Jan 2, 2025 · 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 …

Oct 16, 2018 · Out of 142 male and 25 female death row inmates, only one man and one woman had a university education. The Kenyan Supreme Court has recently imposed limits on the …

these individuals spent on death row was 7 years and 10 months.4 However, huge variation exists: the shortest period spent on death row during this period was 1 year and 4 months and …

Oct 10, 2013 · The plight of children who have parents on death row or whose parents have been executed is also addressed in the latest report from the UN Secretary General on the question …

Jan 31, 2024 · The infliction of the death penalty is incompatible with the right to life and is difficult to reconcile with the right to live free of torture. The UN has historically opposed it and works …

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 …

The death-row prisoners are isolated in such a manner that constraints are imposed on meeting friends or loved ones and even other prisoners inside the same jail. The condemned cells, …

Oct 31, 2012 · The number of countries executing prisoners is declining but even so thousands remain on death row, often in appalling conditions and without access to legal services. In his …

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 …

death-row inmates of control over their communications and knowledge of the most crucial aspect of their lives, i.e. the timing of their own death, the Japanese system undermines rather than …