INCB encourages States to consider the abolition of the death penalty for drug-related offences (UNIS/NAR/1199)

Having considered all the relevant information pertaining to the use of capital punishment, the Board encourages those states parties that still provide for the death penalty for drug-related offences in their national legislation and continue to impose it, to consider the abolition of the death penalty for drug related offences.
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This was the first time the INCB explicitly called for States parties to abolish the death penalty for drug offences. Importantly, the INCB looked to international law outside the drugs treaties in order to arrive at its conclusion, including the ICCPR, the Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee and findings of Special Procedures.

  • Death penalty