January 14, 2011
The Senate and the House of Representatives of Illinois approved a bill that would bring about the abolition of the death penalty. It is now up […]
January 12, 2011
Soon after the announcement of the commutations of the death sentences of two Salvadoran prisoners in December 2010 (read the statement by the ICDP in this regard), […]
December 22, 2010
The International Commission against the Death Penalty welcomes the adoption of the UNGA resolution 65/206 on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty with […]
December 17, 2010
In Yemen, Fouad Ahmad Ali Abdallah al-Shehari faces the threat of execution. He was sentenced to death for a crime he committed when he was 16 years […]
December 15, 2010
Cuba announced the commutation of the death sentences of the two Salvadoran prisoners who were convicted of terrorism for their role in a string of bombings […]
December 14, 2010
On the occasion of the Forth All Belarus People’s Congress on 6-7 December 2010 in Minsk, President Alexander Lukashenko announced that the issue of the death […]
December 13, 2010
On 6 December 2010, Kyrgyzstan ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Second Optional Protocol aims at the abolition of […]
December 3, 2010
On 1 December 2010, Shala Jahed, a former “temporary wife” of a famous football player of Iran, was hanged in a prison in Teheran. Read the Statement by the ICDP […]
November 30, 2010
Since 2002, every 30 November, the Community of Saint Egidio organizes in collaboration with the World Coalition against the Death Penalty the Cities for Life/Cities against the Death […]