News items: Italy to campaign at UN for death penalty ban (070103)

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Italy's Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, says that Italy plan a set of activities at the United Nations to help make it illegal for any country the world to carry out the death penalty. David Willey reports from Rome in Italy:
Romano Prodi, the leader of the centre-left coalition, said Italy will actively at the United Nations an end to capital punishment . The Italian ambassador to the UN has already called upon the General Assembly to re-examine a document already presented for last month. Italy took up one of the ten non-permanent seats on the Security Council this week. Mr. Prodi said the weekend that no crime can justify one person another. This is a principle which all civilisations and religions , he said. Italy presented proposals for a moratorium the death penalty the UN assembly in 1994 and again in 1995 and last July the Italian parliament approved a motion urging the government to table yet another moratorium proposal but this came to because of disagreement among Italy's EU partners. Politicians from left and right have been expressing disgust at the execution of Saddam Hussein. The former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, his hanging "a political and historic error". The has also been reflected by almost universal condemnation in the Italian press of the press leaks and videos of the hanging of the Iraqi leader. The semi official Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, said the transformation of the final moments of Saddam Hussein's life a public spectacle was a violation of a fundamental human right. The Iraqi government has said that Italy has no right to Saddam Hussein's execution when, the end of the Second World War, the fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was by partisans and left hanging by his feet in a Milan square to the derision of the . Mussolini's granddaughter, Alessandra, a right-wing MP, joined in the argument she found the killing of Saddam Hussein disgusting and shameful. (David Willey, BBC News, Rome)
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