Death penalty not generally incompatible with ICCPR
Published: 30 September 2017 Author: Stefan Talmon
On 22 September 2017, Germany together with 60 other States co-sponsored a draft resolution on “The question of the death penalty” at the United Nations Human Rights Council. The sixteenth preambular paragraph of the resolution read:
“Strongly deploring the fact that the use of the death penalty leads to violations of the human rights of the persons facing the death penalty and of other affected persons.”
The Russian Federation proposed an amendment providing that
“the use of the death penalty may in some cases lead to violations of the human rights of the persons facing the death penalty […].”
Rejecting the Russian amendment, the German representative stated in the Human Rights Council on 29 September 2017: (more…)