A/HRC/8/11 page 5 9. During the reporting period, five States acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, namely, Albania on 17 October 2007, France on 2 October 2007, Mexico on 26 September 2007, Moldova on 20 September 2006, and Ukraine on 25 July 2007. Three States ratified the Optional Protocol, namely Andorra on 22 September 2006, Honduras on 1 April 2008, Turkey on 2 March 2006 and the Philippines, which had signed it on 20 September 2006 before ratifying on 20 November 2007. Argentina signed the Optional Protocol on 20 December 2006. Turkey signed the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on 6 April 2004. Following its declaration of independence in June 2006, Montenegro ratified the Optional Protocol on 23 October 2006. 10. On 6 June 2006 Protocol No. 6 to the ECHR entered into force for the newly independent Montenegro. 11. Six States ratified Protocol No. 13 to the ECHR, namely, Albania on 6 February 2007, France on 10 October 2007, Luxembourg on 21 March 2006, Moldova on 18 October 2006, the Netherlands on 10 February 2006, and Turkey on 20 February 2006. Armenia signed the Protocol on 19 May 2006. Protocol No. 13 entered into force for the newly independent Montenegro on 6 June 2006. 12. Mexico ratified the Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty on 20 August 2007. Argentina had signed this protocol in 2006. E. Countries observing a moratorium on executions 13. Prior to abolishing the death penalty for all crimes in 2007, Kyrgyzstan had renewed a moratorium on its application in 2006. A de facto moratorium in place in the Russian Federation since August 1996 continued to be observed. In the United States of America, following the decision of the Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of lethal injections in Baze et al. v. Rees, Commissioner, Kentucky Department of Corrections, et al., a de facto moratorium of executions occurred from September 2007 until the Court rejected the petitioners’ arguments in April 2008. A further execution took place in May 2008 in the state of Georgia. F. Countries which have reintroduced the use of the death penalty, extended its scope or resumed executions 14. In December 2006 Bahrain carried out its first execution in 10 years. In September 2006, the Military Commissions Act of the United States Congress allowed for the imposition of the death penalty on “alien unlawful enemy combatants”. In January 2008 the Islamic Republic of Iran extended the death penalty for certain offences related to the production of pornographic materials.