Key legal Instruments and texts adopted
COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS DOCUMENTS
Declarations
- Declaration of the Committee of Ministers on the recent executions in Japan and in the United States of America (2013)
- Statement by the Committee of Ministers on the recent executions in Japan and the United States of America (2013)
- Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the execution of Mr Pavel Selyun in Belarus (2013)
- Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the death penalty in the United States of America (2014)
- Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the execution of Mr Hryhory Yuzepchuk in Belarus (2014)
- Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the execution of Mr Aleysander Grunow in Belarus (2014)
- Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the death penalty in the United States of America (2014)
- Statement by the Committee of Ministers on the recent death penalty sentences in Belarus (2014)
- Statement by the Committee of Ministers on the recent executions in the United States of America(2014)
- Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the death penalty in the United States of America (2015)
- Declaration of the Committee of Ministers on the establishment of a moratorium on the death penalty in the State of Pennsylvania, United States of America (2015)
- Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the abolition of the death penalty in the State of Nebraska, United States of America (2015)
- Declaration of the Committee of Ministers on the death penalty in Japan (2015)
- Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the death penalty in the United States of America, 1247th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies(2016)
- Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the death penalty in Belarus, 1248th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies (2016)
- Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the death penalty in Belarus, 1256th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies (2016)
- Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the death penalty in Belarus, 1257th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies (2016)
- Statement by the Committee of Ministers on the death penalty in Japan, 1252nd meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies (2016)
- Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the death penalty in Belarus, 1267th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies (2019)
- Execution of Mr Roberto Ramos Moreno (USA) (2018)
- Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the execution of Mr Alyaksandr Zhylnikau in Belarus (2019)
- Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the death penalty in the United States of America (2024)
Decisions
- Abolition of the death penalty in all member States of the Council of Europe (2013)
- 2.1bis Current Political Questions (Activities for the development and consolidation of democratic stability in Belarus) (2014)
- Abolition of the death penalty in Europe (2014)
- Abolition of the death penalty in Europe (2015)
- Abolition of the death penalty in Europe, CM/Inf(2015)20 (2015)
- Abolition of the death penalty in Europe, Item 4.5 (2015)
- Abolition of the death penalty in Europe, CM/Inf(2016)32 (2016)
- Abolition of the death penalty in Europe, Item 4.1 (2017)
- Abolition of the death penalty, Item 4.1 (2017)
- Abolition of the death penalty, CM/Inf(2018)8 (2018)
- Follow-up to the exchange of views on relations with the United Nations on human rights questions, Item 4.3 (2018)
- Abolition of the death penalty, Item 4.2 (2018)
- Abolition of the death penalty, item 4.1(2018)
- 2.1bis Current political questions (2018)
- 4.2 Abolition of the death penalty (2019)
- 4.1 Abolition of the death penalty (2020)
- 4.2 Abolition of the death penalty (2020)
- 4.2 Steering Committee on Human Rights (CDDH) (2021)
- 4.6 Abolition of the death penalty (2021)
- 4.2 Abolition of the death penalty (2021)
- 4.9 Abolition of the death penalty (2022)
- 4.3 Abolition of the death penalty (2022)
- 4.1 Abolition of the death penalty (2023)
- 4.3 Abolition of the death penalty – Thematic discussion (2023)
- 4.2 Abolition of the death penalty – Thematic discussion (2024)
Documents
Information documents and Committee of Ministers documents
- Abolition of the death penalty in Europe
- Meeting report, 14 April 2014
- Meeting report, 8 September 2014
- Report of the Bureau, 10 September 2014
- Abolition of the death penalty in Europe (2015)
- Abolition of the death penalty in Europe, CM/Inf(2015)20
- Abolition of the death penalty in Europe, CM/Inf(2016)32
- Abolition of the death penalty, CM/Inf(2017)9
- Abolition of the death penalty, CM/Inf(2017)23
- Abolition of the death penalty, CM/Inf(2018)8
- “Strengthening international regulations against trade in goods used for torture and the death penalty”, Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation 2123 (2018)
- Abolition of the death penalty, CM/Inf(2018)23
- 4.3 Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) (2019)
- 4.2 Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) (2021)
- 4.2 Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) (2021)
Protocols to the ECHR
