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A universal moratorium is called for here on a regular basis, but when will this actually be implemented? Good will on the part of Europe is no longer enough. Abolishing the death penalty must be seen as a crucial aspect of the EU’s relations with third countries. Throughout the world countries continue to perpetrate this State crime. This barbaric practice still takes place in particular in Japan, China, the United States, Saudi Arabia, and in Iran, where executions are still carried out. What is worse, between 2001 and 2002, the number of executions increased. It has become impossible to remain silent about this ‘administrative murder’, especially when it is carried out by the most powerful country in the world, which is attempting to impose its order and its values on the rest of the world. We cannot accept that the only solution to crime and violence is crime and violence itself.
Like the newly created World Association of Parliamentarians against the Death Penalty and in line with the worldwide call for abolition, the European Union must exert all necessary pressure to ensure that the United Nations adopts a moratorium that would have lead rapidly to the abolition of the death penalty.
Men and women are left to rot on death row and Mumia Abu-Jamal is one of these. Preventing the irreparable must be done as a matter of urgency."@en1
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