RESOLUTION ON A MORATORIUM ON THE DEATH PENALTY 2008

03 May 2017 :

63nd session

Promotion and protection of human rights

Resolution 63/168

Approved in New York on 18 December 2008 with 105 in favour, 47 against and 34 abstentions

Moratorium on the use of the death penalty

The General Assembly,

Reaffirming its resolution 62/149 of 18 December 2007 on the moratorium on the use of the death penalty,

Welcoming the decisions taken by an increasing number of States to apply a moratorium on executions and the global trend towards the abolition of the death penalty,

1. Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 62/149,1 and the conclusions and recommendations contained therein;

2. Requests the Secretary-General to provide a report on progress made in the implementation of resolution 62/149 and the present resolution, for consideration during its sixty-fifth session, and calls upon Member States to provide the Secretary-General with information in this regard;

3. Decides to continue consideration of the matter at its sixty-fifth session under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”.