The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2018
(b) To comply with their obligations under article 36 of the 1963 Vienna
Convention on Consular Relations,7 particularly the right to receive information on consular assistance;
(c) To make available relevant information, disaggregated by sex, age and
race, as applicable, and other applicable criteria, with regard to their use
of the death penalty, inter alia, the number of persons sentenced to death,
the number of persons on death row and the number of executions carried
out, the number of death sentences reversed or commuted on appeal and
information on any scheduled execution, which can contribute to possible
informed and transparent national and international debates, including on
the obligations of States pertaining to the use of the death penalty;
(d) To progressively restrict the use of the death penalty and not to impose
capital punishment for offences committed by persons below 18 years of age,
on pregnant women or on persons with mental or intellectual disabilities;
(e) To reduce the number of offences for which the death penalty may be
imposed;
(f) To ensure that those facing the death penalty can exercise their right to
apply for pardon or commutation of their death sentence by ensuring that
clemency procedures are fair and transparent and that prompt information
is provided at all stages of the process;
(g) To establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death
penalty;
8. Calls upon States which have abolished the death penalty not to reintroduce it,
and encourages them to share their experience in this regard;
9. Encourages States which have a moratorium to maintain it and to share their
experience in this regard;
10. Calls upon States that have not yet done so to consider acceding to or ratifying
the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty;
11. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session on the implementation of the present resolution;
12. Decides to continue consideration of the matter at its seventy-third session
under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”.
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