USA - Florida. A committee of British MPs has called for the state of Florida to commute the death sentence of Manuel Valle, 63, a Cuban national

United Kindom. A committee of MPs has joined the campaign calling for the state of Florida to commute the death sentence of Manuel Valle, 63, a Cuban national who has been on death row for 33 years. The All-party parliamentary group on the death penalty chairwoman Baroness Stern has written to Governor Rick Scott urging him to stop the execution of Valle. The MPs joined faith leaders and the European Union's ambassador to the US opposing the execution to call on Governor Scott to grant clemency and commute Mr Valle's sentence to life imprisonment.