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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.
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]
As of 2022, 36 of the 40 countries and territories that are classified by the IMF as developed countries (advanced economies), including China's Special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau [41] have completely abolished the death penalty. Only the United States, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan retain the death penalty for ordinary crimes ...
Since 2007, the World Coalition has been encouraging United Nations member states to vote in favor of the resolution of the UN General Assembly on a moratorium on executions. The resolution was adopted for the first time in 2007 [ 5 ] and has been submitted to the vote of the General Assembly every other year since 2008.
A United Nations resolution (UN resolution) is a formal text adopted by a United Nations (UN) body. Although any UN body can issue resolutions , in practice most resolutions are issued by the Security Council or the General Assembly , in the form of United Nations Security Council resolutions and United Nations General Assembly resolutions ...
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 ...
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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 ]