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

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

Killing the Death Penalty

The question of the death penalty

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).

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

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

62 149. Moratorium on the use of the death penalty

Beyond the Death Penalty Debate

The question of the death penalty 236

The question of 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).

The Philippines has since abolished the death penalty.

There is no death penalty in the Republic of Mozambique.

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Nepal (Technical cooperation and advisory services in) (resolution 2005 78) 299

(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,

(d) Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (E 2005 65).

Abolitionists respond with two ethical arguments.

(b) To exclude pregnant women and mothers with dependent infants from capital punishment

(c) Countries that retained the death penalty in law.

(c) Countries that remained retentionist

Status of the death penalty at the end of 2003

Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia, Defying World Trends, AI Index MDE 23 015 2001 see also Lamri Chirouf, Defying World Trends , paper presented to the First World Congress against the Death Penalty (Strasbourg, June 2001).

(b) To provide the Secretary General with information relating to the use of capital punishment and the observance of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty

The non governmental organization Together against the Death Penalty organized the First World Congress against the Death Penalty in Strasbourg, France, in June 2001 and the Second World Congress against the Death Penalty in Montreal, Canada, in October 2004.

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.

In Iran, this can carry a death sentence.

(a) Retentionist countries that became abolitionist

Trinidad and Tobago (Communication No. 908 2000, views adopted on 21 March 2003).

The hanging brought to the fore the debate around the death penalty a timely discussion, given that the United Nations General Assembly recently approved a draft resolution in favor of abolishing the death penalty worldwide.

Report of the Secretary General on capital punishment and implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty (Council resolution 1745 (LIV) and Council decision 2004 242)

(d) To provide to the Secretary General and relevant United Nations bodies information relating to the use of capital punishment and the observance of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty

(d) To provide to the Secretary General and relevant United Nations bodies information relating to the use of capital punishment and the observance of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty

The death penalty status of 59 of the 78 retentionist countries and territories at the beginning of 1999 had not changed at the end of 2003.

(e) Yearly supplement to the quinquennial report of the Secretary General on capital punishment and implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty (resolution 2005 59, para. 11)

The seventh quinquennial report of the Secretary General on capital punishment and implementation of safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty has been issued under the symbol E 2005 3.

(vi) The trying of civilians and the imposition of the death penalty by the Military Court