The death penalty has long since been abandoned by the State. It was finally abolished in statute law in the Criminal Justice Act 1990 and had not been used since 1954. The passing of the 1990 Act fulfilled our obligations under Protocol No. 6 which extended the protection of life provided for in Article 32 of the convention in that it expressly abolished the death penalty in peacetime and created an enforceable right not to be condemned to death or executed.