Brussels, 10/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - “The death penalty is a brutal and vindictive travesty of justice”, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, Terry Davis, said on 4 January regarding the resumption of executions in the United States on 17 January. Clarence Ray Allen, 75 years of age, is to be put to death in California that day. Clarence Ray Allen “is not an innocent man”, Terry Davis recognises, but continues to call on the governor of California, Arnold Schwarznegger,...