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World Coalition calls on Liberia to regain its leading abolitionist role (2008/10/2)
Details have emerged on the recent enactment of legislation asserting the death penalty in Liberia. The World Coalition has offered  authorities in Monrovia its support to put Liberia back on the path to abolition.

Argentina definitively abolishes the death penalty (2008/9/18)
The country has ratified the UN's Second Optional Protocol, which makes it impossible to reinstate the death penalty. The World Coalition is currently campaigning in favour of that international treaty.

Filming in the darkness of China's death row (2008/9/17)
Night Train, a Chinese film featuring a couple faced with the absurdity of the death penalty, is coming out in DVD.

Death row inmates and abolitionists take Uganda's death penalty to court (2008/9/11)
Hundreds of Ugandan death row inmates and those who support them are awaiting a final decision in the constitutional case they have taken against the death penalty in their country.

Africa takes a good look at the death penalty (2008/8/5)
A working group of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights is preparing a report on capital punishment on the continent.

Mexican executed in Texas (2008/8/5)
Jose Medellin, a Mexican sentenced to death in Texas, was executed on August 5 despite serious flaws in his trial. The Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty denounces an "irrevocable breach of international law".

Thai seminars explore religious perspectives on the death penalty (2008/8/4)
Thai human rights activists led by the Union for Civil Liberty (UCL) organised a series of seminars with religious leaders to raise their awareness and discuss their perspectives on abolition.

DVD carries the voice of abolitionists in Asian languages (2008/8/4)
A DVD released by ADPAN features a campaigning video made from interviews with international anti-death penalty activists in 13 Asian languages.

Liberia illegally restores the death penalty (2008/7/28)
New Liberian legislation makes some violent crimes punishable by death, in violation of the country's international obligations.

Interview: Pakistan on its way to a moratorium? (2008/7/25)
Pakistan's new government has called on all death sentences in the country to be commuted to life imprisonment. Pakistani lawyer and human rights defender Kamran Arif believes a moratorium is at hand.

State-sponsored report finds California's death penalty is “dysfunctional” (2008/7/9)
A recent report from a far-reaching commission established by the Californian senate on the administration of capital punishment in the state concluded that “the system is broken”.

Taiwan visit raises hopes of local abolitionists (2008/7/9)
A recent visit to Taiwan by a joint World Coalition-ADPAN delegation left the impression that the Asian island was on course to “join a global trend towards abolition of the death penalty”, as was reported in the local media.

World Forum an opportunity to gather abolitionists (2008/7/4)
As the World Coalition held its general meeting in Nantes at the end of June, discussions focussed on the involvement of corporations and local authorities.

Japanese lawyer indignant after her client is executed without notice  (2008/6/23)
On June 17, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Shinji Mutsuda and Yoshio Yamazaki were executed in Japan. Lawyer Maiko Tagusari, who defended one of the three men, denounces the rising number of executions in her country.

China refuses to consider 250,000-strong petition (2008/6/16)
A World Coalition delegation found the door closed on June 16 when they attempted to handover to the Chinese Liaison Office in Hong Kong a petition urging for changes in the death penalty system in China.