Notes with satisfaction the measures already taken by a number of States in order to ensure careful legal procedures and safeguards for the accused in capital cases in countries where the death penalty stlll exists;
2
Considers that further efforts should be made to ensure such procedures and safeguards in capital cases everywhere;
3
Affirms that, in order fully to guarantee the right to life, provided for in article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the main objective to be pursued is that of progressively restricting the number of offences for which capital punishment may be imposed, with a view to the desirability of abolishing this punishment in a11 countries;
4
InvitesMember States which have not yet done so to inf orm the Secretary-General of their legal procedures and safeguards as well as of their attitude to poss,ible further restriction of the use of the death penalty or its total abolition, by providing the information requested in paragraphs 1 (e) and 2 of General Assembly resolution 2393 (XXIII);
5
Requeststhe Secretary-General to circulate as soon as possible to Member States all the replies already received from Member States to the queries contained in paragraphs 1 (e) and 2 of resolution 2393 (XXIII) and those to be received after the adoption of the present resolution, ,and to submit a
111 Ibid., chap. XVIII, sect. C.
52 E/4947 and Corr.1. supplementary report to the Economic and Social Council at its fifty-second session;
6
Further requeststhe Secretary-General, on the basis of material furnished in accordance with paragraph 4 above by Governments of Member States where capital punishment still exists, to prepare a separate report regarding practices and statutory rules which may govem the right of a person sentenced to capital punishment to petition for pardon, commutation or reprieve, and to submit that report to the General Assembly.
