Samoa - Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - Death Penalty - January 2025
Date: January 6, 2025
Country: Samoa
Partner: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Human Rights Committee
Report Type: List of Issues Prior to Reporting
Country: Samoa
Partner: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Human Rights Committee
Report Type: List of Issues Prior to Reporting
Samoa abolished the death penalty in 2004 through the Crimes (Abolition of Death Penalty) Amendment Act, No. 7. Samoa acceded to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 2008.
Samoa should ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR (OP2)
