TNAG-0931-FCO40-1149-Capital-punishment-in-the-Dependent-Territories-1980 — Page 56

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Draft Resolution

Measures Aiming at the Ultimate Abolition of Capital Punishment

(Draft Second Optional Protocol to the Tnternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights)

The General Assembly,

recalling Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, under which

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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,

recalling its resolutions 2857 (XXVI) of 20 December 1971

and 32/61 of 8 December 1977 which

stated the desirability

of ultimately abolishing capical punishment,

mindful of the fact that the exe ation of the death sentence is irrevocable and miscarriages of justice cannot be entirely

precluded,

considering that fourteen years after the signature of the

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights time has

become ripe to endeavour further development and strengthening

of the inherent right of every human being to life as set out

in Article 6 of that Covenant,

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