21/03/2024 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 21 March, the European Union briefed that it “deeply” regretted the execution of Willie James Pye the previous day in the US state of Georgia. He was convicted in 1996 of murdering his ex-girlfriend after kidnapping and raping her. “We deplore the fact that this execution took place despite evidence indicating that the convict had an intellectual disability”. The use of the death penalty for people with such disabilities is explicitly...