End Death Penalty

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is an alliance of more than 160 NGOs, bar associations, local authorities and unions aiming at universal abolition

[End Death Penalty @WCADP]

Today is #worlddayagainstthedeathpenalty !

Different voices, different accents, different stories, one message: the death penalty is not justice.

They say it in their own language. Will you?
#notothedeathpenalty

#abolitionnow #nodeathpenalty

[U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty @uscedp]

📣 Governor Gavin Newsom just announced plans to commute all death sentences in California! Send him a thank you message today: https://t.co/sCl3KmKkNE

@RDunhamDP @amnestyusa @ellabakercenter @NAACP_LDF @helenprejean @WCADP

[Amnesty International USA @amnestyusa]

This is a day that will be remembered in California’s history and resonate globally for years to come. Responding to calls from Clemency California, Amnesty International, and more than 40 international organizations, Governor Newsom has announced a decisive and powerful step away from the use of the death penalty – the ultimate cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment.

The death penalty should be abolished, everywhere. Today marks a significant moment for human rights in California and across the country, but it is not the finishing line. The world is watching, and this decision is showing that progress is possible, and the United States, which remains among a small group of 17 countries that continues to carry out executions, can move beyond the death penalty.

[End Death Penalty @WCADP]

¤Worldcoalition.​org: Singapore: Drop Charges against Civil Society Activists and Protect Peaceful Assembly  worldcoalition.​org/singapore-drop-charges-against-civil-society-activists-and-protect-peaceful-assembly/

[ALQST for Human Rights @ALQST_En]

🚨 Youssef al-Manasef is at imminent risk of execution after Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court recently upheld his death sentence in secret.

He could be put to death at any moment pending the king’s ratification, for alleged offences that took place when he was only 15.

[ESOHR @ESOHumanRightsE]

Executions continue. The pace accelerates. Minors are killed. Political executions are routine. Unfair trials, torture, and denial of legal counsel persist.

✊️ Join us on Nov. 7 at 2:30 PM, in front of the #Saudi Embassy in Berlin.

🛑 Stop the executions. Return the bodies.

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

The Fall 2026 edition of @NAACP_LDF's Death Row USA is now out.
The U.S. death row population has decreased for the 63rd consecutive quarter, as total removals from death row and removals by means other than execution both outpaced new death sentences.
As of October 1, there were 1,957 people on death row or facing jeopardy of being resentenced to death in the United States. However 755 of those people — 38.6% of the entire death row total — have convictions or death sentences that have been overturned in the courts or are on death row in states with moratoria on executions. That leaves 1,202 people with active and enforceable death sentences.
The U.S. death row population has declined by 1,769 (47.5%) since peaking at 3,726 in 2001.
https://t.co/Qixni5O1j9 @TMI_LDF @uscedp @amnesty @WCADP @AssoECPM #deathpenalty

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

Death Row USA has added a new feature, identifying executions of people whom judges sentenced to death after juries recommended a life sentence or did not unanimously agree to a sentence of death. Right now, it provides that data for executions since January 2019 but is in the process of identifying earlier executions involving those outlier sentencing practices.
15 people have been executed so far this year who were sentenced to death under these practices — more than in any other year in the modern history of the U.S. death penalty (when Furman v. Georgia struck down all existing death penalty laws in 1972). We can say that with certainty even though we currently only have data on nonunanimous executions from 2019 on because the number of nonunanimous executions at the 3/4 mark of this year is greater than the combined total of executions of any kind in any prior year by all of the states that permitted this practice.
Even after those 15 executions, nonunanimous death sentences and death sentences imposed by judges who overrode jury votes for life still account for nearly 14% of the U.S. death-row population. @uscedp @FLDeathPenalty @FADPorg @PHADP @eji_org @INAbolition @MADPMO @MoJusticeOrg @CCATDP @DeathPenaltyAct @amnesty @Reprieve @hrw @UNHumanRights @IACHumanRights #deathpenalty

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

#Iran: War has worsened repression while impunity persists, says expert @drmaisato Must establish a moratorium on executions, release those detained for exercising their rights, guarantee fair trial rights and investigate every death caused by its forces.
https://t.co/CR9a9menmG

[End Death Penalty @WCADP]

¤Worldcoalition.​org: Joint statement on the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty… worldcoalition.​org/joint-statement-on-the-ratification-of-op2-iccpr-chad/

