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The Death Penalty in the Context of International Law

Pornchai Noibanngog *

Abstract

This study aims to present the current issues and trends of the death penalty
related to international laws including the global trend on the death penalty and its abolition,
the UN moratorium on the death penalty, ratification to the Second Optional Protocol to the

ICCPR, UN member states and their internal situation related to the death penalty, statistic
and real data in 2017, the death penalty in regional and international law, restrictions on the

death penalty, standard of the most serious crime, person who should be exempt from the
death penalty under international law, important issues relating to the death penalty, how
to punish the death penalty, the period of imprisonment and the death row phenomenon,

detention conditions and extradition.

Keywords: death penalty, international laws, abolition, moratorium, most serious
crime

* Human Rights Official, Professional Level, International Human Rights Affairs Bureau,
Office of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand