UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in a statement that she "would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all those States that have abolished the death penalty...While the death penalty remains legal under international law in limited circumstances, there is, as the Optional Protocol notes, a strong suggestion in international law that the total abolition of the death penalty is desirable...I urge those States still employing the death penalty to place a formal moratorium on its use, with the aim of ultimately ratifying the Optional Protocol and abolishing the punishment altogether everywhere."
Quote of the day:
These bloody days have broken my heart.
My lust, my youth did them depart,
And blind desire of estate.
Who hastes to climb seeks to revert.
Of truth, circa Regna tonat. (It thunders through the realms)
- Thomas Wyatt (After witnessing the execution of Anne Boleyn in the Tower of London)