- Protocol No. 6 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms concerning the abolition of the death penalty (ETS No.114)
- Protocol No. 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, concerning the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances (ETS No.187)
PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY DOCUMENTS
Written Declarations
- No. 194 - Execution of Mr Farzad Basuft (1990)
- No. 222 - Respect for the life of the writer and novelist Salman Rushdie (1993)
- No. 263 - Avoiding death sentence and inhuman punishment of British citizens in Saudi Arabia (1997)
- No. 270 - Execution of Karla Faye Tucker scheduled for 3 February 1998 in Texas, United States of America (1998)
- No. 288 - Death penalty in the United States (1999)
- No. 297 - Death threat facing some Iranian citizens of the Jewish faith (1999)
- No. 353 - Recent initiative in France to reintroduce the death penalty for the perpetrators of terrorist acts (2004)
- Iran (2011)
- Guantánamo prisoner Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (2011)
- Protest against the death penalty for activists of the Muslim Brotherhood (2014)
- In Memoriam of Boris Nemtsov (2015)
- Members of the Parliamentary Assembly ask Iran not to carry out the death penalty of Ahmadreza Djalali (2020)
- Human rights violations in Belarus require an international investigation (2021)
Resolutions
- Abolition of capital punishment (1980)
- Situation in Türkiye (1985)
- Abolition of the death penalty (Motion for a resolution 1987)
- Abolition of capital punishment (1994)
- Abolition of the death penalty in Europe (1996)
- Honouring of the commitment entered into by Ukraine upon accession to the Council of Europe to put into place a moratorium on executions of the death penalty (1997)
- Honouring of obligations and commitments by Estonia (1997)
- Abolition of the death penalty in the United States of America (Motion for a resolution 1998)
- Executions in Ukraine (1998)
- Europe: a death penalty-free continent (1999)
- Honouring of obligations and commitments by Ukraine (1999)
- Honouring of obligations and commitments by Ukraine (1999)
- Abolition of the death penalty in Council of Europe observer states (2001)
- Honouring of obligations and commitments by Türkiye (2001)
- Situation in Belarus (2002)
- Honouring of obligations and commitments by Armenia (2002)
- Abolition of the death penalty in Council of Europe observer states (2003)
- Honouring of obligations and commitments by Armenia (2003)
- Situation in the Middle East (2005)
- Honouring of obligations and commitments by the Russian Federation (2005)
- Promotion by Council of Europe member states of an international moratorium on the death penalty (2007)
- The United States of America and international law (2007)
- Abuse of the criminal justice system in Belarus (2008)
- General policy debate on the situation in China (2008)
- Situation in Belarus (2009)
- Situation in Belarus: recent developments (2010)
- The death penalty in Council of Europe member and observer states: a violation of human rights (2011)
- The situation in Belarus in the aftermath of the presidential election(2011)
- Request for partner for democracy status with the Parliamentary Assembly submitted by the Palestinian National Council (2011)
- The situation in Belarus (2012)
- The honouring of obligations and commitments by the Russian Federation (2012)
- The functioning of democratic institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2012)
- Evaluation of the partnership for democracy in respect of the Palestinian National Council (2014)
- Parliamentary contribution to resolving the Western Sahara conflict (2014)
- Request for Partner for Democracy status with the Parliamentary Assembly submitted by the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic (2014)
- Situation in Hungary following the adoption of Assembly Resolution 1941 (2015)
- Evaluation of the partnership for democracy in respect of the Parliament of Morocco (2015)
- Threats to the rule of law in Council of Europe member States: asserting the Parliamentary Assembly’s authority (2015)
- Request for partner for democracy status with the Parliamentary Assembly submitted by the Parliament of Jordan (2016)
- The situation in Belarus (2017)
- Evaluation of the partnership for democracy in respect of the Parliament of Jordan (2017)
- Political transition in Tunisia (2017)
- The honouring of obligations and commitments by Bosnia and Herzegovina (2018)
- Evaluation of the partnership for democracy in respect of the Parliament of Morocco (2019)
- Shedding light on the murder of Boris Nemtsov
Recommendations
- Obligations and commitments of Lithuania as a member state (1997)
- Situation in Bélarus (2000)
- Abolition of the death penalty in Council of Europe observer states (2003)
- Position of the Parliamentary Assembly as regards the Council of Europe member and observer states which have not abolished the death penalty (2006)
- Position of the Parliamentary Assembly as regards the Council of Europe member and observer states which have not abolished the death penalty (Reply to recommendation 2007)
- The situation in Belarus (2017)
- Strengthening international regulations against trade in goods used for torture and the death penalty (2018)