Please Stop Executions, Says Secretary-General, Urging Governments to Remove Secrecy Surrounding `Barbaric Practice´
(WorldNews Politics)

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres` remarks at the panel on `Transparency and the Death Penalty`, in New York today: I thank the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Member States who have co-sponsored this important event. We are here to explore a very urgent and troubling human rights issue: the continued use of the death penalty, and the secrecy that surrounds it. This is my first public statement as Secretary-General on the death penalty. I want to make a plea to all States that continue this barbaric practice: please stop the executions. The death penalty has no place in the twenty-first century. I...