SOME PEOPLE IN INDIANA ARE HOLDING VIGIL FOR TIMOTHY MCVEIGH. THEY OPPOSE THE DEATH PENALTY.

4/10/67 A0040339 WAT3 : WASHINGTON - DEMOCRATIC SENATOR HART OF MICHIGAN URGES ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY FOR FEDERAL CRIMES (F) WA 13415 "DEATH PENALTY" SHOWS: (1) SEVERAL SCENES HART AND FORMER OHIO GOVERNER MICHAEL DISALLE AT DESK, NEWSMEN, 15 SECS; (2) SOUND UP, CU HART, SOF, 1:12 (52FT - 1:26, SHOT 5/10/67) MJ247PED HART, PHILIP - SOF DISALLE, MICHAEL - SOF IN CUTS CAPITOL PUNISHMENT XX / 350 FT / 16 - NEG /

--SUPERS--\n:00 - :17\nDelia Gallagher\nRome \n\n:18 - :29 \nGreg Burke\nVatican Spokesman \n\n:35 - :47\nGreg Burke\nVatican Spokesman \n\n:48 - :59 \nKATV \n\n1:00 - end \nDelia Gallagher \nRome \n\n --LEAD IN--\nPOPE FRANCIS HAS FORMALLY DECLARED THAT THE DEATH PENALTY IS NEVER ADMISSIBLE -- AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL WORK TOWARDS ITS ABOLITION AROUND THE WORLD.\nTHE CHANGE HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.\nIT MAKES OFFICIAL A POSITION POPE FRANCIS HAS ARTICULATED SINCE HE BECAME PONTIFF.\nDELIA GALLAGHER HAS MORE:\n\n --REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS--\nDelia Gallagher/Rome: "The Vatican's change in teaching on the death penalty has been some time coming. Both John Paul the second and Benedict the Sixteenth spoke out against the death penalty. But Pope Francis has officially changed it on the books. I just spoke to Vatican spokesman Greg Burke who explained why:\nGreg Burke/Vatican Spokesman: "The key point here is really human dignity. The pope is saying that no matter how grievous the crime someone never loses his or her human dignity."\nPOPE FRANCIS HAS ALSO SUPPORTED ELIMINATING THE DEATH PENALTY BECAUSE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ERROR IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM. \nGreg Burke/Vatican Spokesman: "One of the rationales for the death penalty in Catholic teaching historically was to protect society. Obviously the state still has that obligation. That's not being taken away here. But they can do that in other ways."\nWHILE IN THE UNITED STATES THE DEATH PENALTY IS STILL LEGAL, ALMOST ALL COUNTRIES IN EUROPE HAVE ABOLISHED IT. \nINDEED ELIMINATING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS A PRECONDITION FOR ENTRANCE INTO THE EUROPEAN UNION. \nDelia Gallagher/Rome: "Of course the Pope's decree is not binding on any country but it is a sign that support for capital punishment is becoming less and less acceptable. Delia Gallagher CNN Rome."\n -----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----\n\n --KEYWORD TAGS--\nROME VATICAN POPE FRANCIS DEATH PENALTY CAPITAL PUNISHMENT \n\n

The Friends Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty and Equal Justice USA begins a four-day demonstration to protest the death penalty.

14:50:40 NATS EXT FTG OF BUILDING. INT FTG OF MEETING W/ OFFICIALS TAKING PLACE. CU SIGN IN FRANCE. MCU OF BIANCA JAGGER TALKING ABOUT THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY AND WHY IT IS WRONG. VS INT FTG OF MEETING IN WHICH JAGGER IS PRESENT. VS OFFICIALS AT MEETING. MORE SOT JAGGER, THIS TIME IN UNTRANSLATED FRENCH. VS MORE FTG OF JAGGER TALKING ABOUT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA. VS OFFICIALS LISTENING ON.

