1. No person under the jurisdiction of a State Party to this Protocol shall be executed.

(2) Each State Party shall take all necessary measures to abolish the death penalty within the jurisdiction of its jurisdiction.

(1) No reservation to this Protocol shall be admitted, outside the reservation formulated at the time of ratification or accession and providing for the application of the death penalty in time of war following a conviction for a crime of character Military, of extreme gravity, committed in wartime.

(2) The State Party making such reservation shall communicate to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, upon ratification or accession, the relevant provisions of its domestic legislation applicable in time of war.

The State Party having made such a reservation shall notify the Secretary-General of the United Nations of the declaration or the lifting of the state of war on its territory.

The States Parties to this Protocol shall report, in their reports to the Human Rights Committee under Art. 40 of the Covenant, of the measures adopted by them to give effect to this Protocol.

As regards the States parties to the Covenant which have made the declaration provided for in Art. 41, the competence of the Human Rights Committee to receive and examine communications in which a State Party claims that another State Party is not fulfilling its obligations extends to the provisions of this Protocol, to Less than the State Party concerned has made a declaration in the contrary at the time of ratification or accession.

With regard to the States parties to the first Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights adopted on 16 December 1966, the competence of the Human Rights Committee to receive and consider Communications from individuals within their jurisdiction shall extend to the provisions of this Protocol, unless the State party in question has made a declaration in the contrary at the time of ratification or accession.

1. The provisions of this Protocol shall apply as additional provisions of the Covenant.

2. Without prejudice to the possibility of formulating the reservation provided for in Art. 2 of this Protocol, the right guaranteed by. 1 of the art. 1 of this Protocol shall not be subject to any of the derogations referred to in Art. 4 of the Covenant.

(1) This Protocol shall be open for signature by any State which has signed the Covenant.

(2) This Protocol shall be subject to ratification by any State which has ratified or acceded to the Covenant. Instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

(3) This Protocol shall be open for accession by any State which has ratified or acceded to the Covenant.

4. Accession shall be made by the deposit of an instrument of accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

5. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall inform all States which have signed or acceded to this Protocol of the deposit of each instrument of ratification or accession.

(1) This Protocol shall enter into force three months after the date of deposit with the Secretary-General of the United Nations of the tenth instrument of ratification or accession.

(2) For each State ratifying or acceding to this Protocol after the deposit of the tenth instrument of ratification or accession, the said Protocol shall enter into force three months after the date of deposit by that State of its instrument of Ratification or accession.

The provisions of this Protocol shall apply, without any limitation or exception, to all constituent units of Federative States.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall inform all States referred to in para. 1 of the art. 48 of the Covenant:

(a)

Reservations, communications and notifications received under Art. 2 of this Protocol;

(b)

Declarations made under s. 4 or 5 of this Protocol;

(c)

The signatures to this Protocol and the instruments of ratification and accession deposited in accordance with Art. 7 of this Protocol;

(d)

Of the date on which this Protocol enters into force in accordance with Art. 8 of this.

This Protocol, of which the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the United Nations.

2. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall transmit certified copies of this Protocol to all States referred to in Art. 48 of the Covenant.