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Fourth World Congress Against the Death Penalty Meets in Geneva

By Steve Hall

"Death penalty opponents see executions on the wane," is the Reuters report written by Jonathan Lynn and edited by Noah Barkin. An increasing number of countries are abolishing the death penalty and even the most active users of capital punishment are taking steps to restrict it, a congress of abolitionists heard on Wednesday. The three-day World Congress Against the Death Penalty hopes to give momentum to a trend that has seen roughly 4 countries a year, especially in Africa and Central Asia, join the ranks of abolitionists in recent decades."There is a new trend against the death penalty that is something new for the world," said Mario Marazziti, spokesman for the Community of Sant'Egidio, an Italian advocacy group that is one of the driving forces in the global campaign to stop the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 24, 2010 (boomark / email).