TRANSPARENCY AND THE IMPOSITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY, Report of the Special Rapporteur, Philip Alston

By United Nations / Philip Alston, on 1 January 2006

The present report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions analyses a critical area of non-compliance with legal safeguards designed to protect the right to life. It builds upon the proposition that “[c]ountries that have maintained the death penalty are not prohibited by international law from making that choice, but they have a clear obligation to disclose the details of their application of the penalty” (E/CN.4/2005/7, para. 59). The report analyses the legal basis of that transparency obligation and examines case studies that illustrate the major problems that exist in this area.

• Document type International law - United Nations
• Themes list Trend Towards Abolition,
• Available languages LA TRANSPARENCIA Y LA IMPOSICIÓN DE LA PENA DE MUERTE, Informe del Relator Especial, Philip AlstonТРАНСПАРЕНТНОСТЬ И ВЫНЕСЕНИЕ СМЕРТНОГО ПРИГОВОРА, Доклад Специального докладчика Филипа Алстона死刑的公开和执行问题, 特别报告员菲利普·奥尔斯顿的报告الإعدام عقوبة وفرض الش, ألستون∗ فيليب السيد الخاص، المقررTRANSPARENCE ET IMPOSITION DE LA PEINE DE MORT, Rapport du Rapporteur spécial, M. Philip Alston