Death penalty | OHCHR
Jan 2, 2026 · The use of the death penalty is not consistent with the right to life and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. There is growing consensus for …
Alarming trends in executions in 2025 raise serious human rights ...
Jan 19, 2026 · GENEVA – While the overall global trend continues to move towards universal abolition of the death penalty, the world has witnessed a sharp hike in the number of executions in 2025, …
Death penalty does not lead to justice | OHCHR
Oct 10, 2024 · The death penalty is contrary to human dignity, is incompatible with the right to life, and does not lead to justice. Thus is the sentiment of UN Human Rights and human rights defenders …
Death penalty incompatible with right to life | OHCHR
Jan 31, 2024 · The infliction of the death penalty is profoundly difficult to reconcile with human dignity, the fundamental right to life, and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading …
UN experts call for universal abolition of the death penalty
Oct 9, 2023 · In effect, a number of States continue to impose the death penalty in violation of their human rights obligations, including for crimes that do not result directly and intentionally in death, …
Death penalty: The international framework | OHCHR
Although Article 6 of the ICCPR permits the use of the death penalty in limited circumstances, it also provides that “nothing in this article shall be invoked to delay or to prevent the abolition of capital …
Death penalty disproportionately affects the poor, UN rights experts ...
Oct 6, 2017 · 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 …
Abolition of the death penalty is gaining momentum worldwide
Mar 10, 2025 · The country formally outlawed capital punishment in 2024 with the enactment of the Death Penalty Abolition Act. This landmark legislation follows years of judicial decisions that …
Afghanistan must immediately stop public executions and corporal ...
Apr 17, 2025 · GENEVA – UN experts* today urged the Taliban to immediately halt all inhumane punishments in Afghanistan, including capital and corporal punishments, after four public executions …
Iran: Call to halt increasing executions and impose moratorium on …
Aug 29, 2025 · We call on the Government of Iran not to implement the death penalty against these and other individuals on death row. Once again, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk calls on Iran to …