Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-01-31-Speech-3-044"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-01-31"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Moratorium on the death penalty (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070131.15.3-044"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-01-31-Speech-3-0452
lpv:speaker	lp:Ignasi Guardans Cambó2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-01-19--2007-02-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Convergència Democràtica Catalunya (2004-07-20--2009-04-22)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-04-22)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, rejecting the death penalty is not a question of moral superiority, nor of lecturing anybody, nor of collective pomposity on the part of Europe. It is consistent with a basic belief in human dignity, many years' experience of the utter pointlessness of capital punishment and fear of the serious and perfectly well-documented risk of its being applied unjustly, even if in only one specific case (and there have been many of them, regrettably). Europe must apply itself to what is possible, without forgetting the ultimate objective. What is possible is to demand a moratorium courageously, throughout the world, beginning with our closest partners, without forgetting – I would insist – the ultimate objective, which would be the global abolition of the death penalty. We must protest against the death penalty, but that must include the death penalty on Saddam Hussein as well as the death penalty on the person sentenced in the United States, following a trial with practically no defence, for a crime he committed when he was under-age. Those death sentences, Commissioner, must be condemned just as vigorously as the death sentence on Saddam Hussein; we must not have double standards, because if what we are advocating is to fight the death penalty, those more or less anonymous prisoners who have had practically no right to defence deserve our support even more than a criminal such as Saddam Hussein."@en1

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