The Death Penalty as Torture: What UN Expert's Report Means for Business

Earlier this year, the UN expert on executions issued a report finding that the death penalty is a form of torture and thus a violation of international human rights law. As World Day Against the Death Penalty approaches, we're asking what that means for business.

Join us on Friday, Oct. 9 at 12 p.m. ET for a LinkedIn Live conversation with Dr. Morris Tidball-Binz, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions who authored the report, and Maha Jweied, CEO of the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice (RBIJ), which convenes the global Business Leaders Against the Death Penalty campaign.

Together they discuss how the physical and psychological toll of capital punishment, which reaches far beyond the person sentenced to death, is tantamount to torture, and why these findings should energize business leaders to use their unique leverage to help drive abolition.