Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-07-10-Speech-4-283"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-07-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The death penalty, particularly the case of Troy Davis2
dcterms:Language	"lt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080710.22.4-283"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-07-10-Speech-4-2842
lpv:speaker	lp:Laima Liucija Andrikienė2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Tėvynės sąjunga (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2007-10-09--2009-07-13)3 member; DROI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; BUDG (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Belarus (2008-01-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3
lpv:translated text	". The European Parliament has adopted quite a few regulations encouraging the abolition of the death penalty and executions or at least a moratorium on executions in the countries in which the death penalty still exists. Today we, the European Parliament, are supporting a person we have never met, Troy Davis, who is to be executed at the end of this month. Can you imagine yourself in his place, having had to spend 17 years waiting to be either cleared or executed, when there is strong evidence that he is innocent, with the seven witnesses who gave evidence against him having retracted their statements, and so on. We are aware of quite a few cases of a person being executed and his innocence being proved only afterwards. There are a lot of known cases where people are given the death penalty but avoid execution owing to the discovery of new evidence that proves they are not guilty of the crime. Therefore, today we are once again calling on all the countries of the world in which the death penalty is still used to take immediate measures to abolish it. Today we are making our position against the death penalty clear, standing by a real person and pleading with the relevant US courts to reinvestigate the case of Troy Davis and pass a more lenient sentence instead of the death penalty. In my opinion, supporting a real person, trying to protect him from being executed, even if he has made a huge mistake, is the best way to make our position on the necessity of abolishing the death penalty absolutely clear."@en1

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