous challenges. Others have to represent the accused in legal management and repression by corruption-plagued jail officials are just two of them.

Oct 10, 2024 · The death penalty is contrary to human dignity, is incompatible with the right to life, and does not lead to justice. Thus is the sentiment of UN Human Rights and human rights defenders across the globe, who further state there is little to no evidence that it deters crime and advocate for its universal abolition.