Mar 10, 2025 · This decision was taken due to concerns over racial disparities, wrongful convictions, and the financial strain of maintaining death row, Malloy explained. “The abolition of the death penalty is a political decision, it needs leadership, but it has to be backed by support by important institutions like the judiciary,” he said.

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.

Oct 16, 2018 · Out of 142 male and 25 female death row inmates, only one man and one woman had a university education. The Kenyan Supreme Court has recently imposed limits on the application of the death penalty. Many speakers pointed out that poor women facing the possibility of a death sentence are even more disadvantaged.

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 stand idly by. Their ...

longest serving individual on death row (though he was released in 2014). He is the longest serving individual on death row if ‘time spent on death row’ is calculated from the date of the death sentence at trial. Please see footnote 4 for our definition. 6 JFBA survey:

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.

The number of countries executing prisoners is declining but even so thousands remain on death row, often in appalling conditions and without access to legal services. In his most recent report to the United Nations General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns confirms the trend away ...

Oct 10, 2013 · The plight of children who have parents on death row or whose parents have been executed is also addressed in the latest report from the UN Secretary General on the question of the death penalty. There is an urgent need, the report says, “to examine the effects of the capital punishment system in its entirety, including the social, economic ...

The death-row prisoners are isolated in such a manner that constraints are imposed on meeting friends or loved ones and even other prisoners inside the same jail. The condemned cells, where death-row prisoners are incarcerated, are designed to divest the accused from sunshine, fresh air and socialisation with other prisoners.

Jan 30, 2024 · Smith, 58, had spent decades on death row for a crime committed in 1988. His first death sentence in 1989 was dismissed on procedural grounds in 1992. He was tried again in 1996, when the jury voted nearly unanimously to sentence him to life in prison, but the trial judge overrode their decision and imposed the death penalty instead.