The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2018 (g) Not to impose the death penalty on a person suffering from any form of mental disorder or to execute any such person; (h) To exclude mothers with dependent infants from capital punishment; (i) To ensure that, where capital punishment occurs, it shall be carried out so as to inflict the minimum possible suffering and shall not be carried out in public or in any other degrading manner, and to ensure that any application of particularly cruel or inhuman means of execution, such as stoning, be stopped immediately; (j) Not to execute any person as long as any related legal procedure, at the international or at the national level, is pending; 5. Calls upon all States that still maintain the death penalty: (a) Progressively to restrict the number of offences for which the death penalty may be imposed and, at the least, not to extend its application to crimes to which it does not at present apply; (b) To abolish the death penalty completely and, in the meantime, to establish a moratorium on executions; (c) To make available to the public information with regard to the imposition of the death penalty and to any scheduled execution; (d) To provide to the Secretary-General and relevant United Nations bodies information relating to the use of capital punishment and the observance of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty as contained in Economic and Social Council resolution 1984/50; 6. Calls upon States which no longer apply the death penalty but maintain it in their legislation to abolish it; 7. Requests States that have received a request for extradition on a capital charge to reserve explicitly the right to refuse extradition in the absence of effective assurances from relevant authorities of the requesting State that capital punishment will not be carried out; 63

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