The death penalty and the prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment 2012, para. 57
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International law imposes severe restrictions on the death penalty and demands serious safeguards for it to be lawfully applied. It also outlaws it in some specific circumstances or with regard to specific groups of vulnerable persons. As stated by the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions in regard to the death penalty, non-compliance with these standards leads to arbitrary and thus unlawful deprivation of life.
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Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment