Since , more than 75 nations have abolished the death penalty for all crimes, while others have abolished it for ordinary crimes. The table below presents the countries that have abolished the death penalty, in order of the year in which it was abolished.
In the German Democratic Republic became unified with the Federal Republic of Germany, where the death penalty had been abolished in Slovenia and Croatia abolished the death penalty while they were still republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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The unprecedented challenges of the Covid pandemic were not enough to deter 18 countries from There is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than a prison term. In fact, crime figures from countries which have banned the death penalty have not risen. In some cases they have actually gone down. In Canada, the murder rate in was less than half that in when the death penalty was abolished there.
But the threat of execution is unlikely to stop men and women prepared to die for their beliefs — for example, suicide bombers. Executions are just as likely to create martyrs whose memory becomes a rallying point for their organizations. In some cases, special or military courts set up through counter-terrorism laws have sentenced civilians to death, undermining international standards.
Every day, men, women, even children, await execution on death row. Whatever their crime, whether they are guilty or innocent, their lives are claimed by a system of justice that values retribution over rehabilitation. As long as a prisoner remains alive, he or she can hope for rehabilitation, or to be exonerated if they are later found to be innocent.
Any form of execution is inhumane. The lethal injection is often touted as somehow more humane because, on the surface at least, it appears less grotesque and barbaric than other forms of execution such as beheading, electrocution, gassing and hanging. Human rights — including the most basic right to life — are universal and endorsed by the vast majority of countries in the world.
Our call to end the death penalty is consistent with the mercy, compassion and forgiveness that all major world religions emphasize. To date, countries have abolished the death penalty in law or in practice, demonstrating that the desire to end capital punishment is shared by cultures and societies in almost every region in the world.
Strong public support for the death penalty often goes hand in hand with a lack of reliable information about it — most often the mistaken belief that it will reduce crime. Many governments are quick to promote this erroneous belief even though there is no evidence to support it. Crucial factors that underlie how the death penalty is applied are often not understood.
Since and the passage of the Death Penalty Abolition Act Cth , the death penalty has not applied in respect of offences under the law of the Commonwealth and Territories. Similar State legislation has outlawed the practice in the remaining Australian jurisdictions. NSW abolished the death penalty for murder in , but retained the death penalty for treason and piracy until This forecloses the possibility of any individual State jurisdiction reintroducing the death penalty. The Protocol entered into force in international law on 11 July More recently, on 19 December , Australia sponsored and voted in favour of a landmark United Nations General Assembly resolution which called for an immediate moratorium on executions as a first step towards the universal abolition of the death penalty.
While not binding, this UN Resolution sends a powerful message that the majority of the world's nations are not only committed to the abolition of the death penalty within their own jurisdictions, but are also committed to the abolition of the death penalty beyond their borders.
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