Death penalty | OHCHR
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 …
HC: Death penalty should be abolished in the 21st century
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 …
Death penalty incompatible with right to life | OHCHR
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 …
Death penalty: The international framework | OHCHR
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 …
UN experts call for universal abolition of the death penalty
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, …
Growing global trend calling for an end to capital punishment
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. …
Singapore: UN experts condemn continued use of death penalty …
GENEVA (28 April 2023) – UN experts* today strongly condemned Singapore’s execution of Tangaraju s/o Suppiah on Tuesday (26) and called on the Government to impose an …
Safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing …
Capital punishment may only be carried out pursuant to a final judgement rendered by a competent court after legal process which gives all possible safeguards to ensure a fair trial, at …
• 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 …
US: Alarm over imminent execution in Alabama | OHCHR
Jan 16, 2024 · The death penalty is inconsistent with the fundamental right to life. There is an absence of proof that it deters crime, and it creates an unacceptable risk of executing innocent …