The Kyrgyz Parliament approved the Second Option protocol of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, aimed to abolish a penalty death. This decision was made at the Parliament session 11 February, 2010.

According to the Justice Minister Kurmantai Abdiev, the document makes provision for complete death penalty abolition, in turn, it will help to develop humanization of a criminal law.

It will be recalled that Kyrgyzstan adhere the Covenant in 1994. The United Nation Organization (U.N.O.) approved Second Option Protocol to this Covenant in 1989. The Protocol obliged a member country to abolish penalty death. At present time, the penalty death was replaced by life imprisonment.