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At Italy's instigation, a resolution for a moratorium on the death penalty was presented by the European Union in partnership with eight co-author member States to the General Assembly of the United Nations, calling for general suspension (not abolition) of capital punishment throughout the world.
In 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018, Burkina Faso voted in favor of the seven United Nations General Assembly Resolutions for a death penalty moratorium, and in 2018, Burkina Faso was a co-sponsor to the Resolution for a moratorium, participated in the Universal Periodic Review of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and ...
The Optional Protocol commits its members to the abolition of the death penalty within their borders, though Article 2.1 allows parties to make a reservation allowing execution "in time of war pursuant to a conviction for a most serious crime of a military nature committed during wartime" (Brazil, Chile, El Salvador). [2]
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/2; United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/4 ... death penalty at the United Nations; P. ... policy review; S.
1 (2%) maintains the death penalty in both law and practice. 1 (2%) permits its use for ordinary crimes, [clarification needed] but has not used it for at least 10 years and is believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions. 47 (96%) have completely abolished it.
South Sudan became independent in 2011 and has consistently failed to ban executions despite voting in favor of two United Nations resolutions that would put in place a moratorium on the death penalty. [2] [3] In its first year of independence in 2011, South Sudan was reported to have carried out five executions while another 150 were on death ...
There is currently one person on death row in Grenada, as of August 30, 2021. [4] During its United Nations Universal Periodic Review on January 27, 2020, Grenada informed the UN that it was a de facto abolitionist state with a de facto moratorium in effect since 1978, and that it would not carry out any executions. [5]