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

...the death penalty.

Calls upon States that no longer apply the death penalty but maintain it in their legislation to abolish it

(j) Not to execute any person as long as any related legal procedure, at the international or at the national level, is pending

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

He called on all States to abolish the penalty and, pending full abolition, to apply an immediate moratorium on executions.

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(a) Capital punishment

A. The death penalty

2. The death penalty

Welcoming the efforts of various sectors of civil society at the national and international levels to achieve the abolition of the death penalty,

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,

As far as is known, all the countries that abolished the death penalty in the period 1999 2003 did not permit persons sentenced to death prior to abolition to be executed.

3. Calls upon States which have abolished the death penalty not to reintroduce it

(a) Retentionist countries that became abolitionist

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,

Although three countries that were formerly de facto abolitionist resumed executions, none of them have done so on a substantial scale and no countries that had abolished the death penalty reintroduced it.

The death penalty could not be applied on the basis of the reference to it in the Constitution.

Five had been sentenced to death, and of those receiving non capital sentences, the maximum penalty was three years.

Killing the Death Penalty

They belong to gibbet.

Before executing death sentence given to women, conditions for non application of death sentence as provided for in the Penal Code must be checked to see whether their sentence can be commuted to life imprisonment.

13. With respect to the death penalty, persons aged less than 18 who committed a capital offence cannot be sentenced to the death penalty even if they are already 18 at the moment of the sentence.

It also reported that capital punishment had not been abolished because it was only taken for the capital crimes .

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

(e) To reinstate the moratorium on capital punishment and adhere to its commitment to progressively abolish the death penalty

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

(a) The Covenant does not prohibit the death penalty, although it subjects its use to severe restrictions.

2005 The question of the death penalty

It was a death warrant.

.. to hang by the neck until dead.

Death or exile.

He served 18 years of a death sentence.

3. That, while the Covenant does not prohibit the death penalty, it refers to its abolition in terms which strongly suggest that abolition is desirable

(c) To progressively restrict the use of the death penalty and reduce the number of offences for which it may be imposed

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

The penalty has not been carried out for a long time, but those sentenced to it are numerous.

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Three formerly de facto abolitionist countries resumed executions.

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.

Although the death penalty has not been implemented since the execution in October 1998 of those convicted of treason, courts still impose it.

It's like a reprieve, Minus from a sentence of death.

Retentionist countries that were de facto abolitionist at the beginning of 1999

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

According to replies to the survey received from the European Court of Human Rights and the Directorate General of Human Rights of the Council of Europe.