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Implementation of the Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of the Rights of Those Facing the Death Penalty

E/RES/1989/64View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1989.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

iExtracted automatically from each entity’s budget submission.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 topics
Capital PunishmentCriminal LawData CollectionInformation DisseminationSocial Research

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

3 reports of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2015–2025.

Span
2015–2025
11 years
  • 2025E/2025/75Capital punishment and implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty report of the Secretary-General
  • 2020E/2020/53Capital punishment and implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty report of the Secretary-General
  • 2015E/2015/49Capital punishment and implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty report of the Secretary-General

iIdentified automatically from the metadata in each report’s UN Digital Library catalogue record.

What does this mandate say?

11 operative paragraphs
1
Recommends that Member States take steps to implement the safeguards and strengthen further the protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty, where applicable, by:
a
Affording special protection to persons facing charges for which the death penalty is provided by allowing time and facilities for the preparation of their defence, including the adequate assistance of counsel at every stage of the proceedings, above and beyond the protection afforded in non-capital cases;
b
Providing for mandatory appeals or review with provisions for clemency or pardon in all cases of capital offence;
c
Establishing a maximum age beyond which a person may not be sentenced to death or executed;
d
Eliminating the death penalty for persons suffering from mental retardation or extremely limited mental competence, whether at the stage of sentence or execution;
2
Invites Member States to co-operate with specialized bodies, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions and specialists in the field in efforts to conduct research on the use of the death penalty in every region of the world;
3
Also invites Member States to facilitate the efforts of the Secretary-General to gather comprehensive, timely and accurate information about the implementation of the safeguards and the death penalty in general;
4
Further invites Member States that have not yet done so to review the extent to which their legislation provides for the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty as set out in the annex to Council resolution 1984/50;
5
Urges Member States to publish, for each category of offence for which the death penalty is authorized, and if possible on an annual basis, information on the use of the death penalty, including the number of persons sentenced to death, the number of executions actually carried out, the number of persons under sentence of death, the number of death sentences reversed or commuted on appeal and the number of instances in which clemency has been granted, and to include information on the extent to which the safeguards referred to above are incorporated in national law;
6
Recommends that the report of the Secretary-General on the question of capital punishment, to be submitted to the Council in 1990, in pursuance of its resolution 1745 (LIV) of 16 May 1973, should henceforth cover the implementation of the safeguards as well as the use of capital punishment;
7
Requests the Secretary-General to publish the study on the question of the death penalty and the new contributions of the criminal sciences to the matter, prepared pursuant to Council resolution 1986/10, section X, and to make it available, with other relevant documentation, to the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders.

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