United States of America - Universal Periodic Review - Death Penalty - April 2025
Date: April 7, 2025
Country: United States of America
Partners: The Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
Country: United States of America
Partners: The Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
This report addresses the United States’ compliance with its human rights obligations with regard to the death penalty and provides several suggested recommendations to address death penalty issues in the United States. The report addresses application of the death penalty to crimes that are not the “most serious,” constraints on the use of the death penalty under domestic law, failure to accommodate persons with disabilities when they come into conflict with the law, gender bias in capital cases, racial discrimination, and execution methods that amount to cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment.
