The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2018
within the context of a legal procedure, as affirmed by the jurisprudence of the
International Court of Justice and confirmed in recent relevant judgments;
(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, is 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) To abolish the death penalty completely and, in the meantime, to establish a moratorium on executions;
(b) 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;
(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 SecretaryGeneral 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 that 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, and calls upon States to provide such effective
assurances if requested to do so;
[…]
United Nations Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2005/59 on the
question of the death penalty
(2005)
The Commission on Human Rights,
1. Expresses its concern at the continuing use of the death penalty around the world,
alarmed in particular at its application after trials that do not conform to international standards of fairness and that several countries impose the death penalty
in disregard of the limitations set out in the International Covenant on Civil and
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