The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2018 punishment” and addressing “disproportionate impact of the use of the death penalty on poor or economically vulnerable individuals”, the resolution underlines the discriminatory aspect of the death penalty and aims to organize a high-level panel on this issue during the 40th session of the UN Human Rights Council. The resolution includes an emphasis on “deploring” and “condemning” the execution of those exercising their rights to freedom of expression and assembly, those under 18 at the time of the crime, people with mental or intellectual disabilities, pregnant women, people who engage in same-sex sexual relations, and those who engage in adultery. Moreover, the resolution asks the UN Secretary General to dedicate his 2019 yearly supplement of his quinquennial report to capital punishment and its consequences for the respect for human rights. During the same 36th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the UN Secretary General presented the yearly supplement to his quinquennial report on capital punishment.113 It paid specific attention to discrimination in the context of the death penalty. An entire section of the report focuses on socio-economic discrimination. In particular, the report examines the disproportionate impact of the use of the death penalty on poor or economically vulnerable individuals, foreign nationals, individuals exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief and freedom of expression, and the discriminatory use of the death penalty against people belonging to racial and ethnic minorities, its discriminatory use based on gender or sexual orientation and its discriminatory use against individuals with mental or intellectual disabilities. During the 36th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights submitted his report on the high-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty that was held at the 34th session of the Council on 1 March 2017.114 The objective of the panel discussion was to continue exchanging views on the question of the death penalty and to address violations related to the use of the death penalty, in particular with respect to the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. According to the report, a significant number of States hold that the death penalty is a form of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. On 10 October 2017, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights organized a panel on “Transparency and the death penalty” in New York. UN Secretary General António Guterres, in his first public statement as Secretary General on the death penalty, stated that “the death penalty has no place in the 113  A/HRC/36/26, 36th session of the Human Rights Council: Reports, United Nations Human Rights Council, 22 August 2017, <https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/regularsessions/session36/pages/listreports.aspx> 114  “High-level panel discussion on the question of the death Penalty: Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights”, United Nations General Assembly, 4 July 2017, A/HRC/36/27. 25