Abolition Of The Death Penalty

EDM number 983 in 2010-12, proposed by Michael Crockart on 10/11/2010.
Categorised under the topic of Human rights.

That this House notes that 58 countries retainthe death penalty; reiterates its opposition to the use of capital punishment in all circumstances; welcomes the recent launch of a new Government strategy for the global abolition of the death penalty, which identified the death penalty as a thematic priority of the Strategic Programme Fund (SPF) Human Rights Programme; and further welcomes the reconstitution of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs.