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"en.20061113.15.1-058"2
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"Mr President, the former leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, has been sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity, because he was found guilty of the death of 148 Shiites following an assassination attempt against him in 1982.
I believe that, as repulsive as the crime is, the death penalty is not a solution and is not in keeping with the European
. However, I noted with regret that the British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Becket, expressed her satisfaction with this verdict and stated that those accused of crimes against the Iraqis should be brought to justice. I therefore ask you, as the death penalty has been abolished in all the countries of the European Union – because it is an insult to human dignity and simply encourages violence, while doing absolutely nothing to prevent crime – how can a Member State of the Union welcome such a verdict? How can the death penalty uphold the justice cited by Mrs Becket?"@en1
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