At 01:19 PM 5/27/01 -0500 Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>>Eleanor Roosevelt (United States of America), Ren� Cassin (France),
>>Charles Malik (Lebanon), Peng Chun Chang (China), Hernan Santa Cruz
>>(Chile), Alexandre Bogomolov/Alexei Pavlov, (Soviet Union), Lord
>>Dukeston/Geoffrey Wilson (United Kingdom) William Hodgson (Australia), and
>>John Humphrey (Canada).
>
>Just for information, how many of those countries had the death penalty at
>the time it was written?
Still Have:
USA, Lebanon, Taiwan (China above), Chile, Russian Federation, (Soviet
Union above),
Death Penalty Permitted in Exceptional Cases:
United Kingdom
Death Penalty Prohibited:
France - 1981, Australia - 1985, Canada -1998
Official Source:
Official Source:
http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/TestFrame/97f35ce9307e1b43c12566
1a00435e70?Opendocument
Secondary Source:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777460.html
Suffice to say, the death penalty was most certainly *not* covered under
the UDHR.
JDG
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