ITALY. ‘WILLIAMS EXECUTION IS RUTHLESS JUSTICE’, D’ELIA

Stanley Williams was executed after being denied clemency by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Following news of the execution, Hands Off Cain Secretary Sergio D’Elia declared:
“Killing a person who has spent 25 years on death row is like killing an innocent person. A person who maybe, and I underline maybe, did not take part in the crime, definitely though they were a different person from the one who committed the crime.
“What kind of justice comes into a cell after 25 years, takes hold of a man who has thoroughly detached himself from his past and no longer constitutes a threat to anyone, ties him up to a gurney and executes him in cold blood?
“It is an elementary, primordial and inconsequential form of justice; a pitiless form of justice without mercy or hope. Justice without mercy is not a potent form of justice, it is weak and powerless.”