DATABASE
The data, country by country.
Thirty-three years of monitoring. Executions, sentences, moratoria, deaths in prison, overcrowding, preventive measures. Every number has a source, a date, a verifiable method.
TWO ENTRY DOORS
The death penalty in the world. Italian prisons.
Our two main databases are organised by geographical scale. From here you can also reach the databases by thematic area — death penalty, death by punishment, prevention is worse.
The numbers that power does not show.
Death penalty, deaths in prison, preventive measures. The database collects and publishes every number, every name, every date. Updated daily since 1993.
189 prisons. We have seen them.
Italian prisons have been constantly overcrowded since 2009. Nessuno tocchi Caino systematically visits the institutions and publishes the data by region, facility and type of offence. The visits follow a standardised protocol in collaboration with Antigone.
DATABASES BY THEMATIC AREA
The raw data of the three battles
Death penalty
4,777 EXECUTIONS IN 2025 · 113 ABOLITIONIST COUNTRIES · 9 ABOLITIONIST FOR ORDINARY CRIMES · 44 ABOLITIONIST DE FACTO · 33 RETENTIONIST COUNTRIES
Death by punishment
48 SUICIDES IN PRISON IN 2026 · 65,933 INMATES IN 46,298 REAL PLACES · 189 MONITORED INSTITUTIONS
When prevention is worse than punishment
20,431 MEASURES IN FORCE · 47% WITHOUT CONVICTION · 340 NEW CASES IN 2026