Death by incarceration: Abolitionists at UN call for end to “the other death penalty”

October 29, 2023

Stanley Jamel Bellamy, a community organizer with the Releasing Aging People in Prison Campaign, traveled to the United Nations in Geneva to share his personal story of surviving a death by incarceration sentence. © Screenshot/Twitter/RAPPcampaign

Geneva, Switzerland – The United Nations often focuses on capital punishment when assessing countries’ human rights records, but this year’s Human Rights Committee review of the US shone a light on “the other death penalty” – death by incarceration

Death by incarceration (DBI) refers to extreme sentencing practices, including life without parole, life with parole, “virtual life” sentences that exceed life expectancy, and other lengthy and indeterminate sentences….

read here