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EU POLICY & ACTION ON THE DEATH PENALTY
The European Union (EU) is
opposed to the death penalty in all cases and has consistently espoused its
universal abolition, working towards this goal. In countries that maintain the
death penalty, the EU aims at the progressive restriction of its scope and respect
for the strict conditions set forth in several international human rights instruments,
under which the capital punishment may be used, as well as at the establishment
of a moratorium on executions so as to eliminate the death penalty completely.
The EU is deeply concerned about the increasing number of executions in the
United States of America (USA), all the more since the great majority of
executions since reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 have been carried
out in the 1990s.
The following collection of documents includes key
policy statements by the EU, actions on specific death row cases in the
US and links to international and other agreements cited in the various
documents.
EU Policy Documents:
Action in the United Nations
55th Session,
UN Commission on Human Rights,
Resolution
on the Rights of the Child, Sponsored by the Group of the Latin
American and the Caribbean States and the European Union, April 1999
Action on US Death Row Cases:
2007
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EVALUATING FAIRNESS AND ACCURACY IN STATE DEATH PENALTY CASES:
The Ohio Death Penalty Assessment Report;
An Analysis of Ohio's Laws, Procedures, and Practices, American Bar
Association, September 2007
Earlier
Actions:
2006,
2005,
2004, 2003,
2002, 2001,
2000, 1998-1999
European and International Agreements:
Council of Europe,
Protocol No. 6 to the Convention for the Protection of
Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Concerning the Abolition of the
Death Penalty, as Amended by Protocol No. 11
Organization of American States, Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish
the Death Penalty
United Nations
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European Union - Delegation of the
European Commission to the United States
2300 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037
Telephone: (202) 862-9500 Fax: (202) 429-1766
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