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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-12-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991216.7.4-144"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-12-16-Speech-4-1452
lpv:speaker	lp:Reinhold Messner2
lpv:spokenAs	member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Federazione dei Verdi (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am pleased that we in Europe can say that the death penalty has been abolished. The abolition of the death penalty belongs, as it were, to our culture. Unfortunately, however, we did not see the abolition of the death penalty in the UN in 1999. We all know that the death penalty is still on the agenda in Iran, Turkey, China and Yemen. I find it particularly tragic that America, the land which champions freedom and human rights, has maintained the death penalty. At the moment, two European Union citizens are on death row, a Spaniard in Yemen and an Italian in the USA, a Mr Barnabei, who is due to be executed in the year 2000. Mr Barnabei, who was previously a respectable man, is accused of having killed a young woman. This is my cause for concern insofar as, like me, he is an Italian citizen. I urge the Commission and, of course, this Parliament, to do everything it can to get this death sentence commuted to life imprisonment or postponed, not just because leading American legal experts have indicated that there may be a miscarriage of justice, as is often the case, but also because he is an EU citizen."@en1

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