Abstract
At the beginning of 2011, 139 countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. In Death Sentences and Executions 2010, published on 28 March 2011, Amnesty International noted that at least 23 countries carried out executions in 2010 and that the majority of these states use it in violation of international human rights law and standards. International law has enumerated, among other items, what crimes and which individuals may not be subject to the death penalty, and what safeguards must be accorded to all defendants in death penalty trials. An important element to ensuring these restrictions and safeguards are met and arguably to move the world toward the desirable goal of abolition, which the United Nations Human Rights Committee stated was strongly suggested by Article 6 of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, is the regular reporting on the use of the death penalty by nation states.
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