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THIS WAS THE LIST, TOO LONG LIST, OF COUNTRIES THAT STILL APPLY DEATH PENALTY:
«…Article 5 of both Covenants echoes the final provision of the Universal Declaration, providing safeguards against the destruction or undue limitation of any human right or fundamental freedom. Two Optional Protocols elaborate certain provisions of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, one providing for complaints by individuals, the other advocating the abolition of the death penalty… The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984/1987) bans torture and rape as weapons of war. In 1998, in a major effort to help torture victims and to step up international attempts to end torture, the United Nations declared 26 June as the annual International Day in Support of Victims of Torture…»
HUMAN RIGHTS/ EUROPEAN UNION COMPROMISE:
«…The EU has made human rights and a central aspect of its external relations: in the political dialogues it holds with third countries; through its development policy and assistance; or through its action in multilateral fora such as the United Nations.
Since 1995 the European Community has inserted a human rights clause in all agreements, other than sectoral agreements, concluded with non-industrialised countries defining respect for human rights and democracy as an essential element underlying the bilateral relations. Human rights and democratisation issues are mainstreamed into all aspects of EU policy decision-making and implementation, as outlined in the Communication (2001) on the EU’s role on promoting human rights and democratisation in third countries…»
AN EXAMPLE TO FOLLOW:
CHINA and the U.S.A. as the two most influent nations in the world should abolish death penalty and set up an example for the rest of the world…
IMAGINE YOUR SELF IN THEIR PLACE:
…«story of Sake Menda, a Japanese man
sentenced to death and subsequently cleared
In 1949 Sake Menda was 23. He was arrested for armed
robbery and double murder. Sentenced to be hanged in
1951, he was cleared and freed in 1983. He spent 32
years in death row cells.
For 11,500 days Sake Menda was alone in silence in a
5m² cell which was freezing in winter and burning hot in
summer. He did not have the right to get up or go to bed
without authorisation. He had no contact with the other
detainees, only received rare visits and could only write
a few letters which were always censured. For security
reasons the light was never turned off and he was
constantly filmed.
For 11,500 days from dawn Sakae Menda watched out
for the noise of the guards’ boots. In Japan prisoners
sentenced to death are only informed of their execution
at the very last moment and it can take place without
warning within a few hours or 30 years.
Sake Menda describes his 11,500 mornings: “If there
are a lot of guards that means that an execution is going
to take place. But you never know which one of you has
been chosen. The worst time is between 8 a.m. and
8.30 a.m. The noise of the boots resonates in the corridor.
The steps stop. You can imagine eyes riveted on the
door, breathing suspended at the noise of the key, cold
shivers running down your spine. All is confusion within
you. Only that door separates you from death. A neighbouring
cell is opened and the fatal phrase falls: “The
time has come”.
Source : FIDH
- Inhuman and degrading conditions of detention;
- Psychological and moral torture caused by the permanent
threat of execution.
14 [ World Coalition Against the Death Penalty ]
Case Study 2
Execution by stoning in Iran
Jafar Kiani and Mokarrameh Ebrahimi were sentenced to
death by stoning after being found guilty of adultery following
an extra-marital relationship. In July 2007, after
eleven years in prison, Jafar Kiani was executed in a village
near the town of Takestan. His partner, Mokarrameh
Ebrahimi, was freed in March 2008 following a significant
mobilisation campaign.
In Iran executions are usually by hanging but sometimes
by stoning; this method of execution is used for the
offence of “adultery when married”.
The stoning session is public. The prisoner is covered
from head to toe in white clothing and buried (women up
to their armpits and men up to their waists); a consignment
of stones is delivered to the execution location
and the civil servants in charge (sometimes, just citizens
approved by the authorities) carry out the execution. If
the prisoner manages to survive, he remains imprisoned
for at least 15 years, but will not be executed.
Articles 102 and 104 of the Penal Code of the Islamic
Republic of Iran precisely define the exercise of stoning:
“The stones used to inflict death by stoning must not be
so large that the prisoner dies after receiving one or two.
They must not be so small that they cannot be called
stones. The average size is generally chosen to ensure
that the crime is atoned through suffering”.
Shadi Sadr, one of the co-founders of the Stop Stoning
Forever Campaign and lawyer for Jafar Kiani and
Mokarrameh Ebrahimi, reported these shocking facts:
“The stones were so large that they didn’t even respect
the conditions required to carry out such a sentence…
Official reports…indicate that Jafar was still alive
after the stoning but that one of his ears and his nose
had been crushed and buried. When a medical examiner
confirmed that he was still alive Mr X crushed his head
with a large block of cement and killed him”.
