In 1996, the UN Council adopted Safeguards Social The Committee resolution 1996/1529 the case Economic and Guaranteeing Protection of further states offenses not that in resulting directly or intentionally in death, such of the Rights of Those Facing the Death as in drug offenses, attempted murder, Penalty as follows: corruption, armed robbery, abduction, repeated Calls upon Member States in which the compulsory military death penalty has not been abolished sexual to should not be imposed. effectively apply guaranteeing of those the protection facing the safeguards of the death evasion of service, the death and penalty In the view of the Committee, such crimes, although rights penalty, offenses, piracy, serious in nature, “do not manifest the in levels of violence, punishment may be imposed only for utter disregard for human life, blatant the anti-social irreversible which it is most stated serious that crimes, extraordinary capital it being high attitude and understood that their scope should not conseqguences that could conceivably go justify beyond intentional or lethal crimes extremely other with the imposition of the death penalty as a form of legal retribution.” grave consequences. Numerous Finally, No. 36, in its draft the HR General elaborates of domestic Courts are consistent with the narrow Comment on decisions construction of the term “most serious the meaning of the term "the most serious crimes,” crimes” in Article 6(2) of the ICCPR. The the Article 6 guarantee of aright to life. Committee notes that the term and, equally, the breadth of must be “read restrictively and appertain to For crimes imposition of the death penalty in any of extreme premeditated gravity, murder or such as.. genocidal example, circumstances killings.” 31 in has South been Africa, described the as