Keun had been sentenced to death.

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

Based upon clear evidence, the accused has been sentenced to death.

Countries that were abolitionist for ordinary criminal offences were asked to specify which offences remained subject to the death penalty and whether any persons had been sentenced to death or executed during the survey period.

Information about death sentences imposed and persons executed was received from six countries Bahrain, Japan, Morocco, Philippines, Thailand and Trinidad and Tobago, plus Latvia for the period prior to abolition.

Concerns have regularly been voiced in the United States that innocent persons remain under sentence of death and that some are eventually executed.

Thailand did not report the number of death sentences imposed, but it did report the number of executions that had been carried out 43.

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

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.

In Trinidad and Tobago, 45 people had been sentenced to death for murder and 10 males had been executed, all of them in 1999.

These variations reflected to a large extent changes in the annual number of persons known to have been sentenced to death and executed in China.

In China, during the strike hard campaign against criminality in 2001, Amnesty International recorded news of 2,468 executions, but Amnesty garnered news of only 763 executions in 2003.

See The Death Penalty in China a Baseline Document, The Rights Practice (December 2003), p. 30, at http www.rights practice.org.

Enforcement of the death penalty

The code of criminal procedure provides that a death sentence can only be enforced after the plea for pardon has been rejected.

At other times the executive branch of government delays executions even though it is not feasible politically to abolish the death penalty.

Seven males had been executed, six of them in 1999 and one in 2000.

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,

It must again be emphasized that many countries do not publish official statistics on sentences and executions.

Nor can implementation of the death penalty be prohibited.

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.

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,

The Federal Government conducted three executions in 2001 the first execution for a federal offence since 1963 was carried out.

This was followed by five more executions in that year and one in 2000. Since then there have been no further executions.

(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

International Federation for Human Rights 2003, No. 359 2, see note 88 above.

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

Three formerly de facto abolitionist countries resumed executions.

In the Philippines in 1999 an adult male was the first person to be executed in 23 years.

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.

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

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

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

Uzbekistan (Communication No.

Piandiong et al v. the Philippines (Communication No.

In its next report, the State party is asked to furnish information on the number of executions which have taken place, the type of offence for which the death penalty has been imposed, and the manner in which the execution has been carried out.

Even in those few countries that carry out the majority of judicial executions, there are signs that the practice has decreased.

In Morocco, 66 persons (63 men and 3 women) had been sentenced to death, 49 for offences against the person and 17 for terrorism, but none had been executed.

Although no judicial executions have been carried out for many years, there have been a few grave incidents in which detainees have died in Kosovo prisons after torture.

Of these, 78 could be regarded as retentionist in that executions had been carried out within the previous 10 years and no commitment to cease executions had been made.

(c) Establishing a maximum age beyond which a person may not be sentenced to death or executed

Retentionist countries and territories that enforced capital punishment at the beginning of 1999

Sometimes a moratorium is placed on executions while the whole question of the death penalty is under review.

He was waiting to be shot any day now.