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UN: REPORT SAYS DEATH PENALTY SHOULD BE BANNED UNDER TORTURE CONVENTIONS

October 23, 2012: Countries around the world are increasingly viewing capital punishment as a form of torture because it inflicts severe mental and physical pain on those sentenced to death, a U.N. torture investigator said.
Traditionally, countries have considered the legality of capital punishment with respect to the right to life guaranteed under international law, U.N. special rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez told the U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee.
"My analysis of regional and national jurisprudence identifies a momentum towards redefining the legality of capital punishment," Mendez said.
"States need to re-examine their procedures under international law because the ability of states to impose and carry out the death penalty is diminishing as these practices are increasingly viewed to constitute torture," he said.
 He said that there was no such thing as a pain-free form of execution, which makes it difficult to reject the idea that it is a form of torture.
"Methods of execution cannot be discounted as being completely painless," he told reporters after addressing the General Assembly's Third Committee.
He urged all countries to consider abolishing capital punishment because it is "cumbersome and expensive and you're never sure you're doing it in the right way." He added that its deterrent value was questionable.
Mendez spoke about what he called the "death row phenomenon," circumstances that cause severe mental anguish and physical suffering among prisoners serving death sentences.
Such suffering, he said, includes uncertainty and anxiety caused by the imminent threat of execution, extended solitary confinement, poor prison conditions and a lack of recreational or educational possibilities. (Sources: Reuters, 23/10/2012)

VIETNAM: FILIPINA DRUG MULE SENTENCED TO DEATH
NIGERIA: ELECTRICIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WOMAN
SOUTH DAKOTA (USA): DONALD MOELLER EXECUTED
NIGERIA: AFRICAN COMMISION WANTS FG TO STOP HANGING OF EDO DEATH ROW INMATES
IRAN: TWO KURDISH POLITICAL PRISONERS RECEIVE DEATH SENTENCES
IRAN: EIGHT PRISONERS HANGED IN EVIN PRISON SECRETLY
ZIMBABWE: MAN TO HANG FOR MURDER OF CHIREDZI CIO BOSS
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: GOVERNMENT ADOPTS BILL ABOLITIONIST ON THE EVE OF THE MISSION OF HANDS OFF CAIN
DEATH PENALTY: THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC READY TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE UN MORATORIUM AND ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
CALIFORNIA: NEW POLL SHOWS DRAMATIC JUMP IN SUPPORT OF REPEALING DEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLER OF GIRL AGED 4
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB ORDER WOMAN STONED TO DEATH FOR SEX OFFENCE
NORTH KOREA: VICE DEFENSE CHIEF EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD
TEXAS (USA): BOBBY LEE HINES EXECUTED
ALGERIA: 8 SENTENCD TO DEATH FOR MURDER, KIDNAPPINGS
SOMALIA: PUNTLAND SENTENCES YEMENI NATIONAL TO DEATH
SYRIA: PRESIDENT AL-ASSAD GRANTS GENERAL AMNESTY FOR CRIMES COMMITTED BEFORE OCTOBER 23, 2012
ZIMBABWE: CHILD KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH
IRAN: THREE HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
IRAN: 13 PEOPLE HANGED IN TWO DAYS
MALAYSIAN GOVT. MULLING SCRAPPING DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG OFFENCES
GAMBIA: SUPREME COURT SAYS DEATH SENTENCE FOR ALLEGED COUP PLOTTERS 'REASONABLE'
YEMEN: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING MALE RELATIVE WHO TRIED TO RAPE HER
BELARUS: PARLIAMENT WORKING GROUP ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT STILL ACTIVE
KUWAIT: KUWAITI SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SLAYING FRIEND IN KABAD
NIGERIA: EDO STATE GOVERNOR GRANTS PARDON TO TWO PRISONERS, COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF TWO OTHERS, BUT SIGNS DEATH WARRANTS FOR TWO DEATH ROW INMATES
IRAN: TWO PRISONERS EXECUTED ON DRUG-RELATED CHARGES
CHINA: FORMER COMPANY PRESIDENT SENTENCED TO DEATH
INDONESIA: NOT ALONE IN DEATH PENALTY RETICENCE
ABU DHABI: DRUG DEALER SENTENCED TO DEATH

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