Draft Resolution
The General Assembly,
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recalling Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, under which
every human being has the inherent right to life,
this right shall be protected by law;
no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life and
nothing in that Article shall be invoked to delay or to
prevent the abolition of capital punishment by any
State Party to the Covenant,
bearing in mind the repeated abuse of capital punishment
during the last decades,
mindful of the fact that the execution of the death sentence
is irreparable and miscarriages of justice cannot be entirely
excluded,
considering that fourteen years after the signature of the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights time has become ripe to endeavour futher development and strengthening
of the inherent right of every human being to life as set out in Article 6 of that Covenant,
endeavouring, on the international level, to restrain and,
finally, to ban capital punishment,