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16 paź 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.
16 paź 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.
31 sty 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.
10 paź 2013 · According to Francis Ssuubi, the Executive Director of the organisation, although the last execution in Uganda was carried out in 1999, 408 people remain on death row. The children of death row inmates remain invisible, he said, and some people continue to believe the parent’s guilt should be shared with their children.
6 paź 2017 · 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 ...
11 kwi 2023 · GENEVA (11 April 2023) – UN human rights experts* today hailed a decision by the Malaysian parliament to revoke the country’s mandatory death penalty for many serious crimes, a decision that could potentially spare the lives of 1300 prisoners on death row. “The decision bolsters the global trend towards universal abolition,” the experts said.
death-row prisoners are incarcerated, are designed to divest the accused from sunshine, fresh air and socialisation with other prisoners. 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.
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:
10 paź 2024 · According to civil society, around 200 death row prisoners have been exonerated in the US since 1973 because of wrongful convictions, some of them posthumously. “While these exonerations must be praised, they also shed light on how common mistakes can be when it comes to the death penalty,” Pérez said.
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 from the death penalty.