Source : Amnesty International
- Torture caused by the execution method: duration of
death, suffering endured;
- Degrading treatment and humiliation caused by the
public nature of stoning.
Case Study 3
Execution of Angel Nievez Dias
by lethal injection in the United States
In 1979 Angel Nievez Diaz, a young Porto Rican immigrant
in the United States, participated in a raid on a bar
in Florida during which the manager was killed. There
were no visual witnesses to the murder but in 1986
Angel Diaz, who had always declared his innocence,
was found guilty and sentenced to death on the basis of
the statements of an old girlfriend and another prisoner.
On 13 December 2006 Angel Nievez Diaz was executed
by lethal injection. This method of execution was introduced
in Florida in 2000 to replace the electric chair. It
involves three consecutive injections: first, an anaesthetic
to suppress the pain; then a product which paralyses
the muscles; and finally a chemical formula which provokes
cardiac arrest.
Execution takes 34 minutes. According to witnesses,
Diaz was still moving 24 minutes after the lethal injection,
grimacing, apparently trying to speak, gasping for air.
After 26 minutes his body violently jerked. When the cardiac
monitors indicated that Diaz was still alive the team
in charge of the execution decided to administer another
lethal injection. More than half an hour after the start of
the procedure a doctor, his face hidden by a blue hood,
entered the execution room to check whether Diaz was
still alive. He went out and came back a minute later, looked
for vital signs in Angel Diaz and indicated that the
execution was now complete…»
These horrific stories get even worse when its seen even deeper , or…
WHEN (UN) JUSTICE IS MADE:
«…At 9 August 2009, while some are taking a breakfeast early in the morning, or having lunch, watching T.V. a man is walking his last steps towards death, to accomplish the death row he was condemned to. While he wlaks trough the hall the other prisioners whisper: «dead man walking»...his all life flashes before his eyes: the day he learned to ride a bike, his mother kisses when he was sick and all her loving mother care, his first kiss, when he used to run trough the fields of his homeland, the faces of those important to him that he will never see again...then he faces the room where he is suppose to die, with the schocking consent and unmercifull duty fullfilment...
Who are we to take his life? If he took someones life, what morality will anyone have by taking his?
According to some cientifical studies, some of these men condemned for violent crimes, are only sick men: their brain does not function like most people`s, the quimistry in the brain is not right, and therefore they will never feel repentance for their crimes, not because they are mean monsters, but because they simply can`t...
And than there are cases such as Eilleen Wornous or Tookie williams. Eilleen`s life was dramatic from the day she was born: raped by her father, misstreated by men as a prostitute, her life touches all those who saw the movie: «Monster». Tookie was the most beatifull case of Christian redemption I have ever seen. He used to belong to a gang when he was arrested and condemned to death row. While in jail he wrote many interesting books trying hard to call young gangsters to repentance and redemption. Many people holding candles prayed and asked for clemency towards him. They were not eard...Tookie took a last glance at those he loved, holding the cross with his hand he prayed and died...»
ITS ABOUT TIME TO STOP! EVEN CHILDREN DON`T ESCAPE! IN IRAN, CHILDERN CAN ALSO BE CONDEMNED TO DEATH ROW!
DO SOMETHING! MANKIND MUST HAVE AN EVOLUTION.
Thank you for your time sir / miss.
PLEASE COPY AND PASTE THIS TEXT IF YOU DON`T WANT TO WRITE YOUR OWN, AND SEND APPEALS TO:
Governor Ted Strickland
Governor’s Office, Riffe Center, 30th Floor, 77 South High Street
Columbus, OH 43215-6108, USA
Fax: +1 614 466 9354
Email: http://www.governor.ohio.gov/Assistance/ContacttheGovernor/tabid/15 (broken link)...
Salutation: Dear Governor
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ALL THOSE NOT AMERICAN, BUT WANT THE MESSAGE TO GO THROUGH HERE IS A LITTLE TRICK FOR A GOOD CAUSE:
«GUERREIROS PELA PAZ» (http://guerreirospelapaz.blogspot.com/ - broken link) that, GOD willing, will have translations in many languages, so please subscrive, and you allways use the google translator in the mean time.
Hard Candy Space - Alternative Social Networking for Alternative Minds (http://hardcandyspace.ning.com - broken link) «warriors for peace» group by «simplesmente Patrícia»
THANK YOU, AND GOD BLESS ALL THOSE WHO ACCEPT THE TASK. A BIG HUG TO ALL HONORED WARRIORS: PATRICIA.
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