INTERNATIONAL TRENDS ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS
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Today more than thirds of the Member States of the United Nations have either abolished the death penalty or do not implement it. For instance, Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) permits the use of death penalty in certain limited circumstances it’s also provides that “nothing in this article shall be invoked to delay or to prevent the abolition of capital punishment by any state to the present covenant.” In 2007 the General Assembly adopted a resolution on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty (A/62/149). In 2010 the third resolution was approved and it read “States that still maintain the death penalty to progressively restrict its use, to reduce the number of offences for which it may be imposed and to establish a moratorium on execution with a view to abolishing the death penalty. States which have abolished the death penalty are called upon not to reintroduce it.
The author of this paper will focus on three important aspects in this paper, which is the International Context on Capital Punishments, Member States Developments and OHCHR activities to abolish Capital Punishment.
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