” “"The European Union thinks the abolition of death penalty is essential to the protection of human dignity and the progressive development of human rights": the current presidency of the EU Council gave a statement that "deeply censures the execution of William Lynd", occurred in the State of Georgia (Usa) on May 6th. The text mentions that 4 days earlier the ambassadors of the 27 member states had made an appeal to the Georgian authorities to "spare the prisoner’s life": no mercy was granted. "This execution puts an end to a moratorium that had been actually enforced across the United States". The EU recalls that on December 18th the UN Assembly had voted for the enforcement of a moratorium, the first step towards the final abolition of the gallows all over the world. "The European Union reasserts its opposition under any circumstance" to such penalty, and therefore it will keep fighting against it on the international scene. The presidency’s statement mentions that "there is no remedy to miscarries of justice" if one proceeds to suppress the prisoner’s life: "No judiciary is safe from miscarriages of justice, and there is no proof that death penalty can add anything as a deterrent".
