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Second Optional Protocol to Pact II: abolition of death penaly
SR 0.103.22 (AS / RO 1994 2201)
Ratified by Switzerland on 16 July 1994
Entry into force in Switzerland on 16 September 1994
Message on 3 February: BBI FF 1993 I 995/943/787
This treaty could be ratified by Switzerland on 16 June 1994, after the Parliament abolished death penalty in the military penal law.
Texte of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP2)
Adopted
on 15 December 1989 (entry into force on 11 July 1991)
Update: 19.04.2011
