[Deathpenalty]death penalty news----worldwide

[Rick Halperin]

Nov. 1


TURKEY:

Turkish Parliament To Vote On Abolition Of Death Penalty


In Ankara, a bill which envisages ratification of Second Optional Protocol
to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the
abolition of the death penalty, was presented to the Turkish Parliament
Speaker's Office on Monday.

Under the protocol adopted and proclaimed by the UN General Assembly on
December 15th, 1989, no one within the jurisdiction of a State Party to
the present Protocol shall be executed. Each State Party shall take all
necessary measures to abolish the death penalty within its jurisdiction.

No reservation is admissible to the present Protocol, except for a
reservation made at the time of ratification or accession that provides
for the application of the death penalty in time of war pursuant to a
conviction for a most serious crime of a military nature committed during
wartime.

(source: Turkish Press.com)