It reads, simply: "The death penalty is abolished." They often say that this 56-year-old provision shows how thoroughly the postwar Federal Republic has learned - and applied - the lessons of Nazi state-sponsored killing. prosecution of alleged al Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui, who faces the possibility of the death penalty - though the two countries eventually worked out an agreement.Ĭontrasting their nation's policy with that of the Americans, Germans point proudly to Article 102 of their Basic Law, adopted in 1949. (The Supreme Court dismissed the case on May 23 for technical reasons.) German objections to capital punishment slowed Berlin's cooperation with the U.S. Supreme Court case concerning the rights, under international law, of foreign defendants in capital cases grew in part out of a German lawsuit before the World Court on behalf of two German citizens on death row in Arizona. German media regularly decry executions in Texas. In the debate between Europe and the United States over the death penalty, no country is more vocal than Germany.
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