10/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - On the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty on 10 October, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, Terry Davis, appealed for capital punishment to be abolished. “Killing is an act to be condemned”, he said, adding “the death penalty is therefore also to be condemned”. He recalled that, since 1997, there has not been a single execution in any of the 46 Member States of the Council of Europe. Priority today is to go from abolition of...