TNAG-0931-FCO40-1149-Capital-punishment-in-the-Dependent-Territories-1980 — Page 67

Draft Second Optional Protocol to the

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

The States Parties to the present Protocol

have agreed as follows:

Article 1

1. Each State party shall abolish the death penalty in its

territory and shall not threaten to use it against any

individual subject to its jurisdiction or impose or

execute it.

2.

The death penalty shall not be re-established in States

that have abolished it.

Article 2

1.

As between the States Parties Art. 1 of the present Protocol

shall be regarded as an additional article to the Inter-

national Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 19th

December 1966. The provisions of the Covenant shall apply

accordingly.

2. Nevertheless, the competence of the Human Rights Committee

established under Article 28 of the Covenant to receive

and consider communications, resulting from a declaration