**SPANISH SCRIPT AVAILABLE BELOW**\n\n --SUPERS--\n:00-:10\nSeptember 19, 2015\nHavana, Cuba\n\n:10-:15\nChileVision\nApril 30, 2018\nVatican City\n\n:15-:28\nJanuary 16, 2018\nSantiago, Chile\n\n:28-:45\nApril 20, 2018\nVatican City\n\n --VIDEO SHOWS--\n-Pope coming out of plane\n-Pope blessing kids outside plane\n-Pope in his gulf-cade, greeting people, waving, rolling amidst big crowd\n- Pope Francis standing still for a family picture\n- Pope shaking hands with members of the clergy\n\n --VO SCRIPT--\nPOPE FRANCIS HAS FORMALLY DECLARED THAT THE DEATH PENALTY IS NEVER ADMISSIBLE -- AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL WORK TOWARDS ITS ABOLITION AROUND THE WORLD.\nTHE CHANGE HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.\nIT MAKES OFFICIAL A POSITION POPE FRANCIS HAS ARTICULATED SINCE HE BECAME LEADER OF THE MORE THAN A BILLION CATHOLICS WORLDWIDE.\nPREVIOUSLY.... THE CATECHISM ALLOWED THE DEATH PENALTY IN CERTAIN RARE CASES.\nA VATICAN SPOKESMAN SAID THE CHANGE WAS EXPECTED FOR A LONG TIME, STARTING WITH STATEMENTS BY POPE JOHN PAUL THE SECOND.\nTHE SPOKESMAN SAID THE POINT IS THAT NO MATTER HOW GRIEVOUS A CRIME THEY COMMIT, A PERSON NEVER LOSES HIS OR HER DIGNITY AS A HUMAN BEING.\n\n **SPANISH SCRIPT**\n\n --SUPERS--\nArchivo \n\n:00-:10\n19 de septiembre de 2015\nLa Habana\n\n:10-:15\nChilevisión\n30 de abril de 2018\nCiudad del Vaticano \n\n:15-:28\n16 de enero de 2018\nSantiago\n\n:28-:45\n20 de abril de 2018\nCiudad del Vaticano \n\n --VO SCRIPT--\nYA NO ES SECRETO...\nEL PAPA FRANCISCO AFIRMÓ QUE LA PENA DE MUERTE NO ES ADMISIBLE BAJO NINGUNA CIRCUNSTANCIA Y QUE LA IGLESIA CATÓLICA TRABAJARÁ EN TODO EL MUNDO PARA SU ABOLICIÓN.\nESTA POSICIÓN REPRESENTA UN CAMBIO OFICIAL EN LA DOCTRINA DE LA IGLESIA CATÓLICA, QUE AHORA CONSIDERA LA PENA DE MUERTE COMO UN ATAQUE CONTRA LA INVIOLABILIDAD Y DIGNIDAD DEL SER HUMANO.\nEL PORTAVOZ DEL VATICANO, GREG BURKE, DIJO QUE ESTA MODIFICACIÓN NO DEBERÍA SORPRENDER.\nEN EL PASADO -AL IGUAL QUE FRANCISCO- LOS PAPAS JUAN PABLO SEGUNDO Y BENEDICTO 16 TAMBIÉN SE HABÍAN PRONUNCIADO EN CONTRA DE LA PENA DE MUERTE.\n -----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----\n\n --KEYWORD TAGS--\nPOPE FRANCIS DEATH PENALTY\n\n

:00- :14\nRyan Nobles\nWashington\n\n:50- 1:24\nPope Francis (no font needed)\n\n1:35-END\nRyan Nobles\nWashington\n --LEAD IN--\nAs the Pope"s visit grips Washington and the nation … it"s also having an impact on the campaign trail. \nIn fact - several presidential hopefuls attended Pope Francis" speech to a joint session of Congress today (Thursday). \nRyan Nobles reports from Washington. \n --REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS--\nTHE POPE"S VISIT TO WASHINGTON TODAY WAS HIGHLY ANTICIPATED AND UNPREDICTABLE. \nAND IT LEFT SEVERAL OF THE CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT- MANY OF WHOM WHERE IN THE CHAMBER IN SUPPORTIVE AND UNCOMFORTABLE POSITIONS. \nAMONG THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN ATTENDANCE...\nVERMONT SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS.. SENATOR MARCO RUBIO OF FLORIDA, AND SOUTH CAROLINA"S LINDSAY GRAHAM.... SENATORS TED CRUZ AND RAND PAUL... ALL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. \nBUT ALSO IN ATTENDANCE.. NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE AND DOCTOR BEN CARSON WHO WERE INVITED BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. \nTHE POPE HIT ON HOT BUTTON ISSUES IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CLIMATE CHANGE.. \nBUT HIS STANCE ON THESE CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES DOESN"T NECESSARILY FIT INTO THE BOX OF THE POLITICAL POSITIONS OF EITHER PARTY.\nTAKE FOR INSTANCE THIS MOMENT WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT THE VALUE OF LIFE. \n(Pope Francis/No Font Needed) The Golden Rule also reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction has led me, from the beginning of my ministry, to advocate at different levels for the global abolition of the death penalty."\nSTRONG CRITICISM AIMED AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ON TWO VERY LARGE DIVISIVE ISSUES - ALL IN ONE SHORT SENTENCE. \nBOTH SIDES MAY TAKE ISSUE OR HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE POPE"S STANCE.. AN OPPOSITION TO ABORTION WHICH REPUBLICANS MIGHT SUPPORT.. AND AN ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY WHICH \nDEMOCRATS COULD BE ON BOARD WITH. \nHIS ADDRESS TODAY TO CONGRESS SHOWS.. THAT WHILE THE POPE IS POPULAR.. DON"T EXPECT TOO MANY OF THE CURRENT CROP OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO COMPLETELY EMBRACE HIM. \nIN WASHINGTON, I"M RYAN NOBLES REPORTING. \n -----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----

