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 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.
Death row ‘reserved for the poor’ - UN Human Rights Office
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.
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 towards its worldwide abolition. And progress has been made: the death penalty has been abolished in approximately 170 countries so far.
"Hidden" victims: the children of parents on death row
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.
Saudi Arabia: UN experts voice alarm at executions of foreign …
Dec 4, 2024 · “Saudi Arabia seems to have lifted a previously announced unofficial moratorium, in 2021, on the use of death penalty for drug-related offences in the country, and executions of foreign nationals appear to be increasingly taking place without prior notification to death row inmates, their families, or their legal representatives,” said the ...
2.2. Waiting for death: Geriatrics on death row The prospect of losing one’s life to the state produces unique mental anguish and suffering regardless of whether the execution takes place within days or years of conviction. The length of time a person spends on death row presents conflicting problems. Too short a time will not allow
Death penalty disproportionately affects the poor, UN rights …
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 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 ...
Death penalty does not lead to justice | OHCHR
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.
Tortured lives after the death penalty | OHCHR
Feb 5, 2019 · Twenty of these were on death row. The Innocence Project works to exonerate those wrongfully convicted, supports legal reforms to limit wrongful convictions and campaigns against the death penalty. Despite evidence to the contrary, countries are reluctant to admit that their judicial systems are fallible, and mistakes happen.