何十年ぶりの米国連邦政府による女性に対する死刑執行を受けたEU報道官の声明
Brussels, 13/01/2021 - 17:03, UNIQUE ID: 210113_8
Statements by the Spokesperson
EU News 8/2021
＜日本語仮抄訳＞
「欧州連合（EU）は、米国連邦政府がほぼ70年ぶりに女性に死刑を執行したことに対し、深い遺憾の意を表明する。EUは、リサ・モンゴメリー死刑囚に対し、精神障害を抱える者に関して、国際法や尊重されるべき国際的に認められている最低条件を考慮し、寛大な措置を要請してきた。
2020年7月に17年ぶりに連邦政府が死刑執行を再開して以降、多くの刑が執行されている。EUは、断固として、またはっきりと、犯罪被害者とその遺族を支持し、域内では効果的に犯罪者を訴追している。しかしながら、極刑は人間の尊厳や生存権と両立せず、非人間的で屈辱的な処遇であり、いかなる犯罪抑止効果を有するとも証明されていない。どのような司法制度でも避けることのできない誤判は、不可逆的な結果をもたらす。EUは米国政権に対し、現政権の最後の数日間に予定されている残りの連邦政府による刑執行に関し、その決定を覆すよう求める」
United States: Statement by the Spokesperson on the first federal-level execution of a woman in decades
Brussels, 13/01/2021 - 17:03, UNIQUE ID: 210113_8
Statements by the Spokesperson
The European Union deeply regrets the execution at a federal level in the United States of the first woman in almost seven decades. The EU had called for clemency to be granted to Lisa Montgomery taking into consideration international law and internationally accepted minimum standards that should be respected regarding people with mental disorders.
Since the resumption of the federal death penalty in July 2020, after a 17-year hiatus, we have witnessed a high number of executions. The EU stands firmly and unequivocally by the victims of crime and their families and effectively prosecutes criminals in its territory. But capital punishment is incompatible with human dignity and the right to life, constitutes an inhuman and degrading treatment, and does not have any proven deterrent effect. Miscarriages of justice, inevitable in any judicial system, are irreversible. The EU calls on the US administration to reverse its decision to carry out the remaining federal-level executions during the last days of the current administration.
These executions contradict the growing momentum towards the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, as reflected by the recent adoption of the 8th Resolution calling for a "Moratorium on the use of death penalty" at the UN General Assembly on 16 December. The high number of federal executions also contradict the trend among individual States within the US, which performed the fewest executions in 37 years in 2020.
The European Union is strongly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances and will spare no effort to work towards its abolition worldwide in line with the new EU Action Plan for Human Rights and Democracy for 2020-2024.