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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7777

11 August 2000
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/united states
Death penalty prisoner for whom EU called for pardon is executed

Brussels, 10/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - Oliver Cruz, the mentally retarded prisoner for whom the EU called for a pardon from the Governor of Texas (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.3) was executed on Wednesday night in the prison of Huntsville, as well as another prisoner, Brian Robertson. They are the twenty seventh and twenty eighth executions to have taken place this year in the State of the Republican White House candidate. A mistake made us write in yesterday's edition, announcing the EU's call...