“The Commission, in conjunction with the Presidency of the European Union, has raised this matter [of the death penalty] with the Palestinian Authority, and has transmitted a message of serious concern at the prospect of a resumption of executions. It has also called on the Palestinian Authority not to ratify or carry out any death sentences.”
Read everythinga Vietnam court has sentenced a 46-year-old Australian of Vietnamese origin to death by firing squad for attempting to send heroin stuffed in loudspeakers to Australia, the state-run Voice of Vietnam radio said.
Read everythingNico Bavurha, one of the men sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the assassination of Laurent Kabila, died on April 1 at Mama yemo hospital in Kinshasa where he had been transferred following a long period of illness in prison.
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