The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
(h) To observe the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing
the death penalty and to comply fully with their international obligations,
in particular with those under article 36 of the Vienna Convention on
Consular Relations, particularly the right to receive information on
consular assistance within the context of a legal procedure, as affirmed by
the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice and confirmed in
recent relevant judgements;
(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;
11. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission at its sixtysecond session, in consultation with Governments, specialized agencies and
intergovernmental and non‑governmental organizations, a yearly supplement
to his quinquennial report on capital punishment and implementation of the
safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty,
paying special attention to the imposition of the death penalty on persons younger
than 18 years of age at the time of the offence and on persons suffering from any
mental or intellectual disabilities;
12. Decides to continue consideration of the matter at its sixty-second session under
the same agenda item.
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