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.

A bipartisan Senate-House coalition has re-introduced death penalty reform legislation. The coalition has re-launched the Innocence Protection Act to renew a year old push for death penalty reform.

NAME: US DEATH PEN 20071217Ixx TAPE: EF07/1504 IN_TIME: 10:10:10:19 DURATION: 00:03:08:22 SOURCES: ABC/AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Various, 17 Dec 2007/File RESTRICTIONS: see script SHOTLIST: ABC (WPVI) - No Access NAmerica/Internet Trenton, New Jersey - 17 December 2007 1. New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine signing bill to eliminate the state's death penalty 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jon Corzine, Governor of New Jersey: "Prison without parole best captures our state's highest values and reflects our best efforts to search for true justice rather than state-endorsed killing." 3. Corzine holding bill and shaking hands with supporters ++MUTE++ AP Television Trenton, New Jersey - 13 December 2007 4. Prison guard tower, pan to wall 5. Guard tower and barbed wire on top of prison wall 6. Wide of state assembly in session debating the death penalty bill 7. Lawmaker speaking about bill 8. Lawmakers sitting in desks during debate ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet FILE: New Jersey, date unknown ++MUTE SHOTS++ 9. Death row chamber 10. Prison cell on death row 11. Pan up STILL photo of a murdered parents of Sharon Hazard-Johnson ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet FILE: Pleasantville, New Jersey, date unknown 12. Zoom in to murder scene and police cordon ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet FILE: Date and location unknown 13. Death row inmate, Brian Wakefield, convicted of murder ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet Trenton, New Jersey - date unknown 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sharon Hazard-Johnson, opposed to death penalty repeal: "The death penalty is the ultimate penalty for the ultimate crime. We all get one life. That's all we get, and for somebody to take somebody else's life away, they get the dead end penalty for the dead end crime." ++MUTE SHOT++ 15. New Jersey state legislative committee meeting on the death penalty repeal bill, pan to witness 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rich Kanka, Murder victim's father, opposed to death penalty repeal: "She (his daughter, Megan Kanka) was abducted. She was raped. She was strangled. She was suffocated. She was raped post-mortem. Her body was dumped in a park. Now if that does not constitute gross and heinous, I don't understand what you people are thinking about." AP Television Trenton, New Jersey - 13 December 2007 17. Former New Jersey death row inmate Robert O. Marshall 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert O. Marshall, New Jersey inmate: "Killing the one person, the person he killed is still dead, so it doesn't accomplish anything there either. I don't believe it psychologically affects people on the street because most murders are, they're not premeditated. They're in many cases emotional or spur of the moment." ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet File - New Jersey, date and location unknown 19. Pan of death row area in a prison ++MUTE++ ABC (WPVI) - No Access N.America/Internet Trenton, New Jersey - 17 December 2007 20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sister Helen Prejan, anti-death penalty activist: "The Colosseum in Rome is going to be lit tonight and tomorrow night, and the word will travel around the globe that there is a state in the United States of America that was the first to show that life is stronger than death, that love is great than hatred." AP Television Trenton, New Jersey - 13 December 2007 21. Prison guard tower STORYLINE: The state of New Jersey has become the first in four decades in the United States to abolish the death penalty. The bill, approved last week by the state's Assembly and Senate, replaces the death sentence with life in prison without parole. The move comes as the top US court, the Supreme Court, considers the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection. The Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine signed the law on Monday, the abolition spares the lives of eight men who are currently being held on death row in the state. Corzine commuted their sentences to life in prison without parole. "Prison without parole best captures our state's highest values and reflects our best efforts to search for true justice rather than state-endorsed killing," said Corzine after the signing. The death row inmates include the sex offender who murdered seven-year-old Megan Kanka in 1994. Megan's father, Rich Kanka, had pleaded with lawmakers not to pass the bill, given the nature of the crimes against his daughter. "She was raped. She was strangled. She was suffocated. She was raped post-mortem," said an emotional Kanka at a hearing with lawmakers before the vote. Sharon Hazard-Johnson, whose parents were killed in Pleasantville in 2001, said justice had not been served. "For somebody to take somebody else's life away, they should get the dead end penalty for the dead end crime," said Hazard-Johnson. A judge spared Robert O. Marshall the death penalty in 2004 after he had spent 18 years on the state's death row. While speaking to the Associated Press from the New Jersey State Prison, Marshall, an insurance salesman convicted of hiring a contract killer to kill his wife in 1984, said the death penalty isn't likely to deter crimes and it won't to bring solace to the families of the victims either. "Killing the one person, the person he killed is still dead, so it doesn't accomplish anything there either. I don't believe it psychologically affects people on the street because most murders are, they're not premeditated. They're in many cases emotional or spur of the moment," he said. Activists on both sides of the issue had passionately lobbied the State Assembly, including a famous anti-death penalty advocate, and author of 'Dead Man Walking', Sister Helen Prejean. "The word will travel around the globe that there is a state in the United State of America that was the first to show that life is stronger than death, that love is great than hatred," said Prejean after the bill signing. The Italian capital plans to shine a golden light on the Colosseum in support of the new law. Once the arena for deadly gladiator combat and executions, the Colosseum is now a symbol of the fight against the death penalty. The bill passed the Legislature largely along party lines, with controlling Democrats supporting the abolition and minority Republicans opposed. Republicans had sought to retain the death penalty for those who murder law enforcement officials, rape and murder children, and those convicted under terrorism law, but Democrats rejected that. The last states to eliminate the death penalty were Iowa and West Virginia in 1965, according to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. The United States has executed 1,099 people since the U.S. Supreme Court re-authorised the death penalty in 1976. Last year, 53 people were executed, the lowest since 1996. Other states have considered abolishing the death penalty recently, but none has advanced as far as New Jersey.

