Mexico Leads Death Penalty Debate at Organization of American States Oswald Brown - thebahamasweekly.com
go to original January 19, 2014

The Permanent Council of The Organization of American States (OAS) vigorously debated an initiative by Mexico calling for the abolition of the death penalty throughout the Western Hemisphere.
 
According to Mexico’s Ambassador to the OAS, Emilio Gamboa, two-thirds of the 193 countries that comprise the United Nations do not apply the death penalty and 25 of the 34 countries that comprise the Western Hemisphere have abolished or have placed a moratorium on the imposition of the death penalty.
 
This position was supported by several Latin American countries, including Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil.
 
On the other hand, H.E. Carmen Lomellin, the United States’ Ambassador to the OAS, stressed that the death penalty does not contravene international law. In her view, the question of the death penalty should be settled at the domestic level by individual countries.
 
... The European Union’s Permanent Observers to the OAS vigorously supported the abolition of the death penalty.

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