June 3, 2011
Two Indian citizens, Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar and Mahendra Nath Das, are at imminent risk of execution, after the President of India rejected their mercy petition. […]
June 22, 2011
Humberto Leal García, Mexican national, was arrested in 1994, subsequently tried and finally sentenced to death in Texas, without ever having been informed about his right […]
June 27, 2011
With the motive of the award of the Beccaria Medal to Professor Roger Hood for his longstanding work on the abolition of the death penalty, see […]
July 1, 2011
On 30 June and 1 July, the ICDP met in Madrid for the third time in order to debate on the situation of the death penalty […]
July 9, 2011
On 7 July 2011 Mr Humberto Leal García, was executed despite unanimous calls from numerous countries in the world, International Organizations and NGOs urging to commute […]
July 11, 2011
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the entry into force of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International […]
July 26, 2011
According to a recent report by the state media, Aleh Hyrshkawtsow and Andey Burdyka have been executed in Belarus. They were sentenced to death in May […]
September 6, 2011
The International Commission against the Death Penalty congratulates South Korea on the occasion of its 5,000th day free of executions on 8 September 2011. Read the statement of […]
September 6, 2011
Benin’s National Assembly voted in favour of ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Once the bill of ratification is […]