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Amnesty International:
"USA: More state killing on Human Rights Day"
"On 10 December 1948, the international community adopted a vision of a world free from state killing and cruelty. What does it say about the USA's present-day attitude to such aspirations that it is set to mark the 55th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by killing two more people in its death chambers?
"Sadly, it is business as usual for US executioners. Last year, President George W. Bush proclaimed 10 December as Human Rights Day in the USA. Seven people were put to death there that week, designated by President Bush as Human Rights Week. This year, four people [are] scheduled for execution between 9 and 11 December.
"These calculated killings are casting a growing shadow on the United States in an increasingly abolitionist world. Today 112 countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. The USA's political leaders should be promoting abolition in their country, too. Their failure turns to hypocrisy when they trumpet the United States as global human rights champion.
"On 14 January this year, President Bush, whose five-year governorship of Texas saw 152 executions there and whose presidency has seen the first federal executions since 1963, issued a proclamation promising that the United States will 'continue to build a culture that respects life'. On the same day, the USA carried out its first execution of the year, and has conducted 64 more since then ... "
For more information please see: USA: A lethal ideology: More state killing on Human Rights Day as 900th execution looms
For current and background information on the death penalty please visit the dedicated Death Penalty Pages
Amnesty International:
"USA: More state killing on Human Rights Day"
"On 10 December 1948, the international community adopted a vision of a world free from state killing and cruelty. What does it say about the USA's present-day attitude to such aspirations that it is set to mark the 55th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by killing two more people in its death chambers?
"Sadly, it is business as usual for US executioners. Last year, President George W. Bush proclaimed 10 December as Human Rights Day in the USA. Seven people were put to death there that week, designated by President Bush as Human Rights Week. This year, four people [are] scheduled for execution between 9 and 11 December.
"These calculated killings are casting a growing shadow on the United States in an increasingly abolitionist world. Today 112 countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. The USA's political leaders should be promoting abolition in their country, too. Their failure turns to hypocrisy when they trumpet the United States as global human rights champion.
"On 14 January this year, President Bush, whose five-year governorship of Texas saw 152 executions there and whose presidency has seen the first federal executions since 1963, issued a proclamation promising that the United States will 'continue to build a culture that respects life'. On the same day, the USA carried out its first execution of the year, and has conducted 64 more since then ... "
For more information please see: USA: A lethal ideology: More state killing on Human Rights Day as 900th execution looms
For current and background information on the death penalty please visit the dedicated Death Penalty Pages
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