The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
(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;
United Nations Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2004/67 on the
question of the death penalty
(2004)
The Commission on Human Rights,
[…]
Recalling its previous resolutions in which it expressed its conviction that abolition of
the death penalty contributes to the enhancement of human dignity and to the progressive development of human rights,
[…]
4. Urges all States that still maintain the death penalty:
(a) Not to impose it for crimes committed by persons below 18 years of age;
(b) To exclude pregnant women and mothers with dependent infants from capital punishment;
(c) Not to impose the death penalty on a person suffering from any form of
mental disorder or to execute any such person;
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