France's Macron Speaks Out Against Global Rise in Executions
Macron said 2,707 people were executed in 17 countries last year as he urged civil society and rights groups to push for abolition.
- French President Emmanuel Macron warned on Tuesday against a renewed debate favoring capital punishment while addressing the World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Paris, expressing alarm at rising execution numbers worldwide.
- Macron highlighted a troubling global trend: 2,707 people were executed across 17 countries last year, the highest level since 1981, while some 25,000 individuals live under the crushing expectation of their execution.
- "The death penalty has never made a society safer," Macron said, disputing deterrent claims while citing Iran Human Rights NGO figures showing at least 1,639 executions in Iran last year, the country's highest count since 1989.
- Expressing concern, Macron criticized legislative moves in the Sahel and in Israel to authorize capital punishment, as Burkina Faso announced plans last December to reintroduce the practice amid broader attacks on human rights.
- On Monday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot met with United Nations High Commissioner Volker Türk to discuss the Global Alliance for Human Rights, reaffirming France's commitment to protecting international human dignity and the rule of law.
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French President Emmanuel Macron warned this Tuesday against the "return" of the debate on the death penalty in countries like France, where "nothing is won" 45 years after its abolition, during the ninth world congress on capital punishment in Paris.
At the 9th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, Emmanuel Macron warned against calls to restore the death penalty. According to a recent poll, more than two thirds of French people are in favour of a referendum on the restoration of the death penalty for certain crimes. But the President of the Republic reminded Tuesday that the death penalty "does not deter". - "Nothing is acquired": Macron warns against calls to restore the death penalty,…
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