1. 1990 a record-breaking year for abolition. 2. Abolition in Hungary – Constitutional Court ruling. 3. Japan: Forum discusses abolition. 4. Messages to the Anti-Death Penalty Forum 90: Abolish the death penalty!. 5. Expansion of the death penalty: Pakistan, Maldives. 6. The death penalty in practice: South Africa, Iran, Iraq, Tunisia. 7. New Literature: 1990 Survey of State Legislation (USA). 7 Constitutional reforms: Albania and Laos; Trinidad and Tobago: threat of resumption of executions; Taiwan: retrial ordered for man sentenced to death. 9. International treaties on the death penalty. 8. Death Penalty News: Index for 1990.