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Australia’s efforts to advocate for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty

The Law Council of Australia provided a submission to the Human Rights Subcommittee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade in relation to its inquiry into Australia’s efforts to advocate for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty.

The Law Council commends Australia’s ongoing commitment to advancing the abolition of the death penalty internationally and maintaining a robust domestic legal and policy framework to ensure that Australia does not expose a person, irrespective of their nationality, to a real risk of execution.

The Law Council opposes the imposition or execution of the death penalty in all circumstances for all people.1 It is the position of the Law Council that no person should be subjected to the death penalty irrespective of their nationality, personal characteristics, the nature of the crime they are alleged to have committed, the time, place or circumstances of the crime’s alleged commission, or the nature or identity of any victim(s) of the alleged crime.2

The Law Council is committed to the international abolition of the death penalty and, in the interim, to an international moratorium on executions and the commutation of existing death sentences.

In addition, a number of the Law Council’s Constituent Bodies have adopted their own statements of policy expressing their commitment to the abolition of the death penalty.3

Read the full submission below.

1 Law Council of Australia, Policy Statement on the Death Penalty (October 2021) 3.
2 Ibid.
3 See e.g. Law Institute of Victoria ‘LIV Policy: Use of the Death Penalty' see pp.5-7 <link>; Law Society of Western Australia ‘Briefing Paper: Death Penalty’ (July 2020) <link>

Last Updated on 22/08/2024

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