The International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) is an independent body that promotes the worldwide abolition of capital punishment.
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A delegation led by Commissioners Sylvie Kayitesi and Barbara Lochbihler visited Kenya from 12 to 14 October 2026 to discuss the current state of play on the death penalty with leading national actors in the judiciary, the Parliament and civil society.
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Florida judge blocks testimony of a witness who would have exculpated former death row prisoner Pablo Ibar from the triple murders that sent him to prison. He spent 16 years on death row before being resentenced to life imprisonment. democrata.es/en/courts/a-jud… @democrata_info @SpainInTheUSA @freedomforpabl1 @FADPorg @FLDeathPenalty @WTIUSA @innocence @uscedp #deathpenalty
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Exclusive: Freed Arkansas Death Row Prisoner Damien Echols Warns Livestreaming Execution Will Harm America. newsweek.com/freed-death-row… @Newsweek @damienechols @uscedp @CCATDP @innocence @WTIUSA #deathpenalty
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Very shocking that 23 year old #NajmehAmini has been sentenced to death in #Iran for “blasphemy” over a social media post. The regime is “increasingly using capital punishment to instil fear & suppress dissent”. 600+ executions this year:
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Today ICDP met Kenya’s National Assembly’s Justice and Legal Affairs Committee. Thank you to the Committee for the warm welcome and the constructive discussion on efforts to eradicate the death penalty in Kenya.#13thParliament
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The horror of the #deathpenalty: #Tennessee plans to execute a #woman who’s been incarcerated for 3 decades for a murder committed when she was 18. She was a victim of abuse herself. See our @ICOMDP statement: icomdp.org/wp-content/upload…
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Wonderful to see senior South African jurist & former UN High Commissioner for #HumanRights, Navi Pillay, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Also recognition of Navi’s work on abolition of death penalty @ICOMDP.
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Pope criticizes death penalty after Hegseth announces public execution.
Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty “an attack” on human dignity a day after senior Church officials condemned the Pentagon’s plans to live-stream an execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. washingtonpost.com/world/202… @washingtonpost @Anthony_Faiola @Pontifex @USCCB @CMNEndtheDP @uscedp @CCATDP @WCADP @AssoECPM
Our President Judge Navi Pillay has been awarded the 2026 #NobelPeacePrize for her work to promote peace & international law.
The accolade inspires us further to keep going until the death penalty is abolished everywhere.
Congratulations President Pillay! #AbolishTheDeathPenalty
ICDP and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) organized a panel discussion on "The Role of Parliamentarians in the Abolition of the Death Penalty" on the sidelines of the 153rd IPU Assembly in Arusha. icomdp.org/ahead-of-the-worl…
It is with profound sorrow that ICDP announces the passing of our Commissioner, Ioanna Kuçuradi, who died in Istanbul on 2 October 2026. Ioanna Kuçuradi was a philosopher and an academic-abolitionist activist in the fullest sense.
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ICDP announces with deep sadness the passing of Honorary Commissioner, Ambassador Marta Vilardell Coma, on 27 September 2026 in Madrid.
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ICDP expresses its deep concern over the scheduled execution of Christa Pike by the authorities of the US state of Tennessee on 30 September 2026. Ms. Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for a murder committed the previous year, when she was 18 years old.
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ICDP concluded a mission to the Republic of Korea from 15 to 21 September 2026. The mission was led by Commissioner Tsakhia Elbegdorj, former President of Mongolia.
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Parliamentarians must lead. I hope Korea’s people and representatives choose life and human dignity — and that Korea leads on ending death penalty. Commissioner Elbegdorj, today at South Korea’s National Assembly.
Commissioner Elbegdorj had a good meeting with South Korea’s FM Cho Hyun today.“I was Mongolia’s president for 8 years. When I left, my country had abolished death penalty. This is my legacy. You can stop state killing in Korea whose place is with the 114 abolitionist countries.”
ICDP warmly welcomes the unanimous vote by the National Assembly of Suriname, on 23 July 2026, authorising the country's accession to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. icomdp.org/icdp-welcomes-sur…
ICDP warmly welcomes the adoption by Lebanon's Parliament of the law abolishing the death penalty for all crimes after 22 years without executions.
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ICDP condemns in the strongest possible terms the accelerating use of capital punishment by the Islamic Republic of Iran as an instrument of political repression.
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It was a pleasure to welcome the Ambassador of @EmbSpainAddis , Guillermo López Mac-Lellan, to the Diplomatic Mission of Angola in Addis Ababa. We addressed the issue of the death penalty globally and the need for the AU to promote the protection of human dignity on the continent
