relating to the death penalty which are dealt with in the following Chapter, namely: the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (paragraph 17.2); the restrictions and safeguards regarding the use of the death penalty which have been adopted by the international community, in particular Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (paragraph 17.3); and the provisions of the Sixth Protocol to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, concerning the abolition of the death penalty (paragraph 17.4). 3. OTHER INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND INSTRUMENTS 3.1 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Under Article 6 of the ICCPR (`right to life'), States Parties 4 are not obliged to abolish the death penalty but to restrict its use to the "most serious crimes". In a general comment on Article 6, the UN Human Rights Committee stated that "the expression `most serious crimes' must be read restrictively to mean that the death penalty should be a quite exceptional measure"5. The `ECOSOC Safeguards' further specify that the scope of these crimes "should not go beyond intentional crimes with lethal or other extremely grave consequences"6. In its April 1999 resolution on the question of the death penalty, the UN Commission on Human Create PDF in your applications with the Pdfcrowd HTML to PDF API PDFCROWD