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Greg Mulholland-Working Hard For Leeds North WestGreg Mulholland Speaks Out Against Death Penalty
October 29, 2009 8:26 PM
Greg Mulholland, member of Amnesty International and MP for Leeds North West yesterday spoke in a debate criticising countries that still employ the death penalty.
Greg played an instrumental part in campaigning for the release of Mirza Tahir, an innocent man accused of murder in Pakistan. Who faced the death penalty.
Commenting Greg Said:
"Luckily in the case of Mr Tahir, this innocent man was spared death but it easily could have gone the other way and then there would have been yet another terrible miscarriage of justice, which is inevitable wherever states kill their own citizens.
"The fact of the matter is that in any country where they employ the death penalty there will be miscarriages of justice where innocent people are killed. The question that any advocate of the death penalty has to answer is how many innocent people being executed will it take to change their minds?
"We still need real justice for victims of very serious crimes and we should be clearer with the public about when we are employing the system of life without parole.
"Death penalty brutalises a society and dehumanises a justice system. It is simply wrong for the state to kill its own citizens in cold blood and prevents real justice from taking place."
ENDS
Notes to Editors
A transcript of the debate can be found at:
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