The Impact of the Death Penalty on Families of People Sentenced to Death and Other Stakeholders: Objectives 4 (post-execution practices) and 5 (other stakeholders)
Date: February 28, 2026
Country: All
Partners: International Federation for Human Rights, The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
Report Type: Call for Inputs
Country: All
Partners: International Federation for Human Rights, The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
Report Type: Call for Inputs
This report responds to Objective 5 of the Special Rapporteur's call for input with respect to
information on the impact
--
including mental and physical consequences -- of the death penalty
on other (non-family) stakeholders involved in carrying out the death penalty. This report also
briefly addresses the consequences of post-execution practices on family members, responding
to Objective 4.
