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OREGON (USA): RIDOTTI I REATI CAPITALI E SVUOTATO IL BRACCIO DELLA MORTE

August 5, 2019:

La governatrice Kate Brown il 1° agosto 2019 ha ratificato SB 1013 che riduce i reati capitali da 19 a 4 e svuota il braccio della morte. Questa nuova legge è quanto di più simile ad una abolizione della pena di morte per via parlamentare in questo stato. In Oregon infatti la pena di morte è stata reintrodotta nel 1984 con un voto popolare che approvò un emendamento alla Costituzione, e quindi non potrebbe essere abolita da un semplice voto parlamentare. La nuova legge limita la possibilità di chiedere la pena di morte ad atti di terrorismo con almeno 2 vittime, ad omicidi commessi in carcere da persone già condannate per omicidio volontario, a omicidi su vittime con meno di 13 anni, e all’omicidio premeditato di poliziotti. La nuova legge inoltre si applicherebbe anche alle 31 persone attualmente nel braccio della morte dell’Oregon le quali, se non condannate per i reati previsti dalla nuova legge, avrebbero le condanne a morte commutate in ergastolo senza condizionale. Negli ultimi 50 anni in Oregon sono state compiute solo 2 esecuzioni (nel 1996 e 1997), ed in entrambe i casi si trattava di “volontari”. Nel 2011 l’allora governatore John Kitzhaber proclamò una moratoria, che era stata confermata anche dalla governatrice Kate Brown subentrata nel 2015 e rieletta nel 2018. All’epoca dell’inizio della moratoria, nel 2011, l’allora governatore Kitzhaber aveva detto: “Fermo le esecuzioni in questo stato perché sono convinto che possiamo trovare un modo migliore per garantire sicurezza alla società supportare le vittime e le loro famiglie, e rispettare i nostri valori”. Oggi la governatrice Brown ha aggiunto: “la pena di morte in Oregon è disfunzionale, costosa, e immorale. Il nostro sistema giudiziario continua a mandare gente nel braccio della morte pur sapendo che sono oltre 20 anni che non giustiziamo nessuno”. Moratorie decise dai governatori rimangono in vigore in California, Colorado e Pennsylvania e stato di Washington. Il New Hampshire ha abolito la pena di morte nel maggio 2019, e lo stato di Washington, dove la Corte Suprema nel 2018 aveva dichiarato incostituzionale le legge capitale in vigore, e subito dopo il braccio della morte era stato svuotato, una legge che avrebbe formalizzato l’abolizione della pena di morte ha per il momento interrotto il suo percorso, che però è previsto che riprenda senza grossi ostacoli nella prossima sessione legislativa.

(Fonti: The Oregonian, KHSU Radio, Associated Press, 01/08/2019)

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