Strasbourg, 19/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - The President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly firmly condemned the capital executions of Yoshiteru and Tatsuya Tamoto in Japan. "The death sentence is cruel and unnecessary: it has no place in a civilised society. It is especially frightening that these men should, it seems, have been executed without their families being informed of the date", declared Peter Schieder, recalling that the 44 member states of the Council of Europe were...