November 23, 2011
On 22 November 2011, the Governor of the US state Oregon John Kitzhauber announced a moratorium on the use of the death penalty in that state. […]
November 21, 2011
On 18 November, Robert Badinter was awarded the Medal of Cesare Beccaria for his constant fight against the death penalty. The ceremony was held at the […]
November 19, 2011
Death row prisoner Paul Ezra Rhoades was executed on 18 November 2011. He was sentenced to death for murdering Susan Michelbacher and Stacy Baldwin in 1987. […]
October 17, 2011
On 13-14 October, Kigali was the venue of the Regional Conference on the Abolition and/or Moratorium on the Execution of the Death Penalty. The conference was […]
October 17, 2011
On 17-19 October, the First International Conference on the Death Penalty in the Greater Caribbean has taken place in Madrid. It was organized by the Community […]
October 15, 2011
In November 2011, a series of events will take place in Vienna in order to draw attention to the history of the death penalty in Austria, […]
October 12, 2011
On 10 and 11 October, the International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICPD) met in Geneva in order to discuss strategies to strengthen the abolitionist trends […]
September 22, 2011
Mr. Manuel Valle, who has been 33 years on death row and was sentenced to death in 1978 for murdering a police officer, is at imminent […]
September 22, 2011
On 21 September, Afro-American Troy Davis was executed by lethal injection in the US State of Georgia, although serious doubts had been raised repeatedly about the […]