Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-15-Speech-3-071"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights, racism, xenophobia and antisemitism2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000315.2.3-071"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-15-Speech-3-0722
lpv:speaker	lp:Chantal Cauquil2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Lutte ouvrière (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"I must protest about the use by the United States of America of the death penalty on an almost industrial scale. This is the most powerful country in the world which claims to embody the cutting edge of civilisation. Regardless of the risk of judicial error, a society which uses this machinery of the law to knowingly and coldly perpetrate such a barbaric act, in order to wreak revenge for vile and barbaric acts committed by individuals, can only be regarded as behaving in a way which is worse than that which it condemns. The abolition of the death penalty worldwide is the very least that we should be calling for if we really want to defend human rights. The condemned sometimes await their execution for many years in American prisons. I must particularly highlight the threat of execution hanging over Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal who are both victims of the machinations of a police force and legal system riddled with racism. In truth, they have both been condemned to death for their political ideas. Having respectively suffered 26 and 18 years of this vile torture of waiting on death row, they must immediately be set free."@en1

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