Italy’s leader urged United Nations member states to back a resolution declaring a moratorium on the death penalty, saying the worldwide campaign had reached a “decisive moment.”
Prime Minister Romano Prodi told the General Assembly in New York City Tuesday evening that the resolution “will prove that human beings today are better than they were yesterday also in moral terms.”
The resolution Italy is promoting with the European Union’s support calls for a universal moratorium on the death penalty, ahead of eventual total abolition.
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‘European values’European institutions are at the forefront of the international campaign to outlaw capital punishment, and the 47-nation Council of Europe (CoE) says one of its top priorities is “to make abolition a universally accepted value.”
Prediction: In ten years, such stories about Europe and the death penalty will read in the context of returning to it.
