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"Madam President, Article 1 of Additional Protocol No VI to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms reads: ‘The death penalty shall be abolished. No one shall be condemned to such a penalty or executed’. This protocol was laid down back in 1983, and underpins the thinking and actions of the Member States of the Union. It is also the stance adopted by most Members of the Council of Europe. Essentially, these are European standards for the protection of human rights. The question as to whether the abolition of the death penalty is only relevant to Europe is a rhetorical one. Clearly, the answer is no. Every individual has but one life and that life deserves to be protected. We must therefore support a UN moratorium on the death penalty. We are aware that the death penalty is rooted in a culture of revenge and retribution from which mankind needs to break free. It is very easy to delete the death penalty from criminal codes. All that is required is the legislators’ will to do so. It will be much more difficult for us to detach ourselves from it at an emotional level, to recognise it as an unethical penalty and banish it forever from human consciousness. However, we must be aware that if we fail to do so, we shall have to go on asking ourselves whether, in the 21st century, man can continue to kill his fellow man in the name of the law."@en1
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