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Learn about the UN Human Rights Office's work to abolish the death penalty, protect the rights of death row inmates and promote alternatives to capital punishment.
Death row ‘reserved for the poor’. Convicted of a murder he did not commit, Ndume Olatushani spent 20 years on death row in Tennessee, United States. In all, he spent 27 years in jail, “chained and shackled like some imaginary monster”. “All that time, I never met a rich person sitting on death row,” he told a meeting on poverty ...
The Human Rights Council, at its latest meeting in Geneva, has brought to the fore the human rights of children whose parents are on death row, urging States to provide appropriate protection and assistance.
As the number of States with the death penalty on their statute books falls, still thousands of prisoners remain on death row. The UN Human Rights Office supports the United Nations in its campaign to end executions globally.
World Day Against the Death Penalty – Tuesday 10 October 2017 GENEVA (6 October 2017) – United Nations human rights experts* are calling for urgent action to end the disproportionate impact of the death penalty on people from poorer communities. They say imposing the death penalty as a result of discrimination constitutes an arbitrary killing and Governments must not stand idly by. Their ...
The death row phenomenon has long been characterised as a form of inhuman treatment, as has the near total isolation of those convicted of capital crimes and often held in unlawful solitary confinement.
In a series of resolutions adopted in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018, the General Assembly urged States to respect international standards that protect the rights of those facing the death penalty, to progressively restrict its use and reduce the number of offences whichare punishable by death.
A death-row prisoner is faced with numerous challenges. Others have to represent the accused in legal management and repression by corruption-plagued jail officials are just two of them.
GENEVA (27 June 2024) – The Government of Iraq’s systematic executions of prisoners sentenced to death based on torture-tainted confessions, and pursuant to an ambiguous counterterrorism law, amount to arbitrary deprivation of life under international law and may amount to a crime against humanity, human rights experts said today.
Death Penalty and Its Impact on the professionals involved in the execution process 295 • Roberohnsont J, Executioners at work: Collateral Consequences of executions for Officers Working on Death Row and in the Death House 307 • Ron McAndr w, e Painful then, painful now 325 • Susannah Sheffer , Fighting for clients’ lives: the impact of ...