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UN committee approves death penalty moratorium draft

By Montana Abolition Coalition

: A U.N. General Assembly commission passed a bill of exchange declaration career for an end to the decease penalty, an effort critics complained marked an attempt to interfere with the sovereignty of U.N. member states. The 99-52 ballot Thursday in favour of the declaration in the assembly's human rights commission capped two years of often heated up argument that proverb the United States pickings the unusual measure of railroad siding with states such as as Islamic Republic Of Iran and Syrian Arab Republic on an issue that have so far failed to win blessing in the human race body. A sum of 33 states abstained. Over a twelve amendments ? including the right to life of unborn children ? were introduced and soundly defeated. "I strongly trust that in approving this declaration we will be starting a procedure in which we will be all ...continue to full post

Full post as published by No Montana Death Penalty on November 16, 2007 (boomark / email).