Role and mission of the Parliamentary Assembly: main challenges for the future

Amendment No. 26 | Doc. 14863 | 09 April 2019

Signatories:

Mr John HOWELL, United Kingdom, EC ; Ms Vida AČIENĖ, Lithuania, EC ; Sir Christopher CHOPE, United Kingdom, EC ; Sir Roger GALE, United Kingdom, EC ; Mr Martin GRAF, Austria, NR ; Mr Ian LIDDELL-GRAINGER, United Kingdom, EC ; Ms Branka STAMENKOVIĆ, Serbia, EC

Origin

2019 - Second part-session

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 11.6, insert the following paragraph:

"ensuring that Article 7 and 8 of the Statute are activated to prevent countries which use or attempt to use capital punishment against their citizens from joining or remaining members of the Council of Europe. References to capital punishment shall include extra-judicial state-sponsored executions."