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
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.
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.
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.
"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.
Welcome to FR. Brave first post. One might think you a troll, but you're really just an isolationist libertarian - right?
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.
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?
Call it a 300th trimester abortion, I'm sure those Euroweenies would not object to THAT!
With Europe's sorry history of death and destruction, not enough time has elapsed yet for them to be lecturing anybody about anything.
I doubt it. Liberalism: It rots the brain.
Stifle yourselves, chumps.
Europe as moral superpower <guffaw!>
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.
"Aborting" him would probably be more acceptable to them.
Probably, but well said.
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