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ai: Commentary on the UN resolution against the death penalty

amnesty international Deutschland PRESSEMITTEILUNGEN

Historische UN-Resolution gegen die Todesstrafe - Jetzt müssen Taten folgen

Berlin, 19. Dezember 2007 - amnesty international (ai) hat die Resolution der UN-Generalversammlung für einen weltweiten Hinrichtungsstopp sehr begrüßt. "Diese Entscheidung ist ein wichtiger Meilenstein auf dem Weg zu einer Welt ohne Todesstrafe", sagte ai-Experte Oliver Hendrich. "Now the moratorium on executions to be implemented." The General Assembly resolution is not binding, but has great moral and political weight. ai is betting that the resolution increases pressure on those states that still apply the death penalty and that such States shall execute as a first step towards abolition, no executions. A broad coalition of states from around the world had introduced the resolution and was supported by the European Union, and by ai, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and other organizations. The UN has been campaigning for decades for the abolition of the death penalty. While the UN 30 years ago to abolish the death penalty only "desirable", described the UN position changed in recent years in a resounding "no." A development that ai very welcomed. For years, AI observed a trend towards abolition. 88 UN members have already completely removed from their laws, 42 UN member states do not apply at present. Only 62 UN member states are adhering to the death penalty. But despite this positive development, there lives a large part (2 / 3) of the world population in countries in which may be imposed as the highest penalty the sentence of death and executed. Worldwide, more than 20,000 people sit on death row. 2006, at least 1591 people were executed and 3861 the death verurteilt.Anlässlich of the International Day against the Death Penalty (10 October) ai had signed with an action before the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin for a worldwide moratorium on executions nationwide, and collected signatures. Overall, said 15,000 people in Germany and five million worldwide against the death penalty.

photos of the action, and world maps and background material on the death penalty can be obtained from the ai's press office or http://www.amnesty-todesstrafe.de/hinrichtungsstopp