Pubblicato un
rapporto del gruppo per la difesa dei diritti umani
�International Federation for Human Rights� in cui si afferma
che la maggior parte dei condannati a morte negli S.U. non ha
avuto un processo equo
Report: Most on Death Row Did Not Have Fair
Trial
PARIS - A Paris-based human rights
group said on Friday that most of those on death row in the United
States had not received a fair trial and called on U.S. Supreme
Courtjudges to declare
the death penalty unconstitutional.
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
published a 56-page report on its Web site (www.fidh.org) in which
it concluded the conditions in which those condemned to the death
penalty were held constituted ``cruel, inhuman and degrading
treatment.''
``The study carried out by FIDH experts has
revealed that the majority of those condemned to death in the United
States, particularly when they are poor and destitute, have not
benefited from a fair trial,'' FIDH said.
The report, based on a six-person fact-finding
mission to the United States in April, said it feared that
moratoriums on the death penalty planned by various states were
aimed only at improving the procedures leading to capital punishment.
``The FIDH demands that United States Supreme
Court judges, who alone can enforce the abolition in all states, to
declare this punishment unconstitutional,'' the report said.
The death penalty is undergoing a scrutiny not
seen in the United States since it was reintroduced in 1976.
Illinois state has suspended all executions pending a review
prompted by disclosures that innocent people wound up on death row.