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HOC SECRETARY D’ELIA ISSUES STATEMENT ON WOOD’S EXECUTION

July 24, 2014: Sergio D’Elia, Secretary of Hands off Cain, said: "The execution of Joseph Wood in Arizona is just the latest in a series of botched executions in the United States. By now the lethal drugs are provided to the prisons only by compounding pharmacies, the identification of which is prevented by newly adopted “secrecy laws” aimed at blocking the initiatives of human rights groups. Human right groups in the recent past succeeded in putting pressure over major multinational pharmaceutical companies so they would not sell their products to the prison system for executions.
It is bad enough that the oldest democracy in the world, the United States, retains the death penalty, but it is even more disturbing to witness the horrible consequences of the alleged civilization of lethal injection.
Now that the myth of a painless, gentle and humane way to “make justice” has vanished, it remains a last, decisive step: getting rid once and for all of the archaic system of the death penalty, that is the aberration of a State who wants to punish Cain but in doing so it becomes Cain itself . The paradox of trying to safeguard Abel, but getting the result of creating new Abeles."

GHANA: FISHERMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
SRI LANKA: 8 PERSONS SENTENCED TO DEATH BY PANADURA AND RATNAPURA HIGH COURTS
SRI LANKA: MONERAGALA HC HANDS DOWN DEATH SENTENCE
ALABAMA (USA): STATE CAN'T RESUME EXECUTIONS UNTIL SPRING
IRAQ: SHI'ITE MILITIA HANGS UP 15 EXECUTED SUNNIS IN SQUARE
HANDS OFF CAIN’S REPORT 2014 PRESENTED IN THE HAGUE
CHINA: JAPANESE MAN EXECUTED OVER STIMULANT DRUG SMUGGLING
UAE: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER POLICE OFFICER’S MURDER
GHANA: TOGOLESE FARMER SENTENCED TO DEATH
SRI LANKA: 4 INDIVIDUALS SENTENCED TO DEATH BY THE KANDY HIGH COURT
SOMALIA: COURT CARRIES OUT DEATH PENALTY AGAINST FOUR SHABAB FIGHTERS
INDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ACID ATTACK IN MADHYA PRADESH
GHANA: MASON SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING FRIEND
GHANA: PRESIDENT MAHAMA GRANTS PARDON TO 21 DEATH ROW INMATES
ARIZONA (USA): JOSEPH WOOD DIES ALMOST TWO HOURS AFTER EXECUTION BEGINS
AFGHANISTAN: DEATH SENTENCE GIVEN IN AP PHOTOGRAPHER'S KILLING
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN DINSOR
IRAN: 10 PRISONERS INCLUDING 4 WOMEN HANGED
CHINA: COP WHO SHOT DEAD PREGNANT WOMAN EXECUTED
UAE: PEOPLE CONVICTED OF TERRORISM COULD FACE DEATH PENALTY UNDER FNC LAW PROPOSAL
MYANMAR: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR NEAR BEHEADING CASE
UAE: MAN GIVEN DEATH PENALTY BY DUBAI COURT FOR KILLING HIS EMPLOYER
VIETNAM: THREE PRISONERS EXECUTED
PAKISTAN: TWO AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
IRAN: 32-YEAR-OLD DEFENDANT SENTENCED TO DEATH BY STONING
SYRIA: TWO WOMEN STONED TO DEATH FOR 'ADULTERY' BY ISIS
INDIA: PRESIDENT REJECTS MERCY PLEAS OF SIX DEATH ROW CONVICTS
HANDS OFF CAIN REPORT: 'POSITIVE EVOLUTION TOWARDS ABOLITION'
SINGAPORE: 2 CONVICTED DRUG TRAFFICKERS EXECUTED
MALAYSIA: NIGERIAN STUDENT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

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