[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide  Rick Halperin
rhalperi at mail.smu.edu Sat Apr 7 21:54:53 UTC 2007  April 7
Death penalty protest march.  A protest march against the death
penalty in all countries has been organised for Easter day
Sunday 8 April in Rome. It will start at the Campidoglio at
10.00 and end at St Peter's.  The march has been organised by
anti-capital punishment activists, the Radical party, Catholic
lay groups and Romes city council.  Justice minister Clemente
Mastella, defence minister Arturo Parisi, labour minister Cesare
Damiano, public works minister Antonio Di Pietro and Rome mayor
Walter Veltroni will be participating.  Organisers are pressing
for a United Nations (UN) moratorium on the death penalty.
Italys prime minister, Romano Prodi, has reconfirmed his
commitment to lobby the UN for a moratorium. Italy has
previously presented such proposals at the UN general assembly
in both 1994 and 1995.  Protestors will go past the Quirinale
(the seat of the president of the repub