Примеры использования Mandatory death sentences на Английском языке и их переводы на Русский язык
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Mandatory death sentences.
Repeal all provisions providing for mandatory death sentences with a view to abolishing them(Italy);
Mandatory death sentences.
This was not a finding that mandatory death sentences inherently violate international law.
Mandatory death sentences for murder are not a novel question for the Committee.
I may now summarize my understanding of the legal situation regarding mandatory death sentences for murder.
Moreover, mandatory death sentences violated various human rights standards and should be abolished.
During the period under review, there have been a number of successful legal challenges to mandatory death sentences.
The Government also announced it would consider replacing mandatory death sentences with prison sentences for drug offences under certain circumstances.
In addition, a handful of States, including Bangladesh, Guyana, India, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda,have recently turned against mandatory death sentences for specific crimes.
The State party should also abolish mandatory death sentences and ensure the possibility of full appeal in all cases, as well as the right to seek pardon or commutation of the sentence. .
Moreover, in its general comment No. 6 on article 6, the Committee gives no indication that mandatory death sentences are incompatible with article 6.
It has thus been consistently found in practice that permitting mandatory death sentences makes it inevitable that some persons will be sentenced to death even though that sentence is disproportionate to the facts of their crimes.
This position was supported by the Commission on Human Rights, as well as the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions,who was also of the view that mandatory death sentences risk cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.
The law not only provides mandatory death sentences for the head of drug gangs or networks, but introduces the death penalty for trafficking or possession of more than 30 grammes of crystal meth, like other psychedelic substances such as crack and heroin.
The experience of numerous judicial andquasi-judicial bodies has demonstrated that mandatory death sentences are inherently over-inclusive and unavoidably violate human rights law.
Furthermore, since many of the States parties had provided for mandatory forms of capital punishment in their domestic laws at the time of the drafting of the Covenant, and no express provision prohibiting mandatory capital punishmenthad been included in the Covenant, it would appear that the intention of the Covenant could hardly have been to exclude mandatory death sentences.
Take steps towards the abolition of the death penalty and,during the process to abolish it, remove mandatory death sentences and release basic information about the death penalty, including the number of people sentenced to death and awaiting execution on death row(United Kingdom);
It also noted some public statements by the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Law andParliamentary Affairs to the effect that the Malaysian Cabinet had discussed the possibility of ending mandatory death sentences in drugs cases involving"drug mules", which appeared to indicate the possibility that a de facto moratorium on executions was in place.
Although international human rights law prohibits mandatory death sentences, Barbados retains the mandatory death penalty for murder, treason and some military offences which means that where an individual is convicted of these crimes, the only penalty the law allows judges to impose is death and there is no possibility of taking the defendant's personal circumstances or the circumstances of the particular offence into account.
Convicted drug traffickers received a mandatory death sentence.
On all convictions of murder,I imposed the mandatory death sentence.
The mandatory death sentence stipulated under Malaysian law proved to be a powerful deterrent, enabling his Government to contain the problem of drug trafficking.
A number of domestic courts have found a mandatory death sentence to be arbitrary and/or inhumane and therefore unconstitutional.
Because some of the crimes covered by the offence were not among the most serious, a mandatory death sentence was inappropriate.
With regard to the concerns expressed for the mandatory death sentence and corporal punishment, the delegation reiterated that corporal punishment in schools was rather limited.
Thompson v. Saint Vincent concerned a mandatory death sentence for murder, which was defined to include only"intentional acts of violence resulting in the death of a person.
The existence of a de facto moratorium on the death penalty is not sufficient to make a mandatory death sentence consistent with the Covenant.
The Court held that the mandatory death sentence does not provide the individual concerned with an opportunity to mitigate and therefore attain a fair trial.
If a mandatory death sentence is imposed for crimes that are not the most serious crimes, article 6, paragraph 2 of the Covenant is violated.