In April, the International Commission Against the Death Penalty (ICDP) released a new report titled, How States Abolish the Death Penalty. The report exam­ines the expe­ri­ences of 13 coun­tries, includ­ing Argentina, France, Haiti, the Philippines, South Africa, and 2 states in the U.S. (Connecticut and New Mexico), in their paths to end­ing cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. The report not­ed that some states took inter­me­di­ary steps to abo­li­tion, includ­ing estab­lish­ing an offi­cial mora­to­ri­um on exe­cu­tions, reduc­ing the scope of the death penal­ty, or remov­ing manda­to­ry sen­tences. The report rec­om­mend­ed vig­or­ous pub­lic debate on the sub­ject, the pub­li­ca­tion of infor­ma­tion about the use of the death penal­ty, and the emer­gence of prin­ci­pled lead­er­ship on the issue. The report was released dur­ing a recent meet­ing of the ICDP in Oslo, Norway. Read full text of the report.

(“How States Abolish the Death Penalty,” ICDP, April 2013; DPIC post­ed May 2, 2013). See International and Studies.

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