Strasbourg, 26/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - A few days after the adoption by the Presidents of the world, on 22 June in Strasbourg, of a call for the universal abolition of the death penalty, the Council of Europe parliamentary Assembly has, in adopting the report by Renate Wohlwend (Liechtenstein, EPP-ED), asserted that the death penalty constitutes an inhuman and degrading penalty under Article 3 of the European Human Rights Convention. The Assembly, which recalls that the acceptance of an...