A/HRC/35/23/Add.2 D. Observations on Tabulation (B) 27. It should be noted that the communications the Special Rapporteur sends to States on the subject of the death penalty are followed-up upon on the basis of a desk-based review. The Special Rapporteur expresses her continued gratitude to various civil society and advocacy organizations that facilitate this follow up. Establishing, at the very least, whether an individual has indeed been executed subsequent to a communication transmitted to the Government provides a helpful reference to whether the sending of these urgent appeals is effective in ensuring that States abide by international standards, prospectively, in their application of the death penalty. According to available information, executions were registered in 8 of the 14 countries addressed in Tabulation (B). 28. As indicated in the table below, the main alleged violations covered in the cases transmitted to Governments during the reporting period were: fair trial concerns in judicial procedures leading to the imposition of the death penalty (28); juvenile at time of offense (14), extraction of confessions under torture/duress (11); the imposition of the death penalty for crimes which do not meet the threshold of the “most serious crimes” (8); mandatory imposition of the death penalty (3), and execution of a person with intellectual or psychosocial disability (2). Death penalty safeguards - Number of communications by alleged violation Fair trial concerns 28 Juvenile at time of offense 14 Extraction of confessions under torture/duress 11 Not " most serious crimes" 8 Mandatory imposition of the death penalty 3 Execution of a person with intellectual or psychosocial disability 2 29. The Special Rapporteur continuous to be alarmed at the number of cases in which the death sentence was allegedly imposed following judicial procedures that fall short of international standards of fair trial and due process, a necessary requirement for the lawful imposition of this type of punishment. Twenty-eight out of the 31 communications 31