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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.
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.
13 (37%) maintain the death penalty in both law and practice. 1 (3%) permits its use, 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. 5 (14%) have abolished it for all crimes except those committed under exceptional circumstances (such as during war).
Prior to the death penalty's de jure abolition, Togo was classified as "Abolitionist in Practice." [3] Togo acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on 14 Sep 2016. [4] Togo voted in favour of the 2020 United Nations moratorium on the death penalty resolution. [5]
The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, is a subsidiary agreement to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It was created on 15 December 1989 and entered into force on 11 July 1991.
The newly created South Sudan is among the 111 UN member states that supported the resolution passed by the United Nations General Assembly that called for the removal of the death penalty, therefore affirming its opposition to the practice. South Sudan, however, has not yet abolished the death penalty and stated that it must first amend its ...
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