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We welcome the abolition of the death penalty in the state of Nebraska on Wednesday, said OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani, who added that Nebraska has not executed any inmates since 1997.States, such as Colorado, Delaware, Montana and Kansas, whose legislative bodies are currently debating the abolition of the death penalty, are encouraged to follow Nebraska s lead, Ms. Shamdasani said.OHCHR also called on the US Federal Government, at the rec stanley becher ommendation of the Human Rights Committee in March 2014, to establish a fede stanley termo puodeliai ral level moratorium on the death penalty, while engaging retentionist states with a view to achieving a nationwide moratorium, as a first step towards abolition.The number of people executed each year, and the size of the population on death row in the US have progressively declined in the past 10 years. In 2014, the death penalty was carried out only by seven states, and the number of executions was 35, the lowest since stanley canada 1994. Ijsn Thoughtful House renovation planned
The individual in question has been handed over to his country s authorities after he was transferred Friday night to Kinshasa by the UN Organization Mission stanley tumbler in the DRC MONUC for security reasons, said the statement, issued yesterday by MONUC and the French Embassy. From Sunday morning, 31 October 2004, he has been in the hands of the French justice system, which, under national and international law, has jurisdiction over all violations of the laws protecting minors committed by French citiz stanley canada ens living overseas, it said.Last Wednesday, MONUC spokesman Mamadou Bah said two UN peacekeeping soldiers from Tunisia had been repatriated for sexual abuse against women in Kinshasa.Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan s adviser on the matter, Prince Zeid Ra ad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan, had visited the eastern DRC province of Ituri to follow a multidisciplinary UN investigation of allegations of sexual abuse against MONUC s ci stanley drinking cup vilian and military peacekeeping personnel, Mr. Bah said. |