Marshall Islands - Universal Periodic Review - Death Penalty - April 2025
Date: April 7, 2025
Country: Marshall Islands
Partners: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
Country: Marshall Islands
Partners: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
The Marshall Islands abolished the death penalty for all crimes after gaining independence
from the United States in 1979. According to Article II, section 6(1) of the Constitution, “no
crime under the law of the Republic of the Marshall Islands may be punishable by death.” The Marshall Islands ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
in 2018. The Marshall Islands has not signed, ratified, or acceded to the Second Optional
Protocol to the ICCPR aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (OP2), despite committing
to do so during the third-cycle Universal Periodic Review.
