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Dead Reckoning
Shapiro, Bruce | August 6, 2001 issue

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The sheltering of a U.S. defendant from the U.S. death penalty is routine in a growing number of countries, and is unusual only in that it surfaced in the media. Europeans oppose the death penalty in general, and in America in particular, for a variety of reasons. Three years ago the European Union (EU) declared capital punishment worldwide its top human rights priority and began channeling money into conferences, reports and lobbying. Some of the money is going toward legal reform in China, which has far and away the largest number of executions, an estimated 1,000 per year. But the greatest political effort is going toward the United States, because it is here, EU ministers feel, that they can have the greatest influence.

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CAPITAL punishment; CRIMINAL law; EUROPEAN Union; HUMAN rights; DEATH; UNITED States
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