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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10097
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/south korea

EP deplores decision to keep death penalty

Brussels, 12/03/2010 (Agence Europe) - In a resolution adopted on Thursday 11 March, the European Parliament greatly deplores the decision taken on 25 February this year by the constitutional court of the Republic of Korea to continue to apply the death penalty (in this country, over 55 prisoners are currently on death row). Furthermore, the EP recognises the fact that the Republic of Korea has not carried out executions since 1998 and that it thus belongs to the group of nations that are...

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