Texas Executes 400th Inmate
Update: Texas executed its 400th inmate today, Johnny Ray Connor.
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European Union Urges Halt to Texecutions
As Texas is about to execute its 400th prisoner, the President of the European Union issued this statement yesterday calling for an end to Texas executions.
We believe that elimination of the death penalty is fundamental to the protection of human dignity, and to the progressive development of human rights. We further consider this punishment to be cruel and inhumane. There is no evidence to suggest that the use of the death penalty serves as a deterrent against violent crime and the irreversibility of the punishment means that miscarriages of justice - which are inevitable in all legal systems – cannot be redressed. Consequently, the death penalty has been abolished throughout the European Union.
Joining in the statement:
The Candidate Countries Turkey, Croatia* and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*, the Countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and potential candidates Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and the EFTA countries Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, members of the European Economic Area, as well as Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova, Armenia and Azerbaijan align themselves with this declaration.
Johnny Ray Connor is scheduled for execution in Texas today.
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