A/HRC/36/L.38 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: Limited 27 September 2017 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-sixth session 11–29 September 2017 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Russian Federation:* amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/36/L.6 36/… The question of the death penalty The seventeenth preambular paragraph should read Taking note of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the high-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty, 1 during which it was noted that, in some cases, imposing the death penalty leads to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, * 1 State not a member of the Human Rights Council. A/HRC/36/27. GE.17-16869(E) 