Il Governo inglese si mobilita in favore di due condannati a morte, Tracy Housel (Georgia) e Jackie Elliott (Texas), ambedue con passaporto inglese ed americano.

Con l�occasione il governo britannico ha espresso la sua forte opposizione alla pena di morte, nonch� alla sua applicazione nei confronti di cittadini britannici.

British Government To Challenge U.S. Use of the Death Penalty

The Foreign Office of the British Government is mounting a legal challenge against the U.S. in order to stop the executions of death row inmates Tracy Housel, on death row in Georgia, and Jackie Elliott, on death row in Texas.  Both inmates have dual U.S. and British nationality, and the Foreign Office stated that it has serious concerns about the trials of both men and the quality of evidence used to convict them.  Britain is considering taking the cases to the International Court of Justice in the Hague.  A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said government policy was to express Britain's "strong opposition to the death penalty and its imposition on British nationals."  (The Independent 9/11/01)