Sant'Egidio Newsletter

The commitment of the Community of Sant'Egidio
03/09/02 - Italy/Nigeria - Appeal of the Community of Sant'Egidio for Safiya.
Abolitions, commutations, moratoria, ...
03/08/02 - Illinois/USA - Ryan Weighs Clemency for All on Illinois Death Row.
Other issues
03/14/02 - USA - Facing Life on the Outside After Death Row: Juan Roberto Melendez is at home. 03/14/02 - China - China expands use of lethal injection. 03/14/02 - Georgia/USA - An International Coalition of Death Penalty Opponents ask to stop the xecution of Tracy Housel. 03/13/02 - Nigeria - Mgr. Olubunmi Okogie, the Catholic Archbishop of the Lagos Archdiocese, has voluntarily offered to die in place of Safiya. 03/12/02 - Illinois/USA - “Time to bury death penalty”. The words of Ryan, at the end of his career of governor. 03/11/02 - Nigeria/European Union - In an appeal on the eve of International Women's Day, Council of Europe Secretary-General Walter Schwimmer urged Nigeria not to allow the stoning to death of Safiya. 03/11/02 - Georgia/USA - 'This place is absolute hell'”, said Tracy Housel, the British citizen whose execution is scheduled in some says. 03/09/02 - Texas/USA - Texas Executes Man Who Claimed Innocence to the End. 03/08/02 - Russia - Russians reply to Americans as to human rigth: start yourself to abolish death penalty. 03/08/02 - Texas/USA - The trial of Andrea Yates has revived the debate about mental illness and capital punishment. 03/07/02 - Taipei - The death penalty must be killed. Abolitionists speak out in Taipei. 03/07/02 - USA - Scalia vs. pope on death penalty. 03/07/02 - Missouri/USA - Jeffrey Tokar, 37, was executed. 03/06/02 - Brunei - It will be easier to hang drug offenders. 03/06/02 - Virginia/USA - Daniel gives up appeals. Execution date set for April 12. 03/06/02 - Georgia/USA - Great Britain - The British government has plunged into a campaign to spare the life of Tracy Lee Housel, a dual American-British citizen scheduled to be executed next month. 03/06/02 - Turkey - By the end of year 2002 Turkey will enter EU, if death penalty is abolished. 03/06/02 - Philippines - Former President Estrada said he is ready to accept death sentence. 03/05/02 - Florida/USA - The killers of a killer (the case of Frank Valdes). 03/05/02 - USA - The latest edition of NAACP Report :: “Death Row USA," Winter 2002”. The imates on death row now are 3,711, Reversing a trend of increasing death row populations since 1976. 03/05/02 - USA - Life in prison, not execution.Death penalty for mentally retarded killers should be declared cruel and unusual. 03/05/02 - China - Two men were executed in Beijing. 03/05/02 - Turkey - Ankara twists and turns over question of abolishing death penalty. 03/04/02 - Texas/USA - Rick Halperin, president of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, spoke to the students: "This struggle is much bigger than just the death penalty, (…) 03/04/02 - Colorado/USA - “Frank Rodriguez (who has a very serious liver disease) will not be executed”, says the lawyer . 03/04/02 - Turkey - Today the decision on the case of Ocalan. 03/04/02 - Singapore - 2 Thais get death penalty for of drug pusher. 03/04/02 - Guatemala - Six men sentenced to death write to the Pope and ask for his intervention. 03/04/02 - California/USA - America, Incarcerated or Executed; Death penalty thrives in climate of fear (San Francisco Chronicle). 03/04/02 - USA - The Death Penalty Re-examined - America's death penalty system is badly broken (New York Times). 03/04/02 - Ohio/USA - State prison officials plan to dismantle Ohio's electric chair. 03/03/02 - USA - Death penalty - Put questionable system under moratorium. 03/03/02 - USA - Supreme Court weighs state's right to execute mentally. 03/03/02 - Illinois/USA - Candidate for Illinois Governor On Ending the Death Penalty. 03/02/02 - Italy - “Right to life and death penalty”, is the title of a conference organized by the University of Naples. 03/02/02 - Texas/USA - Monty Delk, 35, was executed despite insanity claim.