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5.2. Member States should provide advice and support to non-member States wishing to strengthen
their regulatory regime with respect to trade in law-enforcement goods and equipment to prevent
their use for the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment.
5.3. Member States should provide information, through their diplomatic or consular missions in
non-member States, on the human rights implications of trade in goods and equipment which can
be used for torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
6.
Action in other international organisations
6.1. Member States should promote action in relevant international forums against the trade in
goods used for the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment. Particular attention should be given to the United Nations’ processes aimed at
exploring the feasibility and scope of a range of options to establish common international
standards in this area, notably a legally binding instrument.
6.2. If they have not yet done so, member States should join the Alliance for Torture-Free Trade
and make use of and contribute to the Alliance’s global network of focal points for sharing
information and best practice and, where appropriate, providing or receiving technical assistance on
design and implementation of relevant national legislation.
Appendix 1
List of prohibited inherently abusive goods and equipment
Inherently abusive goods and equipment including, but not limited to:
i.
gallows, guillotines, blades for guillotines, gas chambers, electric chairs and automatic
lethal injection systems designed for capital punishment;
ii.
thumb-cuffs, finger-cuffs, thumbscrews, bar fetters; cuffs for restraining human beings,
designed to be anchored to a wall, floor or ceiling; weighted leg restraints; gang chains
comprising bar fetters or weighted leg restraints, restraint chairs and shackle boards/beds
with metal restraints; cage beds and net beds;
iii.
spiked batons or truncheons and shields with metal spikes, whips comprising multiple
lashes or thongs or having one or more lashes or thongs fitted with barbs, hooks, spikes,
metal wire or similar objects enhancing the impact of the lash or thong;
iv.
body-worn electric shock devices such as belts, sleeves and cuffs designed for restraining
human beings by the administration of electric shocks.
Appendix 2
List of pharmaceutical chemicals employed in lethal injection execution
Products which could be used for the execution of human beings by means of lethal injection, as follows:
Short and intermediate acting barbiturate anaesthetic agents including, but not limited to:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
vii.
viii.
ix.
amobarbital (CAS RN 57-43-2);
amobarbital sodium salt (CAS RN 64-43-7);
pentobarbital (CAS RN 76-74-4);
pentobarbital sodium salt (CAS 57-33-0);
secobarbital (CAS RN 76-73-3);
secobarbital sodium salt (CAS RN 309-43-3);
thiopental (CAS RN 76-75-5);
thiopental sodium salt (CAS RN 71-73-8), also known as thiopentone sodium;
products containing one of the anaesthetic agents listed under short and intermediate
acting barbiturate anaesthetic agents.