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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-07-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000706.10.4-232"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-07-06-Speech-4-2332
lpv:speaker	lp:Lucio Manisco2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partito dei Comunisti Italiani (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, this House is appealing to the Governor of Virginia to spare the life of a man, Derek Rocco Barnabei, sentenced to death, who is in all probability innocent. As we debate our resolution, in a death cell in the same State, they are sterilising the needles which will be used to administer the lethal injection which, in a few hours' time, will kill Michael Clagget, probably guilty of multiple murders committed many years ago. We have adopted countless resolutions during these last two parliamentary terms in a vain attempt to put an end to the death penalty in the United States and elsewhere. What is certain is that many other executions will be performed at an increasingly high rate before August in Virginia and other States, in particular Texas, whose governor – who will almost certainly be the next President of the United States of America – holds the world record of having put 132 human beings to death in the last five years. I do not know whether George W. Bush boasts of this record, but I do know – because he told me in a letter he sent me dated 22 March – that he is confident that he will be able to fulfil the highest obligations of a fair and errorless justice. The resolution before Parliament notes the fresh debate which is currently in progress in the United States, not on the abolition of the death penalty at all but on a moratorium intended to ensure a more reliable but no less merciless system. We may well have done the right thing, but I fear, as the American said recently, that these endeavours of ours are destined to remain unheeded, a dead letter, and so, the time may well have come – not for boycotts and sanctions, which are abhorrent to us – but, for example, to promote European tourism only in the dozen States of America which do not inflict the death penalty. There would be a serious, extremely serious risk of retaliation from the United States: if we stay away from Donald Duck or Disneyworld in Florida the Americans would boycott the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. The time has come for us to take this risk in a last attempt to put an end to this barbaric practice which is such an insult to the human family."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Herald Tribune"1

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