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Do not execute Clarence Ray Allen, says Secretary General of the Council of Europe (OUTRAGEOUS)
Council of Europe ^ | January 4, 2006 | Council of Europe

Posted on 01/04/2006 10:06:27 AM PST by Former Military Chick

“The death penalty is a brutal and vindictive travesty of justice” said Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, in a statement issued today.

“Following the Christmas break, executions in the United States are expected to resume on 17 January 2006, when Clarence Ray Allen is scheduled to be put to death in the state of California. He is 75 years old. Mr Allen is not an innocent man. He was found guilty of a particularly gruesome crime, but in executing him at his advanced age and decades after the crime had been committed, the authorities are coming close to win the contest in cruelty and vengeance.

The death penalty is aberrant and inhuman in all circumstances, but even more so when it is applied in the cases of children, elderly or mentally ill people. In all member states of the Council of Europe, the death penalty was abolished because it is futile and wrong. The death penalty is not justice. It is a pathetic attempt to satisfy a primitive craving for spectacle and revenge. I therefore call on the Governor of California to spare the life of Clarence Ray Allen and on the US authorities to join virtually all other civilised and democratic countries in the world and abolish the death penalty once and for all. This is not just about the life or death of an old man - what is at stake is the respect for human dignity in American society as a whole” Terry Davis said.

The Council of Europe is the oldest European political organisation, established in 1949 to promote democracy and protect human rights and the rule of law in Europe. It has 46 member states. Abolition of the death penalty is a legal obligation on the basis of Protocol 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The United States of America, together with Japan, are the only observer states to the Council of Europe to continue executing people.

Press Contact Council of Europe Press Division Tel. +33 3 88 41 25 60 - Fax. +33 3 88 41 39 11 E-mail: PressUnit@coe.int


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clarencerayallen; deathpenalty; euroweenia
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To: Hank Rearden

I suppose that we could start sending all of our murderers to The Council. They could open their own homes to them, make they are being treated humanely. I bet that would make them happy.


41 posted on 01/04/2006 10:37:40 AM PST by kenth
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To: Former Military Chick

Message to European council: Go to hell you have zero influence in the US. This is further EU moralizing all the while living under the US nuclear umbrella for the past 61 years.


42 posted on 01/04/2006 10:43:56 AM PST by MARKUSPRIME
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To: Ouderkirk
Nice job with the poem. Also, someone should tell those Europeans that Muslumic Murdering Monsters, like the Black September terrorists lead by Yasser Arafat, and the hijacking muslumic murderer of a US Navy service should never be let go (if you are not going to kill them).
44 posted on 01/04/2006 10:49:48 AM PST by jackieaxe (Tancreto in '08)
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To: Former Military Chick
Thanks. Here's my letter to them.

Hey, Europe

Stay out of the internal affairs of the United States. Capital punishment is the only just punishment for certain crimes, and your pusillanimous refusal to inflict upon your own depraved criminals is an affront to justice, an incentive for crime, and results from the confused efforts to think of illogical minds grounded in French philosophy.

45 posted on 01/04/2006 10:53:50 AM PST by chesley (Liberals...what's not to loathe?)
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To: Former Military Chick

"The death penalty is aberrant and inhuman in all circumstances, but even more so when it is applied in the cases of children"

Someone tell these idiotarians that the last state-sponsored use of the death penalty on children occurrence somewhere on THEIR shores, most notably GERMANY.


46 posted on 01/04/2006 10:54:01 AM PST by Right Cal Gal (Conservatives know the names of Tookie's VICTIMS!!)
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To: Fox in the Henhouse
One thing's for sure...the US never tells other countries what THEY should do.

Welcome to FR. Brave first post. One might think you a troll, but you're really just an isolationist libertarian - right?

47 posted on 01/04/2006 10:54:07 AM PST by Antonello (Oh my God, don't shoot the banana!)
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To: Former Military Chick
He is 75 years old. Mr Allen is not an innocent man. He was found guilty of a particularly gruesome crime, but in executing him at his advanced age and decades after the crime had been committed, the authorities are coming close to win the contest in cruelty and vengeance.

