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)

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.

Oculus Dada ( daddy_san) FYI, 12 hours ago, India voted against a UN General Assembly resolution banning the death penalty.

In the Russian Federation, capital punishment was in effect banned by a ruling of the Constitutional Court in February 1999.

As is clear from the above quoted provision of the Constitution, capital punishment could be brought back to application only through new legislative decision.

Kudos to the officials for carrying out the execution quietly, thank you President Pranab for being decisive and thank you India finally the victims get some kind of justice!

(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

In accordance with Council resolution 1989 64 of 24 May 1989, the report also covers the implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty (see annex II).

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

Amnesty International, Death Penalty News, AI Index ACT 53 005 1999 (December 1999).

10. Reaffirms Economic and Social Council decision 2004 259 of 22 July 2004, by which the Council endorsed the decision of the Commission on Human Rights to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions for three years

Killing the Death Penalty

They welcome such an execution.

The question of the death penalty

Amnesty International, People's Republic of China. Establishing the Rule of Law and Respect for Human Rights The Need for Institutional and Legal Reforms, AI Index ASA 17 052 2002 and Executed according to law ? the death penalty in China, AI Index ASA 17 003 2004.

In line with the aspiration of United Nations policy, several countries have restricted the scope of capital punishment, often as a prelude to, or in conjunction with, a moratorium on executions, with a view to moving towards complete abolition (see General Assembly resolutions 2857 (XXVI) and 32 61).

(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).

By the beginning of 1999, 34 countries had ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (General Assembly resolution 44 128, annex).

The Morality of Capital Punishment

The question of the death penalty

Recorded incidents of botched electrocutions were prevalent after the national moratorium ended January 17, 1977 two in Alabama, three in Florida, one in Georgia, one in Indiana and three in Virginia.

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.

At its 26th ordinary session, in November 1999, the African Commission on Human and People's Rights adopted a resolution that called upon all States parties to consider establishing a moratorium on the death penalty.

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.

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The question of the death penalty