Jan 2, 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.

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.

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.

Apr 3, 2023 · It is a difficult task, since most Malaysians support the death penalty because it is seen as a deterrent to crimes, according to Azalina Othman Said, Minister of Law and Institutional Reform of Malaysia. Eleven offences currently carry the mandatory death penalty in Malaysia such as murder, terrorism, and waging war on the country.

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 ...

In a series of resolutions adopted in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018, the General Assembly urged States to respect international standards that protect the rights of those facing the death penalty, to progressively restrict its use and reduce the number of offences whichare punishable by death.

Nov 12, 2018 · When the UDHR was adopted on 10 December 1948, only 14 countries had abolished the death penalty. Seventy years on, more than two-thirds of UN member states have either abolished it or no longer actually apply it. Even in countries that have a mandatory death penalty, it is not always enforced by executions. At the end of March 2016, for ...

the death penalty as seen from a victimological perspective 22 • Maiko Tagusar i, Does the death penalty serve victims? 41 1.2 Victims’ families’ perspective 49 • Mickell Branham, Listening to victims 49 • Mireya García Ramírez, The death penalty and the right to life 59 1.3 Victims’ Families and Closure 66

Oct 15, 2020 · In Pakistan, there have been calls for public hanging and castration, and across many other countries there have been calls for the death penalty. “The main argument being made for the death penalty is for it to deter rape – but in fact there is no evidence that the death penalty deters crime more than other forms of punishment.

NEW YORK (25 October 2012) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, today reminded States of the restrictions relating to the imposition of the death penalty. For those States that retain the death penalty, international law imposes strict requirements that must be met for it not to be regarded as unlawful.