THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/death penalty

Mr Patten explains EU's position - Calls for pressure on United States, where 1999 has been a "dark year", say parliamentarians

Strasbourg, 26/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - One of the first decisions that I took in my role as Governor of Hong Kong was to eliminate the death penalty from the statute books: with this phrase, Chris Patten explained his position that coincides with that of the Commission, on the death penalty, which still exists in 90 countries and is practices in 30 (and, in one or two countries, in "industrial quantities", he said). The Union is against the death penalty and in favour of its universal...