GENEVA, Sept 30 (LSN) - The Associated Press reported this afternoon that a UN human rights expert would be investigating capital punishment in the United States. U.N. officials said Tuesday that Waly Bacre Ndiaye of Senegal would be visiting prisoners sentenced to death in Texas and California during his stay in the US.
This U.N. special investigator on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions, will report back to the U.N. Human Rights Commission on his findings. The impetus behind the scrutiny is the UN Human Rights Commisssion vote last March to ban the death penalty. The aim of his trip is to look at how the United States has implemented world standards relating to capital punishment and whether there were any deaths due to the use of excessive force by law enforcement officials.
But who made the UN the judge?!
Similar incidents have taken place the world over. On August 26th Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald reported that the United Nations Committee on Women’s Discrimination was officially “alarmed"and “concerned” about government policy in Australia, especially at the delayed appointment of a new Sex Discrimination Commissioner. This UN committee’s action plan is to review the appointment policies of all national governments.