(d) To establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty

Capital punishment and safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty

Capital punishment and implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty

55 111. Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

59 197. Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

61 173. Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

57 214. Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

Capital punishment and implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty

Killing the Death Penalty

They welcome such an execution.

The question of the death penalty

(b) Public executions, including multiple public executions, and other executions carried out in the absence of respect for internationally recognized safeguards

This includes capital punishment.

Enforcement of the death penalty

Retentionist countries and territories that enforced capital punishment at the beginning of 1999

Amnesty International, The exclusion of child offenders from the death penalty under general international law, AI Index ACT 50 004 2003 (July 2003).

Amnesty International, News Release, Pakistan Young Offenders Taken off Death Row, AI Index ASA 33 029 2001 and Death Penalty News, AI Index ACT 001 2002, p. 2.

Before the draft decision was adopted, statements were made by the representatives of China and Cuba and the observer for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (see E 2005 SR.38).

The Morality of Capital Punishment

The question of the death penalty

Moreover, abolitionists assail the deterrent effect of the death penalty.

Thailand did not report the number of death sentences imposed, but it did report the number of executions that had been carried out 43.

The moratorium on the death penalty applied to the imposition and execution of a death sentence for any crime, regardless of its gravity.

(g) To reinstate the moratorium on capital punishment and persevere in its declared objective of progressively abolishing the death penalty

In 2002, Cuba assured the Human Rights Commission that it did not execute mentally ill persons (see E CN.4 2003 106, annex II, para.

62 149. Moratorium on the use of the death penalty

Beyond the Death Penalty Debate

Referral to the Grand Mufti indicates a death sentence.

The question of the death penalty 236

The question of the death penalty

Moreover, various sectors of society had signified their staunch opposition to the death penalty, including the Coalition Against the Death Penalty.

(e) Report of the Secretary General on capital punishment and implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty (E 2005 3).

By recommending that all States impose a complete moratorium on all executions, the previous Special Rapporteur had overstepped her mandate, which applied exclusively to extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions.

(c) To establish a moratorium on executions

The entire execution took about eight minutes.

The Philippines has since abolished the death penalty.

There is no death penalty in the Republic of Mozambique.

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Welcoming the decisions taken by an increasing number of States to apply a moratorium on executions, followed in many cases by the abolition of the death penalty,

(c) The continuing executions in the absence of respect for internationally recognized safeguards, and in particular deplores public executions

(d) Note by the Secretariat on capital punishment and safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty (E CN.15 2005 16)

Welcoming the fact that many countries that still retain the death penalty in their penal legislation are applying a moratorium on executions, and also welcoming the regional initiatives aimed at the establishment of a moratorium on executions and the abolition of the death penalty,

The Commission on Human Rights has continued annually to adopt resolutions calling upon all States that have not already abolished the death penalty to consider establishing a moratorium on executions with a view to completely abolishing the death penalty.

Noting its resolutions on the subject of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and the resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights on the subject,