Earlier this month, Swiss President Didier Burkhalter joined 11 foreign ministers around the world in a joint declaration in favour of abolishing the death penalty. “The death penalty is incompatible with human rights,” the Swiss government said in a statement last week.
While Switzerland abolished the death penalty from its federal criminal law in 1942, it formulated a broader strategy last year to promote global abolition, or at least to secure a stay of all current executions, by 2025.
Alexandra Torrealba