He's absolutely right. We should have executed him long ago. If it weren't for endless appeals and typical trial lawyer b.s., this guy would have been at room temperature years ago.

Once again, no mention from the media about the 'hits' he ordered from prison, and the families this monster destroyed.

Besides, given this guy's physical condition, wouldn't he want to die anyway? We'd do this guy a favor by offing him.

48 posted on 01/04/2006 10:56:05 AM PST by rock_lobsta
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To: Fox in the Henhouse
I stand corrected. Foolhardy second post. Your first confirms that you are a troll and not deserving of the benefit of my doubt.
49 posted on 01/04/2006 10:57:20 AM PST by Antonello (Oh my God, don't shoot the banana!)
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To: Fox in the Henhouse
the US never tells other countries what THEY should do.

Dio we give a sh*t that the worst you can do for 1st degree murder in Sweden is 16 years with parole? They can manage their cesspool any way they'd like.

They should mind their own beeswax, and if you dont like it here perhaps you should join them?

50 posted on 01/04/2006 10:57:41 AM PST by Nonstatist
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To: delphirogatio

Call it a 300th trimester abortion, I'm sure those Euroweenies would not object to THAT!


51 posted on 01/04/2006 10:58:20 AM PST by Frank_2001
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To: MARKUSPRIME
Message to European council: Go to hell you have zero influence in the US.

With Europe's sorry history of death and destruction, not enough time has elapsed yet for them to be lecturing anybody about anything.

52 posted on 01/04/2006 11:02:12 AM PST by Mark17
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To: Former Military Chick
Fine - we won't kill him. We'll just give him a jug of water, a bag of turnip seeds plus a booklet on growing your own turnips and drop him off in the middle of the Mojave dessert.

There, we didn't kill him.
53 posted on 01/04/2006 11:05:45 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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To: IronJack
Perhaps the good Secretary General is more eloquent in his native language

I doubt it. Liberalism: It rots the brain.

54 posted on 01/04/2006 11:14:02 AM PST by Mad_as_heck (The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
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To: Former Military Chick
The death penalty is aberrant and inhuman in all circumstances, but even more so when it is applied in the cases of children, elderly or mentally ill people. In all member states of the Council of Europe, the death penalty was abolished because it is futile and wrong.

Stifle yourselves, chumps.
Europe as moral superpower <guffaw!>

55 posted on 01/04/2006 11:16:41 AM PST by dennisw ("What one man can do another can do" - The Edge)
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To: Frank_2001
Call it a 300th trimester abortion, I'm sure those Euroweenies would not object to THAT!

It a very late term abortion or slightly premature euthanasia. Take your pick.

Hey, I thought enlightened Sweden was pro choice? A jury of his peers sentenced him to die. Arnold will uphold the sentence. Thats our choice Euroweenies.

56 posted on 01/04/2006 11:25:59 AM PST by Mad_as_heck (The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
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To: scooter2
“The death penalty is brutal and vindictive." Would that not make it a suitable punishment for a brutal and vindictive crime? The reason he's lived to such an advanced age is because over the years he continually has fudged the appeals system, playing it for all that it's worth.
57 posted on 01/04/2006 11:27:31 AM PST by ArmyTeach (Pray daily for our troops.)
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To: delphirogatio
We're "euthanizing" him. There. All better?

"Aborting" him would probably be more acceptable to them.

58 posted on 01/04/2006 11:31:58 AM PST by jerri
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To: Former Military Chick
Click here to read what some are saying on this side of the pond.
59 posted on 01/04/2006 11:34:12 AM PST by Old Professer (Fix the problem, not the blame!)
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To: BadAndy

Probably, but well said.


60 posted on 01/04/2006 11:37:42 AM PST by alarm rider (Irritating leftists as often as is humanly possible....)
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