Article 1 of Protocol 13: Abolition of the death penalty

This includes crimes committed during a war or when the threat of war is imminent. The UK ratified this Protocol in 2002.

Sentencing a person to death is a violation of the right to life and the right to freedom from torture and inhuman or degrading treatment.

This text is taken directly from the Human Rights Act.

Protocol 13, Article 1: Abolition of the death penalty

The death penalty shall be abolished. No one shall be condemned to such penalty or executed.