NAME: UK AMNESTY 20080415Ix TAPE: EF08/0399 IN_TIME: 10:50:44:10 DURATION: 00:02:17:01 SOURCES: AP Television/Pool/Iraqi Government Video DATELINE: Various - 14 Apr 2008/ File RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST POOL FILE: London, 6 April 2008 1. Chinese officials lighting Olympic flame in London 2. Demonstrator trying to grab Olympic flame from torch bearer AP Television London, 14 April 2008 3. Set-up of Piers Bannister, Amnesty researcher 4. Close of press release in hands 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Piers Bannister, Amnesty researcher: "We need to see the death penalty abolished in China. As a first step, we need to see an open, honest discussion with full information about the death penalty in that country. That can't happen just in the Olympic year. That needs to happen year in, year out, until China achieves the abolition of the death penalty." POOL FILE: London, 6 April 2008 6. Demonstrator being wrestled to ground by policeman on bike AP Television London, 14 April 2008 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Piers Bannister, Amnesty researcher: "Chinese authorities have made several positive statements about the death penalty, including that they would like eventual abolition. I hope, as China takes its place on the global stage, that it will seriously look at its human rights record, and that one of the things it will do is abolish the death penalty." AP Television FILE: Berlin, 22 January 2008 8. Demonstrators protesting against capital punishment in Iran 9. Various of protesters acting out mock stoning and hanging AP Television FILE: California, USA - Recent ++MUTE++ 10. Doors opening to death chamber 11. Strap down table in death chamber 12. Wide of death chamber AP Television London, 14 April 2008 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Piers Bannister, Amnesty researcher: "Large parts of the world are execution-free. We need to see that those borders of execution-free Europe and the Americas are pushed back into the Middle East and Asia until we see a world free of executions." Iraqi Government Video FILE: Iraq - 19 December 2007 14. Various of handcuffed men in black hoods 15. Close of men at gallows with nooses around necks STORYLINE Amnesty International condemned China as the "world's top executioner" on Tuesday in its annual survey of countries that carry out capital punishment. The human rights organisation said China had executed at least 470 people in 2007 but added that the true figure was without doubt much higher. Amnesty said the total number of executions worldwide was at least 1,200, suggesting that China accounts for more than a third of the global count. Noting that Beijing classifies the death penalty as a state secret, Amnesty commented that "as the world and Olympic guests are left guessing, only the Chinese authorities know exactly how many people have been killed with state authorisation." The organisation said that with the Olympic Games taking place in Beijing this year, it was pushing for change on the part of the Chinese authorities. "I hope, as China takes its place on the global stage, that it will seriously look at its human rights record, and that one of the things it will do is abolish the death penalty," commented Amnesty researcher Piers Bannister. The Amnesty report said 88 percent of all known executions take place in just five countries - China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United States. It said Iran carried out at least 377 executions, while the figure for the United States was 42. Amnesty called on all governments that allow the death penalty to lift what it called the "veil of secrecy" over the practice. "We need to see that the borders of execution-free Europe and the Americas are pushed back into the Middle East and Asia until we see a world free of executions," Bannister said.

