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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9702

12 July 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/death penalty
EP says death sentence on Troy Davis must be commuted

Strasbourg, 11/07/2008 (Agence Europe) - In Strasbourg on Thursday 10 July, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the case of Troy Davis (sentenced to death by the State of Georgia in 1991 for the murder of a police officer, and due to be executed at the end of July 2008), once again calling for the abolition of the death penalty in all countries. In view of the abundance of evidence that might call the sentence into question, it called on the relevant courts in the United States...

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