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 …

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 …

Apr 3, 2023 · Civil society organizations pave the road to end capital punishment in Chad Our Work The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is the leading United Nations …

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, …

Oct 10, 2024 · Capital punishment in the US continues to raise issues of due process, like racial bias and reliability of testimonies, regarding executions that took place as recently as last …

Mar 27, 2014 · Kirk Bloodsworth, Director of Advocacy at Witness to Innocence, gave a moving testimony of his own experience of the capital punishment system of the United States. …

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 …

• 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 …

Oct 6, 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 …

GENEVA (11 May 2023) – UN experts* today expressed alarm at a recent announcement by the de facto Supreme Court in Afghanistan sanctioning the use of punishments including stoning, …