The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area–Background Paper 2017 13) Please indicate if any persons executed in the period from 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 were: • Under age of 18 at the time the crime was committed; • Pregnant women or women with dependent children; • Men with dependent children; • Diagnosed as having any form of mental disability; • Non-national: please indicate whether or not each of these persons received consular assistance. 14) Please provide details on the number of women and men on death row as well as on the treatment of men and women awaiting execution. Are official medical reports on psychological status of death row prisoners available? How does your country respond to the death row phenomenon which consists of a combination of circumstances that produce severe mental trauma and physical deterioration in prisoners under sentence of death? Those circumstances include the lengthy and anxiety-ridden wait for uncertain outcomes, isolation, drastically reduced human contact and even the physical conditions in which some inmates are held? 15) Please provide information on the methods of execution used in your country and the assessments made with regard to the pain and suffering caused by each of these methods. 16) If there have been changes during the reporting period (1 April 2016 - 31 March 2017), please indicate the procedure for informing relatives of the date of execution and the date that the execution has been carried out, as well as of the place of burial of executed persons. 17) Are any of your citizens facing the death penalty abroad? If yes, please provide information about their gender and race or ethnicity, as well as information about children of such persons, indicating relevant countries where your citizens may be facing the death penalty. In cases where the person concerned provided informed consent, please provide their full name, age and location. Also, are there any indications that gender bias may have had an impact on the imposition of the death penalty or otherwise on the situation of any individual facing the death penalty abroad? 18) What measures are taken by your country to protect children who have a parent facing the death penalty in your respective country and abroad? d) Is there any specialist support provided to children of parents sentenced to death or executed? e) What kind of technical and legal assistance or consular representation are provided to persons sentenced to death abroad taking into consideration the best interest of the child? 111