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"The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2010"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this interesting new report coming today from the International Harm Reduction Association. Here is how this report is summarized via the IHRA website: The International Harm Reduction Association released a study on the death penalty for drug offences today on the opening day of the 19th session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, taking place in Vienna.  The report, titled ?The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2010?, finds that hundreds of people are executed for drug offences each year around the world, a figure that very likely exceeds one thousand when taking into account those countries that keep their death penalty statistics secret. The report is the first detailed country by country overview of the death penalty for drugs, monitoring both national legislation and state practice of enforcement...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).