No person may be deprived of life except by the verdict of a court for a very serious crime.
[citation needed] That same year, President Emomali Rahmon announced a moratorium on capital punishment.
Tajikistan is not signatory to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which aims to abolish the death penalty.
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