On July 23, 2026, Suriname’s parliament adopted a draft law to abolish the death penalty. In a unanimous vote, 31 members of the National Assembly approved the country’s accession to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The Second Optional Protocol obligates signatory state parties to abolish the death penalty entirely within their jurisdictions.Suriname ratified the ICCPR in 1976. It removed the death penalty as a punishment from the national Penal Code in 2015 and from the Military Penal Code in 2021....