THIS IS A DRAFT - IT IS NOT YET ACTIVE

139 nations have already abolished the death penalty. On September 12 2012 the United National General Assembly will vote on a resolution calling for a worldwide halt to its use.

We, the undersigned, in recognition of the five million people who signed the moratorium petition that was handed to the United Nations’ General Assembly in 2007, promoted by the Community of Sant'Egidio in collaboration with Amnesty International and other organizations all over the world, renew the call for a worldwide moratorium on sentences and executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty worldwide in the belief that this penalty is inhumane: 

• Whatever the method of execution, there is no human way to kill
  
• Whatever the country, death row is inhumane 
  
• Whatever the length, awaiting death dehumanizes people sentenced to death and their relatives 
  

We welcome the strong progress already made towards a global end to capital punishment and acknowledge that 139 nations have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.

We call on all countries to support the UN resolution calling for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty, and on all those which retain the death penalty to stop using it, with a view to abolishing this inhumane practice once and for all!

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