The United Nations Human Rights Committee: The Evolution of the Punishment of the Death Penalty

Authors

Ahmed Fathalla

First Page

47

Abstract

As a former member and Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee, I will address the issue of death penalty based on three instruments:

First: Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights dealing with the right to life.

Second: The Second Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of death penalty.

Third: General Comment No. 36 (2018) on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, on the right to life.

Recommended Citation

Ahmed Fathalla, The United Nations Human Rights Committee: The Evolution of the Punishment of the Death Penalty, 17 Intercultural Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 47 (2022).
Available at: https://scholarship.stu.edu/ihrlr/vol17/iss1/7