18 use and any denials of justice in its application are irreversible and irreparable. It recommends that States gradually restrict the use of the death penalty and reduce the number of crimes for which it can be imposed, and it reminds those that have abolished it not to reintroduce it. 74 This position has since been reiterated in resolutions and reports on capital punishment. 68. The Court stresses, however, that in the sentencing of Mr. Martínez Coronado, Article 132 of the Guatemalan Criminal Code in effect at the time, which defined the crime of murder, was applied (supra para. 26). Mr. Martínez Coronado was sentenced to death pursuant to the second paragraph of that article, which established the application of the death penalty “if the perpetrator is deemed especially dangerous due to the circumstances of the act or the setting, the manner of carrying it out, or the underlying motives.” 69. This Court has already had the opportunity to rule specifically on the application of Article 132 of the Criminal Code and the concept of “future dangerousness” in the case of Fermín Ramírez v. Guatemala. In that judgment, the Court held that it violated the American Convention, specifically Article 9 of the Convention, and ordered that Article 132 be brought into agreement with international human rights law. In that judgment, the Court stated that: 74 Cf. United Nations General Assembly “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty,” A/RES/62/149 (February 26, 2008), available at: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N07/472/71/PDF/N0747271.pdf?OpenElement. Also cf. United Nations General Assembly “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty,” A/RES/63/168 (February 13, 2009), available at: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N08/480/87/PDF/N0848087.pdf?OpenElement; United National General Assembly “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty,” A/RES/65/206 (March 28, 2010), available at: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N10/524/90/PDF/N1052490.pdf?OpenElement; United National General Assembly “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty,” A/RES/67/176 (March 20, 2013), available at: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N12/489/16/PDF/N1248916.pdf?OpenElement; United National General Assembly “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty,” A/RES/69/186 (February 4, 2015), available at: https://www.undocs.org/A/RES/69/186; United National General Assembly “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty,” A/RES/71/187 (February 2, 2017), available at: https://documents-ddsny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N16/454/48/PDF/N1645448.pdf?OpenElement; United National General Assembly “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty,” A/RES/73/175 (January 23, 2019), available at: https://documents-ddsny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N18/449/69/PDF/N1844969.pdf?OpenElement; Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, “Question of the death penalty,” A/HRC/18/20 (July 4, 2011), available at: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G11/143/40/PDF/G1114340.pdf?OpenElement; Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, “Question of the death penalty,” A/HRC/21/29 (July 2, 2012), available at: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G12/148/77/PDF/G1214877.pdf?OpenElement; Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, A/69/265, (August 6, 2014), available at: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N14/497/36/PDF/N1449736.pdf?OpenElement; Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, “High-level panel discussion on the question of the death penalty,” A/HRC/30/21, (July 16, 2015), available at: https://documents-ddsny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G15/159/05/PDF/G1515905.pdf?OpenElement; Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, A/HRC/37/3 (January 26, 2018), available at: https://documents-ddsny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G18/019/41/PDF/G1801941.pdf?OpenElement; Human Rights Committee, General Comment CCPR-GC-32 “Right to equality before courts and tribunals and to a fair trial,” available at: https://documents-ddsny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G07/437/71/PDF/G0743771.pdf?OpenElement; cf. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, General Comment CEDAW-GR-30 “Women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations,” CEDAW/C/GC/30, available at: https://documents-ddsny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N13/543/31/PDF/N1354331.pdf?OpenElement, Rights, OEA/Ser.L/V/II. and Inter-American Commission on Human Doc. 68 “The Death Penalty in the Inter-American Human Rights System: from Restrictions to Abolition” (December 31, 2011), available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/51ff79c74.html.