Around 170 countries have abolished or implemented death penalty moratoria in law or practise.

The United Nations’ human rights chief has praised parliamentarians in the Central African Republic for their decision to abolish capital punishment in the country.

Since 1981, there have been no executions in CAR, and lawmakers enacted new legislation on Friday making capital punishment unlawful.
“I applaud the Central African Republic’s approval of a legislation eliminating the death penalty and encourage President Faustin-Archange Touadera to sign it,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said in a statement on Wednesday.
She stated, “The death penalty is incompatible with core notions of human rights and dignity.”