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UN Report Singles Out Texas and Alabama

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Finally in today's big news section, we have the UN human rights report.  The UN News Centre has, "UN rights expert calls on United States to ensure death penalty is applied fairly."The United States should take immediate steps to ensure that the death penalty is applied fairly and justly in states where it is practised, a United Nations human rights expert said today, voicing particular concern that officials in the state of Alabama ?seem strikingly indifferent to the risk of executing innocent people.? Philip Alston, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, also called for the country?s military justice system to be improved so that victims of possibly unlawful killings can receive justice. In a preliminary statement issued after completing an official visit to the US, where he met with federal and state officials, judges and civil society groups in Washington, DC, New York, Alabama and Texas, Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 01, 2008 (boomark / email).