Death Penalty: Why should we fight against death penalty ? Ban Ki-Moon: “Death penalty is injust and incompatible with Human Rights and has no place in the 21st century”.
This was the message that UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon delivered on 10th of October 2014, the World day against Death Penalty. Death penalty is still carried out in 22 countries and in many cases after proceedings which do not respect international standards. Progress on this issue was made in the last years but in 2013 the number of judicial executions increased by 15%, although available data are incomplete. (suite…)