DEATH PENALTY
WHEN LIFE GENERATES DEATH (LEGALLY)

THE EU AGAINST DEATH PENALITY

On 29th June 1998, the 15 Foreign Ministers of the EU States were all for the universal abolition of death penalty, a battle that is an important element of the EU politic about human rights; to be an EU member, a State mustn't apply death penalty. This crusade is also substined by a great public opinion movement.
During EU Ministers' reunion an important datum was remembered: 84% of the world executions occour in only 4 States; in 1997, 1644 death sentences were executed in China, 143 in Iran, in 122 Saudi Arabia, 74 in the USA. And all that without defeating criminality, like death penality supporters say. Besides, in some states (in the USA, too) minors can be condemned, too; in China the soldiers of the firing party take aim only at some parts of the body, to preserve other ones which are destined to the organs trade.

Italy is first in this battle, in fact Italy presented the motion against death penalty to the UN commission for the human rights in Geneva.