Africa/Global: "War on Terror" is no justification for executions

The "War on Terror" must not be used to justify reversing progress on the abolition of the death penalty, Amnesty International's Irene Khan said as more than 90 countries prepared to mark the World Day against the Death Penalty this Sunday. "Human rights are for the best of us and the worst of us. Human rights are for the guilty as much as the innocent. That is why the death penalty must be abolished world-wide," said Irene Khan. For a copy of Irene Khan's speech to the Second World Congress against the Death Penalty http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engact500172004