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| Death Penalty: Euro MPs Repeat Call For Universal Moratorium |
| 2007-04-27 |
| (AKI) - An overwhelming majority of MEPs on Thursday adopted a resolution backing a universal moratorium on capital punishment and urging European Union presidency to heed the parliament's call earlier this year to table an immediate resolution at the United Nations. The EU should every seize "every opportunity" to foster "regional abolitionist coalitions" in its campaign for a universal moratorium that has now gathered 88 signatures among UN countries, the parliament stated. Can we have a moratorium on murder, too? Lastly, the parliament called on the EU's institutions, together with the Council of Europe, "to support the World Day against the Death Penalty by declaring 10 October, as from 2007, a European Day against the Death Penalty." A total 88 countries have completely abolished capital punishment and 11 have ended the death penalty for all but exceptional crimes such as war crimes, according to top campaign group Amnesty International. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Europe will be taken over from within without a shot being fired if they don't wake up to the threat. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-04-27 18:45 |
| #3 The EU needs to go piss up a rope with its sanctimonious bullshit. They're being voluntarily overthrown by Muslim terrorists but still have time to moralize about the exact measures they need to curb their problem. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-27 12:17 |
| #2 They should also make war illegal. And bad weather. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-04-27 09:25 |
| #1 Also today, Corleone Imports & Exports[tm] offered the public access to their 'executive' services for those who feel that the outrage and terror visited upon them by the less savory elements of society are not being effectively addressed by the bureaucracy. Why put up with higher taxes when other services are there at a fraction of the cost and deliver real results. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-04-27 09:16 |