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Library Explore 2 8 2 8 resources. Abolitionist for all crimes Retentionist Abolitionist in practice Abolitionist for ordinary crimes only Source: Amnesty International. This is the lowest number of executions recorded by Amnesty International in at least a decade. As of April , countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes and countries have abolished it in law or practice.
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Give regularly. Get refugees to safety End the death penalty. There are no new notifications. View Alerts. Read More. The issue in depth When Amnesty started campaigning against the death penalty back in , only 16 countries had abolished it. Innocents awaiting execution The death penalty is irreversible.
Children facing the death penalty International human rights treaties prohibit courts sentencing to death or executing anyone who was under the age of 18 at the time the crime was committed. See Our Stories Death penalty Global. Death penalty Saudi Arabia executed record number of people last year amid decline in global executions 21 April am.
Saudi Arabia executed a record number of people in , despite an overall decline in executions worldwide, Amnesty International said in its global review of the death Iran: Halt imminent execution of young man arrested at 17 The Iranian authorities must immediately halt the planned execution of a young man who The road to abolition When Amnesty took up the global campaign to abolish the death penalty in , only 16 countries had removed it from their laws.
What's the latest At least people were known to have been executed in The death penalty in Globally, at least people were known to have been executed in Global abolition in reach Every and every day we come closer to a world without the death penalty.
Slowly but steadily, consensus is building towards ending the use of the death penalty As of April , countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes and countries have abolished it in law or practice.
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