It was a death warrant.

It's your death sentence.

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

The death penalty remains in the statute books.

He is to be executed for gross insubordination!

My death warrant, she signed. Adelaid Adams.

(f) Anyone sentenced to death shall have the right to appeal to a court of higher jurisdiction, and steps should be taken to ensure that such appeals shall become mandatory

Decree No. 14 95 calls for the death penalty for the crime of abduction or kidnapping.

In Latvia, where there had been a moratorium on executions since 1996, one male had been sentenced to death in 1999 before capital punishment was abolished for ordinary offences later that year.

On 8 August, the Government of Iraq reinstated capital punishment, which had been abolished by a decree of the Coalition Provisional Authority dated 10 June 2003.

The Committee notes with concern that the number of crimes for which the death penalty is applicable under the Criminal Code is still very high, and that decrees defining new crimes punishable by death, such as Presidential Decree No. 21 of 21 October 1997, have recently been enacted.

The Tribunal in question was reported to have the power to impose death sentences, order public executions and issue life prison terms.

Tajikistan became de facto abolitionist on legally establishing a moratorium on executions without limit of time in 2004.

By his decree of 25 July 1997 N 387 the President of Georgia, Edouard Shevardnadze, pardoned 54 condemned persons for whom capital punishment was replaced by 20 year terms of imprisonment.

Nevertheless, no executions had taken place since 1993 and, in response to the question of whether there was a settled policy never to execute persons sentenced to death, the reply was yes , although it should be noted that there is no official moratorium in force.

It shows an encouraging trend towards abolition and restriction of the use of capital punishment in most countries, but indicates that much remains to be done in the implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of persons facing the death penalty in those countries which retain it.

(b) The continued suspension of the moratorium on the carrying out of the death penalty, in particular the death sentences passed on 7 January 2003 by the Military Order Court which had tried the persons accused of assassinating the former President of the Republic

It was further reported that death penalties were sometimes imposed and executed on the orders of Taliban commanders or Taliban prison guards.

This penalty difference between articles 417 and 419 of the Penal Code and the draft decree has been rendered necessary by the international trend towards the abolition of capital punishment.

Uzbekistan also gave cause for concern, while at the same time opening up the prospect of abolition of the death penalty by 2008.

b These countries completely abolished the death penalty in 2004.

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

According to the author, the death penalty is mandatory for the crime of rape it is a crime against the person by virtue of Republic Act No. 8353.

Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the abolition of the death penalty in Uzbekistan

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

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The Government of the Philippines stated that under Republic Act No. 7659, entitled quot An Act to Impose the Death Penalty on Certain Heinous Crimes quot , kidnapping and serious illegal detention were listed among the heinous crimes to which the penalty of death was to be applied when the victims were killed or raped or died as a consequence of their detention.

(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,

During the survey period, there were reports of stoning to death in public in the Islamic Republic of Iran, although the head of the judiciary was reported to have sent a directive to judges ordering a moratorium on executions by stoning.

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.

She is even more troubled by rulings imposing capital punishment in cases in both entities.