A/HRC/42/L.40 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: Limited 25 September 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-second session 9–27 September 2019 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Egypt, Jordan* and Saudi Arabia: amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/42/L.37 42/… The question of the death penalty After paragraph 6, insert a new paragraph reading 6 bis. Urges States that have abolished the death penalty or have subjected it to a moratorium to study the impact of the discontinuation of the application of the sentence on the rights of victims and the effective accomplishment of redress, including its elements of satisfaction and guarantees of non-recurrence, and encourages States to share and exchange information concerning the impact of the abolition or retention of the death penalty on the rates of prevalence of serious crimes; * State not a member of the Human Rights Council. GE.19-16432(E) 