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UN: BAN KI-MOON REAFFIRMS CALL FOR MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY

February 25, 2013: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today reiterated his call for a global moratorium on applying the death penalty, stressing the United Nations’ long history of opposing the practice and the growing momentum among the international community to permanently end it.
“A global moratorium is a crucial stepping stone towards full worldwide abolition,” Mr. Ban said in a message delivered by the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kyung-wha Kang.
“Capital punishment is inconsistent with the mission of the United Nations to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights and the dignity and worth of the human person,” Ms. Kang read, during an event at the Human Rights Council in Geneva organized by the International Commission against the Death Penalty, an independent body opposed to capital punishment.
The UN General Assembly first voted on a moratorium in 2007, and again in December 2012 with the support of 111 countries, 41 against and 34 abstentions. The resolution called for a progressive restriction on the use of capital punishment and eliminating it entirely for felons below the age of 18 and pregnant women.
“The United Nations system has long advocated the abolition of the death penalty. International and hybrid tribunals supported by the UN do not provide for capital punishment, nor does the International Criminal Court,” Mr. Ban’s message noted.
Thousands of people are executed each year, “often in violation of international standards, such as the right to fair trial and due process,” Mr. Ban said.
He added that the death penalty is still used for a wide range of crimes that do not meet the threshold of “most serious crimes” and based on information that is not transparent.
In addition, sometimes “wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice” can occur in well-functioning legal systems that sentence and execute persons who have been ultimately proven innocent, Mr. Ban said. (Sources: un.org, 25/02/2013)

IRAN: SIX PRISONERS HANGED
VIETNAM: CHINESE MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING 11KG OF NARCOTICS
BANGLADESH: ISLAMIST LEADER SENTENCED TO DEATH
IRAN: FIVE PRISONERS EXECUTED FOR DRUG-RELATED CHARGES
SOMALIA: PUNTLAND COURT SENTENCES AL SHABAAB CHIEF GODANE AND 11 OTHERS TO DEATH
PAKISTAN: 7,046 DEATH ROW INMATES AWAITING EXECUTION
SRI LANKA: FIVE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH
ANTIGUA & BARBUDA: GOV’T VOWS TO ENFORCE DEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPING AND MURDERING MINOR GIRL
INDIA: RAPIST AWARDED DEATH PENALTY
SUDAN: SIX MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING IN EL FASHER
INDIA: HC COMMUTES YOUTH’S DEATH PENALTY TO LIFE TERM
IRAN REPORTEDLY HANGED AROUND 80 AFGHANS OVER DRUG SMUGGLING
TEXAS (USA): CARL BLUE PUT TO DEATH
JAPAN: THREE DEATH-ROW INMATES EXECUTED
MARYLAND (USA): SENATE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE APPROVES MEASURE TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
GEORGIA (USA): ANDREW ALLEN COOK EXECUTED
IRAN: THREE PRISONERS HANGED
ARKANSAS (USA): GOVERNOR SIGNS NEW LETHAL INJECTION LAW
SAUDI ARABIA: KING SAVES KILLER FROM GALLOWS
NIGERIA: SENATE OKAYS DEATH PENALTY FOR TERRORISTS
AFGHANISTAN: HERAT COURT SENTENCES CHILD'S KIDNAPPERS TO DEATH
GAMBIA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
IRAN: ONE YOUNG MAN HANGED PUBLICLY
IRAN: EIGHT PRISONERS HANGED IN SHIRAZ
SAUDI ARABIA: CHADIAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG CRIMES
ZIMBABWE: SENATE APPROVES MOTION FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY
GEORGIA (USA): FEDERAL APPEALS COURT HALTS EXECUTION
IRAN: 14 PEOPLE HANGED
BANGLADESH: NEW LAW ALLOWS DEATH PENALTY

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