A/RES/73/175
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 74 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/589/Add.2)]
73/175.
Moratorium on the use of the death penalty
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United
Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 2 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3
Recalling the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, 4 and in this regard
welcoming the increasing number of accessions to and ratifications of the Second
Optional Protocol,
Recalling also its resolutions 62/149 of 18 December 2007, 63/168 of
18 December 2008, 65/206 of 21 December 2010, 67/176 of 20 December 2012,
69/186 of 18 December 2014 and 71/187 of 19 December 2016 on the question of a
moratorium on the use of the death penalty, in which the General Assembly called
upon States that still maintain the death penalty to establish a moratorium on
executions with a view to abolishing it,
Recalling further all relevant decisions and resolutions of the Human Rights
Council, the most recent of which was resolution 3 6/17 of 29 September 2017, 5
Mindful that any miscarriage or failure of justice in the implementation of the
death penalty is irreversible and irreparable,
Convinced that a moratorium on the use of the death penalty contributes
to respect for human dignity and to the enhancement and progressive development
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 1642, No. 14668.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53A
(A/72/53/Add.1), chap. III.
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