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GAMBIA: SECOND PROTOCOL TO ICCPR RATIFIED

03 October 2018 :

Gambia has ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, on 28 September 2018, during the UN Treaty Event in New York, together with the ICCPR and the Convention Against Torture. They had signed it a year ago. Gambia still has to fully abolish the death penalty in its Criminal Code.

 
(Sources: worldcoalition.org, 02/10/2018)

other news

USA - Florida. Shelby Nealy sentenced to death

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USA - Alabama. URGENT ACTION for David Roberts

28 July 2025

Jury voted for life, execution scheduled for August 21

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INDIA: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES RAPIST'S DEATH PENALTY TO LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT REMISSION

28 July 2025

The Supreme Court of India on July 16, 2025 commuted a man's death penalty in a minor's rape and murder case to life in prison without remission.

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IRAN - Khodayar Ahmadkhani executed in Taybad on July 26

28 July 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Jabbar Alishahi and Ashkan Mahdipanah executed in Hamedan on July 23

28 July 2025  Read everything

IRAN - Morteza Khorrami executed in Kermanshah on July 22

28 July 2025  Read everything
 

Urgent actions

URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO SAVE THE LIVES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW

19 April 2025  Read everything
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Giuseppe di Federico

Documents

  •  USA - Idaho. House committee passes death penalty for sex crimes on minors
  •  IRAN - Salman Aghaei executed in Shiraz on October 22
  •   CO-SPONSOR OF RESOLUTION PRO MORATORIUM
  •   VOTE ON A RESOLUTION ON A MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS APPROVED BY THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN 2022
  •   UN RESOLUTION 2022
  •  USA - Alabama. Corrections officials apparently botched Joe Nathan James' execution last month
  •   GOVERNING BODIES
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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.