The European Union, in a demarche made at the White...

The European Union, in a demarche made at the White House with President Clinton's Chief Counsel Beth Nolan, called on the federal authorities not to break a de facto moratorium on the federal death penalty of almost forty years and to grant Juan Raul Garza, a death row inmate under federal law, clemency. The European troika, led by the French Ambassador, François Bujon de l'Estang, also called on the federal government to consider imposing an immediate moratorium on federal executions as a first step toward the general abolition of the death penalty in the United States.