Conduct of capital punishment proceedings and conditions of detention for people under sentence of death: Objectives 1 and 2
Date: February 28, 2026
Country: All
Partners: Libérons Mumia, The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty, Detention, Due Process and Fair Trial
Mechanism: UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
Report Type: Call for Inputs
Country: All
Partners: Libérons Mumia, The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty, Detention, Due Process and Fair Trial
Mechanism: UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
Report Type: Call for Inputs
This report focuses on two themes. First, in response to Objective 1, the report explains that
the possibility that prosecutors will seek the death penalty can instill such terror in defendants
that they will forfeit their fundamental rights to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, to
due process and a fair trial, and to equal treatment before the law. Second, in response to
Objective 2, the report discusses conditions of detention for people on death row.