HERE'S A LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN WASHINGTON FOR THE WEEK AHEAD.

TAPE: EF01/0333 IN_TIME: 13:46:53 DURATION: 2:43 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale without clearance DATELINE: Monday 9th April, Paris, France SHOTLIST: Paris, France April 9, 2001 1. Wide shot of the office of the president of the National Assembly 2. Wide interior shot of press conference underway 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 (bald gentleman) who is 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 US 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 US, 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) (Regarding whether James Kopp should be executed) "If the United States is going to execute him 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 BIANCA JAGGER ADDS VOICE TO ANTI DEATH PENALTY LOBBY ===================================================== BIANCA JAGGER has joined calls for the death penalty to be dropped around the world. The actress and former wife of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger arrived in Paris on monday to join representatives from the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and other high level activists in Paris at the Presidency of the National Assembly, to announced 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. Ahead of the press conference, Bianca Jagger told APTN that it was incomprehensible to her how the United States, which calls itself a defender of human rights could still enforce the death penalty. She said capital punishment "is fraught with arbitrariness" and that most people on death row are poor and members of minority groups. Jagger was also 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 doctor. Kopp vanished after officials said they wanted to question him about the 1998 murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian (SLEHP'-ee-uhn) in suburban Buffalo, New York. One of the charges against the anti-abortion activist carries a potential death penalty. Kopp has become one of the F-B-I's most wanted fugitives. Jagger says France had the moral right to refuse to extradite the anti-abortionist, if the U.S. intended to execute him.

