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III. The International Court of Justice
1. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
1.1. General Questions

¤ LaGrand (Germany v. United States of America),
Provisional Measures, Order of 3 March 1999,
I.C.J. Reports 1999, p. 9

[p. 15] 25. Whereas the issues before the Court in this case do not concern the entitlement of the federal states within the United States to resort to the death penalty for the most heinous crimes; and whereas, further, the function of this Court is to resolve international legal disputes between States, inter alia when they arise out of the interpretation or application Of international conventions, and not to act as a court of criminal appeal;