[End Death Penalty @WCADP]

¤Worldcoalition.​org: Algeria: Authorities must repeal the extension of the death penalty and abandon any plans to resume executions worldcoalition.​org/algeria-authorities-must-repeal-the-extension-of-the-death-penalty-and-abandon-any-plans-to-resume-executions/

[MENA Rights Group | منّا لحقوق الإنسان @MENA_Rights]

#Algérie : MENA Rights Group & ses partenaires condamnent l'extension de la #peinedemort, violant les obligations internationales de l’Etat, et demandent l’instauration & le maintien d’un moratoire officel, en vue d’une #abolition totale.

https://t.co/lVM2XSteoc

[Mai Sato @drmaisato]

My mandate has issued a call for inputs for my upcoming report to the 64th session of the Human Rights Council.

In addition to a general update on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the report will focus on transnational repression, the impact of human rights violations on families, women’s rights, and gender-based discrimination.

Deadline: 15 November 2026
Email: [email protected]

https://t.co/LocVIfpi76

[JMBF-JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France @JusticeMakersBF]

🚨 JMBF STATEMENT | Saudi Arabia

JMBF strongly condemns the execution of two Bangladeshis in Saudi Arabia on 14 October 2026 over alleged “immoral activities.”

https://t.co/wyNfcEA1A0

#HumanRights #DeathPenalty #JMBF #Bangladesh

@wcadp

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

My note: Prosecutors were unable to persuade Mr. Reaves’ jury to unanimously vote for death. He never should have been on death row, let alone executed.

14 of the 18 men Florida has executed this year were sentenced to death despite non-unanimous votes by the sentencing jury. That’s 78% of the state’s executions. Florida is not only an extreme outlier in the number of people it executes, it is an extreme outlier in how the people it executes got to death row in the first place.

@FLDeathPenalty @FADPorg @uscedp @CCATDP @ABAdueprocess @amnesty @hrw @IACHumanRights @WCADP @AssoECPM @DeathPenaltyAct #deathpenalty

[ADPAN @ADPANetwork]

📢Sneak Peak!

In collaboration with Monash University Malaysia and Eleos Justice, Monash Law, ADPAN is launching a new policy brief: "Roadmap to the Abolition of the Death Penalty for Drug Offences in Malaysia".

[Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) @IHRights]

⚠️ IHRNGO warns of execution risk for over 200 Ghezelhesar prisoners amid transfer plans

Authorities have told drug death-row prisoners in Unit 2 of Ghezelhesar Prison that those from provincial towns and cities must be transferred to their home jurisdictions. More than 200 prisoners with final death sentences could be affected, according to information obtained by Iran Human Rights.

IHRNGO condemns the planned transfers as an apparent effort to weaken the prisoners’ collective resistance and enable executions with less public scrutiny. Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam warns that dispersing them could lead to another wave of executions and urges immediate international action, particularly from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Prisoners’ collective action in October 2025 and July 2026 secured temporary suspensions of drug-related executions. A source told IHRNGO that access to mobile phones and outside media at Ghezelhesar helps prisoners publicise developments; dispersal to provincial prisons could make this harder.

The transfers have been announced; the report does not confirm that they have taken place.

Read the full report via the link: https://t.co/eAeL41sTok

#StopExecutionsInIran #IranHumanRights #Ghezelhesar

[CELSIR Africa (Criminal Justice Reforms) @CELSIR_Africa]

CELSIR is proud to have contributed to Africa’s March Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty: Contemporary Advances &Challenges in 2026.

#AbolitionOfTheDeathPenalty #CELSIR

[ALQST for Human Rights @ALQST_En]

On Saturday Saudi Arabia’s authorities executed Hassan Zaki al-Faraj for alleged offences dating back to when he was a child.

His execution heightens fears for other child offenders, including Youssef al-Manasef, whose death sentence was recently upheld.

https://t.co/27LTTNQkDB

[ESOHR @ESOHumanRightsE]

Statement | Saudi Arabia carries out an unlawful mass execution of political prisoners, including a minor
https://t.co/ZnEHDApaXS

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

Today, the vast majority of countries worldwide have either abolished the death penalty or introduced a moratorium on its use.

The death penalty does little to deter crime or deliver justice for victims. It has no place in the 21st century.

#EndDeathPenalty