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Speech against the Death Penalty
London, UK – 30th of April, 2010 - In front of the U.S. Embassy

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It only took one day for a Federal jury to convict sailor Thomas Bird to be hanged in Maine, USA. A month later, on June 25, 1790, he became the first man to be executed under the US Federal capital punishment law. Since then, according to studies by the Capital Punishment Research Project, 336 men and 4 women have been executed under federal auspices. On October 30, 2009, there were 58 death row inmates sentenced to die because of the Federal capital punishment law in the USA, including 2 women. Read the rest of this entry →