After the European Parliament approved a resolution...

After the European Parliament approved a resolution calling for an initiative in favour of a universal moratorium on the death penalty at the UN, Marco Pannella, MEP and Hands Off Cain President, declared:
"It's time that President Frattini affirms convictions instead of masking convenience with slightly indecent hieroglyphics. In 1994 at the UN General Assembly, we lost for just 8 votes due to the preoccupation of Singapore and other states with the diminution of their national sovereignty with respect to the moratorium proposal. Since then 33 states have abolished the death penalty legally or de facto or applied a moratorium.
"The Italian presidency has announced urbi et orbi its belief in this battle, yet it has been picking up every possible pretext and taking every occasion to go against the commitments it has made.
"We at Hands Off Cain and the Transnational Radical Party are battling so that our country - if possible and despite the Italian government - and Europe uphold convictions that they have accepted or declared that they have accepted, and stop ignobly following stupid and erroneous conveniences.
"Because of its attitude, I am afraid that the Italian presidency is running out of time to assert its credibility. I hope that this will not turn out to be the case, but the Italian presidency is risking indecency and the loss of its credibility, and making us risk with it."