World Day Against the Death Penalty & Launch of a Factsheet for Parliamentarians on the Right to Effective Legal Representation
To mark the 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty – which falls on 10 October – PGA will be organising a webinar to discuss the right to effective legal representation in capital cases and launch a Parliamentary Factsheet published jointly with the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP).
Positive Developments
Setbacks
US Supreme Court turned away challenge to federal executions’ protocol and Government carried out its first executions in 17 years and Government carried out its first executions in 17 years
Speaker of Turkish Parliament spoke in favour of the death penalty for certain crimes
Government of Pakistan considers extending the death penalty to some cases of rape
Kaduna State House of Assembly (Nigeria) approved extending the death penalty to rape
New Reports and Resources
Capital punishment and implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty – Report of the United Nations Secretary General for the period 2014-2018
Former French Minister of Justice, Robert Badinter, talks about the debate around abolition of the death penalty in the Senate – Interview with Robert Badinter by Public Sénat (in French only)
Gasping for Air: Autopsies Reveal Troubling Effects of Lethal Injection – reporting by NPR