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Audio in English (Lucía)

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Importance in Europe of our heritage site

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Importance in Europe of our heritage site

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Portugal was one of the firsts countries in the world to abolish the death penalty and inspired the rest of the countries in Europe

The Charter of Law defends basic human rights like dignity, tolerance and respect for human life

It promoted a new example of justice and of prison regimes and satisfied the intention of being a goal for common European historic memory by consecrating the right to life

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Lucía Feldman

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INTRODUCING OURSELVES

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Mara Franken

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Our new interactive map was published on October 10, 2020 on the occasion of the 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty. A comprehensive and interactive tool, it reinforces our international advocacy work while providing an unprecedented source of information on the situation and issues surrounding the death penalty worldwide.
What key figures should be retained from this map?
Download our state of play on the situation
of the death penalty in 2020 to find out.

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Interactive map: the death penalty in the world in 2020

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Our new interactive map was published on October 10, 2020 on the occasion of the 18th World Day Against the Death Penalty. A comprehensive and interactive tool, it reinforces our international advocacy work while providing an unprecedented source of information on the situation and issues surrounding the death penalty worldwide.

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Portugal was one of the first countries to inscribe a law to abolish the death penalty to civil crimes in its legal system and inspired other countries around the world to do the same.

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Charter of Law

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National Archives of Torre do Tombo in Lisbon, Portugal

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The Charter of Law of Abolition of the Death Penalty is preserved in the National Archives of Torre do Tombo in Lisbon, Portugal.

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On 26 June 1867, the Justice Minister, Augusto César Barjona de Freitas, won the parliamentary vote to abolish the death penalty. King Luís sanctioned this Parliamentary Decree with the Charter of Law, published on 1st July 1867.

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“Penalty that pays for blood with blood, that kills but does not correct, that avenges but does not improve and, usurping God in the prerogatives of life and closing the door to repentance, extinguishes in the heart of the condemned all hope of redemption, putting the fallibility of human justice up against the darkness of an irreparable punishment.”

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The Charter of Law was later consecrated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and received the distinction of European Heritage Label.