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HANDS OFF CAIN TO MINISTER SEVERINO: MIGUEL TORRES SHOULD NOT TO BE DEPORTED TO THE UNITED STATES
March 25, 2013: Sergio D’Elia, Secretary of Hands off Cain, and Elisabetta Zamparutti, Treasurer, wrote a letter to the Italian Minister of Justice Paola Severino to ask that Miguel Torres not be expelled to the U.S. where he risks the death penalty.
Since Torres allegedly was in Italy under the assumed name Rene Rondon, the Italian government could choose to skip the extradition process and simply deport him, a U.S. State Department source told the Reading Eagle on condition of anonymity.
Torres, 42, hispanic, was arrested on March 15 was arrested today in Bologna, Italy, by Italian authorities based on information provided by the Marshals Service investigators. In Bologna Torres had been living and working as a domestic for an elderly couple. Torres is charged with first-degree murder in the September 2005 death of his wife Barbara J. West-Torres. the man allegedly committed the crime after she had initiated divorce proceedings. Since then he has always been at large, to the point of putting him on the U.S. Marshals Service's 15 Most Wanted list and the television show "America's Most Wanted."
Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams already has said that, to hasten the extradition process, he will not seek the death penalty.
D’Elia and Zamparutti declared: “The position expressed by the Constitutional Court in the Pietro Venezia case is such that in no case a person is extraditable by the Italian State to countries where the person could be sentenced to death for a capital offense. Not even in cases of "reasonable assurance" that the death penalty is not imposed or carried out. Even more serious would surrender a person to the United States outside of a regular extradition proceedings."
The exponents of Hands Off Cain have concluded: "While not likely the news, at least not in the terms set, we need a word of clarity and a formal denial by the Minister of Justice for the firm opposition of our country to the death penalty.” (Sources: Hands off Cain, 25/03/2013)
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