The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2018 8) Please provide us with the number, age, gender, and race / ethnicity of any person sentenced to death who has been asking for clemency and the number, age, gender, and race / ethnicity of any person who has been granted clemency or had his or her sentence commuted in the reporting period (1 April 2017 - 31 March 2018). In cases where the person concerned provided informed consent, please provide their full name, age and location. 9) If there have been any changes during the reporting period, please describe the procedure for considering a request for clemency, including the factors that are taken into account when considering such a request. 10) Please provide statistics on the number, age, gender and race / ethnicity of persons who have been executed in the period from 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018. 11) Please indicate if any persons executed in the period from 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 were: • Under the age of 18 at the time the crime was committed; • Pregnant women or women with dependent children; • Men with dependent children; • Diagnosed as having any form of mental disorder; • Non-national; please indicate whether or not any of these persons received consular assistance. 12) Please provide details on the number of women and men on death row as well as on the treatment of men and women awaiting execution. Are official medical reports on the psychological status of death row prisoners available? How does your country respond to the death row phenomenon, which consists of a combination of circumstances that produce severe mental trauma and physical deterioration in prisoners under sentence of death? Those circumstances include the lengthy and anxiety-ridden wait for uncertain outcomes, isolation, drastically reduced human contact and even the physical conditions in which some inmates are held. 13) Please provide information on the methods of execution used in your country and the assessments made with regard to the pain and suffering caused by each of these methods. 14) Are any of your citizens facing the death penalty abroad? If yes, please provide information about the number, their age, gender and race / ethnicity, as well as information about children of such persons, indicating relevant countries where your citizens may be facing the death penalty. In cases where the person concerned provided informed consent, please provide their full name, age and location. 101