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ABCNEWS VideoSource
France Campaign - Bianca Jagger on the death penalty abolition campaign
04/09/2001
APTN
VSAP301038
TAPE: EF01/0332 IN_TIME: 23:16:20 DURATION: 2:43 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Paris - April 9, 2001 SHOTLIST: 1. Wide shot of the office of the president of the National Assembly 2. Wide interior shot of press conference led by French National Assembly President Raymond Forni and including Nicole Fontaine, President of the European Parliament 3. Side shot of podium showing all participants including Bianca Jagger and Lord Russel Johnston, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 4. Tight shot of Bianca Jagger 5. Closeup of sign that reads "Together Against the Death Penalty" 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bianca Jagger, Anti-Death Penalty Activist: "Today at the beginning of this new century, more than half of the countries in the world have abolished the death penalty. To belong or to be a member of the Council of Europe, you have to have abolished the death penalty. It is incomprehensible to all of us to think that we still have the death penalty in America especially when we know that the death penalty is fraught with arbitrariness, that the majority of the people on death row are poor, that they are a member of a minority and the U.S. is executing the mentally ill and juveniles under 18 years of age." 7. Wide shot of podium with Fontaine and Forni in the middle 8. Audience watching proceedings with one reading the anti-death penalty pamphlet 9. Cutaway photographer 10. SOUNDBITE: (French) Bianca Jagger, Anti-Death Penalty Activist: "There will be a congress - the 21st of June in Strasbourg in order to demand the end of the death penalty in the world. This is important for the countries that still have the death penalty like the United States, China and Japan, and others to understand that in our society today, this is not acceptable that we kill, and that we kill in certain circumstances innocent people and it is not acceptable either that we can have in countries like the U.S., which is a country that calls itself the country that defends the human rights throughout the entire world - that it is a force in this domain - and yet it has this system that is so wrong." 11. Cutaway of pamphlet that reads "Together Against the Death Penalty" 12. Man with the pamphlet on his lap 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bianca Jagger, Anti-Death Penalty Activist: "If the United States is going to execute him (James Kopp) and if France has abolished the death penalty, I think that it is up the French to think what is morally right, to decide what should be done." 14. Jagger seated at podium STORYLINE: Bianca Jagger, representatives from the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and other high level activists gathered in Paris on Monday to announce a forthcoming congress against the death penalty. The first world congress for the abolition of the death penalty will be held in Strasbourg from June 21 to 23. Jagger told APTN that she couldn't understand how the United States could practice the death penalty while calling itself "the country that defends human rights throughout the world". She said capital punishment "is fraught with arbitrariness" and that most people on death row are poor and members of minority groups. Jagger was asked about the possible extradition to the U.S. of James Kopp, an American fugitive in France who was charged with the killing of a Buffalo-area abortion provider. She said France had the right to refuse to extradite the anti-abortionist, if the U.S. indented to execute him.
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