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 […]

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), […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A Pakistani court imposed the death sentence on Aasia Bibi on the gorunds of blasphemy. Read the statement by the ICDP.

In October 2010, the Supreme Court of Saudi Arabia upheld the death sentence of Rizana Nafeek for a crime she committed when she was under 18. […]