3. When deprivation of life constitutes the crime of genocide, it is understood that nothing in this article shall authorize any State Party to the
present Covenant to derogate in any way from any obligation assumed
under the provisions of the Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
4. Anyone sentenced to death shall have the right to seek pardon or
commutation of the sentence. Amnesty, pardon or commutation of the
sentence of death may be granted in all cases.
5. Sentence of death shall not be imposed for crimes committed by persons below 18 years of age and shall not be carried out on pregnant
women.
6. Nothing in this article shall be invoked to delay or to prevent the abolition of capital punishment by any State Party to the present Covenant.
Article 7
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his free consent to medical or scientific experimentation.
Article 8
1. No one shall be held in slavery; slavery and the slave-trade in all their
forms shall be prohibited.
2.
No one shall be held in servitude.
3. (a)
labour;
No one shall be required to perform forced or compulsory
3. (b) Paragraph 3 (a) shall not be held to preclude, in countries where
imprisonment with hard labour may be imposed as a punishment for a
crime, the performance of hard labour in pursuance of a sentence to such
punishment by a competent court;
3. (c) For the purpose of this paragraph the term “forced or compulsory labour” shall not include:
3. (c) i i(i) Any work or service, not referred to in subparagraph (b),
normally required of a person who is under detention in consequence of
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