Daniel Pascoe Associate Professor of Law, City University of Hong Kong Sangmin Bae Professor of Political Science, Northeastern Illinois University Latest Developments in the UNGA Death Penalty Moratorium Resolutions 18 May 2021 The eighth and most recent iteration of the United Nations General Assembly’s death penalty moratorium resolution was passed on 16 December 2020, with 123 votes in favour, 38 votes against, 24 countries abstaining and 8 being absent. For the abolition movement, Resolution 75/183 adds to the success of previous votes in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018 in repeating calls for a global moratorium on executions, with an increased level of support at each time of asking. Every resolution has differed subtly from the previous version, with the 2020 resolution for the èrst time including language drawing attention to death row prison conditions, gendered aspects of death penalty practice, juvenile executions in circumstances when the defendant’s age cannot be verièed, a requirement for reasonable notice of an execution date, an opportunity for family members to pay their ènal visits, and the return of the body of an executed prisoner to his or her family, or at least information on where the body is located. Our recently published research ( Pascoe and Bae 2020, Pascoe and Bae 2021) considers the seven resolutions passed between 2007 and 2018, their co-sponsorship and the accompanying note verbale, [i] within the context of each state’s domestic death penalty practices. Relying on both primary and secondary data sources including voting records, government documents and interviews with diplomatic decision-makers at national UN missions in New York, we analysed domestic and international inéuences on state behaviour relating to the moratorium resolutions. After accounting for general temporal and geographical trends, we focused particular attention on those countries who vote in an unexpected (‘idiosyncratic’) way that seemingly runs counter to their domestic death penalty laws and practices. With most countries that have abolished capital punishment for all crimes voting in favour of the resolution, and most countries which retain and use