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Topic started on 21-8-2007 @ 01:49 PM by nickh

EU urges Texas to end executions


news.bbc.co.uk
The European Union has urged the governor of Texas to stop all executions as the state prepares to carry out its 400th death penalty.

Johnny Ray Conner, 32, will be executed on Wednesday in America's busiest death penalty state for the 1998 fatal shooting of a grocery store clerk.

The EU expressed "great regret" at the impending sentence and renewed its call to the US to halt judicial killings.

The punishment was "cruel and inhumane", said the EU.
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reply posted on 21-8-2007 @ 03:41 PM by Leyla
reply to post by nickh



Capital punishments aside- When does the EU have the gumption to tell a US state what to do?

EU need to butt out of US affairs.


reply posted on 21-8-2007 @ 03:53 PM by jsobecky
reply to post by nickh



Recently Iran executed many people, among them a 16 year old girl. Her offense? Having a sharp tongue.

So tell me, did the EU intervene and try to save this young girl's life?



reply posted on 21-8-2007 @ 04:59 PM by nickh
reply to post by closettrekkie



Maybe they think they have more of an influence with the US... although I doubt Texas will budge easily
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