ABSTRACT
This chapter contributes to the Congress with a paper on the Impact of the Exlusion of the Death Penalty from the Statutes of the International Criminal Tribunals on its Upcoming Universal Abolition'. It presents the issues relating to the death penalty from several different angles: philosophical, sociological, criminological and religious. The Equity and Reconciliation Commission is an institution that oversaw transitional justice in Morocco during the late nineties and the beginning of the second millennium. The Equity and Reconciliation Commission has explicitly recommended to the Kingdom of Morocco the ratification of the Second Protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Special tribute should be paid to a wide section of Moroccan civil society, in which there has been a very serious debate on the abolition of the death penalty, particularly during the last ten years. In 2003 the Moroccan Coalition against the Death Penalty was established.
