Death penalty report

Report on the Death Penalty in Egypt Reduction of the provisions of the Death Penalty issued by the natural justice in Egypt
Monitoring of the Judgments of the Death Penalty for the years (2009-2010-2011)

Contents:
First: guarantees of the death penalty in legislation and international conventions.
Second: Egyptian legislator's approach on the death penalty.
Third: guarantees of the death penalty in Egyptian legislation.
Fourth: Assessment of guarantees of the death penalty in Egypt.
Fifth: statistics on the application of the death penalty in Egypt for years (2009-2010-2011)
Sixth: The outcomes and extracts
Seventh: Recommendations

First: guarantees of the death penalty in legislation and international conventions1.
In November 1968, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution establishing some legal guarantees which should be available during the application of the death penalty. This resolution called upon the Governments of the States which have not abolished the death penalty to ensure the following guarantees:
1- No sentenced to the death penalty is deprived of the right to appeal the ruling to a higher judicial authority or of the request for pardon or commutation of the sentence as the case may be.
2- Non-execution of the death penalty only after using remedies, pardon procedures or commutation of the penalty as the case may be.
3- Pay a special attention to indigent persons through providing legal assistance to them in all stages of the proceedings.
The UN General Assembly passed a resolution in December 20, 1971 affirming that: "the goal that must be pursued for achieving the full guarantees of the right to life set forth in Article (3) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is gradual reduction of the number of crimes may be punished by a death penalty, on the grounds that the desirable thing in the end is the abolition of the death penalty in all