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The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights on Capital Punishment

By Steve Hall

Navi Pillay, posts, "Abolition of the Death Penalty," at Huffington Post.This month we mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption of a key treaty that aims to bring about the abolition of the death penalty. The treaty - known as the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - provides States with the means of signaling their commitment to the abolition of the death penalty. The 72 states which have ratified the Optional Protocol since 15 December 1989 are under an obligation not to execute anybody who has been sentenced to death, to take all necessary steps to definitively abolish the death penalty, and to report on what they have done to this effect. In addition, they must not extradite individuals to a country where they would face the death penalty, nor can they reintroduce it in their own...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).