Sant'Egidio Newsletter

The commitment of the Community of Sant'Egidio
05/09/02 - Germany - On May 3rd in Berlin there was a public meeting organized by the Sant'Egidio Community, at the biggest university in the city, within the campaign to abolish the death penalty. Sam Sheppard spoke about his experience as a murder victim. (IT-EN) 05/08/02 - Indiana/USA - H.E. Mgr. Joseph Dale MELCZEK, the Catholic Bishop of GARY, Indiana (USA) signed the appeal supporting the International Campaign of Santï¿½Egidio Community for a World moratorium of the death penalty. 05/06/02 - Italy - Bill Pelke (Journey of Hopeï¿½, one of the most important associations against death penalty in the US), will be in Northern Italy on May 6th-10th with the Community of Santï¿½Egidio, for a series of public conferences. (IT) 04/29/02 - Texas/USA - Urgent Appeal - Henry Earl Dunn - 27 years old - is scheduled for execution on may 14, 2002 (EN)
Abolitions, commutations, moratoria, ...
05/09/02 - Pennsylvania/USA - Thomas H. Kimbell is the 101st former death row inmate who was exonerated and freed. (EN) 05/08/02 - European Union - Council of Europe Rule Out Death Penalty even in Wartime.US and Japan invited to cease the cruel punishment. (IT-EN) 05/03/02 - Iran - Gholam Ramazanifar, was granted a stay of the execution and then a commutation, on request of the victimï¿½s family, when the rope was already on his neck.ï¿½ (IT) 05/02/02 - Texas/USA - Supreme Court halts execution of Curtis Moore, 34,mentally retarded.ï¿½ (IT-EN 05/01/02 - UN - UN Human Rights Commission approved resolution for the abolition of death penalty presented by EU. (IT-EN)
Other issues
05/07/02 - USA - Judge Questions the Constitutionality of Federal Death Penalty on the ground that innocent people are being sentenced to death "with a frequency far greater than previously supposed. (IT-EN) 05/06/02 - Sud Carolina/USA - Richard Charles Johnson, 39, was executed. (IT-EN) 05/06/02 - Italy - On May 7th Mario Marazziti will present the new book of Aldo Forbice ï¿½I signori della morteï¿½, a map of the countries which still use death penalty. (IT) 05/05/02 - Texas/USA - Nine executions in Texas in next 4 1/2 weeks. (IT-EN) 05/05/02 - USA - According to New York Times Democrats should take the high ground on capital punishment, as a gutsy Republican Governor George Ryan of Illinois did. (EN) 05/04/02 - Illinois/USA - Another look at capital punishment Penalty: An Illinois panel's study again raises the question whether state-sanctioned killing is a fair form of punishment.ï¿½ (EN) 05/04/02 - Maryland/USA - The death penalty deception. The case of Wesley Eugene Baker illustrates the racist and arbitrary nature of death row. (EN) 05/04/02 - China - Ten people were executed in Eastern China. (IT) 05/03/02 - Nigeria - Islamic prosecutors seek death penalty for Christian converts, but judge avoids death sentence. (EN) 05/03/02 - Saudi Arabia - Eid bin Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Assiri was beheaded. (EN) 05/03/02 - Tennessee/USA - Supreme Court to consider case of Tennessee, with possible Consequences on numerous pending cases.ï¿½(IT-EN) 05/02/02 - Texas/USA - Texas Executes Rodolfo Hernandez, 52, the One-Legged Inmate, after denying him a request to be fitted with a prosthetic device (so he could walk to his death "like a man"). (IT-EN) 05/01/02 - European Union/USA - EU to propose an agrement with US on extradition, only without death penalty. (IT) 04/30/02 - USA - Alabama abolishes electric chair: Nebraska Only State which uses it. (EN) 04/30/02 - Iran - Six men were hanged in Teheran. (IT) 04/30/02 - Texas/USA - Judge sets May 28 execution date for Beazley. (EN) 04/29/02 - Ohio/USA - Alton Coleman, 46 anni, ï¿½ stato messo a morte.ï¿½ (IT-EN) 04/29/02 - New York/USA - Andrew Cuomo, the son of Mario Cuomo, who was famous for his opposition to death penalty, is the new Democrat candidate to be Governor of New York.ï¿½ (IT) 04/28/02 - USA - Supreme Court Looks at Death Penalty: death sentences passed by one judge and then the mentally retarded. (EN) 04/28/02 - Cuba - The President of Human Rights Commission in Cuba, Elizardo Sanchez said that Fidel Castroï¿½s Government took many steps forward and imposed a de-facto moratorium of executions lasting 2 years.ï¿½ (IT) 04/28/02 - Caribbean statesï¿½ - Amnesty condemns death penalty in English-speaking Caribbean states. (EN) 04/27/02 - Arizona/USA - Ariz. Case Could Affect Death Penalty.ï¿½ (EN) 04/27/02 - USA - The System Dances With Death (New York Times). (EN)