International and regional opposition to the death penalty

a reading of international charters and conventions

Abstract

This study aims to monitor the march against the death penalty at the international and regional levels, based on the controversy surrounding it between its supporters and opponents, and what they relied on to justify their positions on it which moved to the United Nations, which adopted the opposition within its framework, its quest to strengthen  and promote human rights, following the gradual method, by restricting the number of executions in a first step, through to the endeavor to completely abolish them through agreements that establish obligations for ratified countries to abolish them from their internal legislation. It was a model that the opposition followed its approach at the regional level.The study concluded that thanks to the unremitting international efforts in this field, the death penalty has become a punishment rejected by the international. As a result of these efforts, legal safeguards for the application of the death penalty have been established for countries that retain the death penalty, and to prevent extrajudicial, or executions with concise or  arbitrary  procedures.