The Morality of Capital Punishment

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

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

The law provides for the death penalty in the following cases

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,

(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)

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).

In Iran, this can carry a death sentence.

The executions lasted for more than an hour.

And they are backed by the Saudi religious institutions

12. Notes the important role the Special Rapporteur has played in the elimination of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

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.

My heart aches for the gay and lesbian Iranians trying to flee persecution but are being turned away.

(b) To abolish, in law and in practice, public executions and other executions carried out in the absence of respect for internationally recognized safeguards

That makes you pause gives you some pause those of you who believe that a death penalty's going to have an enormous deterrent effect on crime.

Sami was executed on June 6th, 2006.

Egypt reported that Execution of the death penalty against pregnant women is stayed until two months after delivery of the child in the Philippines, it is at least one year after the delivery.

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.

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 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.

62 149. Moratorium on the use of the death penalty