Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a regulation ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which entails a proper dedication to abolish the demise penalty, his press service stated.In late September, the Second Optional Protocol was signed by Kazakhstan’s everlasting envoy to the United Nations, Kairat Umarov. The doc then went to the Kazakh parliament and was ratified by it on December 29.The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights commits its signatories to making sure the abolition of demise penalty inside their jurisdiction, except for struggle time. In 2003, the primary president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, signed a decree briefly suspending the demise penalty. This suspended the execution of all demise sentences however didn’t prohibit the courts from issuing demise sentences. Life imprisonment was launched in Kazakhstan in 2004 as a substitute punishment.