In four cases, death sentences were reduced to imprisonment after appeal.

Permanent Representative Annex A The Criminal Justice System of Singapore in Relation to Capital Cases

This precept is particularly important in capital cases.

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During the five year period, 20 death sentences were confirmed following the conclusion of the appeal clemency process.

So it really, really helps the criminal investigation to establish the cause of death, and in some cases also directing the investigation in the right direction to find out who the killer really was.

I enclose at Annex A a full summary of Singapore apos s criminal justice system in relation to capital cases.

Criminal proceedings have been instituted in each case where persons were taken hostage or died.

It must be a terrible strain... trying a capital charge.

62. These cases show that the death penalty is fully in force, and the soundness of the advice given to the authorities to grant reprieves.

In Illinois, since 2000 fees for lawyers who defend death penalty cases have been raised.

In several documented cases, victims have been beaten up or otherwise tortured to death.

The Government has advised that this death sentence has been commuted.

Hands Off Cain 2004 Report, p. 35.

This is particularly disturbing for cases involving capital punishment, where unavailability of legal aid amounts to a violation of article 6 juncto article 14 of the Covenant.

An up to date list of abolitionist and retentionist countries is contained in annex I to the present report.

In such cases, the carrying out of a death sentence may constitute a form of summary or arbitrary execution.

35. An important and urgent question is that of the amendments to the Penal Code which have extended the death penalty to offences to which it did not apply when the American Convention on Human Rights came into force.

Examining Magistrate in major criminal and correctional cases (adults and minors).

MONUC also intervened in seven cases of individuals under sentence of death who are currently under 18 or were at the time their sentences were passed.

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

Serious criminal matter.

There has also been a case of death in detention through injuries consistent with torture in Al Fasher.

Of particular concern in a number of countries are the conditions under which persons are kept in confinement while under sentence of death or under a moratorium.

1992 quot Forholdet mellom visse sider ved rettsmiddelsystemet i straffesaker og menneskerettighetskonvensjonene quot , in NOU 1992 28 To instansbehandling, anke og juryordning pp. 173 190. (Advisory opinion on the relationship between certain aspects of the system of review in criminal cases and the requirements of the human rights conventions.)

Presiding judge on several occasions.

Jurisdiction on criminal and civil cases.

68. Torture has not decreased.

One hundred and sixty cases were decided in Punjab by the lower judiciary in which death sentence was awarded to 52 accused and life imprisonment to an additional 59.

In view of the urgency of the communications, the Committee has requested the States parties concerned not to carry out the death sentences while the cases are under consideration.

One involves the death penalty, which has been imposed in genocide cases, though only rarely implemented.

One involves the death penalty, which has been imposed in genocide cases, though only rarely implemented.

China is a developing country with an enormous population it is home to fully one fifth of the children in the world.

43. Verification reveals that in a considerable percentage of cases, the right to defence is not guaranteed, an especially serious failing in those where capital punishment is being sought for the defendant.

142. With respect to Fath ul Bab Abdul Moneim Sha apos lan, who was allegedly beaten to death, and his son, Yaser Fath ul Bab Abdull Moneim Sha apos lan, who was allegedly tortured at Helwan police station in August 1994, the DPP had referred the case to the Southern Cairo Criminal Court, where it was being heard.

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B. Restitution as a sentencing option in criminal cases

My Government has taken the necessary measures to provide the international community its assurance that the death penalty will not be exercised in any of the transferred cases.

546. In response to the urgent appeals transmitted by the Special Rapporteur, the Government of the United States continued to provide a reply in the form of a description of the legal safeguards provided to defendants in the United States in criminal cases, and in particular those specific to death penalty cases.

141. In the case of Abdul Mageed Khalifa, who allegedly died as a result of torture at al Wasta police station in May 1994, the DPP had decided that a complaint by his family alleging that he had died as a result of a criminal act of torture was inadmissible.

(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

The State party should limit the cases in which the death penalty is imposed, ensure that it is applied only for the most serious crimes, and officially abolish the sentence of death by stoning.

The Special Rapporteur undertakes action in cases of capital punishment in which international restrictions, which are analysed in the following paragraphs, are not respected.

The Supreme Court is the final court of appeal in civil and criminal matters.

341. During the period under review, the Government provided information on four cases in two cases, the persons concerned were reported to have left the country and in two other cases the persons concerned had been sentenced to death and executed.