The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area (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; 8. Calls upon States that no longer apply the death penalty but maintain it in their legislation to abolish it; 9. Calls upon States that have recently lifted or announced the lifting de facto or de jure of moratoriums on executions once again to commit themselves to suspend such executions; 10. 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 the death penalty will not be carried out, and calls upon States to provide such effective assurances if requested to do so, and to respect them; […] United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution 26/2: The question of the death penalty (25 June 2014) The Human Rights Council, […] Taking note of the reports of the Secretary-General on the question of the death penalty, the latest of which1 highlighted the significant developments towards the universal abolition of the death penalty and some noticeable steps towards restricting its use in countries that have retained it, and reminded those States that still intend to implement the death penalty of the need to protect the rights of those facing the death penalty and to ensure that it is not imposed for offences committed by persons below 18 years of age, in particular in accordance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Mindful of the work of special procedure mandate holders who have addressed human rights issues related to the death penalty, including the Special Rapporteur on torture 78