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NAME: ITA LIGHTS 20071219I TAPE: EF07/1510 IN_TIME: 10:06:13:18 DURATION: 00:01:55:24 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Rome - 19 Dec 2007 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST ++NIGHTS SHOTS++ 1. Wide of Colosseum lit up, and Christmas tree in foreground 2. Mid of lit up arches in the Colosseum, and lights on Christmas tree in foreground 3. Pan right of lit up Colosseum 4. Wide of lit up Colosseum with Christmas tree and traffic on the street 5. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Francesco, tourist: "I think that nobody, but the United Nations can be one of the biggest starting points to avoid the unfortunate death penalty in many nations, so in my opinion it is a very good thing this happening now, let's hope it keeps going this way!" 6. Wide of Colosseum with the moon in background 7. Close up of the moon. 8. Colosseum arches and tree 9. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Pasquale, local resident: "I believe that the life of a human being cannot belong to one nation or to the president of a single nation. Is is something that goes beyond human possibilities, it is something that probably God gave us, and it is right that he will be the one to eventually put an end to our experience on Earth." 10. Colosseum arches 11. Wide of Colosseum and Christmas tree 12. Wide of Colosseum with Christmas tree and traffic on the street. STORYLINE Officials in Rome lit up the Colosseum on Wednesday night, in support of New Jersey which became the first US state to abolish the death penalty in more than 40 years. Death penalty opponents hailed the new law as a historic victory against capital punishment. Once the arena for deadly gladiator combat and executions, the Colosseum has become a symbol of the fight against the death penalty. "In my opinion it is a very good thing this happening now, let's hope it keeps going this way!" said Francesco, a tourist passing by the Colosseum while it was being lit up. Since 1999 the Colosseum has been lit up every time a death sentence is commuted somewhere in the world or a country abolishes capital punishment. "I believe that the life of a human being cannot belong to one nation or to the president of a single nation. Is is something that goes beyond human possibilities, it is something that probably God gave us, and it is right that he will be the one to eventually put an end to out experience on Earth," a local resident told AP Television while admiring the lit up arches on the Colosseum's second floor. New Jersey reinstated the death penalty in 1982, six years after the US Supreme Court allowed states to resume executions, but it has not executed anyone since 1963. A recent Quinnipiac University poll showed New Jersey voters supported keeping the death penalty by a 53 percent to 39 percent margin. The telephone poll of 1,085 voters was conducted from December 5-9 and had a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The bill passed the New Jersey Legislature largely along party lines, with controlling Democrats supporting the abolition and minority Republicans opposed. Republicans unsuccessfully sought to retain the death penalty for those who murder law enforcement officials, terrorists and those who rape and murder children. The nation's last execution was September 25 in Texas. Since then, executions have been delayed pending a US Supreme Court decision on whether execution through lethal injection violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The decision in New Jersey comes as the UN General Assembly called on Tuesday for a moratorium on the death penalty as a step toward abolishing all executions. The move was hailed by opponents of capital punishment and criticised by supporters including the US, Iran and China. The vote in the 192-member world body was 104-54 with 29 abstentions.

NAME: PHL DEATHPEN 20060624I TAPE: EF06/0554 IN_TIME: 10:16:50:04 DURATION: 00:01:47:08 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION/ABS-CBN DATELINE: Manila - 24 June 2006 RESTRICTIONS: Part No Access Philippines SHOTLIST: AP Television 1. Wide of Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo walking through room in presidential palace 2. Cutaway of photographers 3. Arroyo signing law abolishing the death penalty 4. Close-up of Arroyo's hand signing 5. People clapping 6. Wide of Arroyo posing with congressmen 7. Medium shot of Arroyo 8. Wide of Arroyo posing with congressmen 9. Cutaway cameraman ABS-CBN -STRICTLY NO ACCESS PHILIPPINES 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Philippines President: "We shall continue to devote the increasing weight of our resources to the prevention and control of serious crimes, rather than take the lives of those who commit them. I call on the entire criminal justice system, law enforcers, prosecutors, judges, jailers and the whole community to take stock of the responsibility of sharpening law and justice for all." AP Television 11. Arroyo talking with Papal Nuncio Archbishop Fernando Filoni 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Papal Nuncio: "I think that this could be another very important nice step to go on in showing that the culture of life is very alive and important in this country." 13. Arroyo shaking hands with Filoni STORYLINE: Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed a law on Saturday abolishing the death penalty on the eve of her trip to the Vatican, but vowed she will not relent in battling terrorists and criminals. "We shall continue to devote the increasing weight of our resources to the prevention and control of serious crimes, rather than take the lives of those who commit them," she said. She called on law enforcers, judges, prosecutors and communities to help shoulder the responsibility of "sharpening law and justice for all". Papal Nuncio Archbishop Fernando Filoni, the Vatican's envoy to Manila, congratulated Arroyo and legislators who approved the measure. "This could be another very important nice step to go on in showing that the culture of life is very alive and important in this country," Filoni said. Congress approved the bill abolishing capital punishment two weeks ago despite protests from anti-crime activists, who believe Arroyo, a staunch Roman Catholic, rushed its approval to please the pope. Arroyo was set to leave for the Vatican on Sunday. The Philippines' 1987 Constitution abolished the death penalty, which the government of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos used to execute about a dozen people convicted of rape and drug charges. But Congress restored the death penalty in late 1993 for crimes such as murder, child rape and kidnapping. Seven people have been executed since then. The lives of more than 1,200 death-row convicts, including at least 11 al-Qaida-linked militants, will be spared due to the abolition of capital punishment. Keyword- Laws